Tracy and I went to the proverbial dinner and a show last night at LoDo's Walnut Room. We saw Greg Laswell with opening act Elizabeth & The Catapult (who in their own way were actually more impressive.) We were there to enjoy the show, which we did, so I didn't take notes or pictures or anything, but I can say that the whole night was well worth it. We only spent $47--dinner was free, $20 for two tickets, $12 for the Elizabeth & The Catapult CD (I HAD to do it) and about $15 in drinks and tips. If you want to read a fairly accurate review of the show, click here. (Tracy is sitting right behind the blogger who took the picture.)
By the way, I talked to Elizabeth from the opening act and she was as nice, sweet and cute as could be, although she should maybe tighten up her math skills since I gave her a $20 bill for the $12 CD and she tried to give me $12 change. As we all know, the music business LOVES to eat it's young and rip off it's artists.
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Factoid That Would Interest Only Me, Part 1: Every episode of CBS' hit show The Mentalist has either red or some reference to the color red in the episode title (which I believe refers to the lead character's obsession with "Johnny Red", the man who supposedly murdered his wife.)
Queens is to the Colorado Rockies what kryptonite is to Superman.
All the comic book-based movies that are being made and have been made, someone please explain to me how Wonder Woman, one of the best known and best-loved titles, still hasn't made it to the big screen? How is it that Thor and The Punisher (twice!) will have big screen movies before her? Let's get this thing made and cast Megan Fox before she gets either too expensive or too old.
Hollywood has ruined Comic-Con. But we still get to see some great previews and trailers from the convention.
I really wish Facebook had a "don't like" button.
In a way it amuses me that people actually believe that a chaotic, multiple payer health care system which doubles in cost every decade and regularly denies coverage to people who have jobs and make payments just because they are unregulated seems preferable to a government-run single payer system that fixes costs and tries to cover everyone so that neither businesses nor consumers have to foot the bill.
"There's a sucker born every minute." -- P.T. Barnum
My friend Cap is sort of a beerologist. His recommendation of the week: Kona Longboard, which I can vouch for as being very good. And I'm not even that big a beer fan.
Cost of my Grimes Family Reunion (on my Mom's side): $125 per couple without kids. Which includes "rap praise performance" by Jedediah, $12 for "family portraits" and a Sunday "remembrance of the elders and tribute to Michael Jackson." Cost of two tickets to the August 7th Cubs-Rockies game that same weekend: $56. Guess which one I'm choosing?
Factoid That Would Interest Only Me, Part 2: The Sears Tower in Chicago was renamed this month to the Willis Tower ("what you talkin' about?"). There have been 48,000 plus signatures on a petition to change the name back. There hasn't been a single employee of the Sears Roebuck Company in that building since 1994 and the company sold the building in 1995.
Remember to always spay and neuter your pets, but not anyone else because that would be illegal.
Peace...
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