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20 years ago I worked in the airline
business where the holiday season
is a high stress time of the year. You
generally work on the holiday and,
at times, you can bump into some
extremely grouchy travelers. If planes
aren’t on time, you pretty much know
that your not going to have a bubbly
holiday.
I traded that stress in for a different
kind of stress during the holidays.
In our world of publishing, it seems
that time stands still from November
25-January 10. No one is in the mood
to talk about marketing or their plans
for their business. It can be quite a
challenge for us.
It seemed like the entire holiday
for me was going in slow motion.
Except for getting things done that I
needed to do - Christmas Cards sent
or delivered, Christmas lights up, Tree
up, etc...nothing this season seemed
to fall into place.
After we all celebrate the multiple
holidaaaaze marathon, people are
just now getting back to work and I
am writing this while I’m sick in bed.
I’m not the only one. My editor is also
feeling like she’s been hit by a truck.
Our layout and sales team have also
been hit. I’ve heard references to the
word epidemic. Yikes! It definitely
seems to be everywhere. I’ve been
dragging myself to work every day
attempting to get as much work done
as possible but it has been challenging
to say the least.
So, I apologize if your getting this
issue a day late. We had to delay the
printing due to my coughing fits at
my desk.
Cheers to the people who have
managed to dodge the sick bullet!
On another note, since it’s a new
year, when your business needs new
or update business cards, brochures,
menus or promotional items printed,
be sure to give us a chance to bid on
your project. Call 970-256-9288 ext
3. I’m offering some great add-on
bonuses for new print customers!
I’m hoping for an early spring this
year. If not, I just might be Florida
bound to thaw out.
Hi Jeffrey,
I wanted to thank you for the article
you wrote about being homeless
during the holidays. The guy you took
a gamble on has a similar story to my
own.
I grew up in Southern California
but still consider Steamboat Springs,
CO my home. I had it ALL in
Steamboat—a career in newspaper
and radio sales, a little side-gig
writing for an alternative newspaper,
a hot tub that overlooked a view of
the ski slopes, a new Subaru every
three years, two beautiful daughters,
a husband, blah, blah, blah and
blah! Did I appreciate what I had?
No. I am also a recovering alcoholic
with pride issues. And then... I lost
EVERYTHING, at 50 years of age.
In a two-year span, I managed to
get myself on the streets of Detroit,
Downtown Denver, Ft. Collins,
Anaheim, San Bernardino, Santa Ana,
CA and Grand Junction. When I was
21 (a time before shelters), I walked
the streets of Venice Beach CA for a
summer. I also managed to get into
many, many psychiatric hospitals,
which did nothing but fuel my sense
of self-loathing and despair. Plus, I got
kicked out of three homeless shelters
because I was delusional and suicidal.
I was in two different psych wards
for two Christmases in a row. I hated
God. I hated everyone. I considered
myself a victim, not a survivor.
I bored to tears whoever would
listen that no one loved me, and my
daughters hated me, and therefore
I would never see them or be a
productive member of society again—
after all, who wants to witness your
52-year-old mother holding a sign in
Grand Junction at the on-ramp of the
freeway which read “Desperate. Will
Work For Shelter”? I walked up and
down North Avenue in triple-digit
weather, wearing baggy clothes and
a pair of one-size- too-small snow
boots. I had blisters between my toes
and one the size of an avocado pit on
my left foot. When that blister popped,
the pus stuck to my blue hospital
socks. I had bugs from the grass in
my hair. For two weeks, I didn’t sleep
or eat. I was severely sunburned
and dehydrated, so I splashed cool
water on my body from the fountain
at Martin Mortuary. I “slept” on
the lawn of the college until the
sprinklers came on and the cops sent
me walking at 2AM. I wanted to die.
As I was dragging myself by the
college one day, a caseworker from
Mind Springs found me and asked
me to come with her. I think, between
my ex-husband and Mind Springs,
they worked together to get me on
disability. I then spent six horrendous
months in a degrading assisted
living home on Orchard Mesa.
Realizing I was not severely mentally
handicapped, like the rest of the
residents, they thankfully moved me
to a nicer place with my own room
and bath. That was a year ago.
I started to see a peer specialist
from Mind Springs who didn’t talk
down to me and didn’t give up on
me when I had clearly given up on
myself. She, Chelsea, gave me a handup. Just a month ago, a wonderful staff
member here gave me a computer—
and it not only opened up my world,
but I started communicating with
my daughters again, and with other
people who I realized still loved me
and just wanted me to be well.
Three days ago, I humbled myself
enough to walk back into AA. The
people there welcomed me “home.”
I was sick and tired of being sick
and tired. In three short days, I have
connected with people who have
been through Hell and back, just
as I had. They invited me into their
homes. They gave me sincere, loving
hugs. They gave me hope. I have a
place to go for Christmas this year.
I don’t know if I will ever work in
radio or newspapers again. At 53, I
don’t know where I will be next year.
But today, thanks to all the people
who took a gamble on me, I see light
at the end of the tunnel—and this
time it’s not a damn train!
Sincerely,
Leslie Faulkner
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Biggest Loser
Cleanse Competition
A free seminar for potential
home buyers will be presented by
Hometown Realty of Grand Junction
on Saturday, January 24th at the
Guild Mortgage Learning Center;
located at 501 Main Street in Grand
Junction.
This one-hour seminar will
begin at 10 a.m. and will provide
information on the steps to
purchasing a home, as well as the
mortgage options that are available
to home buyers.
“With interest rates remaining
low and low and no down payment
programs available it is easier
today to qualify for your first home
mortgage”, said Lisa Bikki, owner
of Hometown Realty. “People have
not yet become fully aware of just
how simple it is to qualify and how
affordable homes are today”.
Those who call first to register, and
then attend the seminar will receive
a FREE, confidential credit analysis.
“By the end of the seminar, people
should have a pretty good idea
whether they can qualify for a home
mortgage,” Bikki said. “We will offer
suggestions to the things you should
look for when you shop for a home.
We will also have a knowledgeable
lending team present that will
explain the steps in obtaining
mortgage financing as well.”
