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Every once in a while I’ll put tweezers to them. Then there was one time a barber shaved my unibrow with an electric shaver (that was uncalled for!), but otherwise it’s not something I’ve thought about much until recently when I noticed the new SAI Eyebrow Designer at the Diagonal Plaza shopping center.
I decided to give it a try and there I met the owner Suna Sapkota Subedi who’s from Chitwan, Nepal, near Katmandu, and practices the ancient method of hair removal called threading.
Suna received her license in Nepal at a school called Nil-Debit. She spent a year getting trained on eyebrows, sideburns, upper lips, chin and full faces.
She leaned me back in a chair similar to one found at a dentist’s office holding a cotton thread stretched around both hands and it looked like she was about to floss my teeth, but instead she plucked away at my brow using a twisting motion, which grabbed my eyebrow hairs between the thread.
“The difference between waxing and threading is there are no chemicals,” Suna told me. “This technique is popular in Canada, London, and the United States.”
The whole process took twenty minutes and when she brought the mirror to my face I couldn’t believe the difference two eyebrows make instead of one!
Coming out of Sai Eyebrow Designer, with model looks, was Grace, one of Suna’s customers. I asked her about her experience.
Grace researched eyebrow designers online on Yelp when she first moved to Boulder.
“And Suna came up and had great reviews, so I had to check her out.”
I asked if she found the threading process painful.
“I have a high pain tolerance so I don’t think so,” she replied “I mean beauty is pain… We (women) like to do it because it feels good.”
Eyebrows cost $14. Sona also does Sideburns, upper lips, chin, or the full face.
SAI Eyebrow Designer is located in the Diagonal Plaza shopping center next to the Boulder Drivers License office.
Visit Suna today at 2850 Iris Ave. Suite L, Boulder, CO 80301 in the DMV building. Plenty of parking.
Ron Fortier has been a professional comic book writer and author for almost fifty years, now.
The comic books he’s worked on are numerous and you’ve definitely heard of some of the super heroes he’s written comics for like The Hulk, Popeye,Rambo, Peter Pan, The Green Hornetand The Terminatorare just a few!
He spends a good deal of time now-a-days publishing independent comic books at his Airship27.com publisher site and let us tell you has has many, many books and comics published under his belt!
Ron is no stranger to Comic Cons and we at GoshDarnBlog caught up with him at the Fort Collins Comic Con in August 2022.
We asked Ron 4 questions so if you’re a fan of Stan Lee then you’ll really like Ron Fortier.
GoshDarnBlog asked him about his career and about how to do a Comic Con when you’re a newb.
Read on to find out below!
1. What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from Comic Cons? What advice do you have for someone who wants to be a vendor at a Comic Con?
“…For the first time, if they are sitting behind the table alright, as a creator, is have fun! Have fun meeting people, being social and talking to ’em okay? Don’t go with the mercenary attitude of “Oooh I gotta sell all my books, oh I gotta make a profit, blah blah blah,” … if you go in with that attitude it’s like I said it’s very mercenary, very cold, and it’s not what this fandom’s about. These people are here because they love Comics. The comics that you’ve written, illustrated or whatever, it’s an opportunity for you to meet with ’em and to share with them, okay, that love and that passion, if they buy something that’s icing on the cake… but trust me okay, even if they can’t the situation is they don’t have any money or whatever and they walk on they’ll remember that conversation they’ll walk away going that was hell of a nice guy and next time if I come back and have some cash I’m stopping over and getting one of his books. And it works all the time. It’s just being honest its liking people and having fun.”
2. When’s your next class at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins?
“We are starting it back up this September, once again It’s going to be an 8 week course at the front range community college alright it’ll be on Wednesday nights from 6 to 8 at night and um basically how to write comic strips and graphic novels.”
3. What’s your comic book series Mr. Jigsaw all about?
“Mr. Jigsaw is a comedy super Hero that myself and Hawaiian artist Gary Kato created almost forty years ago now when we were first breaking into the business and it was basically a series of short stories, 8, 10 page adventures of a character who can break apart like a jigsaw puzzle, alright, he lives in the state of Maine and operates out of the city of Portland Maine he’s a young fella he’s very naïve and he thinks his ability to break apart and then reconnect is some how very cool and so it gets him into all kinds of different problems and situations but the thing is he’s so likeable and has such a close circle of friends that they always come to his aid and in the end the good guy always wins that’s Mr. Jigsaw, Man of a Thousand Parts.”
