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Ear to the ground: “I can’t tell that it is the first week of February without having to dodge piles of puke, boa feathers and Mardi Gras beads on Main Ave.” – Local thrown off by this year’s lack of Snowdown sidewalk detritus

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CORE Act’s chances improve with Democratic Congress

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It’s about to get a whole lot easier fto juice electric vehicles. This week, the City of Durango pledged $10,997 to help finance the city’s first-ever electric vehicle DC fast-charging station. The DC station, which will be located in the Durango Transit Center parking, will allow up to two vehicles to fully charge simultaneously, in approximately 20 minutes. The new stations will be located next to the City’s existing Level 2 EV charging stations, which by comparison take roughly four hours to deliver a full charge.

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The station is expected to be operational by June with a total cost of $306,578 with additional funding coming from the Colorado Energy Office, La Plata Electric Association and Charge Point, a California-based EV charging infrastructure company.

“With transportation accounting for approximately 28 percent of community-wide greenhouse gas emissions, supporting the widespread adoption of electric vehicles alongside a transition to clean electricity will be critical to achieving the city’s adopted emissions reduction goals,” Imogen Ainsworth, City of Durango Sustainability Coordinator, said in a statement.

In addition to the new fast-charging Durango stations, LPEA also partnered with the Town of Bayfield to install a Level 2 station there as well.

Located in the Bayfield Town Hall parking lot, half a mile from Highway 160, the station allows up to two vehicles to charge simultaneously and can deliver a full charge in approximately four hours.

The stations are part of a network of charging “corridors” developed across the state by the Colorado Energy Office in the hopes of making electric vehicles a more reliable and convenient option. Right now, one of the biggest hurdles to electric vehicles in Colorado is the so-called “range anxiety” due to a lack of charging stations.

The City and LPEA are also working together to develop an “EV Readiness Plan” to help people make the switch to electric vehicles. The plan includes EV charging infrastructure, LPEA fleet electrification and public adoption of EVs. “This project hits many of LPEA’s operational objectives by supporting our community, reducing emissions, and boosting beneficial electrification,” LPEA CEO Jessica Matlock said. “To support the growth of the EV market, we must first start with the infrastructure.”

As of Jan. 1, nearly 33,000 EVs were registered in Colorado. The Colorado Energy Office predicts the state will have more than 800,000 EVs on the road by 2030, or a 12 percent market share.

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LaVidaLocal Airlines hit a downdraft At 2:45 a.m., Dec. 18, 2020, the American Airlines check-in at DIA is deserted.

Sleepy travelers, me included, wait, lined out from the roped-off counter. Three a.m. comes and goes.Most of us are on a 5:09 a.m. flight to Miami., with a 3 a.m. checkin. 3:15 passes. We exchange a few looks, comments; wary and weary, as strangers will be, thrust together in the middle of the night. A recorded announcement reminds us to report all suspicious behavior. We scan the deserted counter. Someone mutters, “This is suspicious behavior.”

Finally, four rumpled agents appear led by a crisp female drill sergeant. With no preamble, Nurse Ratched begins striding up and down the line demanding all travelers to a foreign country present proof issued from their destination country that they are virus free. Confusion reigns. Before we get there? How would that work? We try for an explanation. She cuts us off, “I’m not answering questions.”

Suddenly she reverses course. Now she demands all domestic travelers show proof. We consult each other, strangers now allied by this bizarre behavior and unknown requirement at 3:25 in the freaking a.m. There was no mention of this in American ticketing. We have no idea what she is talking about. It becomes increasingly obvious, neither does she. She repeats the condition, but it is now a threat. Some of us – it is unclear who – will be denied a boarding pass if we do not present a recent negative test provided by … someone. She finishes with, “I’m not answering questions” and opens the ropes.

A few days before my departure to the Dominican Republic, Dominican Immigration and Customs had sent me a link to an electronic entry form. In the past, we were handed paper forms on the international flight from Miami to the D.R. This new electronic version has the same questions from years past with a few COVID-19 “Do you have a cough?” thrown in.

As an afterthought, the form on the Dominican website states, in its unsteady English, that all this can be done at Immigration in the D.R. Not a chance. If I have learned anything in dealing with the D.R. over the years, it is to do everything early, three or four times, and ask everybody connected if there is anything else remotely possible that may be necessary. Then check again. It’s 50-50 you still won’t have it right.

The requirements are bewilderingly arbitrary and if Immagracion cuts you from the herd for a more thorough look, then it is left to the discretion of a young bored Dominican official how much he wants to mess with you. I dutifully complete the form and submit it – three times before the infant D.R. website will accept it. That is oddly reassuring. This is indeed a web portal to the D.R. government. Entry is as wobbly as its command of English. Now standing before the imperious female, I show her this code printed on paper. It’s all I have. She scans it, studies a computer

for a long time. The impression is that she knows it is official Dominican but has no idea what it is or how to decipher it. It just might be what she’s been demanding, but she has no way of knowing. She hands it back with my boarding passes.

