Archive for the 'Places' category
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Mt. St. Helens blew up 30 years ago today. I remember putting a bandana over my face and sweeping ash from the sidewalk of my parents’ Portland home.
Would you rather die in a volcano eruption, a tsunami, an earthquake, a flood, a hurricane or a tornado?
Mt. St. Helens blew up 30 years ago today. [...]
Joe, Online Polls, Oregon, Places, Portland, Washington |
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Here’s a photo from the May snowstorm we had in Denver:
Denver, Places |
Monday, April 26th, 2010
I had a ticket to Wednesday’s Avett Brothers show at the Boulder Theater. I couldn’t go, and so I went to craigslist to sell the ticket.
I didn’t want to sell it to the first person to email me … that’s boring. So I wrote this in the post: “If you want the ticket, send [...]
Colorado, Denver, Joe, Music, Places, Rock, Words |
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Saw this car parked in front of Denver’s city/county building. Plus one bajillion clever points.
Colorado, Denver, Joe, Places |
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
I used to work for the Winston-Salem Journal, and I still tune in every once in a while to the blog its managing editor Ken Otterbourg writes. Ken wrote about the newspaper’s coverage of the National Black Theatre Festival, and the feedback he gets from the town.
He wrote this paragraph, which handles gracefully the [...]
Joe, Journalism, Media, Places, Winston-Salem |
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Denver Post sports columnist Dave Krieger (catch Krieger on twitter here) juiced out a good quote on the Colorado Rockies’ season, and what’s different now, from Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki:
“The biggest thing for me is the mood on the field has changed,” Tulowitzki said. “Early on in the season, we were expecting bad things to [...]
Baseball, Denver, Joe, Quotes, Sports |
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Today the COTweeters group-tweet list (where anyone can send their tweets to the group, and the whole group gets them) succumbed to spam-bots. It had been getting worse and worse in the past four weeks.
The bot-spammers are now winning over on COTweets, so I went and created a new Colorado group-tweet list, ColoradoTweets, that [...]
Colorado, Denver, Internet, Joe |
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Here are 8 haikus I wrote today about Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. All but one or two were written before the Denver Nuggets played the Mavericks in game 5 of their NBA playoffs series tonight.
Mark Cuban is a
rich businessman who owns the
Dallas Mavericks
He doesn’t really
know how to play basketball,
But yell? Yes he does.
In Japan, [...]
Denver, Joe |
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
John Wenzel wrote a book about indie comedy. It was published this month. I started reading the book this week, and I noticed that Mr. Wenzel likes to put funny or not-so-funny asides in the last sentence of paragraphs. Mr. Wenzel writes about music for The Denver Post. The book, Mock Stars: Indie Comedy [...]
Denver, Friends, Joe, Work |
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Inspired by Matt Waite, and the two-cd mix I made before the 2004 elections (one mix for if Bush one, and one for if Kerry), this is the list of five songs I might play when I get home from work tomorrow night.
The Beach Boys – Lets go away for a while
The Mountain Goats – [...]
Joe, Lists, Music, Places, Politics, U.S.A., Work |