Reservations are required for the
seminar; those that call and register
receive a FREE credit report and
confidential credit analysis. For
more information and reservations
call 970-361-3497.
“When you invest your time, you make a goal and a
decision of something that you want to accomplish.
Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good
athlete, be a good person, go down and do some
community service and help somebody who’s in
need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing
your time in that.”
-Nick Saban
Back to Health Wellness Center,
533 Bogart Lane, Suite F, 257-9199,
will host its 4th Annual Biggest
Loser Cleanse competition, January
14-February 6, 2015. All cleanse
kits, about $200, must be ordered
by January 7. Regular meetings for
the competition will be held on
Wednesdays @ 12:30pm, featuring
food tips, mutual support a lot of fun
along the way!
Judy Collins at
Montrose Pavilion
February 13!
She’s a national treasure, a worldrenowned singer and musician as
well as an acclaimed author and
activist for mental health issues. She
is a Colorado native from Denver
who attended East High there.
Stephen Stills called her “Judy Blue
Eyes” and wrote a seminal song
for her by the same name. She is
Judy Collins and she is bringing
her beautiful voice and songbook
to the Montrose Pavilion for one
show on Friday, February 13 at 7:30
pm. Tickets are $39.50 (plus service
fees). All seats are reserved and can
be purchased at Delta and Montrose
City Markets, the Montrose Pavilion
and online at sandstoneconcerts.
com beginning Friday, January 9 at
10am. Judy Collins performs with six
and twelve string guitar and a grand
piano with an accompanist. This is a
show that works wonderfully inside
the most comfortable and tasteful
pavilion theater. Cocktails will be
served. Happy Valentines Day!
Mesa County
Libraries launch New
Checkout System
Mesa County Libraries’ patrons
will begin to see improvements in
checkout procedures at the Central
Library and Clifton Branch during
early January.
Mesa County Libraries are
installing an innovative new system
that uses electronic tags instead of
printed bar codes to identify books,
DVDs, and other materials that can
be checked out. New self-checkout
kiosks that can read the electronic
tags will be installed at the Central
Library and Clifton Branch the
week of Jan. 5. Scanning pads that
can read electronic tags will also be
added to the self-check areas at the
Fruita, Orchard Mesa, and Palisade
branches.
The new system will speed up the
processing of returned materials so
that they can be replaced on library
shelves more quickly. Mesa County
Libraries will install an automated
processing system at the Central
Library to reduce the number of times
staff must handle a returned book or
DVD, thus cutting the time required
for returning them to shelves.
A “smart return” slot will be
installed at the Central Library, where
patrons can receive a receipt for the
items they have returned. All other
existing return slots at all library
locations will remain in operation.
All Mesa County Libraries
locations will be closed, and
functionality of the library’s website
will be limited, on Wednesday, Jan. 7,
while the new checkout equipment is
installed. Also on Jan. 7, library software will
be updated to enable Mesa County
Libraries’ patrons to access additional
materials through MOBIUS, a
statewide library consortium in
Missouri that offers access to more
than 27 million items. The addition of
MOBIUS to Mesa County Libraries’
services in February means that Mesa
County patrons will have access to
almost 60 million items through the
Marmot, Prospector, and MOBIUS
consortiums.
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Real Estate Agents Offer Free
Homebuyer Seminar For Potential
Home Buyers
“Make It” Tuesdays
offers weekly craft
projects for teens at
Mesa County Central
Library
Teens are invited to participate in
crafts and skill-building activities
during “Make It” Tuesdays at 3:30pm
every Tuesday in the Mesa County
Central Library Teen Center, Fifth
Street and Grand Avenue. Each Tuesday, teens will learn a
new skill and perhaps take home an
interesting project. No experience is
necessary; the only requirement is a
willingness to get your hands dirty. “Make It” Tuesdays begin Jan.
6 with Steampunk Jewelry, in which
old watches and metal parts are
soldered into jewelry. Other projects
are:
Jan. 13: Build a brushbot for your
future tiny robot army
Jan. 20: Minecraft crafts (and the
game, too!)
Jan. 27: A do-it-yourself project of
your own choosing or iPad time. Each month will feature fun, new
projects that run the gamut of creative
mediums and pursuits. “Make It”
Tuesdays are open to youths ages 1218 at no charge.
Start New Year right with Fruita’s
Sweet Heart 5k/10k Run!
com or in person at the
Fruita Community Center.
Pre-registered packet pickup is highly recommended
on Friday, February 7,
4-8pm.
Along with free entry
into the Fruita Community 3
Center for the day,
participants will also receive
a pair of custom Loki brand
running gloves (first 500
registered), hot soup, and
a chance to win great door
prizes.
This event is presented
by the City of Fruita and
Family
Health
West.
Sponsors include: The
Moose 92.3, The Vault
100.7, Magic 93.1, Great
Harvest Bread CO, Rocky
Mountain
Orthopedic
Associates, and Road ID.
For more information, or
to register, please go online
to sweetheartrun.com, visit
the Fruita Community
Center or call Angie
Ballegeer, Special Events
Supervisor, City of Fruita,
970-858-0360.
JANUARY • 2015
February is National
Heart
Health
Month,
and the City of Fruita is
sponsoring the 8th Annual
Sweet Heart Run and
Health Expo on February
14 to help you keep your
heart healthy and fit.
The 5k and 10k runs
begin at 10am at the Fruita
Community Center. A
free community health
expo will also be held
in the gymnasium of
the Community Center
9am-1pm. The expo will
feature free screenings
and education from local
health-related businesses,
and it is open to the entire
community, whether you
run or not.
Early registration for the
5k run is $20 and the 10k
is $25. The fee increases
by $5 for late registration.
The best-dressed couple
will win a 32” flat screen
TV donated by Rocky
Mountain
Orthopedic
Associates!
To sign up for the race,
visit online sweetheartrun.
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January.. 2015—Oh, my….!
January is upon us—in the year
2015! Can you even believe it? The
cold wintery months are a perfect
time to spend indoors with your
family and friends, playing games,
watching classic movies and enjoying
the camaraderie.
What are your family traditions?
Do you set resolutions? Do you have
a bucket list for the New Year?