COVID-19 has hit us in ways we couldn’t imagine. Its effects will spin out for years, cropping up in the most unexpected places, its future reach for now unfathomable. We have vaccines. Yay. We also have a country that refused to make restrictions mandatory with teeth like a pit bull for scofflaws. Instead, we allowed the self-indulgent – the young idiots, big business, politicians – to inflict their choices on us all. Even yet, those factions bitch about their right to ignore the public good.

More than 400,000 COVID-19 American deaths as I write this – the dead have the bigger bitch.

But the self-righteous weren’t listening then, and no one hears the dead speak now. The majority died because our leaders abdicated their primary responsibility to lead, especially when the population didn’t want to follow. Our response to COVID-19 politically, personally and corporately has been astonishingly slack jawed.

American Airlines’ response to a world in crisis is freshly hatched policy designed to protect American Airlines.

In the air over the Gulf of Mexico, a flight attendant, a diminutive Dominican American, hands out the same paper forms we have used forever. When we protest that we already submitted them electronically, he bristles. “I know nothing of Dominican immigration. I will not answer questions.” He sidles down the aisle thrusting forms at us. His size belies his pugnacity. He repeats himself word for word, over and over, by rote memory. It is obviously a directive from higher up. He has turned it into litany. He is doing his job. No questions. He is a disturbing little drone of the 3:30 woman at DIA. American Airlines was big business making a go of it on razor-thin margins. Other airlines have folded or been absorbed. American was doing just fine, raking in a $414 million profit in the last quarter of 2019. Now American is running scared, its business model infected by a world economy barely feeling its way forward and vast job cuts gnawing at its employees. Why does American think covering its ass is an appropriate response in this time of uncertainty? Why doesn’t American use some forward thinking and offer a transportation model that incorporates change instead of dodging responsibility?

We’re all worried, American – passengers included. Why do you dismiss us rather than find some creative solutions to a problem none of us asked for?

At el aeropuerto, Las Americas Internacional en Santo Domingo, entry is surprisingly quick. My luggage ejects onto the carousel early. Immigracion is a breeze, Customs a rubber stamp. No one asks about the electronic pass. I ask the final official who grants me entry. Oh, that, she says, dismissively, that. The computer is down, we can’t read that thing.

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Croc of Shoe La Plata County’s COVID restrictions being downgraded to Level Orange, allowing “five-star” certified restaurants to now operate at 50 percent capacity for indoor dining Barriers to EV ownership continuing to crumble in Southwest Colorado, with new EV charging stations coming to Durango and Bayfield

A recent onslaught of storms allowing for a belated but welcome opening of Hesperus Ski Area

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Yet another tragic reminder of the San Juans’ notoriously dangerous and fickle snowpack, with three skiers missing in action after a huge slide near Ophir Pass The kook who aimed a laser at a Flight for Life helicopter over La Plata County last week, seriously damaging the eyesight of a flight nurse A crime wave washing over Durango, with a man opening fire at the 8th Ave. Tavern, burglary at an 11th St. Station food truck, a gun fired in a shoveling dispute, and vehicle theft topping the blotter in recent days

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If you’re keeping track, this is the third downfall centered on Crocs, but those abominations deserve it because they’re basically apocalyptic flipflops. And this time, the “shoes” definitely earned their spot in the downfall, because for a mere $144, now you can buy a pair of “camping Crocs” with built-in survival gear. The left Croc has a headlight and a waterproof pouch; the right Croc has a compass and a bundle of paracord. But for real, if you’re the type who thinks these things will help you survive, you will die. Do not go outside.

WordontheScreen With all of us living in a perpetual Groundhog Day as of late, the Telegraph asked, “What day would you like to relive over and over?”

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“Ice Cube’s ‘It Was a Good Day,’ Jan. 20, 1992.”

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“The day I discovered that riding my bike to work meant I could justify eating two lunches.”

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“The Hozhoni Days Pow-Wow in 2000, with my family and friends, singing in our drum group.”

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“A day on Lahaina Beach when my wife and I sat with our toes in the sand without a care in the world.”

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“Any pre-pandemic, sunny, summer day, hanging out in the back yard with friends.” telegraph

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SoapBox Don’t feed anti-America cancer To the editor, What does the American flag mean to you? The one we pledge allegiance to at the start of local government meetings, civic group meetings, senior center gatherings (back before COVID). The flag we display on Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day. The flag lots of locals display every day as well. The flag that leads parades.

The flag that inspired the words to our national anthem when it was still flying after a night of attacks by British troops in the War of 1812 – coincidently the last time (until Jan. 6) attackers invaded and sacked the U.S. Capitol.

When you display or pledge allegiance to the flag, are you voicing support for those who think it’s OK to throw out election results that they don’t like? For white supremacists, neo-Nazis, violent anti-government militias that hope to start a bloody civil war? Attackers who chanted “Hang Mike Pence” and came with a noose and plastic handcuffs? Who wanted to kill Democratic lawmakers and the few Republican lawmakers who stood up for our Constitution and the rule of law?

If not, you need to be mindful that these groups are trying to co-opt our national symbol for their own dark agendas. They are recruiting and radicalizing online like the Islamic State did. Be mindful that the swastika was a good and positive symbol around the world for hundreds, if not thousands, of years until the Nazis got hold of it.

