http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5Tuesday afternoon this monkey went to hell, Tues night he made his way to heaven. The people I call out in this writing exposition; well there is about a one in a million chance they will read it. So yes...I am saying there is a chance. Part I: This monkey has gone to hell. I wish Roland Emm...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~690599.aspx11/20/2009 9:35:42 AMpaul hughes In what NFL Films narrator, the late John Facenda, might say: Beer Pong in America is a special game, a unique game. Played nowhere else on earth. The men and women who play it make it so." Into the waning hours of Halloween, as people were calling it a night, falling asleep on couches and tr...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~682815.aspx11/6/2009 9:35:33 AMpaul hughes Dear Classic Rock Stations...all of you. Well,let me start off by saying that while I, in some perverse way, enjoy hearing the term Rocktober, making a point to check in every Tuesday for your Two for Tuesdays throw down (because man cannot live on just one Styx song), the daily six 'o clo...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~669601.aspx10/14/2009 12:04:12 PMpaul hughes Like a lot of people, I am an unabashed fan of Quentin Tarantino's . There are only a couple of filmmakers that make my heart go beat-a beat-beat when I hear they are working on a new project. Tarantino is one of them (the others being P.T. Anderson and Martin Scorsese ). Having just s...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~653822.aspx9/7/2009 11:19:12 PMpaul hughes There are things in life that no matter how many containers you have on the back of your excuse train, the sheer sadness of your actions/tomfoolery/voiced opinions-to overcome them-well, you'd have better luck transforming Ashton Kutcher into Jimmy Stewart -and that's like trying to cure ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~646868.aspx8/15/2009 9:32:17 AMpaul hughes I didn't abandon you...I just had to pee. Movie Pick: JCVD As a kid, I was a card carrying member of the Jean Claude Van Damme is super awesome club. Not only were his movies watched, but they were see them on opening day requirements. Geeking out fanboy style, talking about all his...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~641635.aspx7/29/2009 1:13:59 PMpaul hughes Dear City of Denver, By now you have no doubt read about the expense the city of Los Angeles incurred for the Michael Jackson memorial service and as a result, are now asking for donations to recoup the cost. After reading that bit of horrid news, the heart palpitations no doubt set in for ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~635405.aspx7/11/2009 10:25:44 PMpaul hughes Paul's Picks-Vol.3 For this weeks picks, I'm going off the grid just a bit-sometimes you have to dig-the gold isn't going to come and find you. And now...your feature presentation. MUSIC PICK: Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul : Just a quick background on this. D...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~628815.aspx6/22/2009 10:34:06 AMpaul hughes So I'm most proud of the fact I wrote this only a week and a half after the first one...Coolest Mofo on the planet say what? Once again, the picks below should be sought out and enjoyed. Don't be lame. MOVIE PICK: Punch- Drunk Love: Like every kid out there who wears their, " I'm c...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~624281.aspx6/7/2009 11:13:18 PMpaul hughes I've seen a few movies, I've read a few books, and I've listened to a few CD's... you know, the essentials in life. I want to share the wealth, share the good that is out there, the good that you may have forgotten about or never known about. Now I may not be diligent enough to do this weekly-in...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~620577.aspx5/28/2009 12:54:42 PMpaul hughes The beginning roots of this story are pretty easy to pinpoint-you can trace it back to when some dude standing in front of me in the security line in the Los Angeles Airport decided to make this comment to the TSA guard, " My wife says that my farts are a weapon of mass destruction "....http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~611808.aspx5/6/2009 7:37:28 AMpaul hughes Ahh...the age of Bromance How does Wikipedia describe it? A bromance or "man-crush" is a close but non-sexual relationship between two men, a form of homosocial intimacy. [1] Coined in the 1990s, the term has historically referred to a relationship between heterosexuals. ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~606517.aspx4/22/2009 7:51:14 AMpaul hughes I know, I know; I said that I was taking leave of this medium, the idiotic ranconteur that is Paul Hughes was riding off into the sunset like Tom Mix . Hong Kong phooey on those who say you can never go home again- because I'm at your door. Yes, the couch will be fine. I will only be here a f...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~594464.aspx3/22/2009 11:31:58 AMpaul hughes Some time back, a few people posted stories on why they blog. That led me to ponder why I decided to lay my hat on this ever growing trend. The answer is a simple one . It was a way for me to continue the evolution of my writing. The evolution of a voice, of style, of comedy, of absurdity, et al...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~565872.aspx1/8/2009 6:32:26 AMpaul hughes These movies made me happy ... enjoy. Honorable Mention- Valkyrie -Solid movie. Yes the rumors are true. Tom Cruise is in this movie and he brought his bad acting with him, but it really isn't that bad...it's George Clooney in The Peacemaker bad, not Sharon Stone in Basi...