Our family is always on the run—
working, school, activities, etc. We
have limited downtime, and, because
of a big age difference in kids, we
sometimes have a hard time figuring
out what to do as a family.
We have our favorite TV show that
we always watch together (Once Upon
a Time); and, no matter what our
personal schedules, no one watches
the show until we are all together. It
seems trivial, but I think you have to
make an effort to not let the everyday
hustle get the better of your personal
relationships.
So, this winter, pick a new favorite
activity—or an old favorite—and
schedule some time together with
those you love.
Here is a quick and easy hot cocoa
recipe from Hershey’s Chocolate
(with some cool variations) that may
help you establish some “together
time.”
until foamy. Serve topped with
marshmallows or whipped cream, if
desired. Yields five 8-oz. servings.
Ingredients
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa
Dash salt
1/3 cup hot water
4 cups (1 qt.) milk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Miniature
marshmallows
or
sweetened whipped cream (optional)
SPICED COCOA: 1/8 teaspoon
ground cinnamon and 1/8 teaspoon
ground nutmeg. Serve with cinnamon
stick, if desired.
Directions
1. Stir together sugar, cocoa and
salt in medium saucepan; stir in water.
Cook over medium heat, stirring
constantly until mixture comes to
a boil. Boil and stir 2 minutes. Add
milk, stirring constantly; heat to
serving temperature. Do Not Boil.
2. Remove from heat; add vanilla.
Beat with rotary beater or whisk
VARIATIONS: Add one of the
following with the vanilla extract:
MINT COCOA: 1/2 teaspoon mint
extract OR 3 tablespoons crushed
hard peppermint candy OR 2-3
tablespoons white creme de menthe.
Serve with peppermint candy stick, if
desired.
ITRUS COCOA: 1/2 teaspoon
C
orangeextract OR 2-3 tablespoons
orange liqueur.
SWISS MOCHA: 2 to 2-1/2
teaspoons powdered instant coffee.
COCOA
AU
LAIT:
Omit
marshmallows or whipped cream.
Spoon 2 tablespoons softened vanilla
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SLIM-TRIM
COCOA:
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water; substitute nonfat milk.
Proceed as above. With vanilla, stir
in sugar substitute with sweetening
equivalence of 1/2 cup sugar.
CANADIAN
COCOA:
teaspoon maple extract.
Whatever you have going on,
everyone could use a warm cup of
cocoa and some quality time with
friends and family.
Happy New Year!
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Combine 1 heaping teaspoon
HERSHEY’S Cocoa, 2 heaping
teaspoons sugar and dash salt in
microwave-safe cup or mug. Add 2
teaspoons cold milk; stir until smooth.
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Do you suspect that you
might secretly hate Christmas? Wish
you could find out, once and for all?
Like with a simple quiz? Something
like...
THE
HUMBUG
DISORDER QUIZ
SPECTRUM
1. Your first Christmas memory:
A. Visions of sugarplums dancing
in your head.
B. Adults let me have some rum
cake! Wheee!
C. Mall Santa halitosis.
D. Humiliation/disappointment/
bedwetting.
2. Your most memorable Christmas
gift:
A. Shiny new bicycle!
B. Shiny new cheap plastic crap!
C. Something that was clearly not
the pony I SPECIFICALLY
asked for.
D. Switches/ashes/lump of coal.
3. (Spoiler alert!) How did you react
when you learned that there was
no such thing as Santa Claus?
A. I was able to easily transition
into the reality of the situation
while also acknowledging the
Santa fantasy for the pleasure it
gave me. It’s all part of growing
up.
4. When you hear the song “I Saw
Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” do
you:
A. Sing along with a smile.
B. Sing along while playfully
rewriting the lyrics, substituting
some
decidedly
nonChristmassy words for “kissing.”
C. Throw up in your mouth just a
little bit.
D. Throw up in someone else’s
mouth, just a little bit.
5. Mistletoe is:
A. A saucy addition to any holiday
gathering!
B. Proof that humans will adopt
the most random actions/beliefs
as tradition.
C. A poisonous, parasitic plant that
slowly leeches the life from its
host tree. Symbolic much?
D. Rumored to be hallucinogenic
if taken as a suppository. Only
one way to find out for sure.
C’mere...
6. When the Christmas carolers
knock on your door, you:
A. Gather the family on the porch,
huddle together and listen, then
serve hot cider.
B. Politely endure one song, even
though it’s pretty chilly outside.
C. Say, “Oh, what scary costumes”
while handing out candy.
D. Feel justified for having bought
and trained a German Shepherd.
7. Your favorite holiday “parody”
song is:
A. Rudolph
the
Red-Nosed
Reindeer - the one with all
the “like a lightbulb” and “like
Monopoly” asides. So cute!
B. Deck the Halls with Balls of
Charlie. Just plain silly.
C. Silent Night, Holy #*%$
D. I despise Christmas and it will
not be over soon enough for me
(sung to the tune of any song of
your choice)
8. When you see the word
“Christmas” written as “X-mas,”
you think:
A. That’s really a shame that the
Baby Jesus has to be X-ed out
like that just to save a bit of
space. Those responsible will
pay for their transgressions.
B. No big - I know what they’re
trying to say.
C. At least it’s better than
“Christmizzle.”
D. &#@!-mas, more like.
9. Aside from all the hype, I know
that Christmas is really a time for:
A. Family.
B. Being extra nice, even to people
who don’t deserve it.
C. Visiting a Hindu country.
D. A soothing mid-December to
early-January coma.
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Scoring time! One point for each
“A” answer, two for each “B,” and so
on. Now rank yourself accordingly.
1-12 - You are Jolly Old St. Nick,
Christmas through and through.
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...With a Chance of Humbug
B. I kinda suspected already, as
some of the older kids at school
were talking about it, but it still
hurt when my parents told me.
C. If the people I trust the most
can perpetrate such a malicious
hoax, then this world is nothing
but a cruel and dangerous lie.
D. Ambulance/restraints/
Thorazine.
13-20 - You are little Ralphie Parker.
You love the season, but are still
cautious not to put your eye out.
21-28 - You are a post-Clarence,
pre-bloody-mouthed George Bailey.
