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I'm a bicycling poet who lived in Parker for several years and worked at YourHub.com, covering Parker and Franktown for two years.

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My nickname's Hazmat ... what's yours?

Contributed by: Tabitha Dial   on 5/23/2007

On this, the first day in a week that I haven't had at least one nap by this time of day (it's 3 p.m. here and I slept in this morning until 9 and that made a big difference), I have painted for about three hours.

Two of those hours were spent suited up. A fellow writer who is enjoying his residency here told me yesterday that my nickname is "Hazmat" because of my recently acquired painting suit.

But I'm glad I've had that suit. The green paint I have used on a deck and outdoor stairs (I'm doing a few odd jobs to help pay for my time here) is so sticky, greasy and gross that I tried to write a slam poem about it. I have deemed my writing unsuitable for revision, even though I kinda like the idea that the paint "must have been mixed -- I swear -- by the devil himself on a particularly danceless day."

There's also a couple drops of it on my jeans -- it seeped through the suit. And the fingers of my yellow dishwasher-grade gloves sometimes stick together, coated in the tar-like stuff.

I think the paint brush will have to be incinerated. Maybe it can help fuel Doc Brown's DeLorean.

I've also been working on more artful stuff, inspired by a painter who's work was on display in the main building here when we arrived.

Feel free to beg, borrow, steal and .... oh yeah ...enter your creative works in the Douglas County Creativity Contest by June 30.


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Submitted By: Kevin Platts
posted on 5/31/2007 @ 2:29:14 PM
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Having seen the picture, I can say that the nickname appears to be very appropriate!
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Submitted By: Gladys Mercier
posted on 5/27/2007 @ 8:14:13 PM
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The paintings are nice and so is the painter in hazmat!!
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Submitted By: Nikki Britain
posted on 5/26/2007 @ 11:03:59 AM
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That suit is hilarious! You look like the Michelin Man! Enjoy your time!!!
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Submitted By: Bill Boucher
posted on 5/24/2007 @ 4:15:12 PM
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Keep plugging, Haz!
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Tabitha Dial

Denver , CO

Tabitha Dial has posted 194 blog entries and 816 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Tabitha Dial's average blog rating is 4.96.
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