I am an animator, a newspaper employee, a music blogger, a beer lover, a bike user, and a terrible beard grower living in Denver.
You betcha!!! The Minnesota state Senate passed the marriage equality bill. The governor has pledged to sign it into law!
The iconic carpeting of The Shining and Twin Peaks collide.
Artist: Jared Lyon
I love this, even if D-town and B-town are round-round and upside-down.
from thefoxisblack.com
It’s pretty out there today. #farts #peopletalkinginheliumvoice#trampolineaccident (at The Denver Post)
A flyer I designed for Oakland’s Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment. You can pick one up and play some vintage games at their GDC exhibit in San Francisco later this month. I’ll be there too!
Nice work Dunk!
Indiana Jones Mystery Package
We don’t really even know how to start this post. Yesterday we received a package addressed to “Henry Walton Jones, Jr.”. We sort-of shrugged it off and put it in our bin of mail for student workers to sort and deliver to the right faculty member— we get the wrong mail a lot.
Little did we know what we were looking at. When our student mail worker snapped out of his finals-tired haze and realized who Dr. Jones was, we were sort of in luck: this package wasn’t meant for a random professor in the Stat department. It is addressed to “Indiana” Jones.
What we know: The package contained an incredibly detailed replica of “University of Chicago Professor” Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks only sort of like this one, but almost exactly like this one, so much so that we thought it might have been the one that was for sale on Ebay had we not seen some telling inconsistencies in cover color and “Ex Libris” page (and distinct lack of sword). The book itself is a bit dusty, and the cover is teal fabric with a red velvet spine, with weathered inserts and many postcards/pictures of Marion Ravenwood (and some cool old replica money) included. It’s clear that it is mostly, but not completely handmade, as although the included paper is weathered all of the “handwriting” and calligraphy lacks the telltale pressure marks of actual handwriting.
What we don’t know: Why this came to us. The package does not actually have real stamps on it— the outside of the package was crinkly and dirty as if it came through the mail, but the stamps themselves are pasted on and look like they have been photocopied. There is no US postage on the package, but we did receive it in a bin of mail, and it is addressed to the physical address of our building, Rosenwald Hall, which has a distinctly different address from any other buildings where it might be appropriate to send it (Haskell Hall or the Oriental Institute Museum). However, although now home to the Econ department and College Admissions, Rosenwald Hall used to be the home to our departments of geology and geography.
If you’re an applicant and sent this to us: Why? How? Did you make it? Why so awesome? If you’re a member of the University community and this belongs to you or you’ve gotten one like it before, PLEASE tell us how you acquired it, and whether or not yours came with a description— or if we’re making a big deal out of the fact that you accidentally slipped a gift for a friend in to the inter-university mail system. If you are an Indiana Jones enthusiast and have any idea who may have sent this to us or who made it, let us know that, too.
We know this sounds like a joke/hoax… it’s not (at least, from our end). Any hints, ideas, thoughts, or explanations are appreciated. We’ve been completely baffled as to why this was sent to us, in mostly a good way, but it’s clear this is a neat thing that either belongs somewhere else— or belongs in the halls of UChicago admissions history.
Internet: help us out. If you’re on Reddit (we’re not) or any other nerdly social media sites where we might get information about this, feel free to post far and wide and e-mail any answers, clues, ideas, thoughts, or musings to indianajonesjournal@uchicago.edu (yes, we did set up an email account just to deal with this thing).
This belongs in a museum.
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heart heart heart! First of all, the Weir family looks more related NOW than they did THEN! Next, will you go to prom with me Millie?????
Alabama Shakes have untouchable momentum. A person with no previous Shakes experience (good luck finding them) would never have been able to guess that this young five piece only just debuted their first studio album last year.
Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) had a sparse, ethereal hit with “The Greatest,” but when she took the Ogden Theatre stage on Thursday night she had “un”arranged the song down to its simplest pieces.
Iron Maiden at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Monday, 8/13/12. Photos and review of the concert in Englewood, Colorado.
Alabama Shakes at the Fox Theatre on Friday, 8/10/12. Photos and review of the concert in Boulder, Colorado.
Sasquatch music festival 2012: Bon Iver, Jack White, Beck, Girl Talk, more (photos and review))
Heartless Bastards at the Bluebird Theater in Denver on 4/14/12. Photos and review of the concert.
Cults at the Bluebird Theater in Denver on 4/12/12. Photos and review of the concert.
Fanfarlo at the Bluebird Theater in Denver 4/3/12 (live review)
Photos and review of Girls at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, Colorado
DeVotchKa felt the Halloween spirit at the Ogden Theatre on Friday.