Christmas, and life in general, would
be much better if only you’d dumped
those Bedford Falls hicks and
followed your dreams.
29-32 - You are Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Ghost of Christmas Future has
just spiked your eggnog with PCP,
and it’s time to go flip over some cop
cars.
Congratulations! Now you know
a little bit more about yourself. And
remember - a little self-knowledge is a
dangerous thing. Merry X-mas!
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Police Reform Needed
Law
enforcement
has
an
incredibly difficult job. They deal
with sleazebags and drunks 24 hours
a day. They have to fight bad guys
who have ever-increasing firepower.
They have to catch the bad guy in
the allocated 60 minutes, like on Law
and Order, or citizens will freak out
and call their congressman. Every
situation is no-win, but the police
always seem to keep the highest level
of professionalism. They are true
American Heroes.
No-win situations are bad enough.
But lately my heart is breaking
because cops seem to be going out
of their way to look like idiots. A
string of race-related incidents
in Cleveland, New York City, and
Ferguson, Missouri, have created a
feeding frenzy for the brain-dead
media. Every day there’s another
emotionally-distraught cop beating
the crap out of some defenseless
drunk on TV. And when did cops start
using military equipment? And there
are far too many cops threatening to
confiscate guns. Whose side are they
on, anyway?
Something’s seriously out of whack
with our police. We as a society need
to look closely at law enforcement,
make some overdue changes, and
help them be successful and more
effective.
First, we need to clean up the grand
jury system, which has obviously
been hijacked by prosecutors. The
recent grand jury acquittal of a police
officer in Staten Island, New York,
for example, was just plain wrong.
The police officer clearly strangled to
death Eric Garner using a choke hold
prohibited by New York City police
policy. Even the coroner ruled it a
homicide. Prosecutors are not doing
the police any favors by protecting
them in grand juries. Bad cops slip
through the cracks, and good cops
wind up looking like murderers. And
by playing along with the politicians
at every step, cops just look like
politicians’ private army instead of
public servants. I’m no jurisprudence
expert, but it seems logical to manage
grand juries from a community
group, 100% independent of police
and prosecutors. We don’t need
lawyers telling us what’s right and
what’s wrong.
Another way we can help police is
to borrow a page from the military
and institute an early retirement and
retraining system. It’s just too much
to ask cops to be under so much stress
for so long. Swimming in that toxic
soup every day would make the most
optimistic soul bitter after a while.
Cops get worn out and cynical, just
as soldiers do. (Having spent more
than 20 years in the military, I speak
from experience.) The military wants
soldiers to retire early for a reason.
Old soldiers are fat, slow and cynical.
That’s bad for morale. A healthy
retirement check and money for
retraining at age 38 would go a long
way to improve morale and attract
better-quality people.
Which brings me to a third idea.
It’s clear the police are recruiting from
the bottom of the barrel. A young
cop in Cleveland, for example, killed
a 12-year-old boy wielding a toy
gun last month. It was later learned
this particular cop was fired from
a previous department and slipped
through the cracks in Cleveland.
These kinds of guys are just too
immature to do the job. Police need
to weed through these guys better. We
can help the police by encouraging
our best and brightest to serve. The
“thank you for your service” mantra
is very effective at recruiting. Thank
a cop the next time you see one, and
make sure your kids see you doing it.
The police have an incredibly
difficult job, and it’s our duty as a
community to help them. It feels
like law enforcement has been taken
away from us by prosecutors and
politicians. It’s past time we take
our guys back and take better care
of them. They are NOT a standing
army. They are our neighbors and
friends. If we implement just a few
simple changes, law enforcement will
improve greatly, and we can start to
feel they are on our side again.
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6
Jonesing for a Wordsmith
In the beginning was the Word.
Unfortunately, no one wrote it
down.
And it came to pass that a multitude
of languages proliferated, when God
knows English alone would have been
trouble enough.
In latter days, phenomena called
television, talk radio and Facebook
flourished, providing self-proclaimed
communicators an unprecedented
audience for dispensing questionable
logic, advancing biased arguments,
manipulating fuzzy statistics and
maiming the English language.
Twitter landed, but its implied wings
never got it off the ground again. And
the Tower of Babel was remembered
as no more than a syntactical snit.
In those days, a lowly wordsmith
lived, watching and listening. His
heart ached for his beloved English,
now muddied, crippled and rendered
senseless by its purported purveyors.
I was humbled when he asked me to
speak for him.
Before the wordsmith’s Gripes, I’ll
vent one of mine. Here, the battle’s
already lost. In “more importantly,
most importantly,” people, there is
NO “LY” on “important!” I used
“more importantly” once in a
ninth-grade essay, and my teacher
rightly red-marked it. “More/most
important” is an adverbial phrase, set
off by commas. You don’t need to—
hell, you shouldn’t—add the “ly.” It’s
unnecessary overkill. But the damage
is done—99% of us now use the “ly”
and assume we’re smart. And English
is a living language—what gets the
play gets to stay.
The wordsmith’s gripes:
1. “Et cetera, et cetera” Et cetera is
a Latin expression meaning “and so
forth and so on.” We use it to keep
from detailing like items with which
most readers are well acquainted. One
et cetera is enough! Repetition voids
its purpose, effectiveness, impact, etc.
2. “End Result” Result means
“outcome.” A result means that some
action is at an end. When you hear
someone say end result, ask that
person to report also the middle result
and the beginning result. Perhaps
people could get away with net
result, but only accountants have any
business talking that way.
4. “very unique, rather unique, a
little bit more unique” Unique means
“having no like or equal—different
from all others.” Unique denies and
defies modification; something’s
either unique or it isn’t. If something
is unique, there cannot be a second
similar thing that’s uniquer or a third
that’s uniquest.
5. “there, their, they’re” Especially
on Facebook, you’ll see people screw
these up. “There” is an answer to
“where?” “Their” means “belonging
to them.” “They’re” is a contraction of
“they are.” I saw a t-shirt that succinctly
highlighted these differences. It said,
“There. Their. They’re not the same.”
