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Seriously, these restaurant inspections never get better.  The majority of Estes Park restaurants are always marginal or unacceptable.  And nobody in Estes Park does a damn thing about it.  What is the point of restaurant inspections except for shutting the noxious violators down?  Why do locals keep being force fed food that is stored and prepared improperly?  The CDC probably has Estes Park Health on speed dial (except the cafeteria at the hospital is also diarrhea-inducing).  C'mon Estes Park.  Do you read the newspapers?  Do you care about the health and well-being of yourselves, your family, and those part-time residents and visitors to our fair (and marginal, and unacceptable) community?

And the license plate couldn't be more clear.  Colorado MEQ-422, expires 2020. So why, again, are the local Estes Park police having trouble finding the owner of this vehicle?

Who would have ever believed a generic photo of the Lone Pine would finally push me past the Bill Berry long-standing record of 77% completion within a block of 100 Sanborn RPPCs? Apologies for this view, recycled from Sanborn's pre-Sawyer days and likely first released under this newly-assigned alphanumeric code about the time the actual Lone Pine out on High Drive lacked most of its needles and branches and was soon to blow away, one likely reason this particular card sold so poorly. The significance of the shot is minimal, the significance to my collection is palpable, as in my heart started palpating when it showed up on Ebay, because it meant, once I acquired it, I had pushed the needle in the R-1500 block in my collection from 77 to 78, thus besting a record I didn't think would be surpassed in my collecting lifetime, that of Bill Berry's acquisition of 77 out of 100 potential views released by Sanborn, albeit in a different block.   (For non-collectors, acquiri...

You're saying that W.T. Parke, identified as "Mr. Parke" at the top of this photograph, liked to take pictures of little girls?  Be still my beating heart.  William T., the 60-year-old bachelor accused in 1917 of molesting a 14-year-old adolescent, had an unhealthy attraction to little girls? What should we do about this?  Should we distance ourself from him, and from this abhorrent activity?  Naah, how about we collectively as a town create a statue in his honor, give him a pika, a fetish object for children of all ages to run around looking for.  Maybe the little boys could look up the little girls' dresses for their pika, like John Simms, the other man accused of molesting this girl, confessed to, and was sent away to the penitentiary. When I think of all that our previous town administrator accomplished, I can't help but glow with pride at how, during the height of the "Me Too" movement, he had the balls to honor an accused child molester wit...

This looks a bit like my study, minus all the bottles Lonigan's nowhere on the list.  I've been to one of them, probably half of them will close in the next six months, so hurry if this is a checklist you must complete before you die. 50 Best Bars somehow omits The Wheel

two different individuals indicated they would come over to the shop.  Neither one did.  What should I say the next time they say they are planning a visit? A.  Sure.  Looking forward to it. B.  Sure.  Is this to make up for the last time you said you would come over and didn't? C.  Great.  I would ordinarily be there at that time, and will tell you I'll be there, but in truth, I'll make sure I'm out, so you know how if feels to be told something unprompted and not follow through. D.  Whatever.  I have other things to do that worry over you deigning to make an appearance. Votes will be tallied and published in next week's Trail-Gazette.

Sometime prior to your death, make sure to tell your publicist there are better photographs of you out there.  For some reason, everyone is using the "bloated" Diahann Carroll images from later in life.  The younger generation may not realize she was a fantastically attractive, multi-talented woman. Remember this cookware?  Who has a soup tureen nowadays?