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My wife and I are gonna celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary in a couple weeks, I booked a room at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs! I was talking to a friend, she and her husband took their KIDS along with them on their 20th anniversary trip! I guess I understood her rationale–they have a close family, and wanted to share the experience with everyone. Not for OUR family, though. We can take the kids to Disneyland or something if we want to share an experience.
Incidentally, I got a nice e-mail from a listener telling me all about the ghosts at the Hotel Colorado–[I wondered why the room rates were so reasonable!] I think I’ll withold that information from my wife. Reminds me, though, of a couple we used to know who were really INTO that sort of thing. They actually DID celebrate their anniversary by staying in a haunted hotel! I forget the town–it was somewhere along the Texas-Louisiana state line–but it apparently had a history of ghosts at several locations around the town. There’s even a nightly tour. Sounds like a tourism angle to me, but then again, I’m a skeptic.
Interesting–and encouraging–that this year’s State Fair actually out-drew LAST year’s fair by about 1000 people—even WITH the high gas prices! Just proves that you can’t put a price on getting your annual deep-fried funnel-cake “fix.” Amazing how BAD those things are for you, but we eat ‘em anyway, don’t we?
Saw on the news, that woman in Golden who stole $8000 from the high school football booster club got sentenced to 20 days in the slammer. She took over as treasurer in January ’07, within six months had drained all the cash. I was thnking they ought to make the punishment fit the crime—instead of putting her in JAIL for 20 days, maybe they should strap her to a tackling dummy for 20 varisity football practices…
Tiger Woods is gonna be a dad again, his second child, he and his wife have a daughter, Sam. Tiger, of course, is not on the tour right now, has that bum knee. Think his wife likes having him home all the time? You wonder. “Tiger, PLEASE! Can’t you go outside and PUTT or something?”
David Letterman is featured in Rolling Stone, says he might continue on past 2010 on the Late Show. He does still have the “WOW factor” going for him. As in, “Worn Out (his) Welcome.” Oh, I shouldn’t say that, I guess. He’s still pretty funny, although there’s more of a “bitter” streak that runs through his show now than used to. I think that’s why Jay Leno wins. He comes off as a genuinely happy guy. Dave, “bitter” can be funny, but a little goes a long way, and people get a lot of it in real life.
Lindsay Lohan posted her thoughts on Sarah Palin’s daughter’s un-wed pregnancy. On her blog. Lindsay says she’d like to hear less about pregnancy and more about policy. Would Lindsay Lohan know policy even if she ran into it with her Mercedes? In any event, the 17 year-old Palin daughter will be joining her mom at the RNC in St. Paul, along with the 18 year-old guy who impregnated her. Seems kind of bizarre, but hey, I guess you gotta OWN it, right? What are you gonna do, run away from it, or pretend it doesn’t exist? No matter what you do, you’re gonna get criticized for it.
Well, I spent my Labor Day weekend–laboring! We’re still trying to get moved in to the home we bought two MONTHS ago! Made some serious progress, though, over the long weekend.
For one thing, the long tiling process is finally over! I completed caulking the edges of the master bath Sunday night, and then put the “exclamation point” on the entire bathroom project by installing new toilet seat covers. Woo-Hoo! Now I guess we can put the wet saw on Craig’s List–unless my wife insists that we comply with her Dad’s plea that we keep the saw, “just in case we need it in the future.” Of course, if you’d ever seen my father-in-law’s garage, you’d know that he LIVES by the idea that everything might potentially be needed in the future, and therefore, should be saved.
Speaking of garages, that was another thing I accomplished over the weekend–cleaning out the garage to the point that both cars can now be parked inside. I blogged on this a couple weeks ago, so I won’t go into it again. Suffice it to say that I’m not going leave a $20,000 vehicle on the driveway so I can keep a bunch of plastic kids toys under cover and out of the elements….
WOW, what a week it’s been! I’m sitting here at my desk, trying to gather my thoughts. Rather than gather them, maybe I’ll just let them spill out onto the keyboard…
I am very proud to be from Denver, after the spectacular week of festivities connected with the Democratic Convention. Now, I’m not a Democrat–I’m an independent, leaning GOP–but I thought the whole week was fabulous, and very exciting. The city did a great job of planning for this, and everything went off smoothly. The Obama speech at Invesco was an amazing exclamation point for the who week–who’d have thought 85,000 people would show up to hear a speech?
