Digging up an offseason reason for Snowmass

If you live in the Roaring Fork Valley, by now you’re aware of the amazing discoveries being made practically on a daily basis in Snowmass Village, but for my other readers around the world, let me catch you up to speed.

You’ve heard of the La Brea Tar Pits, the place in Los Angeles where hundreds of fossils have been found, right? Well, now we’ve got something in Colorado just like it, except for all the tar and the hundreds of fossils. Continue reading »

If you hear any noise, it was George singing

We here at I’m With Stupid have decided to do something a little different this week and indulge our inner critic, so we’re going to review a concert we saw recently: George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic at the annual Snowmass Chili Pepper and Brew Fest. We’re also going to drop the whole “we” thing at this point because, well, there is no we. It’s actually just me. I know you’re all shocked that one man could do so much by himself.

Anyway, back to P-Funk. You would be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of Parliament/Funkadelic than yours truly. I was splanked by the bop gun years ago, freeing my mind and behind from constipated notions. (That actually makes sense in P-Funk parlance. Look it up if you don’t understand.) Continue reading »

There are simpler, safer ways to win a big trophy

This weekend (at least, I think it’s this weekend. To be honest, I haven’t been paying attention too closely) a competition of sorts will be held in Snowmass in an activity called mountainboarding.

I think, though I’m likely wrong, that this event is the U.S. Open of mountainboarding, which means that technically I could have qualified for it somehow if I only knew how to mountainboard. Continue reading »