6. “then, than” Here again,
Facebook illustrates daily usage
dumbing down our language. Come
on, people! Then refers to when
something happens; than always lies
between two things being compared.
Recently, I read packaging for Sponge
Bob Square Pants headphones
my
granddaughter
got
from
Nickelodeon, a company supposedly
championing learning. The text on
this thoroughly edited [?!] packaging
used “then” when “than” was correct.
It freaked me! I sent an irate email to
Nickelodeon, after an extensive online
search for an interactive presence.
Nickelodeon never responded.
7. “to, too, two” To is a preposition;
too usually means “also;” two is
a number. Is a generation of bad
schooling to blame for this confusion?
I don’t know. I invented a simple
sentence that displays the difference:
“Two children are too heavy to carry.”
8. “Closer scrutiny” Scrutiny
means
“critical
examination,
minute inquiry.” It means that, as
investigations go, scrutiny is as close
as you can get. You may take longer to
scrutinize, but that is further scrutiny,
not closer scrutiny.
9. “some-odd” In her lilting, nasal
voice, a newsreader reported that
“fifty-some-odd” people were injured
in a bus-train accident. I thought,
“How odd were some of those
people?” What the newsreader meant
was that a group of people numbering
between 50 and 60 sustained injuries.
She could have said, “fifty-some” or
“fifty-odd” people—although, if I
were among the injured, I’d appreciate
her giving the precise count, because
I am one, I am important, and I am
injured! In any case, some-odd is some
odd usage.
10. Butchered clichés. Clichés are
as common as hair on an ape, and we
used to avoid them like the plague.
Actually, there’s nothing wrong with
clichés. They’ve lasted because they
carry kernels of truth and are effective
shorthand for conveying ideas. Movie
mogul Samuel Goldwyn, baseball
great Yogi Berra, and “All in the
Family” pater familia Archie Bunker
were prime cliché butchers.
Sometimes, when slightly altered,
clichés can impart askew, new
messages, as when a friend once
meant to say, “There’s something
rotten in Denmark” but said instead,
“There’s something dismal in Bismark.”
He also once described a dilemma he
faced as “a two-pointed sword.”
Years ago, a local talk radio host,
trying to be hip and profound, just
managed to mutilate clichés. He
replied to callers with, “What’s good
for the goose is good for both genders,”
and “It’s always darkest before the
light at the end of the tunnel.” He
would then prattle blithely on in his
unending mission to reiterate the
obvious.
The wordsmith says that this man
was prime bureau-crap material,
because he so well represented the
media-crity passing for competence
among today’s information-mongers.
THE SOURCE
Could Even Jesus save Hollywood?
depending on which person or source you
quote; and it is politically correct because
we all know it would offend someone to use
Christ’s name in any context, even in dates.
The story was a strange retelling of the
Bible. Remember the burning bush that
God used to speak to Moses when he went
up on the mountain? Well, it turns out there
was a small, white boy behind that bush
with a strange, faintly British accent. I guess
it was better than Morgan Freeman back
there sitting on a rock, but it did nothing
to make you think of an all-encompassing
being behind the events. And where in the
world did he get an English accent in Egypt
in 400 BC—whoops, sorry, BCE?
I never cease to be amazed at how often
Hollywood takes any opportunity to attack
Christians. A while ago, the makers of The
Big Bang Theory announced a new show
called Mom. I’ve always been a fan of TBBT,
and even watched another show by the same
group for a time, until Mike and Molly got so
fat that they couldn’t both fit on my 60-inch
screen at the same time. The gist of Mom is
a thirty-something alcoholic mother who
got pregnant while unmarried at 15 and
her relationship with her drug-addicted
mother, who had her by being pregnant
and unmarried at 15. Mom has a daughter,
also pregnant and unmarried at 15, and you
can already see the laughs piling up in these
relationships. We have it all: alcoholism,
drug addiction, mean old landlords who
can’t understand our heroines’ plight, a
boss who’s sleeping with his employee, and
an absentee dad of one of the kids who is a
stoner living in a van.
7
JANUARY • 2015
A few nights ago, I was coerced into going
to see the new movie, Exodus, billed as a
new Biblical epic. Well, not really coerced,
but I was promised fish tacos and a Bloody
Mary at Boston’s on the way, which works
far better than any form of coercion to get
me into movies I otherwise would not see. I
usually won’t go to anything that seems like
it is going to be even vaguely religious that
comes out of mainstream Hollywood or off
the TV, because I’ve learned that, bottom
line, Hollywood hates Christians.
The epic began and Exodus was retold.
You should know the story, even if you’re
spiritual but not really very religious. I
love that spiritual but not religious line.
Anyway, this is the Old Testament story of
how Moses broke the yoke of the Pharaoh
and led his people out of Egypt and into first
the desert for forty or so years, then on to
the Promised Land. Ridley Scott decided
to retell the story for a modern audience,
make it larger than life and full of video
effects, and spend millions and millions
on a production complete with one of the
Batmans, Ripley from Alien, and even Jesse
from Breaking Bad as cast members.
As the movies began, it showed the
building of the pyramids and dated the
beginning of the movie. I laughed out loud,
not just because Bloody Marys make me
do that, but because when they showed
the date it was 400 BCE. Do you get the
irony? They decided to make a Biblical epic,
but could not bring themselves to use BC
because it means Before Christ, and that
would acknowledge Christ. BCE stands for
Before Current/ Common/Christian Era,
A few weeks into the series, we meet the
father of the pregnant girl’s baby and find
out his father is a minister. The kid is so
stupid he can’t dress himself, obviously a
result of a religious upbringing in the eyes
of the producers, and the two woman who
got pregnant and had babies at 15 show him
how smart they are time and again. Then
came an episode where the 15-year-old
decided to give the baby up for adoption. I
was astounded because I naturally assumed
the message would be that the baby would
be fine raised by this group of losers.
The episode ends with the pregnant girl
telling one of the older women that the
father’s parents want to adopt the child,
and she tells them that she wants two gay
men to adopt the child because she doesn’t
want it to be raised by religious fanatics.
Hollywood’s vision of Christianity at its
finest, a minister and his wife are religious
fanatics in the mind of a pregnant 15-yearold and her family of alcoholics. I never
heard what happened to the baby because I
never watched another episode….
