Today, we took a family day trip up into the mountains, to Breckenridge, to view the entries in the International Snow Sculpture Championships. Here’s a photo of Becky and Loyette, looking at one of the sculptures:
All the sculptures started out as Borg-like cubes, such as this…
…but were transformed, over the course of five days from January 26-30, into beautiful artwork like this:
The sculpture shown above won second prize, incidentally. First place went to a victory sign with an enormous amount of detail:
The Hoyas won, by the way, 89-77 (and it wasn’t really that close). I hope you’ll all join me, liberals and conservatives alike, and say together in a spirit of bipartisanship: Duke sucks.
We’re gonna slow it down and go a little old school this week. This is the sort of thing Complaint of the Week was when it started. I’d take a piece of current culture, way overvalue it, and weep for the end of civilization. Today you might know it as the Glenn Beck approach.
HOOO-AH!!!
Ahem…anyway.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a popular candy bar is concerned that its market share is slipping and wants to innovate its product to ensure that no further erosion take place. Their solution: make it like an energy drink!
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Brendan Loy is a 30-year-old attorney, erstwhile journalist, and veteran blogger in Denver, CO. He formerly blogged as the "Irish Trojan." Brendan's wife, Rebecca Loy, 29, is a stay-at-home mom in Denver. Brendan and Becky have three daughters, whose blog nicknames are "Loyette," "Loyacita" and "Loyabelle." More info here. Several others blog here in The Guest Room.
