On a lighter note....

Ok, so I've finally decided to get off the political wagon for a little bit and inform my devoted readership of my goings-on for the past while. If you don't know by now, I've officially left the mid-west and am currently residing in Colorado Springs with Marvin. It's been a process getting used to being so far away from all of my friends and family, but it slowly is getting better. As I get more used to the city, I become more comfortable here, and as soon as I get a job, I'm sure it'll get exponentially better. And now, a list of very cool things that I've discovered since I've been here:

1) A coffee maker that you can set to make coffee at a certain time of day. So, for example, if you can't wake up in the morning without your coffee, but hate waiting for it to brew, you can set it to brew at, say, 7:30 in the morning, so when you get up, you have a hot pot of coffee just waiting for you!

2) Red Robin restauraunts. Marvin and I went to one for the first time yesterday, and it was great! Their burgers were delicious, and it seems like they truly care about making their customers happy. We were checked up on at least 8 times. The manager actually came and talked to us three times, since he had heard that we'd never been to a Red Robin before. AND to top it off, since we were first time customers, they gave us free dessert! We ordered the ice cream mud pie, which would have been enough mudpie to feed at least four people. Needless to say, we were very pleased.

3) The microbrews out here are fantastic. Not that I want you to think that I"m throwing back bottle after bottle of beer day after day, but on the occasion that I've had a beer, I've ordered one of the microbrews native to Colorado, and they're great. Now you'd think that Wisconsin, the state of beer, would have the best beer. Don't let the German heritage of Wisconsin fool you. Colorado beers are superb. None of them that I"ve had are bitter or "skunky" at all. I personally recommend a Beehive with a lemon in it. Mmm delicious.

4) The band Martini Shot. They're a mostly-cover band from Pueblo that tours around Colorado on the weekends. During the week, most of them are high school music teachers, but on the weekends they ROCK OUT! They play anything from Michael Jackson to 311 to Tenacious D to classic do-wop oldies, plus a few of their own originals (which lean towards the ska-punk feel). The couple of times that I've seen them play, the place just hops. It's a ton of fun to see them, and if the right crowd is present, dancing will most definately ensue.

5) The club Rum Bay in downtown C Springs. Now normally, I'm not the "clubbing" type of person. The music that they play at clubs usually isn't my thing, nor are the kind of people that you can find at a club. But THIS club has an 80's club area that only plays 80's music. It's great because I can dance and I don't have to deal with the normal club atmosphere of stupid people being stupid AND Marvin dances with me then :).

6) Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Marvin and I picked up volume 3 of the show. For those of you who aren't familiar with SCC2C, in the late 90's Cartoon Network took several old cartoon characters from the 60's and reanimated them with different voices and put them in a late-night talk show like format. Space Ghost is the host with an evil man-sized mantis named Zorak (also of Brak Show fame) as the band leader, and a lava-man named Moltar as the producer. They have actual celebrities (I use that term VERY loosely) come on the show and hilarity ensues. Brak makes occasional appearances as well, which only ups the greatness. Perhaps the next time I'm back in the midwest, I'll bring the DVD's along so everyone can experience the wonder that is SGC2C.

7) Richard Cheese. I know, I know, the name, in it's shortened form could be VERY gross, but that's not what I was meaning. This guy is a lounge singer who covers new-ish songs in lounge-style music. He's covered anything from Disturbed to Led Zepplin to Sir Mix-a-lot. Pure gold I tell you. Hearing Baby Got Back sung by a lounge singer is too funny to resist. (His cover of Down With the Sickness appears on the remake of Dawn of the Dead for any of you who like zombie movies).

So, that's all I've got for now. I can't promise that I'll stay off the political wagon for long. There just seems to be so much yuckiness going on right now that not commenting on it would be rather difficult for me. But for now, I'll leave on a lighthearted note, as Space Ghost would say: I've got two turntables and your mommy's home.