4. What’s coming up for you?
“I got a new six issue mini series it’s science fiction it’s called beyond the stars we just kickstarted issue #1 and I’m doing it with an Italian artist names Andrea Bermeda that I connected with online he’s a 30 year veteran from working in European comics so that’s the newest thing Ron forty (Fortier) has go on the shelf these days.”
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All For Yoo and Me
I have been to this wonderful restaurant more than once, now!
They have combo plates that are right up my alley with traditional Chinese dishes with fried rice and an egg roll for $10.95 to $11.95.
So far I’ve had the Mongolian Beef, Kung Pao Chicken (both spicy) and the Beef and Broccoli, which has become my “go to”. The egg roll is extra crispy and comes with sweet red sauce and you can get it in pork or vegetable.
A Traditional Boba for $4.95 at Tra Ling’s Cafe in Boulder, CO. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.
When there I also make sure I buy a Traditional or Green Tea Boba for $4.95.
They serve your dish fast if you sit down to eat there, which is what I do. Mostly in like five minutes or less!
The restaurant has ample space for customers. If you come here on a date you will find it comfortable and quiet. Red paper lanterns populate the ceiling and their is even a red heart theme happening on the light fixtures. I asked them if the red lanterns and hearts were used for Feng shui, but I was told the color red more represents “luck.”
I’ve sat in the restaurant a number of times by myself and I will say the the yellow walls remind me of Backrooms videos on YouTube, which is funny to me, but it’s no problem.
The restaurant is clean from top to bottom with lots of space between the tables and they have convenient electric plugs in the walls if I need it.
Ample seating at Tra Ling’s and Yoo and Me. GoshDarnBlog,com 2022.
Yoo and Me Noodle House is also a part of Tra Ling’s location. If you need a landmark this Chinese restaurant is in the DMV building off Iris in Boulder.
The hours are 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM Monday through Saturday and they’re closed on Sunday. You can order online for delivery or pickup.
If you visit their website you will see their menu is vast. They even have Vietnamese dishes.
Mongolian Beef at Tra Ling;s and Yoo and Me in Boulder, Colorado. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.
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Visiting this place was different
Terracotta now has a new location and a totally different theme. The miracle of nature is in full effect at this plant cafe because, ya see, it’s full of vegetation.
Shrub, greenery, flora… oh my!
When you enter look to your right and you’ll see a wall full of foliage and a wooden chaise lounge sitting at the bottom of it looking like it all belongs in an uptown community garden.
Looking at the hanging plants coming from down from the rafters I noticed one that looked like a large platter, holding two plants, not just one.
If you want to buy a potted plant, a hanging plant or a plant close to resembling an indoor jungle tree stop by here to browse. You can even order a plant like you would a pizza and get it delivered!
Potted vines sat at the top of coffee bar and hung down through lights. A double fountain of rough marble pillars, near the window, reminded me of what they found on the moon in the movie 2001, trickling water down into a rock garden.
What a great place to just be! I thought to myself, sitting there at one of the many small tables with a white marble styled top and one large iron leg resembling more the 1920s than the 2020s.
Off the menu I ordered the Geometry, bean coffee brewed just for me in one of those Chemex brewers.
The barista, who said he was also the owner, talked to me casually about how it was not sacred geometry, but I think with all the plants around this place you can always be reminded of fractals, can ya dig?
What else happened there?
A dog was asleep on a cot, napping under a table of plants for sale, not interested at all in greeting any of the customers. There were just a few patrons who browsed through the store carrying a small metal basket by their side where they could place their succulents to buy and bring home.
Hanging plant supplies, planters, pots, plant holders, plant tables, fabric plant skirts and even plant jars are some of the things you can find here. Postcards, stickers and mugs were sold at the cash register like most stores around here have been prone to do.
In the 1980s, growing up, my mom would take me to this drug store in Brooklyn Heights and there were lots of movie, rock, comic books, games and novelties sold there.
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And gives a big middle finger to Modernism
“I have,” he says with emphasis. “In that direction I have excelled everything.”
For George, painting is more about symbolism than anything else.
“Appliances or cars er (pause) I think they don’t have symbolism… Like a can of Coke has no symbolism. A cup has symbolism. A can doesn’t. For artistic purposes, if you put anything like that… just spoils your painting…”
I ask him if he knows what an NFT is and he replies, “Huh…What’s that?”
George is forty-eight years old, from Lafayette and drives into town almost every day to draw in coffee shops. He tells me his angle is “the coffee shop.” Since he was a teenager he’s been going there to learn art rather than a school.
