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I'm taking a day away from blogging as I visit Maryland for my mom's 70th birthday and my 45th birthday. Christopher Sanders will be guest-hosting Backbone Radio this Sunday. more »

"Wow!" That was all any of us (me, my wife, my friend Rusty, and his wife) could say as we walked out of New Orleans' "One Eyed Jacks" nightclub after seeing The Legendary Shack Shakers play a jaw-dropping 75 minutes of music best described by Rusty as… more »

If you're Jewish and reading this on Saturday, you have some 'splainin' to do. I wrote this on Friday afternoon and won't be using my computer on Saturday...perhaps a strange thing for those of you who know me to be a non-religious person. Not becaus… more »

Hello all, I'll be traveling a fair bit over the next two weeks and would like to blog a little less during that time.  I do, however, want to maintain my multi-year track record of having at least one new item on the web page almost every day (I miss… more »

A friend of mine who was evacuated from his home in the foothills northwest of Boulder has been staying at hotels the previous couple of nights. He stayed at a Best Western down near Baseline Rd. and the Millenium Harvest House on Rt. 36 at Arapahoe Rd… more »

To all my friends and readers, whether "Members of the Tribe" or not, I wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous (Jewish) New Year as we go into Jewish year 5771.  Boy, we're old... more »

Dear readers, Please be patient while I work on the layout for the web site. I'm trying to go to something a little more modern, and working with a new "skin" template which includes the ability to print individual blog posts. Any constructive crit… more »

Thanks to my many readers who have e-mailed me with concerns about my family's proximity to the massive wildfire in Boulder County. The huge fire in the foothills north of Boulder, being called the "Four Mile Canyon Fire" for the location where it star… more »

I'm taking a day off from blogging (actually have taken a couple of days off already, having written my most recent blog notes in advance) because I'm in Montana celebrating a good friend's 40th birthday. This ranch/resort is quite tremendous...http://… more »

Although I don't feel that I made an incorrect choice in my endorsement of Jane Norton for US Senate, I'm thinking that from the point of view of not coloring how people read my writing, I should in the future avoid endorsing anyone in a Republican prima… more »