Not to get political–in fact, all politics aside–I thought McCain did a great job of stealing the spotlight with his VP choice! Think about it–if you went to any of the news/info sites like Yahoo, AOL, MSN, instead of seeing a photo of Obama standing in front of 85,000 fans, every site had a photo of the Governor of Alaska! Amazing! To me, this says two things about the media. 1)Their attention span for any story is only as long as it’s “the” story, if something better comes along, they immediately drop what they’re doing and chase it. 2)They often really don’t know what they’re talking about. I have to laugh when I think of all the wasted air time spent seculating about Mitt Romney vs. Tim Pawlenty vs. “dark horse” Joe Lieberman! All the “experts” were totally FOOLED! Not ONE expert even suggested the Governor of Alaska was even being considered. Makes you wonder just how much actual research they do for their stories…
Someone might say, “Well YOU’RE part of the media, aren’t you?” True, but I don’t have the time or the inclination or the contacts necessary to gather news first-hand. I have to rely on other reports, sift through what I find, and pass it along to you second-hand. The pre-speech performer line-up at Invesco is a good example of this. All week long, I was talking about Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen performing at the show–because that’s what the news sources were saying! But they–and I–were wrong! I don’t feel that bad about it, because I was just trying to pass along relevant information from the best available resources. I just wish the sources were a little more accurate sometimes!
Anyway, now it’s onto Labor Day weekend. I was thinking that me and the family might head off somewhere for a little road trip, but it just hasn’t materialized. We may still take off for a night. Or, we may just putter around the house–we still haven’t completely moved in! Maybe we’ll paint a room, or–even better–finish caulking the master bathroom floor.
Hey, that reminds me. I have to tell you, I actually re-installed a toilet! We had to remove the toilets from the bath when we tiled them. They’re fairly easy to take out, but I was a little concerned about putting it back in correctly. It was pretty easy. Makes me want to kick myself, though. When we sold our home in Dallas, one of the things we had to fix after the inspection was the toilet. It was an older home, and the anchor bolts had rusted to the point that they didn’t securely hold the toilet to the floor. I was not confident enough to want to tackle this, so we had a plumber come in and do it. It cost $250-which I didn’t think was that unreasonable at the time, but now having done it myself, I think it’s OUTRAGEOUS!! Pay me $250, and I’ll fix your toilet ANY day!!
OK, I guess that’s enough for now. Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend. Talk to you on the radio….
If you’ve spent some time on the 16th Street Mall the last couple of days, you know what a ZOO it’s been! Just a few blocks walk, and you’ll get a sample of the EXTREMES of contemporary American thought! You’ve got the people who insist that 9-11 was an “inside job,” to the “clean coal” people, and everybody in between!
What’d you think of the bright orange pant suit that Hillary wore for her speech last night at the Pepsi
Center? I couldn’t help but wonder why she chose ORANGE!? You’d think that something dark blue, or black, would have been her choice. Was she making a statement? I have to believe that the choice of outfit was not random–you know she has advisors through whom everything has to be run!
As for Hillary’s speech: very nice. I think she accomplished what she was asked to do, if she wants to be Secretary of State–or some other prestigious, high-level cabinet position!
I’m officially admitting that I was wrong about the draw of the Obama speech–remember, in an earlier post, I had mused that they might have trouble filling all the seats at Invesco for a speech. Of course, with performances from Jennifer Hudson, Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen, this is turning out to be more than a speech. From a purely Springsteen fan point of view think about it: The Boss isn’t even going to PLAY Denver on his current concert tour–and now you get the chance to see him for free? That alone would put 50,000 people in a stadium, at least.
One thing I was right about was the fizzling out of the protests. All the big talk from the protest group spokespeople about violence and disruption has proven to be ONLY that–talk. Of course, we’re ALL happy about that. But you could kind of see it coming You didn’t get the sense that these people were really, truly ANGRY. The “Re-Create 68″ group seems to be more interested in nostalgia than politics. The Tent Staters seem to be just bored.
