QUID HAS HEARD that you can already pack it in if you were hoping to be in the running for Best Dressed Man About Town in 2016. After one of the editors of this rag called out Hizzoner Steve Hogan’s shoe game back in December (SEE: https://ow.ly/XeztG), the mayor has snazzed things up a bit on the fashion front. Just take a gaze at the Picture This photo in today’s edition. Or take a look at this pic snapped by one of the twit-wranglers for the Aurora Police Department (https://ow.ly/XeBFO). While Councilwoman Angela Lawson and city community relations division chief Barbara Shannon-Banister both stood out with tan coats for the MLK Day festivities, the top style had to be Hogan’s, looking as though Truman Capote had been stretched a foot taller on a medieval rack. It’s as much an inside scoop as it is an education guess, but Quid bets that whoever broke into the mayor’s house just after New Year’s must have stolen a sizable chunk of his regular attire, necessitating a splurge on these fancier duds. So when city council gets back to its normal schedule after this week’s holiday, keep your eyes trained on the center of the dais and what chic threads come next. And at the risk of this becoming a society page column, Quid now returns you to your regularly scheduled snark.
AND QUID HAS HEARD the race among almost every Republican in the state to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett in his re-election bid has really hit below the belt. Really. Seems that way-right Colorado Springs business guy Robert Blaha got down and dirty in his opening bid video last week as GOP No. 9 in the primary race (As of this writing, there are 11). Way down. The video starts with an erupting toilet and then shows some poor dude in an hospital gown on a table getting “examined” by a “doc” that winds up for the pitch like a MLB pro. Ouch. (SEE: https://ow.ly/X40DZ) Lame wags here immediately pointed out the clear imagery to an odd fetish involving a pitch, two people and a move most guys would work hard to avoid. Twitterpated fans of Blaha pointed out that only dirty minds would see the faux doc’s handy work as anything but the good clean fun it is. “It’s just a painful proctological examination,” one fan foamed, implying what a pain in the butt Obamacare really is. Oh. Quid just can’t wait to see what Blaha pulls out of his butt of jokes box when the topic turns to abortion rights, assisted suicide and birth control. You’ll have to be of voting age to legally watch it.
AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS.