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you don't care who gets married.  Now, I can't stand to see a girl walk down the aisle in a movie."                                                ---Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Valerie Harper, born 1939 died 2019.  Still so very attractive and unthreateningly witty at the age of 80.

I went down to Clear Creek To see the fish I found a dead one Mission Unaccomplished

A potential end to the Diana Van Der Plosion legacy.

I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it was around 1300 yes to 900 no, with 1100 people voting for Eric Blackhurst.  I was completely wrong about a large turnout (around 50% of the registered voters) being indicative of silent support finally manifesting itself.  I feel horrible for Cody, and mystified by the support that never materialized.  Cody was done a disservice by his supporters' passivity and timidity and by the ease of conflating a local issue with national politics.  In contrast, the opposition did a very effective job of campaigning, with more energy and better planning and a more effective use of social media and the free press.  By every proxy measure - letters to the editor, FB likes ("Congested Estes" versus "True Grit"), website updates, cheating to win a meaningless newspaper poll, they just worked harder, and motivated their rank and file better. Apres moi, le deluge.  Sit back and hold on, Estes Park, because as I said six mo...

The last issue of the Recorder you'll ever read Facebook and blogs to blame.  The weekly Lyons Recorder, which predated any Estes Park attempt at journalism, began publishing right at the turn of the twentieth century, but couldn't last through through the first fifth of the twenty-first.  RIP Lyons Recorder, and please don't throw away the bound volumes and hard copies, because the microfilm work done by the state in the 1960s was atrocious.

But I think it is very much an unacceptable restaurant idea.  Meanwhile, back in Estes Park, two more restaurants are on the verge of unacceptable.  They are marginal.  Don't you love recommending a "marginal" place to your friends?  Not margarine, the butter substitute, imperfect but okay in a pinch.  Marginal.

Note the resemblance? Hanged himself, likely suicide.  So at least some people who sexually abuse young girls have a conscience.  12 pica-wide article to follow.

This is what the toilet looks like in a "marginal" restaurant Oh Nicky, you're not so fine, you not so fine I threw up chunks oh Nicky, oh Nicky. Two more bottom of the barrel restaurants in Larimer County to avoid.  Run, do not walk, to your nearest hospital after ingesting the bacteria-laden smorgasblob at these less than fair establishments.

is to avoid paying rent at a physical location?  Sounds like a business model destined to produce content disconnected from the folks who live there.

Maybe as the population ages even more, we could have a senior center on every block.  It is wonderful to build a multi-generational community center, and then do such a poor job of attracting the seniors (by promising them a kitchen and then, presto change-o, yanking it away), they go out and create their own uni-generational stew pot.

The good news is, my favorite restaurant, "Ride-A-Kart", home of the filet de popcorn and the T-bone Slushee, is right there at the top of the Larimer County EXCELLENT list.  I'm also pleased to see that the Stanley Hotel dug itself out of the crap hole it was dwelling in, and is now GOOD.  (Where do you want to eat?  The Stanley Hotel is good, meaning okay, meaning not great.) The very bad news is that two Larimer County restaurants are officially UNACCEPTABLE, and one of them is the main (original) location of Smokin Dave's right here in Estes Park.  Just when I thought Cousin Pat's was going to take the prize for local food joint most likely to have the main course followed by hospitalization (rather than dessert), Smokin Dave's steps in all brown-eyed and salmonella-laden.