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terrified by the cancer that’s spreading in our country need to reclaim our symbol to stand for what’s good about America, the ideals that most of us celebrate on the 4th of July.

Of course, it’s not just about what our flag stands for.

It’s about the nature of the country itself. Donald Trump’s departure from Washington, D.C., doesn’t mean everything is OK now. The cancer is still there. All that’s needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do and say nothing.

– Carole McWilliams, Bayfield

Taking shots with Bernie To the editor, I got my first COVID vaccination shot Saturday, and whoever organized the event did a perfect job. The many volunteers were essential to the success of the day! Efficient, friendly and professional – everyone helped people along the process and moved the lines along. I am looking forward to my booster shot. I was hoping Bernie Sanders was there.

– Sara Freeman, Durango

Introduce wolves with protection To the editor, Colorado voters approved reintroduction of wolves. I love wolves, have had incredible experiences walking 10 feet away from wolves in Denali, and know they are a crucial part of a healthy ecosystem. But, since the Trump administration took wolves off the Endangered Species list, I would advise that reintroduction of wolves only takes place when wolves are protected in Colorado. Otherwise this will result in a free-for-all gunning down of any wolves introduced.

Right now, coyotes can be shot any time of the year here in Colorado. Colorado Fish and Wildlife said there

was an issue with coyotes and children in the Front Range area ( then there should be control of coyotes in that area and not the whole state) and of course coyotes can take chickens and livestock. But it is well known that guard dogs such as the sheep herders have in the high peaks will keep coyotes out. This is also one of the policies in Washington for wolves and has been shown to be effective in France.

So those folks with livestock should have guard dogs on patrol to guard from coyotes now and if wolves are introduced. We should not have an all-out season on coyotes, who are also important in an ecosystem, particularly for rodent control. Many of us love seeing and hearing coyotes; they are beautiful and also part of our ecosystems.

– Margaret Mayer, Durango

Take down your political signs To the editor, As an Independent (“Undeclared” in N.H.) I have voted for Republicans and Democrats quite evenly over the decades starting in 1960, and I always voted for the individual candidates, not the party. I was planning on looking back and analyzing former President Trump's time in office and try to determine his legacy, but instead I decided to look forward to the future.

President Biden has laid out his vision of unity, respect, harmony and compassion for our country, and hopefully people will do their part to help reunite us, because the soul of our country hangs in the balance.

The presidential election, including the aftermath, was incredibly caustic and violent in some situations.

Some ordinary citizens were overly zealous while campaigning for Trump and Biden. I noticed there was a huge amount of political campaign signage in my town and region. Trump/Pence and Biden/Harris signs sprang up in the yards of many houses. Unfortunately, many of these signs continue to exist long after the election

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and even after the inauguration. There is no justification for people to continue with the signage of either party unless they want to foment divisiveness and discord in our country. Take down your political signs for the good of our country.

– Donald Moskowitz, Londonderry, N.H.

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CORE strength With Democratic control, path for Colorado public lands bill may now be clear

by Caitlyn Kim

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his could be the year the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act becomes law – at least that’s what Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Calif., and Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are betting on, now that their party controls both chambers of Congress.

The three are reintroducing the Colorado public lands bill. It would through new wilderness, recreation and conservation areas, including 60,000 acres in the San Juan Mountains, including the Ice Lakes, Mount Sneffels and Hope Lake landscapes.

It would also establish new protections for historic Camp Hale, where the Tenth Mountain Division trained during World War Two. “From a first-of-its-kind National Historic Landscape designation for Camp Hale – which embodies the spirit of Colorado – to protections for our iconic San Juan Mountains, the CORE Act was crafted night after night by Coloradans who came together to do something special for the next generation,” Bennet said. “Our state has waited long enough.”

Neguse also hit emphasized that the bill was not the brainchild of politicians in Washington, D.C., but “by Coloradans for Colorado.”

“Countless Coloradans have contributed their voices to the creation of this bill, and it’s time for Washington to take notice, and enact this measure into law,” Neguse said.

“This year our coalition in Congress includes the support of both of Colorado’s Senators.

I’m excited to get this done for the people of Colorado, for our public lands, our climate and our state’s economy.”

The bill has the backing of a number of local stakeholders from ranchers and farmers to mountain bikers and conservationists, many of whom have worked on the protections for over a decade through an evolving series of bills. It also has support from commissioners in every county with land in the bill.

The CORE Act passed the House during the 116th Congress, in October 2019, but stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Former Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., who sat on the Energy and Natural Resources committee did not back it. He said it lacked the support of former Rep. Scott Tipton, whose

There’s new hope for Hope Lake, seen here, with a Democratic-controlled Congress. The lake, along with 60,000 acres in and around the San Juans, would be protected if the long-languishing CORE Act passes. In all, the act would protect some 400,000 acres in Colorado./ File photo Third District included the lands in the bill and who sought changes to it. The bill even got a veto warning from Trump.

The political calculus is different now.

