Something different for the Monday Music Roundup this week: Seven songs from the seven Colorado bands that we are presenting at SXSW for our first Mile-Hi Fidelity day party! A bunch of my favorite Colorado people are getting together to throw y’all a nice little fiesta with some of the finest...

One night last week when I should have already been asleep, instead I sat up in bed scrolling through Failblog archives and absolutely dying laughing. Along with the FYP blog (for example: omg ), Failblog is my new favorite — for reasons like this or this, or this or this. That’ll start ...

The cunning, evil piglets run to the tiger, smothering her with their small hooves and short snouts. Made weak by the cuteness of the piglets (and undoubtedly aware of the fact that she is only making the situation worse by being in the picture herself), she reaches out her paw, licking her lips, gr...

I went skiing this weekend, a rare occurrence for me despite living in Colorado. My body doth protest heartily today, after using muscles near-forgotten. I am a novice skier but by the end of the day Saturday I was hitting a stride where I wasn't fighting against the giant contraptions buckled to my...

Porca miseria! (That means pig misery. That's also exemplary of the reasons why Italian profanity is one of my interests). Italy lost to Spain yesterday in the Euro 2008 quarterfinals, despite the loudest cheers of my small viewing contingent. It's always agonizing and ultimately a bit unfulfilling ...

For Mother's Day I got this handmade wooden box from my little four year old. It held various treasures, including a coupon, some chocolate covered espresso beans (good choice), and an ant. The ant apparently escaped. It seemed like a good idea to him at the time to include it in the gift. I feel ve...

I'm back from my aforementioned 20-hour dash through Wyoming, Nebraska, and back into Colorado. It was a spur of the moment thing, leaving me at the ranch/hostel place on the remote Wyoming border with nary a toothbrush at 10pm on a Sunday night. It was exhilarating to get out and see a part of the ...

You might be surprised to hear it, but I am reading a really interesting book about zombies. Heck, I'm surprised that I'm reading a book about zombies. But it was an unexpected gift and I'm not one to look a gift book in the mouth, so I dove in. World War Z is rivetingly creepy, an impeccably-constr...

"Won't you wear . . . a sweater?" We are requested by Mister McFeely to don a sweater of some sort this Thursday, in honor of what would have been Mister Rogers' 80th birthday. I think I'll wear my green hoodie that I can zip up all the way, pause, and then zip it halfway back down. Man, I loved tha...

So last Sunday in San Francisco I picked up this random $1 pin at the Noise Pop Expo (in addition to a cool business card holder for my forthcoming cool business cards, and I waited too long to buy this gorgeous necklace and it was gone when I came with cash. Sad). Anyways. The pin on my bag strap n...