There just aren’t enough Bloody Marys in
the world to make me sit through mindless
garbage like that.
JANUARY • 2015
8
THE SOURCE
Name: Andrew Yates
Age: 25
Occupation: MMA Fighter/ Owner
of Golden Fights (Family Business)
Hobbies: I enjoy spending time with
my family and Salt water aquariums
(I have a sting ray and other exotic
fish that I became involved in while
training in Las Vegas and became
friends with the staff from the Tank
show on animal planet, they taught
me a lot), Taking care of my family
farm, Trying new adventurous things
that pushes the limits of athletic
competition.
Family: Youngest of three
Favorite Restaurant: Anything
with Mexican food (El Tapatia and
Chinese food Dragon Treasure in
Fruita) (, shy away from buffets for
the most part.
Goals: To reach my dreams
becoming a top five fighter and
have successful family life and
never let anything get in my way
my dreams.
of
to
to
of
Top 5 Bands on your IPod: Aloe
Blacc, anything from Disney, Will
Smith, Mark Wills, Toby Keith,
country Music.
When did you first get interested
in the sport of MMA (Mixed Martial
Arts)?
I took my first MMA fight the
night before my senior prom after
my friend Mike Smith, who I worked
with, told me about an event here in
Grand Junction that was coming up
in a few weeks. I was told it was a lot
like wrestling, and since I have been
wrestling since I was eight I figured
I would give it a shot. I learned a lot
about MMA that night. Needless to
say I went to prom with a nice shiner
for my efforts. I went on to have over
50 amateur fights and held belts in
five different weight classes.
What weight do you fight at?
I am a bantamweight at 135
pounds.
Is 135 your regular walking
around weight?
Like most fighters do before
competitions, no I don’t walk at 135
I am a big fighter for bantamweight,
I walk around at about 170 so it is
a pretty extreme cut to get to 135. I
usually have to start about 8 weeks
out to get to weight. It involves several
stages from just a good clean diet
to sodium loading and then cutting
sodium at just the right times. Most
fighters follow these diets.
Right now I’m in the new age of
martial arts I’m a complete martial
artist, I try to incorporate and
learn the ground game as well as a
standup component of the sport.
As MMA involves the athletes who
are competing are bringing more to
the cage then just Jujitsu, or boxing,
so you need to be well rounded to
compete at the highest level.
I know you have ties in the Grand
Junction area, how did that come
about? Did you go to high school in
this area?
Yes, I graduated from Central High
school in 2008 and lived in the Grand
Junction area since I was 12. Before
that I had the opportunity of living
on army bases with my family as my
father was active duty at the time.
When your training for a fight,
how many weeks before you ramp
up your training and what is a
typical day of training entail?
I train everyday about 8 weeks out
we start pushing a little harder and
the typical day consists of waking
up early, a healthy diet, strength and
conditioning in the morning and
then wrestling in the afternoon then
kickboxing at night then to the gym
for a light workout.
“Fighting has been
around since the
beginning of time.
You can have people
playing football
and people playing
basketball and a fight
breaks out, everyone
comes to watch it.
Everyone enjoys a good
competitive fight.”
Where do you train?
Golden Fitness
Golds Gym
I previously trained out of
Wanderlei Silva’s gym in Las Vegas
Nevada as a member of his MMA
team, which is where I earned my nick
name the Golden Boy as Wanderlei so
dubbed me after my first professional
fight in Salem North Carolina.
How many fights per year do you
do on average?
I plan on doing at least 6 to 8 but
this will be my first fight in over a
year after coming back from a broken
foot from last fight. Before that I was
averaging 8 fights a year.
What is the most challenging part
of pursing your MMA career?
Getting fights and keeping healthy.
As you move up as a pro it is harder
to get fights. I am currently under
contract with the WSOF (World Of
Series Fighting) and have to seek
special permission to fight outside
of my contract. That presents special
challenges.
Who is your favorite MMA
fighter currently?
Myself and of course my mentor
Wandelei Silva.
MMA has become super popular
in the United States, what about this
sport has made it explode the way it
has?
Fighting has been around since
the beginning of time. You can have
people playing football and people
playing basketball and a fight breaks
out, everyone comes to watch it.
Everyone enjoys a good competitive
fight.
What goes into going from a
amateur fighter to a pro fighter? Is
it a complicated process?
Amateur is a hobby, when you go
pro it becomes a life style but for me
it was complicated. My coaches and
my dad would not let me go pro until
they felt I was 100% ready and that
involved taking over 50 fights as I
said previously. Some fighters will go
pro after only 2-3 amateur fights so I
guess it’s a personal preference. But
there are no set rules to going to pro.
What has been your most exciting
fight to date and the largest crowed
to preform in front of?
My last fight in the WSOF (World
Series of Fighting) sold out at the
Miami event Center and it was great
to be a part of that. It was my first
nationally televised fight.
Your dad is the owner of Cage
Wars a company that promotes
MMA events, are you involved with
that aspect of the business?
It is a family business and I am the
match maker so I set up the fights and
act as the advisor to the fighters for
the company.
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JANUARY • 2015
Is it true you are a vegetarian and
yet I hear you actually raise pigs?
Yes I am a vegetarian and that’s
part of a good clean diet that helps me
stay in shape. And yes I am raising a
couple pigs on my family’s farm. I
do not see this as conflict of interest
and I guess I believe that you have the
right to choose what you eat and as a
professional fighter it’s easier for me
to cut weight as a vegetarian.
Which skill set do you think you
excel at more, boxing or martial
arts?
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Name: Geothro
Age: 30
Occupation: Bass Player
Hobbies: Art, Music and Disc Golf in fair
weather
Family: 2 parents, 1 sibling, 1 girlfriend and 1
adopted son
Favorite Restaurant: Larkburger
Goals: To be gainfully employed by my creative
tendencies
Top 5 Band on your iPod: Primus, Nofx, Bad
Religion, Tom Waits, Clutch
We met about 18 years ago when one of your
bands played at my old place The Chameleon
Club. Which band was that? We did not meet
18 years ago, but Jared was probably drumming
for a band called Odium.
