Authors Note:
Thanks to those of you who allowed me to talk to you! I’ve got to work on the photo and video stuff for later this weekend. Hopefully by Sat or latest Sunday Night. Feel free to comment and let me know your Indiana Jones memories or if you were there with me at the Continental or other theatres, tell us what it was like!

It’s about 5:00pm on a Wednesday night. Where am I? Where any self respecting nerd or honorable fan would be on May 21, 2008. Indiana Jones Midnight showing of course!

I’m looking at four guys in the front of me. Three have a brown fedora adorning their head and all look ready to see the anticipated film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” I sit down, note pad in hand. “My first memory of Marion (Ravenwood reprised by Karen Allen) is being like 4 and watching her drink all those guys under the table. All I cold think was, ‘This woman is beautiful’. From then on until I was ten she was my impression of a beautiful woman” Kevin “Grover” Webster is all of 20 years old but reveals he is a do or die fan of the adventurous archaeologist. He smiles as he waxes poetic about the young crush on the top Indy girl.

The movie is a mere six hours away and he’s ready. When asked to choose one of the three original movies to take on a deserted island he looks me in the eye and says without question, “It’s all or nothing.” Such is the feeling of many fans in the line, including this one asking the questions. “He’s your typical American Hero. His charisma gets him the girls. He’s basically the Alpha Male but he’s also a professor.” Webster allows a small sly grin, “I wanted to be Indiana Jones when I grew up…and I still want to be him.”

Kevin brought his tickets the first chance they came out. “Today is a day to celebrate Indiana Jones!” His buddies chime in, “It should be a national holiday!” I laugh but deep inside where my raging Indy fan heart beats, I secretly agree with them.

(more…)

Be famous, get chics, make made money?

Well I can’t promise any of those, and I can guarantee the last two don’t happen :) But fame? Hey that’s never out of the realm of possibilities!

We’re looking for some new blood. I had a few of you on the hook, back when our new system was in the process of rolling out, and roped one (nod to Val). Time for more!

If you wanna write, and I mean write! 3x a week is our request, then leave a comment so I can get in touch with you.

There’s a lot going on and we need voices. Rockies fan? frequent home gamer? talk about it.

Frequent eater? tell us where the best things are. Aaron can’t do it all himself!

Come on! Fame awaits as a Denver Metroblogger! Onward and upward!!

I’m in Japan at the moment, so I won’t be able to jump on a comment the moment it’s made, but I’ll definitely we all over it! And when I get back, and am done traveling, I owe Denver some entries on where I’ve been eating. Hamburger Mary’s anyone?

Though the sky is blue and the birds are singing outside my window, there’s a tornado watch for the metro area till 8pm. A huge tornado went through Windsor, thunderstorms with baseball sized hail pounded the eastern plains, a fire-weather watch is on for SE Colorado while a winter weather advisory is on for the mountains.

May in Colorado.

(image from wunderground.com)

Hey folks.

Yes, I did it.  I saw Indy 4 at midnight.  And because I love to write stuff up, I interviewed a lotta Denver people.  And gave ‘em our website.  So, if you’re out there looking at this and we talked…HI!  I’ve got a truck load of writing to do and it won’t be completed until Friday afternoon/early evening because…well, I don’t have Today (Thursday) off and mesir gotta work.

So, those of you that joined me at the Continental 10 down at Hampden and Monaco, leave a comment below if you want…or just wait until Friday when I get this all pounded out on the keyboard.  And thanks for letting me talk to you.

I did get asked if I worked for Westword….*throws a hint at Westword*.

More Friday.

Need I remind people that the seasons change this weekend with the Boulder Creek Festival and the Bolder Boulder?  The 2 events are truly worth the ride to our little town since there is plenty to do for every single body.  Anymore, the festival is just a fun walk-through for me but the entertainment is really entertaining. The Farmers’ Market will be happening on Saturday so you can come and support your local producers. The race on Monday is the most fun ever! Parts of our family walk or run the course occasionally (even though there is no Dunkin’ Donuts anymore to detour into right before the finish line) - it’s a blast. The stadium show always chokes me up with the fly-overs and the parachuters dropping into the stadium (though one year, one missed it and went into the next-door field.)So come on down up and join the fun. And remember if the 100 year flood comes this weekend, Move To Higher Ground!