I have to gloat a little about the bubble bursting for the DNC rent-gougers–the people who were placing ads in the paper, offering their homes for rent during the convention for tens of thousands of dollars!! For the record, turns out there are PLENTY of hotel rooms available. The guy at the Ramada Plaza says they’re only 60% full! They’re cutting their room rates, but it’s too late now–everybody that’s coming to the convention is already here! One hotel manager said his business this week is actually WORSE than usual!! Anyway, I sure would hate to be one of these delegates who fell for the “room shortage” hype, and wrote a check for $10,000 to rent someone’s house!!
Ralph Nader For President parade is today starting at 2p–lasting until 2:05!! Well–not really, I’m sure it’ll run longer than that. But SERIOUSLY–why are the Nader people having a parade during the DNC? Isn’t he supposed to be an independent? Will they have another parade next week in Minnesota during the RNC? Will anybody care?
Also on the parade schedule: “Concerned Men of America” 12:30p…[really–aren’t ALL men concerned about SOMETHING?] I’m concerned about LOTS of things–whether the New Orleans Saints are gonna make the playoffs this year, the high cost of renting musical instrments for my kids, and also my car needs new tires. I should have marched in the parade, I guess. Wasn’t aware that marching in a parade would help anything, but I was wrong about the Obama speech crowd, too…
I got one of those “send this to all your friends” e-mails–which usually means it’s BUNK, BTW–that in a couple days, we’ll get our best view in our lifetimes of the planet Mars. Supposedly, it won’t be this close again until the year 2287. The e-mail indicated that tomorrow [Wednesday] night, with a 75 power telescope, Mars will appear as large as the moon does to the naked eye.
Don’t know if THAT’S true–but it DOES give me an excuse to post the photo, which I think is pretty cool!
Here’s the photo of the Obama look-alike I was talking about. Amazing resemblance, huh? The guys’ name is Gerardo Puisseaux, he’s from Cuba.
What must it be like to look so much like someone famous? All of a sudden, you’re getting all kinds of attention–through no effort of your own! It’s nothing you did, just the luck of the genetic gene pool. I mean, they say every person has their twin, but for most of us, our twin is just as obscure as WE are! Not THIS guy! I would think it might get old after awhile.
When the new season of “American Idol” begins next year, there will be FOUR judges sitting across from the contestants…songwriter Kara DioGuirdi has been added to provide more BALANCE for the female point of view…
We have the list of contestants for the new season of DWTS…it includes Olympic beach volleyball star Misty May Traenor!……also former N-Sync star Lance Bass—the second member of the band to dance on the show, Joey Fatone was the first…[somewhere, Chris Kirkpatrick is saying DANG, what do I gotta do to get on a reality TV show?]…
…Cloris Leachman is the OLDEST star this year, 82 years old!……Toni Braxton, Kim Kardashian, former NFL star Warren Sapp…
PS—any coincidence that the DWTS list and the news about the fourth “American Idol” judge—both stories came out the same day!… I THINK NOT!!!!
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We’re gonna start seeing Jerry Seinfeld on TV again…no, not with another sitcom, he’s signed on for a new series of TV commercials for Microsoft…$10 million…[funny guy, but isn’t Jerry Seinfeld kind of—“yesterday?”][how’s that gonna play with the Mac crowd?]…
Miley Cyrus will celebrate her sweet 16th birthday by shutting down Disneyland for her own private birthday party…[does she get the special employee discount?]…
Justin Timberlake is set to appear in a new series of advertisements for his personal clothing line, “William Rast”…
David Archuleta’s new single “Crush” was this week’s second-most-purchased song…that bested David Cook’s first single, “Time Of My life” which finished #3 in ITS first week…
…he’s the first “American Idol” runner-up to out-sell the winner since Clay Aiken did it to Ruben Studdard in season TWO…[hopefully, the two Davids will have a little more staying power than THOSE two!]…
Well, it’s finally here–the Democratic National Convention.
I thought it was really interesting, that survey of Denver people, asking what word best described their attitude toward the convention being here. Almost two thirds were either worried, annoyed or “who cares.” I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people say they’re gonna stay AWAY from downtown the entire week–I think that’s where the ACTION is gonna be, why not at least get a TASTE of it?