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~563539.aspx1/1/2009 10:32:58 AMpaul hughes I'll be honest kids; some of the movies on this list rode me hard and put me up wet. Without further ado, the worst films of 2008... 10) The Day the Earth Stood Still -- Let me tell you about the day I went to see this movie. I learned something on that day. Give Keanu Reeves only 5 wor...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~559075.aspx12/16/2008 6:32:35 AMpaul hughes Dear Entertainment Weekly , Hi, how are you? Was your Thanksgiving good? Mine was fantastic, altough I got a lot more turkey than I had asked for. Let me explain. Entertainment Weekly, I need to call you out. Specifically your list of the 100 new classic movies over the last 25 years that...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~554568.aspx12/3/2008 6:30:17 AMpaul hughes What to write, what to write...well.. I was going to write about the two hours of my life that I will never get back thanks to a little movie called Twilight . Sadly, the only thing Twilight succeded on was this: All creativity, brain function, and general wilingness to believe in a bright f...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~552097.aspx11/25/2008 7:02:49 AMpaul hughes In medias res... A few days removed from what I like to call the arrival of the " player to named later ", if one were to ask for a breakdown of events of what can now be considered the quisessential sine qua non moment of my 34 years of existence, the room would fall silent thanks to my sud...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~537018.aspx10/19/2008 9:37:56 AMpaul hughes Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Tom Cruise walking into a bar, not a dark moody bar you might find in a Bukowski novel, but a bar more like Cheers . In fact, let's just say he walks into Cheers, and when he does, the room erupts into " TOM ". Sam Malone is quick to ask,...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~520864.aspx9/13/2008 11:03:07 PMpaul hughes Hello kids... I've been feeling the need to review something as of late, but there was nothing out there inspiring me to write about it's genius or lack thereof. So I looked, under rocks, behind the bushes, in-between the here and now, Grandma's cookie jar, at the Circle K -- where strange t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Writing/Blog~515550.aspx9/1/2008 11:32:01 AMpaul hughes As I was driving down the freeway I got to thinking, there's been a lot of prophetizing and theorizing about slowing it down to 55 mph so we can save on gas. Maybe its true, maybe its not, I'm not really here to spin that yarn. The yarn I intend to spin is the one where I kindly point out the al...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Music/Blog~506393.aspx8/10/2008 5:01:29 PMpaul hughes Dear Darth Vader, Let me just say...big fan. I love your work. It's too bad the ones with all the say only saw you as one character (Do you hate George Lucas for that?) and you weren't able to spread your wings as an actor. I would have loved to have seen your take on say the dad in Juno ( ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~497627.aspx7/19/2008 10:33:57 AMpaul hughes I have myself a summer crush. It will be looked upon with derision in some circles. This isn't the mellifluous love of Zuko and Sandy , this is a tale of forbidden love. This is the story of the poor peasant boy and the future Queen of England, the story of Mandingo and the slave t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~486989.aspx6/22/2008 11:57:29 AMpaul hughes At least it's not the end of the world... I'm getting ahead of myself here; I haven't even gotten to the juicy bits yet. Allow me to divulge this little quip about myself before I can properly move forward... Nothing wakes me up. The Bloods and Crips could be engaged in a turf war i...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~475017.aspx5/26/2008 11:23:38 AMpaul hughes I don't have a sex tape...I just realized this....I'm so behind the times. All the cool kids are doing it...on camera. Jimmi Hendrix supposedly has one , Marilyn Monroe and Bob Crane too. The chick from The Hills has one... Paris Hilton has like two, or eight, whatever. The ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~466894.aspx5/6/2008 11:09:38 PMpaul hughes "Are you talking about the namedropper"? "Yeah, isn't it funny how she told us that she hated people like that but she's that way... oh well, she's cool". "Yeah...okay". Now the above interaction between two rather relieved individuals will certainly not sit with you for any amount of time a...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Relationships/Blog~458709.aspx4/20/2008 6:23:47 PMpaul hughes To the beloved Kansas Jayhawks .... THANYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU And one last time. THANK YOU. We've had a lot of highs. We had those Bucknell and Bradley games. We had Carmelo and Jim Boeheim take one...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Sports/National-World-Sports/Blog~452577.aspx4/8/2008 7:27:35 AMpaul hughes The revolution will not be televised... Dear Big Oil, Hello, how are you? Well now we got that out of way.... Let me start off by saying that I'm not a fan of the teeter-totter, seesaw, what have you. It's such a futilous exercise, you go up, you go down, repeat, rinse, legs get tired...SO...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~451325.aspx4/3/2008 11:52:08 PMpaul hughes First, I would like to give you a little coming attraction .... My interview with one of the silver screens most iconic figures..... DARTH VADER . The man, the myth, the legend gave me insight into his life... this only after I promised to pay to have his car washed and detailed. Here's a l...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~440015.aspx3/10/2008 10:39:40 PMpaul hughes