30 MILES OF CRAZY! 41: Happiest Place on Earth

Yep, it’s Friday once again. Time for another ‘tru-ish’ tale about Colfax and the Mile High City. A new 30 MILES OF CRAZY! (#41)! This week: The Happiest Place on Earth… or NO, REALLY… WHAT MAKES IT THE ‘HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH’?

Yes, a piece of East Colfax… Smiley’s… The Happiest Place on Earth… The World’s Largest Discount Laundromat…  is now gone. 

What else is there to say…

So, Musical Accompaniment… and GO!

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30 MILES OF CRAZY! 40: The Price of a Free Drink

It’s Friday once again. Time for another ‘tru-ish’ tale about Colfax and the Mile High City. A new 30 MILES OF CRAZY! (#40)! This week: The Price of a Free Drink… or THE INTERESTING PEOPLE YOU MEET IN A DIVE BAR RESTROOM.

My friends and I have an interesting game… and when I say ‘interesting’, that is not at all what I actually mean. It’s simply something to pass the time while waiting for the next round of drinks. We would sit in bars (generally around Colfax) and debate ‘Is this a dive bar?’ For most of the bars we normally visit, we break all bars into three categories: Dive, Neighborhood Bar, and Venue.

Now (for the uninformed), a dive bar is generally just an informal bar with cheap drinks, no frills, one that’s been around for a while, and has a small sense of history.

Now (for the uninformed), a dive bar is generally just an informal bar with cheap drinks, no frills, one that’s been around for a while, and has a small sense of history. No Long Island Ice Teas. No Margaritas. Just a beer and a shot. I always found that a big clue on what doesn’t make a dive bar is… calling itself a ‘dive bar.’ Other’s can call it one, but when the establishment starts referring to itself as a dive, then it just isn’t. That happens a lot around college campuses. A neighborhood bar (or pub) is just that. A few rungs up the ladder from a dive, more expensive drinks, and also less of a chance random violence breaking out around you. A venue is a venue. There’s always a bar with cheap drinks, but a god awful racket generally starts up most nights around 9 pm.

As for ‘sports bars’… yeah, we just avoid them entirely.

Which brings us to this week’s comic. Yes, this is a true story related to me that happened in a bar on Capitol Hill. The original bar is gone, but there is another one in it’s place. I won’t tell you where, but buy me a drink sometime and it may slip.

So… Musical Accompaniment! and GO!

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30 MILES OF CRAZY! 39: A Gang of One

It’s Friday. Time for another ‘tru-ish’ tale about Colfax and the Mile High City. A new 30 MILES OF CRAZY! (#39)! This week: A Gang of One!… or DYING IS EASY. COMEDY IS HARD.

So… here’s a joke…

A priest, a rabbi, and a pastor are sitting in a bar across the street from a known brothel. As they are sipping their drinks, they see a rabbi walk into this den of iniquity.

“Oy! It’s awful to see another teacher of the Torah give into low desire”, says the rabbi.

A short while later, they see a pastor also walk into the bordello. “My my my… It’s terrible to see a man of the cloth give into such temptation”, says the pastor.

Even later, the trio see a priest enter the brothel. “Well, it’s so nice to see the ladies, who’ve been used so poorly, have time to confess their sins,” says the priest.

Is it a good joke? I thought so, but then I have a brain that can maybe hold about three to five jokes at a time, the shorter the better (“Nuns do it out of habit” still makes me smile, but then I was raised Catholic.

Which brings us to this week’s 30 MILES. Yes, this actually happened at the World Famous Lion’s Lair.

Musical accompaniment! (which she requested and I don’t see as any sort of ‘happy’ song) … and three, two, one…. GO!

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30 MILES OF CRAZY! 38: The Furry Issue

What? It’s Friday again? That means its time for a new 30 MILES OF CRAZY! (#38)! This week: The Furry Issue… or YES, FURRIES STILL CREEP ME RIGHT OUT!

So… I went looking around the series of tubes that we humans call ‘The Internet’ for some way to promote my kind of funny little comic. How can I get my illustrated missive into other people’s virtual hands? Hey Eyeballs, look over here towards my corner of the internet and such! So, I went looking at webcomic hubs in an attempt to find some way to reach a broader audience (…cuz, that’s where the money is and I’m a greedy little miser!) I was a little unnerved to find that the few sites I found were mostly dedicated to furry/manga comics… which I have little to do with.

“Excuse me… I do a webcomic about living, drinking, insanity, despair, stories, and about some of the interesting characters that you meet in the city. Would you be interested in… “

“Does it have weirdly drawn men and women depicted as cartoon cats and dogs getting in to sexual and/or space adventures?”

“Ummm…. no.”

“Sorry, not interested.”

Hence… my blatant pandering in this comic…

So… here we go! Queue this week’s Musical Accompaniment! … and a bonus one just for heretical laughs. 

… Also, check out under the comic for this week’s VERY SPECIAL MESSAGE!!!!

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YES, THE VERY SPECIAL MESSAGE!

Hey, People of Denver! This Saturday, March 8th is the 30 MILES OF CRAZY! art opening at TOOEYS OFF COLFAX! It’s also the Denver Vintage Reggae Society’s 3rd Anniversary, so there will be great music as well! Come down for the art, stay for the booze!

Things kick off at 7PM!

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