R A D H O L E

Anglers of Failure

Russ experiences spiritual enlightenment and catches no fish in Eleven Mile State Park. While fishing the famed “Dream Stream” gold medal water, the Droogs also catch no fish. MELT looses his pole.

tags: colorado elevenmile goldmedalwater fishing dreamstream wankan plj melt radhole enlightenment droog

summer evening

There is nothing more wonderful than a nice summertime evening in the urban garden with a bountiful harvest celebration of BBQ honey mustard chicken, fresh tomatoes, peppers, red onion, white onion, zucchini, basil and radishes. Top it all of with a Buzz Cola, cool breezes, sunset, cold water, and bully, you’ve got yourself a jubilee.

me

Me-nothing more, nothing less. Would you like to see more? You know you want to see more. Click on this link to see more.

I expanded my FLICKR gallery by 600 pictures. It took 12 hours or so.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science Field Day 2007

I got 2nd place in the spoon/egg walk and 5th place in the 3-legged-race at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Field Day 2007. A gallery of pictures here.

We are ‘go’ for Eleven Mile/Spinney

We are ‘go’ for Eleven Mile and Spinney Mountain State Parks, one of Colorado's largest reservoirs. We are ‘go’ for fishing.

We are ‘go’ for trophy cutthroat trout, rainbow and brown trout, northern pike and Kokanee salmon. Kokanee!!! I seek beautiful views of the Collegiate Mountain Range. I seek to be an angler in the Gold Medal water, aka the "Dream Stream.” I am a seeker, a shaman. Hear me, a sage!

did you know

Denver got a Kwik-E-Mart?

bounty

Fresh herbs from the garden: 3 basils, oregano, thyme and rosemary.

Denver Outlaws Fans

sanctuary

picture postcard

WISH YOU WERE HERE

the giant

This pumpkin is already huge!

STS-13L Gallery Here

Revenge!

Major League Lacrosse delight! July 21, 2007 – Denver – Our Denver Outlaws (5-4) scored their third win in the last four games with a 15-13 victory over the defending MLL champion Philadelphia Barrage (6-3). Yeah!

Tailgating before the game was a relaxing time.

Wild Gardener

Wild Gardener
Gardening techniques and observations by three guys that don稚 know squat.
Insects Kill
Sunday July 22, 2007
10:00 am MT (12 noon Eastern!)
Dial In Number (646) 716-7397

RAD STS-13L Urban Garden Photo Gallery 1
PLJ STS-13L Urban Garden Photo Gallery 2

Tie Dye Pillow Cases

Heck yeah!

I bet you didn稚 know I was a collector of pillowcases? Now you know.

pumpkin killa

I had to kill a perfectly good baby pumpkin because it was crowding out the giant.

Techmeister 101 – Slaves to Elders

I don’t claim to be the greatest techie alive. I was a BBS goon. I can make my way around computers. I have a little audio and visual knowledge. I get buy with the tech that I have.

Unlike a lot of people.

I can jury-rig with the best of them. I once performed internet tech support with a friend in Denver via cellular phone while taking a shit in a McDonalds bathroom in Raton, New Mexico. Believe that yo! That’s right, I’m capable.

And word gets around.

I am always one to offer a glad hand, to friends or family. With my mom, I am obligated to help with all sorts of technology woes. That's blood, kin. But mom's friends and work acquaintances?

All of a sudden I am getting requests from her, second-hand, as if she is the ‘tech drug dealer’ offering out my services, to go over to a friend of a friends house to show her how to record a television show on VHS or program the VCR or play a DVD or watch a show on one channel while recording on another, all while transcribing step-by-step instructions for the woman to refer to in the future, a cheat-sheet for idiot-box operation.

All of a sudden I am getting emails from her friends requesting me make house calls to remedy computer problems and install printers. It is as if my mom is pimping me out.

And if I don’t do it my mom will find someone who will. Why is she in charge of these people’s lives?

Are we slaves to the Baby Boomer generation now? Am I obligated to help her friends with their problems? Am I a bastard if I don’t dish up some community service? Will I be on call forever, building a customer base of epic proportions, ending up delivering meals on wheels to them in the far future; mowing lawns and performing car maintenance and heavy lifting, my soul captured in a limbo between my generation and the ones previous?

Fruit Totals

Just wait. Oh yes, just wait...

strawberry blonde

memorial service

for Dad and Grandpa Dale

a fishing adventure

A photo gallery here.

product placement

medley

white trashy

Coz that's how I roll.

Fishing

A fancy new pole, tackle box, live bait - night crawlers, power bait, salmon eggs, many hooks, weighters…

I am set to go fishing.

