Remember Top 20 Countdown on the MTV of the '80s? I do. Back when it was "Music Television"? Those days are long gone, aren't they? Well, who was there with me when "Money for Nothing" was No. 1? No one? OK. Here's this week's top 20 blogs, in no particular order.
Gladys Mercier, of Arvada,
reminisces about the relationship she and her husband had with another couple,
Lillian and
Leo, and how all four of them, plus two kids, crammed onto a single motorcycle with a sidecar.
Micheal Gieger, of Arvada,
reviewsAn Inconvenient Truth, in what we hope is the first of many movie reviews. I've never met someone who gets misty during documentaries before, but hey, man, it is the earth we're talking about.
YourHub.com's
Kevin Villegas talks about the CU Board of Regents' recent decision to divest the university's investments from companies that do business with the government of Sudan.
Bill Boucher shares "
Our Christmas Who Gives a Crap Letter." We give a crap, Bill. We do.
Barbara Neff, of Castle Rock, reveals her decision to get, drum roll please,
microdermabrasion. It's like a little fountain of youth, except kind of more like a sander.
Irma Sturgell, of Centennial,
shares a few of her favorite passages about winter, as written by some of our literary greats.
Nick Bohnenkamp, of Denver, shares with us
what it's like being a ski lift operator in Breckenridge. What's it like? Sounds like it's fun, in that "You don't have to be having fun to be having fun" kind of way.
YourHub.com's
John Zwick, who knows a lot about music, recently
checked out local hard rock talent Apsis.
Wow. A lot happened on the Real World Denver last week. I mean, I didn't watch the show, but I read
Marcelo Duran's
blog about it.
Well, just another ho-hum day in
Karen Groves' neighborhood in Evergreen. Here's the
big elk that was eating her bird feeder the other morning.
YourHub.com Community Journalist and burger guy
Joey Kirchmer has
begun the search for the best burger in Douglas County. First up? The Warhorse Inn, in Parker.
Isn't
Anderson Cooper hot? I mean, not that I'm asking.
Erin Di Paolo, of Green Valley Ranch, is, though.
Ann Himel, of Littleton, is
going gray. But proudly.
Jared Keller, of Littleton, shooter of powerful firearms, watcher of football, climber of mountains, has
purchased a minivan.
Karin Malchow, of Lone Tree, brings us "
Our year in review, just for you."
Karin also
falls down a lot and has been known to drop entire plates of food.
Sandy Clifton, of Lone Tree, has found out what's causing her to feel so terrible: She's lactose intolerant. Here's
how she found out.
Joe McDaniel, of Parker, is
in charge of quality control when it's time to bake Christmas cookies at his house. He's quite a stickler.
You pretty much have to read a blog titled "
Of Christmas Trees & Vomit," don't you? I did.
YourHub.com's
Tabitha Dial is
finally over her fear of Santa Claus. No word on her feelings toward clowns.