The Taylor Swift Experience, Part 6: One Minute To Midnights

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Alex_Demote - February 1, 2024January 31, 2024

In real time, its been six days since I started my Taylor Swift journey. Now here we are, finishing the discography of one of the more prolific superstars of our generation. I don't know the actual numbers on where she stacks up in terms of published content for a multiplatinum

The Taylor Swift Experience, Part 5: The Covid Albums

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Alex_Demote - January 25, 2024January 24, 2024

It's taken me so long to write about Folklore. I want to get it right, but I don't want to alter the experiment. At one point, I considered cutting this album from the timeline and placing it at the end. I spent 2 hours on the debut album. I spent

The Taylor Swift Experience: Music Crimes

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Alex_Demote - January 18, 2024January 17, 2024

Since part 1 of this series, people have been telling me they're excited for when I get to reputation. I built it up in my head. I created expectations. As we crept toward it each day, I imagined more and more what I thought it would be like. It'll be

The Taylor Swift Experience, Day 3

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Alex_Demote - January 11, 2024January 10, 2024

It's day 3. My mind overflows with Taylor Swift. Each waking moment she haunts me. I see her face in my coffee...Actually that's latte art, this barista is really talented. Yeah ok you caught me, it ain't that serious. I'm having a good time with these albums so far. They continue

The Taylor Swift Experience, Day 2

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Alex_Demote - January 4, 2024January 3, 2024

Warm up your scroll wheel and bust out your reading glasses, because we have a novel to read. I'm not even going to hit you with a big opener because if you plan on making it to the end with me, we need to get moving. **Fearless Platinum Edition (2008)** I started

I Listened To Every Taylor Swift Album In 7 Days. Here’s What Happened To My Brain

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Alex_Demote - December 28, 2023December 27, 2023

Hi! I've been in and out of hibernation for the past several months, which is apparently my new normal. Two months ago I came out of my cave and wrote a huge series for Door Flies Open. I then failed to post it for 8 weeks in a row. That

The Broncos are on Bye and so is my Heart

Bye Week Updates

Alex_Demote - November 3, 2023November 2, 2023

In 2009, my favorite band broke up. The Barenaked Ladies were fun enough on the radio but I actually found a lot of weird and impactful music when I dug into their discography as a high schooler. Their breakup was disappointing, sure, but what struck me horrified was that even

Lessons in Failure: Broncos and Board Games

Alex_Demote - October 4, 2023October 3, 2023

I spent 14 months working on a board game that went live on Kickstarter this past Tuesday. It's a really cool game that's fun to play and interesting to look at. Unfortunately, it looks like it won't meet it's funding goal based on our current pace. I'll lose my investment

This is Your Denver Broncos 2023 Season Preview & Open Thread

Team Previews

Alex_Demote - August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

But Alex, I hear you saying. You are not a large, water-dwelling mammal. We know this. But Alex! If the review isn't written in Hippo-ese, it could be readable to the general populace, causing untold societal and psychological damage! The everyman is not intended to consume Broncos content at this

47 Wide Right

Nova File Library

Alex_Demote - August 18, 2023August 18, 2023

Earlier eras of football history saw reckless intervention by alien forces. As time progressed, though, subtler and subtler methods were used by the planetary interlopers. By the start of the 1990s, technology was getting better, documentation more ubiquitous. The greys began to leverage comparatively sophisticated measures for altering the outcomes

Bud Grant Could Have Saved Us

Alex_Demote - August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

Gerald Ford became president of the United States of America in 1974, and for Vikings fans who have made the effort to understand their history, he is a much hated figure. Gerald Ford, of course, is the only president who was never elected to his office, having replaced Nixon's VP

Our heroes, or theirs?

Alex_Demote - August 2, 2023August 2, 2023

They arrived quietly. It wasn’t hard to do, we were barely banging sticks and rocks together at the time. Their built-to-purpose spacecraft landed effortlessly on the surface of the ocean, settling eventually at a depth we would not be able to reach for centuries. It was from this vantage that