Today was super busy at the museum. A bus group of seventy-five people from a mental health facility in Provo came to visit Anasazi after scrambling to find alternatives to their original plan to visit Bryce Canyon. Between them and a second bus group, it was quite bustling. Throw in the chaos from our usual traffic and a strong, steady stream of ( Read more... )

Due to the fact that our dear Congress can't get its f*cking act together, the government shutdown is in effect. The most direct impact that has on life out here in Boulder is that the national parks are closed. This morning, we called around to the various local parks (Zion, Bryce and Capital Reef) to find out what this meant. Visitor centers are ( Read more... )

But what is Freedom?  Rightly understood,
A universal license to be good.

-- Hartley Coleridge

Happy 4th of July, my fellow Americans!
Be good.

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So last night my brother and I went up to Mountain View to see Yellow Face, the 2007 comedy by David Henry Hwang, the playwright responsible for M. Butterfly and the reworking of Flower Drum Song a few years ago. Theatreworks usually puts on excellent plays, and this was no exception. Yellow Face follows David Henry Hwang as he becomes a major ( Read more... )