The man sitting with me at OZO Coffee in Boulder, Colorado, is soft spoken and intelligent. In fact he’s so soft spoken I’m wondering if my recorder will pick up his voice over the funk music and the banging sounds the baristas are making behind the counter.
On this hot August day George is hunched over in a black t-shirt. His dark hair parted to the side. In the chair next to him is a weathered leather bag with a strap that makes him look like a professional when walking down the sidewalks of this town, but in his bag are pencils and paper.
He sold me two drawings for five bucks last week and I’ve been carrying them around in my laptop bag. We’d had a short conversation about visibility or how my blog doesn’t get any hits, like he wasn’t going to do the interview with me because of it.
I was introduced to him several years before Covid and saw some of his paintings hanging up at Avante Coffee on Walnut. He had nudes, which I thought were cool and something you don’t see often in Boulder.
Courtesy George Dessev “The Funeral of Robin Hood”
Another time I saw his self-portrait, a striking painting, but something every famous painter has done, like Van Gogh for instance. George’s self-portrait looked similar to portraits from several hundred years ago, like you would see on the walls whenever you visit a well-known museum.
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Read this moose story with some fun moose facts added
Moose
In Summit County, Colorado, Back in January of 2022, a Moose fell into a house through a window well.
Antlers and all, it found itself in a basement and broke a pool table there.
Frightened it went to the bathroom all over the carpet and scratched its antlers and hooves against the walls.
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A team of rescuers tried to woo it up some stairs, but in the end they had to use a trank and make it nap. Then 10 people lifted it up the stairwell, but unfortunately, they had to saw off the antlers to get it out of the dwelling, but a moose at this age loses his antlers naturally anyway they reported.
The windowell was covered in snow and the moose was munching on some shrubs or plants when it fell in and broke into the house.
The poor thing’s antlers were left by the rescuers under the christmas tree for the owners of the abode as a gift from the harrowing experience.
Did you know Elk and Moose are the same? WildSweden.com knows this is confusing and they laid it out for all of us.
Fun Moose Facts
The Scientific name is “Alces alces.” There are more moose in Sweden than anywhere else in the world. The predators of Moose are humans, wolves and bears.
Moose in European
“The Swedish word for Moose is Älg,” WildSweden.com explains on their website.
They also say American Elk and European Elk are different and have the pics to prove it.
“European Elk, also called European Moose, which is the same species as the American Moose. This is not the same species as the American Elk.” from “Facts About the Moose”at WildSweden.com.
Vic’s Again has Expressive Espresso Drinks in Boulder, Colorado
Start your mornings here
Vic’s Again has a corner off Iris and 30th in Boulder, Colorado where the neighborhood Walmart used to be. Remember that? All that trouble to move in and then they move right out! Well, now Case Vetinary Clinic is in that spot, but Vic’s is around the corner on the same side of the street as The Cork restaurant.
They like jazz there and you’ll hear Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles over the speakers when you sit down. Every second Sunday from 10 AM to 12PM they have an improv jazz jam with musicians and they even have scat singing and during the summer they do it all out on the front patio.
The umbrella’s outside are provided by Allegro Coffee, so you can have a proper “shady” experience. In the mornings people like to stop by with their dogs outside and sit.
Inside there’s some interesting scrap metal jazz art, a scene of different small statue musicians playing. There’s a large mirror on the wall, too, so you can check yourself in the morning as your get coffee on your way to work.
In the men’s room is a large poster of Dizzy Gillespie with his cheeks puffed out and his closed eyes in meditation. This poster has been their forever. I would know.
Vic’s Espresso used to have several locations, but not no more.
The Vic’s Logo has always been eye-catching with a funny face and frizzy hair and then a frizzy expresso cup to match, all in a funny comedy line drawing black and white cartoon.
They have scones and croissants for food along with oatmeal. One of the specials when I was there was a Popcorn Latte, which I was tempted to try, but haven’t yet.
I discovered you can even get a free refill with your drip coffee, which is way cool.
In the parking lot, on the Vic’s Again side, you can see some fancy vehicles with their owners stopping by for their coffee fix. Tesla, Porsche, and all those new SUV EVs are popular.
Vic’s Again is a coffeeshop pillar out here in the Boulder community and you will be sure to add it to your morning routine once you get the hang of it in there. Otherwise they wouldn’t be calling it Vic’s …AGAIN!
BOULDER – Funky, hippy and entrepreneur-y — whatever you’re looking for on your next Vakay Boulder, Colorado has lots of what you want
Disclaimer: This article mentions drugs and alcohol.
