All good things must end – and so comes the news that Boulder’s Kinetics Sculpture Challenge is most likely dead in the water.
KBCO-FM in Boulder announced last week that attendance keeps falling and costs keep rising. The race, after 27 years, is canceled for spring ’08 – and will probably not come alive again.
Attendance went from 40,000 at its peak to just under 6,000 last spring. Seems like kids in college don’t have the sense of humor they once did – or they don’t have the time to form teams with funny names to build outrageous floating contraptions.
At the parade, held a week before the actual race around and through Boulder Reservoir, teams would bribe judges, such as Dick Kreck and me, with bottles of booze and candy. But it was always the team names that we loved.
Here’s a salute to some memorable monikers: We Like To Watch; Glubble Warming; Snakes on a Hydro-Plane; Marvin’s Mischievous Misfit Moist Motorin’ Meshuggahs; If You’ve Got a Buzz, I’ve Got a Woody; Wizzers of Oz; The Schwing Team; The Boulder Hippies Have Fallen and They Can’t Get Up; Woody and Mia Adopt Chelsea Clinton; Jeffrey Dahmer Invites Peruvian Rugby Team For Leftovers; Hank Gathers Mid-Court Limbo Team; Hannibal Lector Eats Green Leg and Ham; Elliott Nessie and the Flaming Blowhole; Honey, I Blew Up The World Trade Center (from 1999); Pull My Finger.
No Dice. Andrew Dice Clay has canceled his skedded appearance at the Comedy Works for Friday and Saturday, two nights, three shows. The $100-a-seat tix were selling well, I’m told. He pulled out for scheduling reasons and will rebook for 2008.
The new Comedy Works South at Landmark opens Jan. 17 with headliner Robert Klein.
Gonzo. Hunter S. Thompson’s widow, Anita, is peeved at Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, says the NY Daily News. She’s not happy with Wenner’s book “Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, An Oral Biography.”
She was down to write the intro to the book but opted out when too many lurid deets about the end of Thompson’s life were included. She went on to write her own book, “The Gonzo Way,” and Wenner got Johnny Depp to write the intro to his Hunter tome.
“Jann is going to make quite a lot of money off this book, and we’re having trouble paying the bills,” Anita said.
Look for yet another Thompson book in February: “The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson” by Michael Cleverly and Sheriff Bob Braudis.
City spirit. Suzy Bogguss, one of my favorite jazzy country singers, stars in the Broadmoor’s Colorado Christmas Show Dec. 14-15 and 21-24 … Sez who: “I don’t drink to get happy or to forget the pain. I drink to stop the voices in my head.” Andrew Dice Clay
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