SUNDAY!

I need to get a license.

My tackle box is all tricked out with knives and chapstick and pens and superglue and STS-13L mission patches and a little fm radio and spare batteries and.....

Oh yes…

Oh yes…

Nephew

the ice

Sweet Rain

A summertime afternoon thunderstorm hits the Urban Garden.

tags: sts13l Denver thunderstorm rain lightning thunder wind urbangarden gardens loud missiles summer

Elias and PLJ Make Ice Cream

tags: sts13l homemadeicecream icecream vanilla denver country icecreamman cowboy scurvies boots eggs cream ice salt

Pilot: Wild Gardener

Wild Gardener
Pilot
Sunday July 8, 2007
09:30 am MT (11:30 am Eastern!)
Dial In Number (646) 716-7397

Garden Dance

Denver Kwik-E-Mart

One of 12 7-Eleven stores in the world to be transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart resides here in Denver.

Photos by Adam Kemper

russ mows

little christmas russ and smokey

I miss Smokey. My dad was a scientist. He bred cats that were the size of small dogs and never grew out of the kitten stage. Smokey was such a monster.

the grill

When was the last time you grilled?

tags:bbq grill denver peppers steak chicken charcoal amazinggrace barbeque corn cornonthecob summer winter spring fall NASA

Independance Garden

A glimpse into a 4th of July celebration in the urban garden.

tags: sts13l denver 4thofjuly independanceday dance garden urbangarden fireworks streak ghost freefloatingapparition

Happy 4th of July.

Transformers (2007)

To all the haters of this movie, screw you. Screw you with the old-fashioned Transformer toys I played with endlessly as a youth child. If I could, I’d personally hire someone to shove the green Constructicons whole Devastator robot down your complaining, ungrateful throughts. I loved “Transformers.” I loved it! You know you loved it.

I arrived wicked early (I got to the theatre at 4pm and then my sister and PLJ followed shortly after. The show started at 07:30pm). After a hearty Mexican food dinner and a doubly rich dessert of Cold Stone ice cream (cheesecake ice cream mixed with cake batter ice cream mixed with cookie dough in a waffle cone/bowl), I drank 2 Gonzo Imperial Porter, which gave me a hefty buzz. We tailgated in the parking lot with chairs and coolers and the employees inside the theatre laughed at us and thought we were camping-out for the new Harry Potter movie. As if! Filthy British kids. I hope Ron Weasley dies. And Hagrid.

I thoroughly enjoyed “Transformers,” a Michael Bay film. The flick had all of the classic Michael Bay antics like gas-fueled explosions, chaos, elaborate tracking shots, effective use of the magic hour sunset lighting, carnage, action, slow motion Akira Kurosawa right stuff images, great ancillary characters, state-of-the-art military hardware on display perfectly in the frame (shouldn’t it be deployed in this time of war?), sunset love, quick cuts, witty humor, people eating a plate of doughnuts, city streets getting demolished, guns, cars flying too-and-fro through the air and gas-fueled explosions. Like “Pearl Harbor” or “Armageddon” or “The Rock,” this movie reeked of Michael Bay goodness. Did I mention gas-fueled explosions?

This movie was surprisingly funny. Some of the humor contained within was unnecessary “potty humor,” like when Bumblebee took a piss on Agent Simmons (John Turturro), but overall the comedy played well. I laughed. I was mildly amused when Optimus said “my bad.” There were eBay and internet references throughout. It was a timely, current, ultra modern spectacular summer blockbuster.

Boy Shia LaBeouf held his own in this film and the banter between he and his parents was priceless.

Seeing Transformers realized in live-action transported me back to my innocent youth. I played with Optimus Prime toys. I wish I took my old skool Megatron Transformer to the theatre with me, an ancient talisman of glory childhood. I can see the headlines now: “Local man detained after taking toy gun into movie theatre.” Pish posh! Oh and fuck-face, throwing trash on the floor at a movie is every viewer’s right! You’re lucky I didn’t spat partially chewed popcorn down the back of your shirt.

Industrial Light and Magic (ILM): they crunched the pixels in this film. The special effects are the best I have ever seen in a movie (yes, even better than those overrated “Lord of the Hobbit” movies). The FX set the bar higher for all future movies.

You have got to see Transformers on the big screen.

Thankfully there were not too many bratty kids in the audience. I could have done without the mini-robots grunting and providing stupid comic relief. It was as if George Lucas inspired those bits.

more then meets the eye

Transformers! I see it tonight!

it's here

Don't you have a mission to accomplish?