Mountains, tundra and more mountains are what you see when you drive into Boulder from DIA, Denver International Airport.
Known as the Flatirons; many a painter, artist and dreamer has viewed them with a creative eye, all in appreciation of beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
Need a quick coffee? We recommend starting your Boulder adventure at The Trident Cafe. Did we forget to mention this cozy coffee place has been here for more than forty years?
Here, you can talk intellectual with the locals or go inside and read your book.
Surf the net on your laptop and drink your tea from The Trident’s top shelf, an impressive selection of green, black, herbal, peppermint, hibiscus, red berries and more. Enjoy your tea iced during the summer (along with the coffee!) and even get a refill for just a dollar.
Trident has the location, location, location, so just relax, sitting at their outside tables and maybe watch the sun go down later. Hopefully you’ll get lucky and experience a summer breeze with light rain. The thunder and lightening crashing along the mountain range. Summers in BOCO on the street of Pearl as we like to call it (it’s really Pearl St.) can be quite magical and even un-predictable if you mindfully allow it to be.
The walking mall is center of the universe in Boulder!
Now, that your thirst is quenched maybe it’s time to get something colder like a Gelato Boy. There’s two locations of this tasty gelato shop on either side of Pearl St.’s walking mall and In-between you’ll even find a Ben and Jerry’s.
Psychic shopping and new age
Next to Ben and Jerry’s is a peculiar place where you’ll walk down the stairs and find a selection of occult, psychic, Buddhist, religious texts, essays and books–The Lighthouse Bookstore. You may spend an hour there wondering if you need to buy some incense or a small Buddha statue to take back to your altar at your mountain home, but there’s worst problems to have, we think at least!
The Show
By the time the afternoon rolls around the Court House lawn will be bustling with locals and tourists alike because it’s Wednesday and that means live music on the walking mall.
Every year Downtown Boulder brings a slew of local bands belting out their newest or even classic tunes each Wednesday Eve throughout the summer months.
Big Red has restaurants in town
Big Red F has acquired lots of new locations around town as of late, so you should try eating at The Post. Whether Happy Hour or not you will find the hardiest of fare. There’s a rumor going around that the staff flew around the country looking for authentic Americana recipes from other states, so you won’t find better fried chicken locally than here! Also try their Howdy Pilsner for a light beer.
Hiking in Boulder is easy
You’ll never believe this, but at the foot of the mountain on Pearl St., is a short trail where you can have fantastic view of the whole city (or hamlet as we’ve heard some people like to call Boulder!?). It’s called The Peoples’ Crossing and once you climb up the rocks and get to the top you can sit on a bench and take a rest. Soak it all in and take pics on your iPhone. Upload them to all your social media accounts and be sure to share this article, too! The social share button is at the top of this here blog post you’re reading, so click it, sista!
Recreational edibles for reals
On your way to The Peoples’ Crossing be sure to stop at Verde, a local rec dispensary, cuz weed’s legal here, bra!
Personally, we like the brand called Wyld and they come in 10 mg’s per gummy in a pack of 10, 100 mgs total, which is more than enough for even a space-is-the-place-cannabis-veteran, but be forewarned — edibles are strong like Hercules, so don’t blame us if you start to feel funny! This is normal anyway and lots of times a 911 call is not needed.
Disclaimer: Marijuana is real easy to look up on the web on the Google search, so go read a few legit blog posts about it before you ever do it OR just ask your knowledgeable and helpful budtender at your local dispensary any questions you have. They have been trained thoroughly and are way more knowledgeable than all of us here at GoshDarnBlog.com.
Free pool hall games
The day’s winding down but the fun is not over. Find free pool tables at the Sundown Saloon until 10pm and also visit Press Play, where children are allowed to play arcade games until dusk, when it changes over into a full on club.
But if bars are not your thing try…
Two museums in town
If you’re bored the Muse Museum and also BMOCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art are two places you can go to. They have events, programs and exhibits promoting only the localist of artists for you to learn about. There peruse their paintings, sculpture, mixed media or immersive art.
On a Thursday, Friday or Saturday (or almost any day, really) you will see large crowds and families with children wading in the Boulder Creek.
Near the Boulder Library you will find all types taking advantage of these natural Creekside pools of water. Sometimes you can see green headed ducks having a nice time in there as well.
The park is where it’s at!
