Posts Tagged ‘denver’

Explode – Reverb10

EXPLODE The year of two-thousand and ten, twenty-ten, or two-thousand-ten has been one of explode. And yes, I am using the word as every possible part of speech. This is not simply because I believe in the power (emotional, detonative, financial, pleasurish, ad infinitum) of the word, but because my experience since January 1 of [...]

The Denver Dispatch of Doom – Vol. 12 (Tanzania edition)

Every six weeks or so, I hammer out a message to a handful of my friends to update them on my doings. This is the latest installment. Hello all, I hope this letter finds you healthy and happy. The more that I think about the duck-billed platypus, the less I understand it. This missive, correctly [...]

My thanks to The 1010 Project

Disclaimer: This post is selfish. It’s about the work I did with The 1010 Project from June 2008 to July 2009. More than that, it’s about the people that made that work beautiful. If you don’t want to hear about them, head to the next post. They are an inspiring bunch. This is something that [...]

Philadelphia

I finished off my whirl of a week in DC with a trip to Philadelphia to visit my aunt. She works for the Atwater Kent Museum, close to Independence Hall, the little brick building where such fine documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. It was a real treat to walk [...]

Washington, DC

Every time I go to DC, I spend my time there wishing that I was a resident. I feel the pulse of the whole entire world all around me, like being in the nexus of whatever happens to be happening. Even when I visit during the summer, when the fierce humidity reminds me of life [...]

President Barack Hussein Obama II

We have elected our 44th President. He is an American who grew up among other cultures. He is an American who has overcome great obstacles, but who has persevered. He is an American who represents the possible futures for the youth of this nation, and for the youth of the world. But he is an [...]

RockAfrica Denver

The Elias Fund and The 1010 Project, two Denver nonprofits, will host RockAfrica Denver, a benefit concert to raise funds and awareness for their partners in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Hearts of Palm, a local band, and Ngumo ye Rudo, a group of Zimbabwean musicians, will perform. CDs will be on sale. RockAfrica – Denver will [...]