After an uncommon childhood in New Mexico and St. Louis, punk poet Howard Plumber hosted spoken word readings and art events as "The Sad Comic" in Denver, Colorado throughout the 1990s, a block of time marked by unparalleled unity among Denver's creative camps. Following the footsteps of bygone hometown hero Neal Cassady via a series of reckless love affairs - crashing the singles ball thrown by local rag Cowsheet, at one point asking an engaged woman...