Democrats control both the Senate and the House, and both Colorado senators are actively pushing for CORE to pass. Conservation groups want to see it happen soon.

“Our new pro-conservation congressional majority should act swiftly to pass (CORE),” Kelly Nordini, executive director of Conservation Colorado, said.

The group views this “long-anticipated” bill as a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s effort to conserve 30 percent of U.S. land and water by 2030.

But, once again, the bill won’t have the support of the current congress member for the district where the lands would be protected, Rep. Lauren Boebert.

Last July, when CORE was attached to a

defense bill, Boebert slammed it, calling it a “land grab.” While her office did not reply to emails requesting comment on the re-introduced legislation, she’s not listed as a cosponsor of the bill.

When the measure passed the House in 2019, the Colorado congressional delegation split along party lines, with Democrats supporting the bill and Republicans voting against it, even though some of Tipton’s amendments were included.

CORE comprises four sections: the Continental Divide Recreation and Camp Hale Legacy Act; the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act; the Thompson Divide Withdrawal and Protection Act; and the Curecanti National Recreation Area Boundary Establishment Act. The bill remains largely unchanged from when it was first introduced in 2019. But some small tweaks were made to reflect

amendments accepted last session and input from local stakeholders. Those changes include a “sense of Congress” that the military’s HAATS training center in Eagle County is important, language confirming that grazing in the Thompson Divide would not be affected by new protections, and improvements to water rights language.

“I am hoping for the passage of the CORE Act,” said Bill Fales of Cold Mountain Ranch, in Carbondale. He uses land along the Thompson Divide for summer grazing.

“It will bring needed protection to this area which is so important to myself and fellow ranchers and also for the entire community, who utilizes these amazing lands for hunting and year-round recreation.”

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Boozing buddies ‘The Whiskey Reel’ not afraid to take shots (and maybe cry on air)

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et’s face it. Since COVID, drinking alone at home just isn’t as fun as bellying up at a favorite watering hole alongside your best boozing buddies. But for those locals missing the barstool banter and whiskey-glass gesticulating, there’s the next best thing: The Whiskey Reel podcast. That’s right. Each week, you can listen in from your lonely man cave (or she shed) like a barfly on the wall for an 80-proof hour-and-a-half of old-fashioned fat chewing and political lampooning.

Oh, and whiskey drinking and talking about whiskey drinking – but more on that in a minute.

The podcast, which started in January 2018, features Sean Moriarty, Bobby Noyes and Aaron Brandes – whom I suppose you could call three regular dudes but with a sense of humor as dry and potent as the whiskey itself. The idea first fermented with Noyes, 46, an IT consultant by day, who originally started the podcast with two different drinking dudes. The podcast was centered on the blurry concept of three guys sitting around, watching movies and reviewing a different whiskey each week. However, since they couldn’t actually show the movies due to copyright issues, the show ended up heavy on the drinking.

“It was a little hit or miss,” recalled Noyes of the

The Whiskey Reel’s parody of a local froyo slinger and slur hurler. early days. “We would just get drunk and by the end it was just a shit show.”

As luck would have it, Noyes soon stumbled (probably quite literally) on Moriarty, 38, who worked as a bartender at Steamworks, and Brandes, 48, the general manager for Homeslice and a certified sommelier (fancy word for wine expert). With a common background in the restaurant industry – Noyes once bartended at El Moro –

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the three got to talking, and drinking. And that’s when The Whiskey Reel began churning.

“We just hit it off,” said Noyes. “Our three voices just meshed together better.”

The three followed the movie-and-whiskey theme for a while, using the movies as a jumping off point for conversation. However, they soon realized they were somewhat limited by the premise.

“Somewhere we decided it wasn’t the best use of our talents,” said Brandes, aka “The General Manager of the Multiverse.” “Everything before episode 75 is either terrible or incriminating.”

They started adding new content here and there: sketches, fake commercials, music reviews, news commentary and even a research assistant, Carol. (Spoiler alert: Carol is really Moriarty with a spot-on Midwestern accent, something Noyes found himself having to awkwardly explain to a date who accused them of treating Carol unfairly.) The men also started wading into shark-infested politically charged waters, taking shots (no pun intended) at everything from Top That Yogurt (which they lampoon as “Top This” in a segment called “The Yogurt King”) to voter suppression and current parody darlings Lauren Boebert (“Boebert Barbie”) and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Not even hipsters or Elmo escape the politically incorrect wrath of the Reel. 4 Feb. 4, 2021 n

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WhiskeyReel from p. 9 “That Elmo thing did happen,” quipped Brandes. “I want that on record.”

As the men tell it, the podcast didn’t start out tackling controversial topics – it just sort of rolled in that direction after Noyes had a “kerfluffle” with another business in town.

“We have a deep, deep seated hatred for bullies,” explains Brandes. “That’s why we stand up for our cohorts.

There’s so many more opportunities, we just couldn’t help ourselves. There seems to be so many bullies out there.”

When asked if the jabs have landed them any angry pitchfork mobs or sidewalk protestors outside their houses, the answer was somewhat of a disappointed “no.”