So, fast forward almost two decades, and
tell me how the band Zoloft & The Destroyers
formed and when? The band ZOLOPHT
formed when lead players Zac Grant and Cam
Vilar fell into a musical bromance. In that time,
the name was shortened, and the band has seen
many different incarnations. To date, we have 8
members, a solid back catalogue of originals, 1
full length album and another in the works.
How many originals do you play live versus
covers? Boy. It’s finally getting to the point
where, when writing a setlist, we have to cut
out originals to make room for covers. And I’m
talking about playing for a room all night—3
hours of music. It’s definitely refreshing to have
that ability. Plus all the awesome people who
come out to see us love most of our original
music and sing the lyrics along with us, etc. So
when we do play a cover or two, it tends to be
more of a bonus song, rather than a crutch to
carry us through. It’s a strange beast, playing to
a bar versus a venue. You are there to provide
entertainment, and sometimes people just want
to hear a song they know. Yet, we are playing
for dear friends and folks who appreciate us for
our original tunes. They know our songs. But
then you’ll find yourself far away from home,
trying to prove your worth to strangers, and a
cover suddenly becomes a test of sorts. A sort
of standard or bar that others can hear and say,
“Wow. They made that cover their own, and it
sounded pretty good. I want to hear an original
now.”
Do you have any plans to tour outside of
Colorado? Did the band set milestone goals
on where you wanted to be in say, 5 years? Over
the summer of 2014, 6 of us crammed ourselves
into our van lovingly dubbed, “The Yellow Yam”
Who came up with the name? I’m not
totally certain, but I’m fairly positive that Zac
and Cam were dubbed “Zolopht” during the
now infamous “Rockslide open mic night”
days. Those times were glorious for most of the
valley’s musicians, and local mainstay James
Williams of The Williams Brothers Band did a
lot to foster us young and impressionable folk
into who we are today. Plus he gave us all stupid
nicknames. Thanks, James.
I have noticed that your band has played a
lot in this area over the last few years. I caught
you at Thunder Struck and was impressed
with the unique sound your band has come
up with. It’s hard to pigeonhole a description
of the sound. Was that intentional when
you started crafting your original songs? I
can’t fully answer that question because I have
only played with the band for close to 3 years,
but one thing that is apparent is our unique
sound. I think a lot of it comes from eclectic
instrumentation. For example we have a violin
player, Ian McGowan, and he lends a lot to
our flavor. We now have a part/full time horn
section thanks to Cody Krieger (saxophone)
and Danny Ohlson (trumpet). Plus we all have
different musical tastes; there are 8 of us and
this is an extremely laid-back band, so most of
(it’s blue) and drove all over this great country
of ours. We made our way up to Seattle and
back and had a heck of a time. It was sort of an
experiment to see if we could sustain ourselves
on tour using merch and venue earnings. The
answer was no. But we dusted ourselves off, and
are planning another tour, much larger in scope,
for the near future.
How often does your band rehearse? Isn’t
it rather difficult getting 8 people in the
same room on the same day every week? We
rehearse once a week. We have what we call
“core” practices where 4 of us will hash out
new material and then have full band practices
where the other guys will bring their ideas in.
We are all solid friends so getting together is
rarely an issue.
Who are the top 3 drummers you admire?
Being a bass player, my top 3 drummers are Tim
Alexander (of course), Danny Carey and Jared
Schmidt. GRUDEN!
Are any of your band members formally
trained? How many can read music charts,
etc.? I’m formally trained in the art of “fake it
‘till you make it.” Ha! No, I’ve taken some classes
but am most certainly self-taught.
What plans does the band have coming up
in 2015? New album. Travel. Make great music
with 7 of the best friends a guy could ask for. Just
don’t leave me to freeze to death in downtown
Denver this year, okay, fellas?
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Skrillex at BellyUp Aspen
on January 24
In a cluttered home studio in
downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District,
mere blocks from where he wrote
“Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites”, the
song that sold millions of copies and
helped instigate one of the largest
shifts in modern American music in
recent memory, the galvanizing totem
of a youth movement daps at a midi
controller, ceaselessly cuing the same
snare sound over and over and over
and over, for literally hours. Literally.
Hours.
Skrillex has a lot of thank yous.
At around the one-minute mark
of his first Grammy acceptance
speech in 2012, iPhone in hand,
scrolling interminably down a list,
it became clear that Skrillex doesn’t
feel isolated from his peers. It’s
always been a defining trait of his
character, this aptitude at building
things with others. It’s since gone
on to characterize, color, and define
his career, too. Whether with his
label, OWSLA, his numerous media
projects, the NEST online community
or the building in downtown LA he’s
currently converting into a state-ofthe art creative space, Skrillex knows
there’s power in numbers. Skrillex
quite simply loves to make things.
Across the board, those numbers are
significant- when a person with one
of the largest social media followings
in the world decides to engage his
community, they engage back. Within
a year of forming the label, OWSLA,
in 2011, it had launched the careers
of some of the most buzzing names
in American electronic music, all the
while staying true to their connection
to the community of artists around
them and exploring multiple genres
along the way. OWSLA continues
to pick up momentum, more heads
become aware every day, and they tell
their friends.
One year later Skrillex collaborated
with friend/cult filmmaker Harmony
Korine by scoring his critically
acclaimed Spring Breakers movie
and also composed an original track
for Pixar’s Wreck It Ralph while
simultaneously penning one of the
biggest club hits of the year with A$AP
Rocky (Wild For The Night). He then
dropped his first fashion collaboration
with G-Star around the same time (it
sold out globally in a matter of days).
Three consecutive homeruns across a
broad appeal spectrum, but it’s easy to
identify commonalities among these
seemingly disparate projects when
they’re examined in this uniquely
Skrillex context – awesomeness
prevails, always. And it’s always a
team effort.
And every team needs a dugout.
