Help out

You can help Hurricane Katrina victims, even from Colorado. Training sessions start today in Denver if you want to volunteer with the American Red Cross Mile High Chapter to take calls from victims looking for help. Call (303) 607-4750 for info.

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monday, monday

Have the mondays got you down? You might remember us telling you about k-os. Here's a kick-em-in-da-butt video for you, if you've got the patience to download something.

State Fair

Guess who opened the Colorado State Fair. Hoobastank. Hooba-stinky-stank. Hahahahaha! Get New Pornographers, Dungen or Missy Elliott to open and I'll rush on down to Pueblo and meet you.

Changes for iTunes?

The New York Times says there's pricing pressure on Mr. Jobs.

Smoking Popes

The Smoking Popes are playing a reunion show! Live at The Metro in Chicago for the Flower15 Festival, seven years after they went kaput. Nov. 11

Death Cab

If you're a Death Cab for Cutie fan, woxy.com gives you a chance to win the new album this week. Just listen in.

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Monday

It's a new day, a new week, let's be happy.

White men can't dance

Sad day

Saturday night coverage of Hunter S. Thompson's memorial was wrapping up, only for us to find out 49ers lineman Thomas Herrion collapsed in the locker room after the Broncos game. Got word not so long ago that he has died.

He played for Utah (in college).

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Gonzo

Tonight's the night. Hunter S. Thompson's ashes get blown into the air.
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Grayskul plays at the Larimer Lounge tomorrow. ... Here's something weird. Best Buy over there near Colorado and I-25 is having local bands play at noon tomorrow (Saturday). Perhaps these things are normal, but strip malls and traffic keep me away from that whole area, so it's news to me. Qwest is a co-sponsor. At least it's free. Le Boom is supposed to play. ... Danger Girl bass player Richard Castaldo (see "Bowling for Columbine") is moving to California. Danger Girl says he's going to go back to school and get into the music scene there. ...

Where's George

We've been touched by the Where's George project!
We wouldn't have known except the dollar bill we got as change from the coffee shop at 16th and Blake was stamped with the project's name. We entered the bill's serial number into the Where's George Web site and figured out our dollar bill was once used to pay at a lemonade stand in someone's yard and it also visited the Waterfront Restaurant in Maui. I wish I had visited the Waterfront Restaurant in Maui.