Well it looks as though the black taxi you fell in love with in London, is coming across the ocean. Yep I am swimming over there and picking a couple up. Going to throw the little black cab on my back and swim. If I make it home I think I will set up a company called.

Those cute little black taxis from London that I had on my back for six months and cost me $50,000 large a piece.

Do you think it is catchy? Too Lonnnggg?

Taxi

Colorado Springs has many of the same problems all towns of its size and population face. Infrastructure is a big problem and in particular roads and water with the occasional trouble with electric and gas. The City council in this town has been dealing with these problems for years, well pretty much since the founding of the town. So when I read an article in the Gazette about the city kicking a local vendor from a parking spot I think, don’t we have more important things to conquer? Like selling off downtown landmarks to big developers or tearing down buildings for better parking?

This is the kind of thing that gets underneath my skin and makes me crazy mad. I guess this is why I only read the local paper on a by-monthly basis.

This guy is parking his cart to sell food downtown at night. He is a fixture downtown I can not remember a Saturday night without him selling. He is a citizen of this city and has the right to sell food as long as he is within the law. There was no law prohibiting this kind of vendor and so the city made one.

I get it I am not as slow as I spell, they don’t want him in the street; let’s find some place for him to sell his dogs! I myself have never stopped there to eat, but it is the kind of thing you expect to see in a city. People need some place to stop when bar hoping to get the food they need to keep drinking.

I hope the motive of City council is the right one, safety, and they are not just pandering like they always do to some special interest. If you read this and say, wait I know the whole story, drop me a line.

No Vendors, well unless we like you?

Last evening I attended a concert in Denver at the world famous Red Rocks amphitheater. We arrived early and well we squatted some good seats. Which means we sat in someone else’s seats hoping they would get drunk and either forget where they were or get ejected from the park after hitting their wife over the head with a beer bottle. As the place started to fill up and people around us were getting moved out from seats they had squatted, we were still seated and our luck was holding. It looked that we were in the clear and our little gamble had paid off. At least I knew my friend Chuck was in the clear, he had nestled up next to a rather attractive young woman. I am sure had he wanted to he could have stuck with this girl and her friends. But by the second song of Maroon 5 these two rather large women and when I say large I don’t mean fat. I mean large women had drank all the could at the beer pavilion and were now on the hunt for some dick, and their seats. Little did they know their seats were being warmed by three very lovely human beings, one of which was me! Needless to say we had to move and here is were the real adventure begins.

I was disappointed to say the least but the fact that these overly attractive women moved us from our seats, was not my biggest disappointment. I am not going into what other disappointments I had as I am trying to remain upbeat. At this point we decided it might be time for another beer, ok I decided, I grab one or maybe two I don’t remember and we head down to the front in hopes of getting some better seats. I used the word hope back there and I really had it, honestly. We got down front and my other two companions move into the crowd only to be rejected by the whole row of people. I had been trailing behind as I always do, bad leg or foot or I was gawking, and a couple of girls grabbed my arm and said, “Where do your friends think they are going, there is no room for you here move on..”. At this point I said to these fine ladies wearing low ride jeans, these of course were not the 2% that can get away with wearing these type of jeans, “ladies, I don’t know those people, I have never seen them before and frankly when you look at me do you think I would be the kind of Gentlemen who would hang out with such people”. They looked at me with their beer goggled eyes and with amazement, for they could not understand a word that was coming out of my mouth. I am not saying these particular girls were dumb, ok thats what I am saying. It was at this point in which I moved down two rows and squeezed my ass in with some very frumpy looking girls who were not happy about me standing in their row. I then called up my “Chris state of mind” in which I am completely clueless as to what is going on around me, and it worked. They kept looking at me and I acted as if someone had just kicked my between the eyes.

All the while I had been keeping an eye on my fellow concert going buddies as they struck out in the rows behind me, they moved into similar positions hoping to fool someone into letting them stand in the row. Needless to say this did not last long, I got pushed out by a very large girl who was just back from the restroom. It wasn’t to much longer before we were pushed out of the front rows and back up top at Red Rocks without seats enjoying a beer, at least I was enjoying one. We moved about the venue for the next hour our so settling in here or there enjoying the sounds of Maroon 5 and then John Mayer.

I am sure there was more to tell, or should I say more stories of amazingly rude people, but I as I have already stated, I am trying to remain upbeat.. When all was said and done we had a great time! Chuck got over 20 numbers and I got a pant leg full of beer and a Coors stomach ache.

The next time you are at a concert and someone in the crowd says hey you, no you, can I sit here? I want you to think long and hard about what you say next and if he or she is a looker maybe you should say, “yes, you are!”.

Looking forward to more concert fun next week when I see Dave, stay tunned!!

My heart fell to the floor this morning why listing to the local yahoo on the radio talk about the mayor of Colorado Springs. It seems in this mornings edition of the Gazette the mayor of our fair city has said he will not support the gay pride week this year. In doing this the mayor leaves behind the support of the last 7 years given to the event by the city council. The caller was singing the mayors praise saying the gay community here in Colorado springs should not have the week long event. In turn the the host said if they can have this event why can’t we have heterosexual day?

This should come as no surprise as this city is ruled by right wing born agains who really have a problem with the gay life style. I have not been a big supported of this mayor since I first met him on that cold day many years ago. I don’t think it was cold outside I think it was July, he just left me feeling cold. Face facts this mayor knows, much like GW, he is going to need the Christian base to get him what he really wants, Governor! It will be no sweat of his little head to tell the gays in our community to jump off a cliff. The scary thing is the whole of our community will support him because if there is one thing I have learned from the short time on this planet. WE MUST FEAR THE GAYS. I have met some hostile people in my time, drug dealers, rapists, bad priests but not many gays who wanted to do me harm.

I know somewhere in a miss interpreted view of the bible it says, “lets go rounds up some homo’s..”, but I have news for you out there in make believe land, the bible is not the end all. The gays in this country I will agree can sometimes get in your face about their way of life, but can you blame them, they are guaranteed the same rights under the constitution as every citizen but in some areas they are excluded.

News flash, gays are just like you and me they want to lead a life that is productive and happy. I know this will come as shock to some, especially the people out there who believe the gays are coming for your children. They are not coming for your children they are cooking your food and making your bed, washing your car and getting you out of jail for drinking and driving. They are living right next to you, probably in a better looking house, why in this modern age must we still be divided in such pointless matters as who you can love?

Pride Time

Oh lets not forget this is the same city that help pass Amendment 2 back in the 90’s. This town is so friendly to others?!
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