Sunday Dinner

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Jesus Christ ‏@JesusOfNaz316

The Lord told Noah to brew him some coffee coffee.

Hopefully, the coffee brewed was not Starbucks but was Kaladi Coffee.  Kalidi Coffee introduced me to the passion of roasters. Mark and Andy both dreamed of making the perfect bean.  The bean they created, is one of perfection.  The coffee is strong, but surprisingly smooth; smells of perfected acidity, and guaranteed to make a calm day jump.   I am thankful for the folks at Kaladi Coffee for invigorating my days.   I miss them here in Central Florida, and wish the days were dry and not so wet.  I look forward to visiting Colorado and tasting the succulent drips of Kaladi Coffee. 

Check out the Blog: Too Many Starbucks for a web site that makes fun of Cafe Culture for at least a year.  

El Camino- Borderland States

{Headed North Bound} 

MARCH 16, 5:00 A.m, 1988: (Daniel IS 27)

I keep an eye on the oncoming tracks; everything is blanketed by a white-grey sheet of snow.   January’s snow had not yet melted, and in parts there is a snow wall, on the side of the tracks, about six feet high.  Looking at my Thermowatch, I see that the temperature outside is thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit.  (41:365)

  My dad and I were discussing a hike we took in Colorado, where they shot Stagecoach the 1939 film.   We wondered how many films were shot in Colorado.  Here is a list according to Wikipedia of movies that were shot in Colorado:

Across the Wide Missouri (film) Aspen Extreme B Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid C Colorado Territory (film) Continental Divide (film) D Denver and Rio Grande (film) Devil's Doorway Downhill Racer Dumb and Dumber E Elves (film) Endangered Species (1982 film) Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend Everybody's All-American (film)

F For Love of the Game (film) The Frankenstein Brothers G The Gold Rush The Great K & A Train Robbery I Ice Castles Ink (film) L Lone Star (1952 film) M The Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl & Incest Boy O One Minute to Zero Over the Edge (film) P Pat and Mike R The Razor's Edge (1946 film) S The Secret of Convict Lake

S cont. Sleeper (film) Stagecoach (1939 film) T Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead A Ticket to Tomahawk The Trail of '98 True Grit (1969 film) U The Unsinkable Molly Brown (film) V Vanishing Point (1971 film) Vengeance Valley Viva Zapata! W War

Colorado: Fante a Reader

Colorado Reading: John Fante Reader

from Wikipedia: 

Fante's clear voice, vivid characters, shoot-from-the-hip style, and painful, emotional honesty blended with humor and scrupulous self-criticism lends his books to wide appreciation. Most of his novels and stories take place either in Colorado or California. Many of his novels and short stories also feature or focus on fictional incarnations of Fante's father, Nick Fante, as a cantankerous wine tippling, cigar stub-smoking bricklayer.

In the late 1970s, at the suggestion of novelist and poet Charles Bukowski,^[2] Black Sparrow Press began to republish the (then out-of-print) works of Fante, creating a resurgence in his popularity. When Black Sparrow was reconfigured on its founder's retirement in 2002, publication of John Fante's works was taken over by HarperCollins under the Ecco imprint, but not before Black Sparrow Press could publish the last of Fante's uncollected stories in The Big Hunger (2000). Full of Life: The Biography of John Fante was published by Stephen Cooper also in 2000, followed by The Fante Reader in 2003. Also available are two collections of letters, Fante/Mencken: A Personal Correspondence (1989) and Selected Letters (1991).

August 1st Colorado Day

OFFICE OF GOV. BILL RITTER, JR.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 2008
CONTACTS:
Evan Dreyer, 720.350.8370, evan.dreyer@state.co.us
Wil Alston, 303.866.6323, wil.alston@state.co.us
GOV. RITTER PROCLAIMS TODAY COLORADO DAY
Gov. Bill Ritter marked today's 132nd anniversary of Colorado statehood by proclaiming Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, as Colorado Day.

COLORADO DAY

August 1, 2008

WHEREAS, on July 4, 1876, at the World¿s Fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the 100th anniversary of the birth of the United States of America, Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, announced that Colorado would become the Centennial State; and

WHEREAS, on August 1, 1876, President Grant, from the Oval Office at the White House, proclaimed Colorado to be the 38th state of the Union; and

WHEREAS, Territorial Governor John L. Routt was elected as the first Governor of the State of Colorado and the territorial legislature was dissolved, allowing for a newly elected State legislature to be formed; and

WHEREAS, on August 1, 2008, Colorado will celebrate 132 years of statehood; and

WHEREAS, while Colorado Day recognizes and celebrates the history of our state, Coloradans undertake to serve the community on this day through volunteer projects and programs, giving back to the state and preserving its resources, which have provided for our citizens for more than a century;

Therefore, I, Bill Ritter, Jr., Governor of the State of Colorado, do hereby proclaim August 1, 2008,

COLORADO DAY

in the State of Colorado.

GIVEN under my hand and the Executive Seal of the State of Colorado, this first day of August, 2008

Bill Ritter, Jr.

Governor

I'm Country and That's All Right

Where I am from: Lakeland Florida, Forest Grove Oregon, Longmont Colorado.  All these places have a place in my heart.  I guess I am country but that's okay.  Lets toast to our country boys wherever you reside.

Alexander Rothbard: The Sale Part Two

(Continued from July 3rd 2010) I reached into my bag and brought out five cartons of Philip Morris and 500 Flat 50's.  I started my presentation and the dealer interrupted with, "What else do you want to sell?"  He bought my entire stock, built the display himself,  asked for two posters and went outside and put them up with paste, a perfect angle shot.  That did it.  It was the most difficult job in my life to hold back the tears.  I thanked the dealer and went out.   It was a little after 2:00 p.m. and my bag was empty.  However, the sale did not cheer me because he had bought,  I did not sell.  After five minutes of thinking "Why" ,  I returned and asked the dealer why he bought. the Philip Morris from me.  He stated that he had watched me through this window while I was making up my mind to come i, said I looked real "beat" and in need of a lift, so when I came in and put those cigarettes on the counter and started to talk, he could not help but try to cheer me.  I then noted that he took the flat 50's and opened them up--again.  "Why?".  "For the one cent sales"  was the answer--a new one on me.


That sale did the trick.  I bought five cartons of Philip Morris back from the dealer and a carton of Flat 50's, with the provision that if I did not sell them he would buy them from me--again. From 2:30-6:30 p.m.  I not only sold the cigarettes but also sold, displayed and merchandised 5 additional cigarettes from this same dealer since there was no jobber in the area, and he called a jobber and ordered 10 Philip Morris for delivery to him the next morning.  A most unforgettable sale.

Zombies Attack Charlies in Denver

And they attacked Denver arising out of the dusty earth. They came into Charlies bringing their bloodied teeth to a gun fight, they laughed a laugh so mean and cruel it felt like a Zephyr blowing hard against the prairie mounded earth collected at Rocky Flats. The Cold wind was a chill I never forget.

When in Denver!

Stop at the buck horn exchange, and see the 500 animal trophies. You will feel that you are in the wild, wild, west; (Theodore Roosevelt, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill Cody ate here). It was the first bar and steak house in Denver; established in 1893. Restaurant