“Unfortunately, we haven’t had any negative response, but we’re dying to,” said Noyes, adding that even an angry listener is still a listener.

So far, the controversy has mostly been confined to social media, where “keyboard warriors” want to get in their two cents from the anonymity and comfort of their own homes.

“Sean and Bobby have had some legendary conversations with people on social media,” said Brandes. “But I believe we are going to be on the right side of history.”

And then there’s the whole Bradenton, Fla., mystery.

About a week ago, the men noticed a big uptick in downloads from Bradenton, a fairly nondescript coastal town south of Tampa.

“More than anything, we were just confused – we were hoping it was a militia group,” said Noyes.

The men dedicated part of their podcast to reaching out to Bradenton and even filmed a short tourism video for the town for their Facebook feed. (Hey, Bradenton, if you’re out there – call us.)

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She walks, she talks, she shoots: ‘The Whiskey Reel’s’ take on Boebert Barbie.

Reel has also seen an uptick in traffic locally and throughout the region (it’s hosted on Soundcloud). In fact, it’s taken off so much that Moriarty has decided to make it his “second full-time job” in addition to co-owning Animas

Marketing, a digital marketing firm in town.

“I’m not sure if saying that will help or hurt,” he said of disclosing his day job.

And as the podcast – now at 134 episodes and counting – has evolved, so has the format, which has entailed cutting back on the drinking. A good thing, according to Noyes.

“We break the podcasts into two parts and record in one shot,” he said. “What happens is, you end up drinking two bottles of whiskey, more or less, in one day. By the end, we were slurring words and in our cups. Inappropriate things are flying out of our mouths.”

Added Brandes: “It definitely doesn’t lead to great content crying about your divorce. I did that for six episodes.”

So now, they keep it to half a bottle per show. “That’s what we drink before we start drinking,” said Moriarty.

As for the divorce counseling, well it’s still allowed, but there’s a time and place for it. At the end of each podcast, there’s a segment called “Clutch Your Pearls of Wisdom,” where the men reveal something personal – a little “peak behind the curtain,” as Brandes put it.

“It’s an opportunity to make it genuine and end on an uplifting note,” he said.

And so far, for all their work, the men have made … not a cent. But they’re hopeful a podcast mogul will hear them and “gobble” them up.

“It’s not exactly the craziest thing. So if anyone’s out there … I gotta get out of the restaurant industry,” said Brandes (who I’m sure was joking in case Lynn or Corey are reading this.)

In the meantime, they say they’ll settle for a gift card to their favorite place on Earth, Star Liquors, and to keep doing what they love.

“We just enjoy it so much,” said Noyes.

Adds Moriarty, “We love pop culture – and making fun of it.”

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That pioneer is Parisian Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-95), who originally wrote No Room at the Morgue in 1973, which was only recently translated by New York Review Books Classics, an imprint of the preeminent literary journal, The New York Review of Books.

Manchette’s 10 short noir novels are commentary on social and political devolution through the lens of criminal villainy, not so much about the lurid pulp goingson of his unfocused characters and messy narratives. He was known during his career as a troubled perfectionist who sweated out each word on every page, doubtful of having talent but driven to write more to challenge the establishment from his leftist perch.

Manchette’s first two novels were published in 1971, Corpses in the Sun and The N’Gustro Affair, both of which were well received in France. The novels established a nearly sudden change in crime fiction geography from the formulaic police procedurals to what Manchette denominated as “neo-polar” – the feeling of detachment,

pulp tragedy, iniquitous politicians and razor -harp ideas rather than intricacies of breathless plotting.

No Room at the Morgue recommissions a familiar private detective of Manchette’s, Eugene Tarpon. We catch up to him after he’s prematurely retired from gendarme police service for shooting and killing a political protester. He opens a private investigator office in a fifth floor walkup where he sleeps on a foldaway and has a junk desk in the small dining area. He’s broke, financially and emotionally. He hasn’t even had his first client and has made all necessary plans to vacate and move back to his mother’s home in the suburbs to veg the rest of his mediocre life away. Then in walks a stunning young woman with the provocative name of Memphis Charles. She has come from her apartment where her roommate Griselda lies in a puddle of blood with her throat cut. She found Tarpon from remembering his TV interview about the protester he unintentionally shot and killed.

“I turned and leaned against the closed door and looked at the damsel in distress.

She’d just sat down on my unmade bed and right then she must’ve felt faint; her face turned a greenish color, and she fell over and slid off the bed. She stayed sprawled out on the floor. I didn’t think I’d ever seen her before. I decided to make some coffee.”

Manchette’s protagonists, and in fact all of Manchette’s actors, are losers or hasbeens. And the crimes and wrongdoings are just vehicles for social comment: “‘Listen kid.’ I was trying to be fatherly and offer good advice. ‘If there’s a murder, or suicide, or who knows what, you’ve got to call the police, that’s all there is to it. You don’t go running to a private investigator.

Not in real life. And then, in real life, a private investigator deals with divorce, store security and, when he has more prestige than I do, industrial spying. Not violent death. There’s a telephone in the next room and you’re going to pick it up and dial the cops.’”

