Coloradans are too optimistic to live in a prison of patio sets!
April 3, 2018 10:31 PM Subscribe
Denver news anchor Kyle Clark has had it with your trite photos of snow-covered patio furniture.
I really like how in the "positive" things about CO they included bluecifer and they photo-shopped lasers coming out of his eyes.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 10:56 PM on April 3, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 10:56 PM on April 3, 2018 [11 favorites]
Or Casa Bonita, the single worst "Mexican" restaurant on the entire planet.
posted by sideshow at 10:59 PM on April 3, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by sideshow at 10:59 PM on April 3, 2018 [7 favorites]
All kidding aside: I lived in Boulder for a year, and even with The Flatirons right there to the west, most people just posted pictures of the patio furniture.
Although since I was from Los Angeles, my posts were usually just "fuck! snow!" the second the first flake made an appearance.
posted by sideshow at 11:03 PM on April 3, 2018 [2 favorites]
Although since I was from Los Angeles, my posts were usually just "fuck! snow!" the second the first flake made an appearance.
posted by sideshow at 11:03 PM on April 3, 2018 [2 favorites]
Oh Local TV Weather-Person, so annoyed by people who watch local TV weather! How difficult it must be to entertain the people you hate!
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 11:20 PM on April 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 11:20 PM on April 3, 2018 [1 favorite]
The point of patio furniture snow pictures is that the table is a nice raised platform where you can see exactly how thick the snowfall was. I don't think anyone is sending them as a lamentation that they can't use the furniture.
posted by ckape at 11:21 PM on April 3, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by ckape at 11:21 PM on April 3, 2018 [7 favorites]
The point of patio furniture snow pictures is that the table is a nice raised platform where you can see exactly how thick the snowfall was.
I disagree. I think the point of the patio photos is that you want a snow picture, but you don't want to go outside, and hey, what's that right there? Oh, a dumb little table? Sure, that'll work. Back to where it's warm.
posted by Rinku at 11:50 PM on April 3, 2018 [6 favorites]
I disagree. I think the point of the patio photos is that you want a snow picture, but you don't want to go outside, and hey, what's that right there? Oh, a dumb little table? Sure, that'll work. Back to where it's warm.
posted by Rinku at 11:50 PM on April 3, 2018 [6 favorites]
News Anchor Kyle Clark EPIC Rant against Snow-Covered Patio Photos
peak this-really-isn't-"epic"?
posted by thelonius at 12:27 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
peak this-really-isn't-"epic"?
posted by thelonius at 12:27 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
I laughed because he is totally right. I take photos of the backyard because I don't need to leave the house to do it. Damned if I'm going out in -20 degrees for that! Not when I can take a picture out the kitchen window of the patio table with two feet of snow on it.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:31 AM on April 4, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:31 AM on April 4, 2018 [4 favorites]
What even is another way to take a picture of how much snow has fallen? Trees? Jack Torrance?
posted by rhizome at 2:00 AM on April 4, 2018 [10 favorites]
posted by rhizome at 2:00 AM on April 4, 2018 [10 favorites]
Is Kyle Clark one of those newspeople they send out to stand next to a highway with a parka on, talking about the snowstorm? 'Cause I've had it with that.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:31 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:31 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
Or Casa Bonita, the single worst "Mexican" restaurant on the entire planet.
So this one time in the summer of 1987 I was being driven around looking at colleges and we stopped for a meal in or near either New Haven or New London at a Mexican place because hey why not and I swear that they were serving something like warmed marinara sauce with their chips.
Worse than that?
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 4:42 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
So this one time in the summer of 1987 I was being driven around looking at colleges and we stopped for a meal in or near either New Haven or New London at a Mexican place because hey why not and I swear that they were serving something like warmed marinara sauce with their chips.
Worse than that?
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 4:42 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
I've never been to Casa Bonita but I've been to a Carlos O'Kelly's in Fort Wayne for which the salsa had no pepper and the "queso" was unseasoned Velveeta. Worse than that?
posted by ardgedee at 4:59 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by ardgedee at 4:59 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
well thats because its luxury Oirish-Mex fusion.....sheesh....gourmet noobs in CO! I MEAN...COME ON....they have mashed potatoes!!
posted by Wilder at 5:49 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Wilder at 5:49 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
At Casa Bonita they bring you more sopapillas whenever you raise a little flag on your table. Let’s not mix up “worst” with “best” here.
posted by vorpal bunny at 5:51 AM on April 4, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by vorpal bunny at 5:51 AM on April 4, 2018 [6 favorites]
this thread is made of crimes, i will not brook such slander against the noble casa bonita
i mean, yes, the food is objectively terrible, but that's entirely not the point of casa bonita
posted by halation at 5:54 AM on April 4, 2018 [10 favorites]
i mean, yes, the food is objectively terrible, but that's entirely not the point of casa bonita
posted by halation at 5:54 AM on April 4, 2018 [10 favorites]
The problem here is that Blucifer (our beloved demon horse with crazy laser eyes) is too far away for us to go snap snow photos. Those would be the best possible snow photos.