Wade over to Eben G. Fine Park and walk down the steps that lead directly into the creek waters. Almost right at the the head of the mountain, here you can find hiking trails, green grass to sun tan on and an opportunity to “Wim Hoff it” and do a cold plunge in the creek water. For better health we’ve heard three minutes is all you need in the icy cold waters to get a full body effect. Warm yourself up after by jogging down the trail and toweling off in this spacious park.
Nightlife in town is on fire
There’s another view that’s great in this cozy little mountain town and that’s the nightlife. There’s too many places to mention, so just follow your ears to where the techno is blaring out the front doors, but if you need a different scene, bluegrass and bands can be found at places like The Velvet Elk Lounge or try the venue right off Pearl St. called the Boulder Theater. Even the Trident, which we mentioned earlier, has events every night outside in their back patio area.
Need a quieter time?
Boulder attracts lots of Buddhist types and you can find plenty of lectures and talks about new age stuff. For meditation look up The Shambhala Center,Naropa University and even the Unity Church off Folsom St. Otherwise check out the Boulder Psychic Institute for interesting and far out classes.
Boulder’s got lots more than all this going on, but these ideas should keep you busy when you venture onto Pearl St. to see what’s going down during the hot summer months! What do you like about Boulder?
D D Stewart has sixty-one mazes scanned into his computer. Apparently he has hundreds more at his disposal, just waiting for the privilege of becoming digitized.
I sit with him at a booth in a Boulder, Colorado Denny’s. If the restaurant allowed smoking we would both be partaking. He seems like he is anxious to step outside and have a cigarette. He has not touched his “Grand Slam-which.”
Then I start to ask him questions about mazes.
What was your first maze like?
“The manager was twenty-one and hired a staff of eighteen-year-olds. Somewhere in middle of this crazy atmosphere, in a dead mall with no customers, I sat at the counter and drew this trippy maze. That was the first one I ever did. Not enough sleep… and working in a dead mall.”
How many mazes have you done all together?
“Several hundred since I was 18. I’ve been doing it for fifteen years.”
Do you “do” mazes? Do you play them?
“I collect maze books. I’m able to go through mazes with my eyes, without a pen or pencil… I have to go through every single one of my own mazes because to draw a maze you have to go through it. The way is not the path from beginning to end, but it is to go through every path and make sure there is one way through it.”
What’s the definition of a maze to you?
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(There’s a long silence as D D sits across from me in the booth.)
“A beginning and an end and there’s an intricate path between… I’m able to do these in a lot of different mediums. When I started doing mazes I would start with pencil and then outline it with permanent marker. Then I would take white-out and make it look all pretty. Next I would take it to Kinkos and make copies of it. Then I copied that and redid it again and again. I would make like six versions of one maze. I’ve spent a lot of time at Kinkos just copying designs and redo-ing them with white-out.”
Currently you’re making mazes that serve as stand alone art pieces that hang on a wall?
“Now-a-days I do mazes in different mediums. Pencil, pen, permanent marker, on computer software… Currently, I’m working in ‘Paint’ on Windows and making straight, pixilated lines and the end result is an optical illusion because I’ve situated lines into certain patterns. The medium itself creates the complicated design. It’s the background I create that’s the focus now. It’s what I do before I draw a maze that creates the maze now. I’ve designed simple walking mazes before and it is something I would like to do again. A museum, an amusement park, a Halloween event; there are lots of places I could design something really neat if the right people were involved. I had a lot of fun at an Art Walk one year, putting down an eighty-foot by twenty-foot maze on the sidewalk in front of Stonebridge Games on Main Street. You could enter on either the North or South side, find your way to the store entrance, and then back out the maze the other direction. Kids and adults both had fun trying to find their way in and out.”
Above: A scale model of the walking maze design by D D Stewart with two entrances on the sidewalk that lead to the entrance of a store.
“In the future I would like to find someone who can invest a lot of money into a restaurant with three floors. Before you get to the entrance of the restaurant you have to journey through two floors of mazes. I’ve even figured out the proper fire codes to adhere to for this project.”
D D sees promise in looking for newspapers and magazines to publish his mazes. He also likes the idea of making a book to sell online both digitally and physically.
“A big one, you can put it on a coffee table in the living room even. Maybe selling it in other countries is a possibility, too.”
He also likes the idea of using mazes as Brain Therapy.
“Thinking therapy… Brain therapy… Mazes are complicated and have to do with problem solving. Mazes could be marketed to people with brain injuries or for brain training.”
Interview originally done back on 6-12-2015.
Photo Selfie: D D Stewart
Update 2018:
Visit www.kulsiz.com or buy D D’s maze books off Amazon as “Print on Demand” here.
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