I think everyone is wondering what the “net effect” is going to be, once the convention is said and done. I’m thinking that probably it’s going to be pretty uneventful. Probably not much different than having the NCAA basketball tournament in town. The “wild card” would be the protesters–will we see images of overturned cars in flames and police in riot gear? I doubt it. Seems to me–and I could be wrong–most of the protesters aren’t really that angry, they just want to get on TV, cause a fuss, maybe get arrested, then go party.
I think the city has done a FABULOUS job of preparing for this, don’t you? Everything is nice and clean, neat as a pin. Very few street people, very little trash, lots of fresh flowers and fresh paint. We should have a convention EVERY year!
Was driving down C-470 last night, got passed by a Pontiac Aztec, with the license plate “XQSME!” I thought to myself, “really, there’s NO excuse for driving an Aztec–is there?” One of the ugliest cars ever built.
Of course, I say that half-kiddingly. No matter HOW ugly a car may seem to MOST people, there are always a few people that find it attractive. For example, I have always thought the ORIGINAL Subaru B-9 Tribecas–the ones with the horse-collar grille?–were pretty COOL looking! I was QUITE disappointed to see that they’d re-tooled the styling last year and changed the front end to look very boring.
I recently exchanged some e-mails with Chuck, a KOOL 105 listener, about ugly cars and ugly car names. What prompted the discussion was me bringing up the new electric car that GM is building, the Chevy Volt. Chuck thought that was a dumb name, although I think it’s OK. He also thought the Kompressor is a silly name for the Mercedes line of sports cars. He mentioned the Ford Probe–agreed, what a TERRIBLE name! And, of course, he brought up the Aztec. Any time there’s a feature article on Yahoo or MSN.com about ugly cars, the Aztec always gets mentioned–it’s LEGENDARY for its ugliness.
Back to ugly names. Here’s my list…
Isuzu Ascender. I’m sure the Isuzu people were wanting us to visualize this SUV “ascending” hills and mountains. But doesn’t the word “ascend” kind of suggest a gliding, upward movement? Not a very rugged image, for an SUV!
Isuzu Impulse. Yes, Isuzu gets the award for coming up with the worst names. I would mention the Isuzu Amigo, but this post might start to get redundant. Anyway, back to the Impulse. Aren’t impulses usually to be resisted? Is impulse shopping GOOD? I don’t think so.
Plymouth Breeze. I actually sort of LIKED this car, you still see one on the highway every once in awhile. But do I want to drive a breeze? Seems to suggest lightweight, easily breakable.
AMC Matador. Remember the TV commercial from the ’70s? “What’s a Matador?” Good question!! The strangest thing about this car was that the coupe and the sedan were totally different designs, even though they were supposedly the same model. Both were wierd-looking. The Matador sedan had a front end that looked like an over-stuffed sandwich, with the meat sticking out over the edge of the bread. The coupe had a bizarre sweeping body line that reminded you of a toothbrush. Unfortunately, that didn’t keep me from BUYING a Matador coupe–a beige 1974 Oleg Cassini model. It had a wild PLAID cloth interior. What can I say, it was the 70s!! I owned it for about three months before I couldn’t stand it any more, sold it to my Army bunk-mate.
Jeep Cherokee Laredo. Cherokees are Indians. “Laredo,” is that a cowboy term? Or did they intend it to be Spanish? Either way, we’re talking an absurd clash of cultures, aren’t we? How are “Cherokee” and “Laredo” related?
Those are some of MY thoughts–feel free to chime in!!
I got one of those “send this to all your friends” e-mails–which usually means it’s BUNK, BTW–that in a couple days, we’ll get our best view in our lifetimes of the planet Mars. Supposedly, it won’t be this close again until the year 2287. The e-mail indicated that tomorrow [Wednesday] night, with a 75 power telescope, Mars will appear as large as the moon does to the naked eye.
Here’s the photo of the Obama look-alike I was talking about. Amazing resemblance, huh? The guys’ name is Gerardo Puisseaux, he’s from Cuba.
