We sent a variety of unpackaged items to U.S. destinations, appropriately stamped for weight and size, as well as a few items packaged as noted. We sent items that loosely fit into the following general categories: valuable, sentimental, unwieldy, pointless, potentially suspicious, and disgusting. We discovered that although some items were never delivered, most of the objects of even highly unusual form did get delivered, as long as the items had a definitely ample value of stamps attached. The Postal Service appears to be amazingly tolerant of the foibles of its public and seems occasionally willing to relax specific postal regulations.

Please invest the time to read the article from top to bottom rather than skimming– it’s amazing.

I was really quite amazed by half of the stuff that made it there, but at the same time most mail people I’ve met (including FedEx, UPS, etc) seemed to be pleasant, hard working people.

On a related note, Henry Rollins rants about the current religious movements in the US, and although his round-about presentation could have been better, he drops enough f-bombs to make me happy.

Good riddance, Texas.

I knew something about the show seemed oddly famillar, but I finally put the pieces together in the “gay” episode when they shot a scene at Fontano’s (an old lunch haunt of mine) and during the same scene an RTD bus went by (and you can also see the Chipolte behind them, which is on the other side of Fontano’s). Following that scene, they also film something similar at the Magnolia Hotel.

I also noticed that a few scenes from Trigger Happy TV were filmed in Denver as well (links to typical Trigger fodder for your viewing pleasure here, here and here).