A great movie, by the way.

And yes, I’m still alive.  Strokes are fun and exciting and life changing and…generally they suck.  But I’m working on it and that’s the moral of this story.

Now, onto Denver related news.

Rockies?  Keep up the upswing and we just might be able to forget about the Nuggets and Avalanche stain that will take months to scrub off.  Plus, you need to keep winning and win enough so that when I do get to a game eventually it’ll be an extra helluva show.

Also, thank the heavens above for the weather and the heat and the sun and the nights where I can take a walk and not be frostbitten three minutes in…because the thawing bills at the ER were starting to stack up.  Seriously. Old Man Winter had better stay the ‘ell away from my city until Halloween when he’s allowed in again.  Because I need my sun. This Norwegian skin needs his farmer tan like bread needs butter.

Unsure if that comparison grosses you out…but too late.

The Video Blog Project is still…there.  I’m probably moving out of Aurora to Denver at the end of June.  I have a few choices. The DU area is possible and the Colfax and 225 is another.  The latter because I’m starting a new job in that area and would love cheap rent and easy access.  But I know with the DNC coming…that’s a snowballs chance in hell of happening.

Blasted capitalism!  So the VLOG thing will start up again in July unless the Stroke Wizard makes another visit.  And here’s hoping that never happens again.

Unless that deal gets me married to the hot nurse in the ER,  the cute admit girl or the absolutely gorgeous CT Scan girl at Medical Center of Aurora South.  It’s those three…or nothing!

Yea I know.  Keep dreamin’.

I participated in a training exercise for a CERT class today and it was a lot of fun (as the pictures convey). It provided some reality to the classroom theory we’ve been getting, even from my point of view as a victim.

We don’t get too many disasters in Colorado and we have a kind of complacency about life changing events coming our way. This program started after 9-11 and is geared toward getting individuals somewhat prepared to help themselves and their neighbors. This training would have come in handy in New Orleans a few years ago, don’t you think?

Something to think about. The citizens of San Francisco have been warned that they will be on their own in case of a big event since the first responders mostly live outside of the city. If you had to take care of yourself and your family for 72 hours, would you be ready?

(oh and kudos to the Mexican restaurant near 20th and Sheridan in the old King Soopers shopping center for letting us use the bathroom. Good tacos!)

I’ve been wondering if there a definable sense of being from Denver.  I can’t think of the correct name for someone who is from here - is there one?  Denverino?  I’m looking for a quality like the Southern peculiarity that I can’t shake even after decades of living north and west of the Mason -Dixon line.  Boulder is filled with ‘the most diverse bunch of white, affluent, educated’ people you’ll ever  meet as one Daily Camera commenter said.  Most everyone here is from somewhere else and what we have in common is our desire to carve a life out here.   What about Denver?  How do you define a stereotypical Denver citizen?I thought Wellington Webb was typical but then John Hickenlooper as Mayor surprised me.   Frederico Pena seemed like a Denver type but so did Bill Owens.  Is there some common quality that people from Denver share?  Or did we all just end up here on the way to the West Coast?  (and please, if anyone can tell me how to save paragraph breaks with Wordpress, let me know, ok)

Any news about renovations for the Mall?(great old photo from http://www.artsourceinternational.com)  

My wife was pointed to the Ballpark Market by friend of hers. We missed the first weekend, and were actually supposed to be out of town this weekend. As luck would have it however our plans to be in Albuquerque (thank goodness) were cancelled.

We put on coats, and long pants and let the house, walking down the street. DAMN it was windy yesterday morning! We get down there around 11ish, and were well underwhelmed. I’ll grant that this was the second weekend (monthly) and so maybe everyone is getting into the groove still, maybe the spring harvests haven’t come in yet, etc, but wow, was it sorta bunk.

I’m holding out hope that as the spring and summer progress there’s a better showing. it’s only a few blocks so we’ll be checking it out each time if we’re in town.

Oh and next time it’s open, is June 14th so make sure to drop by, and see if there’s anything you can’t live without.