With fatherly goodwill, Tarpon walks Memphis to the phone: “She picked up the phone all right, the vixen, but to use it as a hammer. She knew exactly where to strike. I was suddenly disconnected from the space-time continuum.”

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Manchette is not for the amateur mystery reader, but if you’ve been keeping up with “Murder Ink” recommendations, you’ve tasted the best in crime fiction and have the experience to enjoy this respectfully short and sophisticated book. It can’t be gulped down; it’s not going to keep you up overly late or reading at stoplights.

But, like that one crème brûlée you’ll never forget, Manchette will set a hook in you and you’ll have another touchstone with which to discern your next reading.

My favorite Manchette books are The Prone Gunman, named Top Mystery Book of 2002 by the New York Times Book Review; Ivory Pearl; and Three to Kill.

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Thursday04 Crow Canyon Discover Archaeology Series presents a free Zoom presentation, “Macrohistory of Human Demography in the pre-Hispanic Greater Southwest,” 4 p.m. Register at www.crowcanyon.org

Friday05 47th Day of Winter

Saturday06 Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. Purgatory Demo Day, 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. $20 for unlimited demos, all day long. Participating shops include: 2nd Ave. Sports; Cliffside; Pine Needle; Backcountry Experience; Boarding Haus; and Ski Barn.

Coke Nordic Race Series #3, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Durango Nordic Center. Pre-registration is required and closes at 6 p.m., Feb. 4. www.durangonordic.org

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Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. Wolf Creek Local Appreciation Day, Lift tickets are $58 for adults; $40 for seniors; and $31 children. Tickets must be bought in advance: wolfcreekski.com.

Monday08 Meditation and Dharma Talk with Yong Oh, 5:307 p.m. Online at www.durangodharmacenter.org/ Rocky Mountain UkeFest online ukulele jam, 6 p.m. happy hour; music at 6:30 p.m. For info: rockymountainukefest.com

Tuesday09 “China’s Role in Africa,” a zoom talk moderated by Mike Todt, 11:45 a.m., presented by the 2021 Great Decisions International Affairs Discussion Program. For link, visit www.lwvpaplata.org.

7 Rivers Farmers Market, winter farmers market, 12-3 p.m. featuring local farmers, food vendors and artisans, La Plata County Fairgrounds. Masks and social distancing required.

Animas High School Online Information Session, 12:30 p.m. via Google Meet at meet.google.com/iod-tzkm-scx.

Zoom talk with the Peace Corps’ Tilyian Phannenstiel, regional recruiter, and Mr. Charlie Hunt, president of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Colorado, 6 p.m. Presented by Durango Rotary. For more info or Zoom link, email Bruce Rodman at mtnman16@gmail.com

Just in case you need one more excuse to eat chocolate this Valentine’s Day, tune into “Chocolate, Good for the Heart and Soul!” from 6-7 p.m. Wed., Feb. 10. The zoomcast features local Registered Dietician and CSU Extension Agent Nicole Clark on why chocolate is good for the heart and soul – just in time for the sweetest day of the year. Best of all, the talk also includes a “cook along” for a chocolatey treat. For login information, email darcy@prlibrary.org.

Wednesday10 Virtual Green Business Roundtable, 12 noon, featuring nationally renowned economist and author Michael Shuman. Register at: tinyurl.com/kw497wee.

“Chocolate, Good for the Heart and Soul!” 6-7 p.m. Join Registered Dietician Nicole Clark, with the La Plata County Extension Office, as she explains why chocolate is good for the heart and soul. Also includes a cook-along of a chocolatey treat. For log-in info., email darcy@prlibrary.org.

“Mogollon Archaeology Near Reserve, N.M.: A Journey from Chicago to Denver and Beyond,” 7 p.m., a virtual talk by Steve Nash, of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Presented by the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society. For log-in information, see sjbas.org.

Ongoing Durango Arts Center’s 11th annual 10–Minute Play Contest submission deadline Feb. 28. For guidelines, rules, schedule and link, visit: durangoarts.org/10-minute-play/.

Mountainfilm 2021 Early Bird passes on sale now for $100 thru March 15. Online festival runs May 31–June 6. www.mountainfilm.org.

Episode 5 of the “Actor’s Journal” featuring John Larroquette as well as original works, essays, poems, remembrances by various actors. Presented by Durango Playfest. Tickets at: www.durangoplayfest.org/ actors-journal “Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas,” a traveling exhibit from the American Museum of Natural History, Powerhouse Science Center. For gallery hours, go to: www.powsci.org.

Sunnyside and Fort Lewis Mesa libraries are open, providing books, movies, music, audio books and internet, Mon.-Fri., 2:30-7 p.m. or call 970-375-3816.

Curbside service also available.

Durango Public Library Weekly Activity Kits available for curbside pickup every Tuesday. Kits include supplies for one project for preschool, elementary and teen-age students. A new kit is released every Tuesday while supplies last. To request, email reference@ DurangoGov.org or call 970-375-3380.

