Long after Allen Ginsburg, Timothy Leary and Mork left their mark on Boulder Colorado, it continues to be shall we say a little quirky . It’s not as obvious as it once was but if one were to slow down and pay attention, signs of quirkiness will reveal themselves.
“I sat at the leftover desk in my “abandoned” office pondering my discussion with the entity I call the shadow. I tried not to stare at it. Besides being rude it was very difficult to focus on . For all practical purposes it was an actual shadow but from time to time a face would appear along with a shimmer. I could not even begin to describe it’s appearance. It showed up when talking and it was just too freaky to look at it for longer than a second or two.”
“Enough of what the shadow did or did not look like. What it said was really strange”
“Time flows like a river. Sometimes water forms eddies and pools around transient objects and allow for something wonderful to be exposed or to join the river itself.”
Yeah he’s from Boulder alright. Enough of the guys soliloquy. The bottom line is there has always been some strangeness to Boulder and no one knows exactly why. It could be ghosts of Chief Niwot, remnants from the Beat and the “Tune In and Drop Out” generations or aliens left behind by Mork and Mindy but there are phenomena that can not be explained. Once such phenomenon is that the town seems to be a magnet for an unusual amount of dopplegangers. In detective speak “dead on lookalikes.”
The shadow had no explanation or at least nothing beyond the eddy speech which didn’t clarify anything and maybe he threw that in to make him more mysterious. I consider that a wasted effort because he is a freakin talking shadow. Nothing added it to it would make it more mysterious.
It turns out Steve Simpson, the potential philanderer who’s wife had hired me, has at least one known dead on lookalike and probably more.
My first case had just gone from simple to complex and really quirky. If there are a degrees of quirkiness. I’m going to earn my dough on this one. Now fortunately I’ve kept up on internet technology and I know that Google has a feature that can do image searches across the internet. If found it will give you the source, where it was found, of the image. So if it was found in a local paper or a magazine or even TV or film, It will tell you that.
The good news is that it found the image of Steve Simpson. The bad news is that it found 3 guys that look like him in a 10 square mile radius of Boulder .
I thought “This definitely puts me behind the eight ball. Time to rack my brain,” and I reached for the bottle of GlenBargain.
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