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September 7, 2010 - 6:44pm
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We went to Steamboat this weekend for a friend's wedding, went adventuring, had a blast. As I was huffing and puffing up Howelsen Hill on foot, and then panting up every hill we biked in town, I thought: How could I have let myself get so out of shape? Last year this would have been easy. I vowed to be better at working out.

August 18, 2010 - 6:12pm
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Earlier this year, Gov. Dave made it official – Wyoming now has an official state code. Derived from (some of) the loose and unofficial Code of the West, the modern version leaves out line items like "always drink your whiskey with your gun hand to show your good intentions" and "complain about cooking and you become the cook." Some of the ones I like to interpret metaphorically (e.g.

Aldo Zelnick at The Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver
August 4, 2010 - 9:14am
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Now that our books are in bookstores in Denver and Boulder that we don't get to routinely visit, we're sending a little Aldo army to keep them company, and to speak on our behalf.

This is artwork for a small (2-3') cardboard cut-out that I did for The Tattered Cover's three stores (Colfax, LoDo, the Ranch). Word on the street is that his t-shirt is adorable.

I'm looking forward to doing cutouts for other cool indie stores as the series grows, so those of you with regional-cool-bookstore knowledge, let me know who is worthy.

Artsy-Fartsy Awards
August 1, 2010 - 4:26pm
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Artsy-Fartsy won the Colorado Book Award and the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award!

Aldo Zelnick and Artsy-Fartsy make the Coloradoan
October 8, 2009 - 8:52am
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We made the cover of the Coloradoan's "Good News" special section today, which is awesome. The cutline under the photos says, "Mothers get together, Local women create cartoon to help kids build vocabularies." We'll chalk that one up to creative license.