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Live Music: CSU Jazz Combo
We almost skipped this performance, tired after a long work week, but I’m glad we didn’t. There’s something moving about the sense of potential in a student performance like this. There was no show business, no attention really at all to presentation, just six mismatched kids with their instruments on a stage. They launch into…
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Movie: Spider-Man 2
These movies are really good at taking me back to my childhood, when I sat enraptured by any cheesy Spider-man cartoon that came on the tube. I didn’t miss a single episode of the TV mini-series. Stan Lee has remained at the helm all this time, keeping it true to the original comic book story…
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Anonymous Donation?
Up until now, my associate links to Amazon (mostly from movie and book reviews) have generated one DVD sale, resulting in $0.72 for cyberhobo.net! BLING BLING! I never expected to get rich from these links which are really intended as a way to get more information about the subject of the post. So I was…
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Movie: American Splendour
A guy who knows R. Crumb decides to write a comic book about his life. This movie follows him from there, through his marriage, a bout with cancer, adoption of his daughter, and up to the movie itself. A fabulous bio, very original.
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Live Music: CSO plays Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony
We’ve been wanting to see a classical music performance for a while now. Tonight we finally made our way to Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver to hear the Colorado Symphony Orchestra play this program: Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major Schubert Konzertstueck in D major for Violin and Orchestra Kreisler Caprice Viennois,…
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Off Day at Golden Cliffs
One of those days. We get to crag late, it’s busy, and the climb that is free is cold and shady. Neither of use climb very well. We’re hoping that too much climbing in the gym isn’t ruining our footwork.
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Being a part of the Marketplace
I recently took Amazon up on their offer to sell my books after I’ve read them. I had accumulated more books than will fit on my shelf, and was contemplating giving them away anyway. Instead, I listed them for sale on Amazon at the current lowest price and sat back to see what would happen.…
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Name the evergreen
I’ve been inspired by my Mom’s book, Great Lakes Nature, to start identifying a new plant on my outings. For this one, I picked the tree behind Jezze in this picture. I’ve also taken a closeup of the needles and cones of the tree, and the bark. Each cone has a single seed inside. Anyone…
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Greyrock Mountain
We headed up the Poudre canyon to Greyrock trail with our friend Alan today. It’s a hike we’ve had our eye on, and we wanted to scope out the climbing potential too. After a couple of miles of good climbing, the peak comes into view. It looks like about 600 feet of granite dome. One…
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Movie: Whale Rider
A young girl defies the values of her Maori culture when she feels called to become a Chief. Told convincingly without getting overly sentimental. It made me ponder (as The Gods Must Be Crazy did) what the ramifications are for a culture that is thrust suddenly into a global environment that other cultures have had…