ABSTRACT

…an assemblage of Neo-Conceptual troubadours, opportunistic critifictionists, transgender digital curators, print-only Internet artists, micro-aggressive feminist realists and trendy algorithmic poets are all congregating at the community table inside the Colorado Cannabis Cafe where the high-energy barista on duty, whose night job is playing bass guitar for a hot new local band named Blue Movie, keeps expertly tamping down seven grams of freshly roasted and perfectly ground Conscious Coffee organic Tafari espresso applying just the right amount of pressure before pulling what everyone at the table considers to be the absolute best shot of liquid brain-o to be found in the entire Rocky Mountain West —