So says the window of a building in downtown Loveland, painted with the same window paints supermarkets use to celebrate the holidays, or used car dealers use to advertise their low, low prices.

Another Christmas in Loveland this year, with the requisite trip to Boulder, where we stopped in the Boulder Bookstore, and I watched the fuzz descend on a couple of people on the pedestrian mall who were hashing out the history of their relationship and definitely not using their inside voices. I asked maybe half a dozen shop owners and employees all along the mall if they knew of any remaining photobooths in Boulder, and I got a few “maybes” for the Crossroads Mall (whose website looks a heck of a lot better than the inside, which gives the originall Pioneer Valley “Dead Mall” a run for its dead-money. The only shop still remaining was offering 70% off everything until December 31st, when there would be no more anything). Definitely no photo booth there.

We met Pearl and Bill at The Broker again for lunch, and then headed to Denver to hit the supposed photo booth I’d checked out with help from someone at The Westword and a phone call to Funtastic Fun. Unfortunately, it wasn’t an old-style booth as the person on the phone had assured me; yes, it was black and white, but that’s because its product was an 8 1/2 x 11 printout from a black and white laser printer with failing toner. Oh well – I fed it my tokens and got a printout of blackness, because not only was it crummy, but it was also broken. Anyone know of a legit photo booth using and actual photographic process between Denver and Fort Collins?

Off to the Metrolux 12 for another round of Mediocre Holiday Movie fun, this time starring “Payback.” You can’t criticize what you haven’t seen, that’s my theory…