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Big Truck Show at Frontier Days
Jul 13th
We created the long overdue Big Truck Show at Cheyenne Frontier Days. Since 1897, Cheyenne has celebrated its Old West roots with this eye-popping festival. The centerpiece of this Western celebration is the world’s largest outdoor rodeo, which draws top professionals who compete for more than $1 million in cash and prizes. Complementing the daily rodeo action are behind-the-chutes tours, trick riding, and a wild-horse race. A Native American Village, an Old West town called “Wild Horse Gulch,” a saloon, square dancing, a chuck wagon cook-off, pancake breakfasts, and an art show carry through the frontier theme. Rounding out the program are a carnival midway, an air show, top-name entertainment, professional bull riding shows, and several parades that include antique carriages and automobiles. Cheyenne Frontier Days occurs each summer during the last full week in July, and so does our Big Truck Show.
News from Cheyenne Frontier Days
Cheyenne Frontier Days and Old West Museum
January 8th, 2014
We visit Cheyenne Wyoming to check out the annual Frontier Days and Old West Museum that showcases the local culture and long history of cowboys and Indians that made the state what it is today.[READ|SHARE]
O'Meara Ford - 2013 Trucks for Frontier Days
July 22nd, 2013
For Jann Scott’s 2013 Frontier Days special we visit O’meara Ford in Northglenn, Colorado to learn about the best trucks for hard working people. Ford’s F series has the most powerful, long lasting vehicles to do the toughest of jobs, starting with the Ford F-150 upto the Ford F-650, we look at some of the great features that make these trucks the best for farmers, cowboys, boat towing, plowing and most any big job you need done.[READ|SHARE]
Get Your 2013 Ford Trucks at O'meara Ford in Northglenn
July 16th, 2013
Get Your 2013 Ford Trucks at O'meara Ford in Northglenn, CO
Visit: 400 W. 104th Ave. Northglenn, CO 80234
Call: 800-644-6072
Online: omearaford.com[READ|SHARE]
Big Truck Show at Frontier Days
July 13th, 2013
We created the long overdue Big Truck Show at Cheyenne Frontier Days. Since 1897, Cheyenne has celebrated its Old West roots with this eye-popping festival. The centerpiece of this Western celebration is the world's largest outdoor rodeo, which draws top professionals who compete for more than $1 million in cash and prizes. Complementing the daily rodeo action are behind-the-chutes tours, trick riding, and a wild-horse race. A Native American Village, an Old West town called "Wild Horse Gulch," a saloon, square dancing, a chuck wagon cook-off, pancake breakfasts, and an art show carry through the frontier theme. Rounding out the[READ|SHARE]
“Premium Rush” Is Breakneck Fun
Sep 24th
“Breakneck Fun”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Premium Rush is the ultimate chase movie through the streets of New York City centered around a story about Manhattan bicycle messengers.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Wilee, an obvious reference to Wile E. Coyote of the Road Runner cartoons, but a more appropriate nickname would have been Road Runner itself, or maybe Double R, or possibly even Runner, but that would have been confusing, because he spends most of his time on a bicycle riding and not running.
However, throughout the movie Wilee is not the chaser, but the chasee. Because of an envelope he is delivering for his service, at one time or another Wilee is chased by a mysterious man in an automobile, by a policeman on a bicycle, and even by a plainclothes policeman in his automobile.
Yes, it is a dangerous job being one of the 1,500 bicycle messengers in New York City, and Wilee even says in a voice-over, “One time or another, we all get hit.”
In fact, the movie starts with Wilee having an accident at 6:33 p.m., and then we get a flashback to 5 p.m. when Wilee picked up the envelope, which was a premium-rush delivery that has to be delivered by 7 p.m.
Once he is outside after picking up the envelope, Wilee is stopped by a man who asks for the envelope with a logical story for why Wilee should turn it over.
However, Wilee is suspicious, because a bike messenger’s rules are after a delivery is put in his bag, it is given only to a person at the address where the package is to be delivered, and so Wilee takes off running–I mean, riding.
Then the man chases after Wilee in his car, and they both tear through the streets, avoiding traffic and pedestrians and even running red lights until we are back at the point of Wilee’s accident at the beginning of the movie.
