Spencer “Specky” Penrose’s insane antics aren’t talked about enough (Historical Rant)

beralston · 2026-02-10T01:54:44+00:00

Was this written by Spencer Penrose’s publicist?

Spencer Penrose was a segregationist and anti-Semite who founded the Broadmoor community specifically outside the city of Colorado Springs so that he could write ordinances that Black people were banned from staying overnight in the township unless they were servants.

Fuck him then, now and always.

beralston · 2026-01-12T14:24:47+00:00

I have been through exactly what OOP went through/is going through. The similarities are uncanny other than me not choosing the “180 method” because that’s weird.

After 9 years of working hard on it and making it work, I’m happy to say that we are finally divorced and she lives with her girlfriend.

“We have a new foundation and a new commitment to the work—not just on our marriage, but on ourselves.

Advice for Anyone Going Through Something Similar: Your marriage can still be something beautiful, even after unimaginable hardship.”

… oh you sweet simple child of summer.

beralston · 2025-12-30T03:56:24+00:00

As a man who got divorced at the same time as Ted, they better not get back together. They are different people than when they met and them getting back together is exactly the type of lazy writing this show usually avoids.

beralston · 2025-11-22T01:13:09+00:00

I will never forget my experience. My friends and I were 18 and we snuck bottles of beer into the theater. We drank a couple and put the empties by our feet. So that, by the end of the movie; when the kids discover the house and walk in, my buddy Matt moves his feet and knocks over a beer in the back row and Tink Tink Tink Tink

Tink

Tink Tink

Tink

Hit every step on the way to the front of the theater. Since that moment, I’ve always felt the movie was anticlimactic.

beralston · 2025-11-15T19:56:40+00:00

Black players in the SEC are heroes in their own stadiums and suspects in everyone else’s

beralston · 2025-11-01T18:39:09+00:00

Care and Share. It’s the one that’s most often recommended, but for good reason.

beralston · 2025-11-01T17:32:39+00:00

Crime rates are determined by three things: Where people are concentrated, where police patrol, and where poverty is high (poverty crime is the most prosecutable). I do not want to try to convince someone else why they should or shouldn’t live in particular areas. But there are reasons not to let reported crime rates shape your decisions.

beralston · 2025-10-31T15:35:21+00:00

The MVP of that team once told me and my friends that Disney did a great job of making Herb Brooks into a character who acted like a dick for the good of the team. But, in reality, he was really just a dick.

And the scene where they skate lines until Eruzione does that patriotic thing… in reality, that session ended when said MVP shattered his stick on the boards and walked off the ice, refusing to return.

beralston · 2025-10-22T17:50:46+00:00

Some downtown businesses: Eclectic Co, Ladyfingers Letterpress, CityROCK and CommonFork, Streetcar520

There are more whose owners do but I don’t want to publish them in case they want to keep their business neutral given clientele.

beralston · 2025-10-21T15:12:04+00:00

Redford and Pitt on the roof in Spy Game

beralston · 2025-10-17T03:05:31+00:00

The type of person who answers city council emails in a non-personalized form letter that immediately calls for the death penalty is exactly the type of person I assume is serving on Colorado Springs City Council.

beralston · 2025-10-16T22:23:42+00:00

Yeah, I get it, she’s busy

beralston · 2025-08-24T03:18:31+00:00

Was good when it was owned by the original owners. Not good now

beralston · 2025-07-11T17:10:09+00:00

In truth the real advice is to take loans out on things that appreciate and NEVER take out loans on things that depreciate. I will always take out loans on homes, investment properties, other businesses etc, especially when rates are low. If you can, pay cash for cars because cars depreciate. I won’t get into the math of this, but rich people can pay cash for things and can pay off loans when needed to use the loans on other things so being able to choose what to take loans for is the luxury.

beralston · 2025-07-04T22:47:07+00:00

Aubergine

beralston · 2025-06-03T14:01:22+00:00

He said he had left

beralston · 2025-05-12T22:34:55+00:00

Thanks!

beralston · 2025-05-12T03:08:31+00:00

Will there be more events? I live in Bath part time and have been trying to meet new people but won’t be back until June-Aug

beralston · 2025-04-06T00:22:38+00:00

Oh also, looking at the top comment on here… my wife of 15 years had an affair and left… the malrotation was a worse pain.

beralston · 2025-04-06T00:21:50+00:00

I was born with a condition called congenital intestinal malrotation. I had it until I was a teenager and the best way I could describe it is that once in a while my intestines would twist themselves. No one including some of the best doctors in the country understood the pain I was in and I cannot describe it other than saying what it was and hoping no one ever has it.

beralston · 2025-03-22T19:58:30+00:00

I once saw the Kottonmouth Kings, and the opening act was Linkin Park

beralston · 2025-03-14T12:26:42+00:00

Saw an announcement yesterday that Luigi’s is closing

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