PIVOT: Skateboard Deck Art exhibit, over 100 skateboard decks painted by 30 different Native American artists, on view by appointment through spring 2021, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College. swcenter.fortlewis.edu 4

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Being too nosy, drunk junk and Reddit or not Interesting fact: An alternate outcome for nose holes, since we don’t see them in public anymore, is that we eroticize them.

Dear Rachel, I found my pandemic breaking point when I was buying bacon at a local grocery store butcher counter, and the person putting my order together had his nose hanging out of his mask. Head inside the case, breathing nose particles all over the selections. I felt sick. But I heard that stupid “if you can’t say something nice” voice in my head, and I didn’t tear him a new nose hole. Should I have, though?

– Sanity and Sanitation Dear Nose Hole, That’s the perfect insult. Don’t be such a nose hole, you nose hole. It’s extra fitting, because most of the nose holes we see anymore are indeed on assholes. Some people are inadvertent nose holes, it’s true. Maybe your butchercounter nose hole knew his mask had slipped, but he didn’t want to touch anything near his face before grappling with your bacon. Here’s my cleanliness tip for you: cook the bacon before eating it, to kill any of his particulates.

– Next to godliness, Rachel Dear Rachel, I finally gave in to try some computer apps meant to save me time. I have one to remember all my passwords, another to put coupon codes for every purchase. Sure, they work, but now

Upcoming Montezuma County Forest Fridays, Feb. 12 & 26; March 12 & 26, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, ice skating snow science, free to Montezuma County youth, grades 7-12. Presented by San Juan Mountain Association, to register: sjma.org/learn/forest-fridays Free Virtual Legal Clinic, Fri., Feb. 12, 4-5 p.m. To sign up, call the Ignacio Library at 970-563-9287.

“Aerospace Industry and Advancements,” live Facebook stream, Feb. 14, 4:30-5:30 p.m., a free lecture about space weather and the Artemis/Orion from two experts in the field, followed by Q&A. Tune into @powscicenter.

Manhattan Short Virtual Film Fest, Feb. 14-24. Come together with a worldwide audience to view and vote on seven short films. $10. www.manhattanshort.com. .

Wolf Creek Local Appreciation Day, Wed., Feb. 17. Lift tickets are $58 for adults; $40 for seniors; and $31 children. Tickets

they just irritate me with popup windows. Whatever time they’re saving me, they’re taking back in unwarranted aggravation. I’m about ready to go back to Windows XP, the last time I enjoyed a computer. But I’m giving it one more shot. Do you recommend any apps that actually work?

- Due for a Reboot Dear App Snap Fever, If you haven’t enjoyed a computer in 15 years, it’s high time we teach you about memes, and old SNL clips, and monthly box subscription services. Actually, that last one pretty much terrifies me. The last thing I need is a box of more crap showing up every month, “curated” by some hipster who has never listened to me drunk enough to spill my true desires. I have enough boxes of junk showing up every month of my own accord, thank you very much.

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Dear Rachel, I just cashed out a few hundred dollars in savings bonds that my grandma got for me when I was born. I decided to be a responsible adult and reinvest them. This was all right when the Game Stop drama hit. I decided not to dump my grandma’s money into that stock, but mostly because I don’t understand the market mechanics.

Also, I don’t understand Reddit. Can you give me a crash course?

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Dear Backordered, Here goes: you remember those bros in high school who never did their own homework? Well, some of them went on to get MBAs. Rather than contribute anything useful, they make money with imaginary numbers. Now, remember the rest of us in high school who did our homework? A bunch of people like us joined forces on Reddit, which is normally used for people asking strangers if they are the nose hole in their own life stories. But this time, they did something else with the imaginary numbers to stick it to the real nose holes. Capiche?

– Bullishly bearish, Rachel

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Dave Spencer Ski Classic, fundraiser for the Adaptive Sports Association, Feb. 20-21, Purgatory. To register go to: asadurango.com Free La Plata County Virtual Legal Clinic, Fri., Feb. 21, 4-5 p.m. To sign up, call: 970-563-9287.

Rocky Mountain UkeFest online ukulele jam, Mon., Feb. 22, 6 p.m. happy hour; music at 6:30 p.m. For info: rockymountainukefest.com “Roles of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic,” a virtual talk. Tues., Feb. 23, 11:45 a.m. with Benjamin Waddell. Presented by the 2021 Great Decisions International Affairs Discussion Program. For link, visit www.lwvpaplata.org.

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Herman Hesse’s novel Siddartha is a story about a spiritual seeker who goes in search of illumination. Near the end of the quest, when Siddartha is purified and enlightened, he tells his friend, “I greatly needed sin, lust, vanity, the striving for goods, and the most shameful despair, to learn how to love the world, to stop comparing the world with any world that I wish for, with any perfection that I think up; I learned to let the world be as it is, and to love it and to belong to it gladly.” While I trust you won’t overdo the sinful stuff in the coming months, Aries, I hope you will reach a conclusion like Siddartha’s. The astrological omens suggest that 2021 is the best year ever for you to learn how to love your life and the world just as they are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus physicist Richard Feynman said, “If we want to solve a problem we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.” That’s always good advice, but it’s especially apropos for you in the coming weeks. You are being given the interesting and fun opportunity to solve a problem you have never solved before! Be sure to leave the door to the unknown ajar. Clues and answers may come from unexpected sources.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When we want to get a distinct look at a faint star, we must avert our eyes away from it just a little. If we look at it directly, it fades into invisibility. (There’s a scientific explanation for this phenomenon, which I won’t go into.) I propose that we make this your metaphor of power for the coming weeks. Proceed on the hypothesis that if you want to get glimpses of what’s in the distance or in the future, don’t gaze at it directly. Use the psychological version of your peripheral vision.