Wilee is different from other messengers in that his bicycle has no brakes and no gears, and he prefers it that way.
Eventually we get more flashbacks for background explanation as to why the envelope is so important to so many people, and the premium rush of the title becomes a premium rush for the audience, as well.
Premium Rush is breakneck fun for everyone.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Go, Turkeys! Ex-Senator Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell was a dope.
Jul 16th
Naked Curmudgeon by Dan Culberson
Here’s what gets me.
Ex-Senator Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell was a dope.
For those of you unfamiliar with Colorado politics or the Washington Redskins controversy over trying to build a new football stadium, Campbell was the Colorado junior senator whose former claim to notoriety was that he is 1/8-1/2 Native American/North American Indian, he flaunted riding his motorcycle without a helmet and he was trying to force the Washington Redskins to change their team name.
He also claimed to be the only Native American/North American Indian then sitting in the U.S. Senate.
Remember when you could be classified a non-Native American Black/North American Negro if you had only 1/16 nNAB/NAN blood in you? It is time to get rid of, or at least ignore, race classifications. They serve no purpose other than to perpetuate prejudice.
I’ll bet you beads to wampum that based on such a strict classification, Senator “Nighthorse” was not the only NA/NAI in the Senate. Do you know anything at all about your eight great-great grandfathers and grandmothers?
However, he was the first senator to make a national fool of himself over such a silly, misguided issue as sporting-team nicknames.
Consider the facts: Senator Ben said the word “redskin” is a racial slur and introduced a bill prohibiting a new stadium on land used by “any person or organization … using nomenclature that includes a reference to real or alleged physical characteristics of Native American or other groups of human beings.”
He also said, “Simply put, the name ‘Redskin’ is offensive to Indian people. Whether it is considered offensive by non-Indians is not the issue.”
Well, if it is so “offensive to Indian people,” why did an Indian high school on a reservation in Red Lake, Ariz., use “Redskins” for its team name?
People forget that mascot names are chosen for their anthropological totemism, not their condescending tokenism. The names are chosen with pride to strike fear in their opponents’ hearts, not laughter and chuckles in their throats. No team is called the New York Ninnies, Dallas Dumbbells or San Francisco Sissies. Names of pride are chosen like Giants, Cowboys and 49ers.
As for a term being offensive, the offense comes from context, not from the term itself. No one should be able to take offense at “mother,” right? Well, how about “That no-good mother went crazy and he shot 14 people”?
A word is only a symbol for something so that communication and understanding can occur. Otherwise, why would Senator Campbell take pride in calling himself a word also used to mean “beast,” “gelding,” “heroin,” “large or coarse,” “old-fashioned” and “nonsense” when used alone or with other words?
Would the senator have been offended if the Washington Redskins chose to call themselves the Washington Nighthorses? I think not. So, was he being selective in choosing what to take offense at? I think so.
Calling attention to a perceived racial slur only perpetuates racism, and the only race we should be concerned about is the human race–especially the finish of it. Back in the Embarrassing Sixties, we thought we could solve problems by drawing attention to them, bringing them out into the open and rubbing everybody’s noses in them.
Maybe we were wrong. Maybe drawing attention to problems only perpetuates the problems, because people will be offended at anything if it suits them, whether the problem is solved or not.
Perhaps problems can best solve themselves. When humans try to solve problems, they create new problems, and I hate to think that the purpose of humanity is to solve problems. I choose to believe that the purpose of humanity–if we have a purpose–is to live and be happy. If we can help others be happy, too, then all the better.
So, why don’t we all try to live with a philosophy of trying not to create any problems? If we don’t have any problems, then we don’t have to solve any problems.
If you are offended by a silly mascot name, then take pride in being unique. Ask yourself how many additional problems you would cause by broadcasting the fact you are offended. Ask yourself how many people are not offended. Forget the silly slogan of “If one person has a problem, then we all have a problem.”
Remember that Ben “Founding Father” Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird instead of the eagle.
How would you feel today if your favorite team was the Philadelphia Turkeys?
I rest my case.