Also, if you don't wave goodbye to Blucifer before you fly out, probably you won't make it safely back to Colorado.
posted by asperity at 5:59 AM on April 4, 2018 [4 favorites]
Also, if you don't wave goodbye to Blucifer before you fly out, probably you won't make it safely back to Colorado.
posted by asperity at 5:59 AM on April 4, 2018 [4 favorites]
He was under duress. Exactly the same message was broadcast on all the other Sinclair stations.
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 6:49 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 6:49 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
What the hell is he talking about? It hasn’t snowed in Colorado this winter, at least not in the wonderful theocratic hellhole to the south.
Do not eat the food at Casa Bonita. Treat Casa Bonita as if you accidentally wandered into the land of the fair folk or a particularly sadistic culinary dare. Go to Casa Bonita to say you’ve been to Casa Bonita, and then go eat literally anywhere else.
posted by bibliowench at 7:04 AM on April 4, 2018 [4 favorites]
Do not eat the food at Casa Bonita. Treat Casa Bonita as if you accidentally wandered into the land of the fair folk or a particularly sadistic culinary dare. Go to Casa Bonita to say you’ve been to Casa Bonita, and then go eat literally anywhere else.
posted by bibliowench at 7:04 AM on April 4, 2018 [4 favorites]
I think the video might be from last year, or even the year before. He's been going on about the evils of patio snow photos for at least that long on Twitter.
posted by asperity at 7:33 AM on April 4, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by asperity at 7:33 AM on April 4, 2018 [2 favorites]
I've been to Casa Bonita. Definitely don't go for the food. Definitely do go to see if that South Park episode was accurate (it was! Cliff divers! Jail! Shoot-outs!). The food is worse than Poncho's (tex-mex buffet in Texas), which is like the CiCi's Pizza of tex-mex.
Pro-tip: going to Casa Bonita super stoned makes it so f'ing awesome.
posted by LizBoBiz at 7:53 AM on April 4, 2018 [3 favorites]
Pro-tip: going to Casa Bonita super stoned makes it so f'ing awesome.
posted by LizBoBiz at 7:53 AM on April 4, 2018 [3 favorites]
Uh, a few things.
1. This is almost 5 years old.
2. Kyle Clark is an arguably well-respected anchor here. He's not a newbie.
3. He's good on Twitter.
posted by hijinx at 8:24 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
1. This is almost 5 years old.
2. Kyle Clark is an arguably well-respected anchor here. He's not a newbie.
3. He's good on Twitter.
posted by hijinx at 8:24 AM on April 4, 2018 [5 favorites]
It's still pretty damned funny, though, and while I see the guy on Twitter, I missed this when it aired (I miss everything when it airs.)
posted by asperity at 8:37 AM on April 4, 2018
posted by asperity at 8:37 AM on April 4, 2018
they have mashed potatoes!!
(I know this is way off topic but this comment reminded me of the time that we went to a sushi restaurant in Greenville, NC and they had hushpuppies on the menu. That is all.)
posted by vignettist at 9:00 AM on April 4, 2018 [2 favorites]
(I know this is way off topic but this comment reminded me of the time that we went to a sushi restaurant in Greenville, NC and they had hushpuppies on the menu. That is all.)
posted by vignettist at 9:00 AM on April 4, 2018 [2 favorites]
Ha ha. lapel mic drop!
Musta been a slow news day.
posted by hot_monster at 9:20 AM on April 4, 2018 [3 favorites]
Musta been a slow news day.
posted by hot_monster at 9:20 AM on April 4, 2018 [3 favorites]
Or Casa Bonita, the single worst "Mexican" restaurant on the entire planet.
This one time I went to Kutná Hora, Czech, to see the ossuary at Sedlec. The piles of bones were macabre, yes, but the "Mexican" food at the restaurant nearby was the real horror.
Awful as it was, that remains one of my favorite meals ever, because hilarious.
posted by gurple at 10:19 AM on April 4, 2018 [2 favorites]
This one time I went to Kutná Hora, Czech, to see the ossuary at Sedlec. The piles of bones were macabre, yes, but the "Mexican" food at the restaurant nearby was the real horror.
Awful as it was, that remains one of my favorite meals ever, because hilarious.
posted by gurple at 10:19 AM on April 4, 2018 [2 favorites]
Wow, he's really got some one point there.
posted by defenestration at 10:22 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by defenestration at 10:22 AM on April 4, 2018 [1 favorite]
Came in to note how proud he was of his lapel mic drop, but hot_monster beat me to it, and now I have nothing much to say, am still saying it, pretty sure that's the deal. I love seeing the snow on the patio table, when it's 2 feet, it looks cute, easy to see that it's 2! Feet! Of Snow! and what could be more appropriate for local weather? I *love* it when they get out their sweaters to report on snow storms, but the skeery storm music got old really fast this year.
posted by theora55 at 11:08 AM on April 4, 2018
posted by theora55 at 11:08 AM on April 4, 2018
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