And yes, now is a favorable time to seek those glimpses.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If the apocalypse happens and you’re the last human left on Earth, don’t worry about getting enough to eat. Just find an intact grocery store and make your new home there. It’s stocked with enough non-perishable food to feed you for 55 years – or 63 years if you’re willing to dine on pet food. I’M JOKING! JUST KIDDING! In fact, the apocalypse won’t happen for another 503 million years.

My purpose in imagining such a loopy scenario is to nudge you to dissolve your scarcity thinking. Here’s the ironic fact of the matter for us Cancerians: If we indulge in fearful fantasies about running out of stuff – money, resources, love or time – we undermine our efforts to have enough of what we need. The time is

now right for you to stop worrying and instead take robust action to ensure you’re well-supplied for a long time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle,” Coleman Barks writes in his rendering of a poem by Rumi. In accordance with astrological omens, I am invoking that as a useful metaphor for your life right now.

How lovely and noble are the goals you’re pursuing? How exalted and bighearted are the dreams you’re focused on? If you find there are any less-than-beautiful aspects to your motivating symbols and ideals, now is a good time to make adjustments.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I invite you to try the following experiment. Select two situations in your world that really need to be reinvented, and let every other glitch and annoyance just slide for now. Then meditate with tender ferocity on how best to get the transformations done. Summoning intense focus will generate what amounts to magic! PS: Maybe the desired reinventions would require other people to alter their behavior. But it’s also possible that your own behavior may need altering.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Marguerite Duras wrote these words: “That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one’s passion.” I am spiritually allergic to that idea. It implies that our deepest passions are unavailable unless we’re insane, or at least disturbed. But in the world I aspire to live in, the opposite is true: Our passions thrive if we’re mentally healthy.

We are best able to harness our most inspiring motivations if we’re feeling poised and stable. So I’m here to urge you to reject Duras’ perspective and embrace mine.

The time has arrived for you to explore the mysteries of relaxing passion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author Karen Barad writes, “The past is never finished. It cannot be wrapped up like a package, or a scrapbook; we never leave it and it never leaves us behind.” I agree. That’s why I can’t understand New Age teachers who advise us to “live in the now.” That’s impossible! We are always embedded in our histories.

Everything we do is conditioned by our life story. I acknowledge that there’s value in trying to see the world afresh in each new moment. I’m a hearty advocate of adopting a “beginner’s mind.” But to pretend we can completely shut off or escape the past is delusional and foolish. Thank you for listening to my rant, Scorpio. Now please spend quality time upgrading your love and appreciation for your own past.

It’s time to celebrate where you have come from – and meditate on how your history affects who you are now.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Luisah Teish is a writer and priestess in the Yoruban Lucumi tradition.

She wrote a book called Jump Up: Seasonal Celebrations from the World’s Deep Traditions. “Jump up” is a Caribbean phrase that refers to festive rituals and parties that feature “joyous music, laughter, food and dancing.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due for a phase infused with the “jump up” spirit. As Teish would say, it’s a time for “jumping, jamming, swinging, hopping, and kicking it.” I realize that in order to do this, you will have to work around the very necessary limitations imposed on us all by the pandemic. Do the best you can. Maybe make it a virtual or fantasy jump up. Maybe dance alone in the dark.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Perhaps we should know better,” poet Tony Hoagland wrote, “but we keep on looking, thinking and listening, hunting that singular book, theory, perception or tonality that will unlock and liberate us.” It’s my duty to report, Capricorn, that there will most likely be no such singular magnificence for you in 2021. However, I’m happy to tell you that an accumulation of smaller treasures could ultimately lead to a substantial unlocking and liberation. For that to happen, you must be alert for and appreciate the small treasures and patiently gather them in. (PS: Author Rebecca Solnit says, “We devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.” I say: The small bites of heaven you devour in the coming months will ultimately add up to being dramatically measurable.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Alice Walker writes, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” In the coming weeks, I hope you’ll adopt that way of thinking and apply it to every aspect of your perfectly imperfect body and mind and soul. I hope you’ll give the same generous blessing to the rest of the world, as well. This attitude is always wise to cultivate, of course, but it will be especially transformative for you in the coming weeks. It’s time to celebrate your gorgeous idiosyncrasies and eccentricities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.” I offer that Zen saying just in time for you to adopt it as your metaphor of power. No matter how thick and complicated and impassable the terrain might appear to be in the coming weeks, I swear you’ll have a flair for finding a graceful path through it. All you have to do is imitate the consistency and flow of water.

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