Depending on who you are, Pabst Blue Ribbon has many different meanings. To some, it’s a beer that is heralded for its great price, wide availability, and decent-enough taste. You can drink it from the can, clutched in a soaking paper bag, outside of a liquor store or while your body submerges deeper into the couch. To many, Pabst Blue Ribbon directly equals the working man’s beer.
Jake Jabs is many things: an exceptional salesman is one of those. For decades his commercials appeared on every television screen across Colorado and the outer realms of Wyoming. If you’ve lived here for long enough, you’ve undoubtedly seen these, but even if your eyes have never been graced with an American Furniture Warehouse commercial, you’ve without a doubt seen the massive AFW warehouses.
We seem to be in the age of documenting every single event we possibly can, producing some random spree of murders or criminal endeavors into an introspective, limited series that peels back the layers of all-but-historical events. Insignificant moments in the totality of human history.
I am not a good gambler and I am the opposite of a high-roller. In fact, I am as low of a roller as they come. I’m betting dollars at a time. Single dollars. If I’m feeling dangerous, or really believe in whatever bet I’ve constructed while researching enough statistics to thoroughly convince myself of said bet’s success, then I reach towards five dollars, dare I say, ten.
As the MLB Trade Deadline inches closer, another inevitable deadline awaits the Rockies, one farther down this season’s road, something no Rockies fan wants to see but has been threatened by throughout our entire existence.
For many the concept of witnessing both Barbie and Oppenheimer in the same day has undertaken a phenomenon akin to witnessing a solar eclipse, a sensational event that has people willing to dedicate the majority of their day to watching the two films in whichever order they choose.
In Seattle, the stars of the MLB came together to play in the annual All-Star game, a halfway marker for the season being over, and a halfway marker for all Rockies fans that the suffering has just two and a half more months to go. The All-Star game has been criticized in the past, from being boring, to the odd stretch from 2003 to 2016 when the outcome of the game determined home field advantage for the World Series.
It’s a sandal made out of cork and latex, strapped together with leather bindings and sold for upwards of $100. The most popular piece of footwear in America and perhaps the world is intended to aid those suffering from plantar fasciitis, for those with high-arches or chronic foot pain. They’re the product of a German cobbler dating as far back as 1774
It’s arguably the most famous breakup ever. Two countries with so much history. A love story destined for disaster. Maybe it was never meant to be. Maybe America just wanted to explore and see what the untamed land in the West held. It’s true, some relationships never last.
This could be as simple as we want it to be.