So when Sonny returned to Los
Angeles to rally the troops, plucking
talent from France, Spain, Chicago,
Florida, and Tennessee this last
spring he purchased an 11,000 square
foot compound nestled in the heart
of LA. It currently houses his label,
management, and publicity staffs as
well as a new, futurist venture called
NESTHQ.com. The project, which
began as a subscription-based sublabel of OWSLA, began to take on
new meaning as the team sought to
further integrate all of the Skrillex
and OWSLA-related media content
into one vertical silo. NESTHQ.com
was formed as a means of iterating
the values and personalities of the
dance music community, Skrillex’s
community, in one consistently
positive voice. The building itself is
the physical manifestation of this
intent and more plans are underway to
construct several high-end recording
studios, media production labs, video
suites and other creative spaces to
further inspire the associated artists
under the OWSLA/Skrillex umbrella.
But let’s get back to that snare
sound. Sonny John Moore, the man
who upended popular music in 2011,
knows there’s too much in the balance,
and he addresses the seemingly
menial with utmost gravity. He invests
himself into everything he does. It’s
not just a career at stake. Skrillex
acknowledges the huge responsibility
we all have to bring positivity into the
world through art and expression, and
that whether its iterated musically or
otherwise, getting those ideas out is
group therapy at its best. We’re in this
together, so let’s get it right.
Finally, despite being one of the
biggest names in music, Skrillex
hasn’t walked away from the ‘do-itourselves’ attitude he’s had since his
start. “When you grow you’re going to
need more people, more bodies to do
stuff,” he said. “It’s all about making
true partnerships. I think the less you
can take out of something and the
more you can do yourself, it’s more
equal-interest. So you’re not taking
out big bank loans, you’re betting
on yourself and you can sustain
everything. Maybe it takes a little
longer — it’s been since 2004 to get to
where I am now, with the same team,
the same manager. That’s how we did
it. There was no rush ever to get giant
checks.” Throughout all of this, he’s
decided to keep the music industry at
an arm’s length. “I kind of wanted to
stay away from Hollywood… I guess
my scene and the energy and the core
of where I came from is Downtown
L.A. and throwing warehouse
parties and being inspired by spaces
that gushed potential, more than
something that was already done.”
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Face The New Year With hope
I’d like, first of all, to wish everyone
a happy and prosperous new year!
Wow, it seems these last few years
have gone by in the blink of an eye!
My parents and older friends have
always told me that, the older one
gets, the faster time goes by. Man,
were they right!
I remember when I was a younger
man, i would always fall into those
“new year resolutions” we always
seem to promise ourselves. “This
is the year that i am finally going to
quit smoking,” or “I promise myself
this year I am going to start eating
a healthier diet,” or “This year, I’m
going to start saving more money.” It
seems, as always, that those promises
we make ourselves fade away after a
couple of months. I’ve learned as I
aged not to make those promises to
myself; I’ve leanred to live with the
concept, “What will be, will be.”
However, there is nothing wrong
with hope and wishes for the future—
sometimes that’s all a person has.
We all get stuck in those “ruts” in
life, and even though we can see no
possible way out, we can always hope
for the change in our lives that we
desperately desire.
And of course (you should know
me by now), those thoughts remind
me of a few songs that remind us all
of hopes we may have for the future,
or perhaps even just give us strength
to face our current situation.
With “that song,” we know the
second it comes on—yes, that ohso-familiar piano intro and Steve
Perry’s high vocals telling us, “Dont
Stop Believing….” Come on, admit it,
we all sing along to this when we’re
driving and it comes on the radio! We
may even play air guitars as we are
sitting at the red light! Hell, I know
I do! Then we have Bob Marley, telling
us, in song, about the “three little
birds...” singing “Don’t worry about a
thing, cuz every little thing’s gonna be
all right.”
The Band Train sings, “Before I call
it a day, maybe this will be my year.”
All we can do is hope, right?
Then we have Huey Lewis and
the News singing about a Perfect
World: “Everybody’s looking for the
perfect world, where you could have
everything your heart desires… the
perfect boy will meet the perfect girl.”
A more recent tune by The band
American Authors sings to our minds
that We always have tomorrow to
look forward to, and with a positive
attitude—Tomorrow just may be “the
best day of my life.”
We also have Tom Petty singing of
not giving in to the hardships, beatdowns and heartbreaks that life will
most definitely throw at us. In the
song from the album “Full Moon
Fever,” he tells to stand strong and
carry on, there is no easy way out, but
we gotta stand our ground and not
back down, and carry on the best we
can.
Jason Mraz sings a song called
Living in the Moment about how we
sometimes set ourselves up for failure
and live with stress and worries about
the bad things that might happen to
us. It talks about staying away from
negativity, living in the moment with
peace in your heart, mind, and soul.
I suppose IF I did try to commit to
a “New Years resolution,” it would be
just that! I’d try and continue my life
with that exact attitude—to live in the
moment with peace in your heart,
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On December 6, 2014, Ryan Chrys
and the Rough Cuts released Up
From the North.
The CD, their second release
since last year’s A Lick & A Promise,
follows recent awards including
“Best Country Song, 2014” and
“Best Americana Song, 2013” from
Colorado Music Association and
Winner “Best Country Band, 2014”
from the Rocky Mountain Battle of
the Bands.
Journalist Jon Solomon of
Westword Magazine described their
previous CD as “Chrys’ deep vocal
delivery recalls Shooter Jennings.
Taking cues from outlaw-country
pioneers like Waylon Jennings and
Merle Haggard, Chrys and company
lay down a collection of fueled-up
twangy numbers alongside some
heartfelt ballads.”
Up From the North will be
streaming digitally through services
including Spotify, Beats Music and
Pandora Radio. The album will be
available for online purchase from
retailers including iTunes, Google
Play and Amazon.com. Physical
copies will be available through their
Web site, Amazon and Twist & Shout.
Selections of Up From the North can
be found here:
https://ryanchrys.bandcamp.com/
album/up-from-the-north.
Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts
performed a live CD release party in
Denver at the Mercury Café Ballroom
on December 6, 2014, with more live
performance dates to follow. More
tour information can be found on the
band’s Web site at
http://www.roughcutsband.com.
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Brian Gregor with the Dirty Hat Band
Jan. 24 at KAFM Radio Room
In 2009, Brian Gregor felt the need
to help train Police in Afghanistan.
Brian was faced with several
obstacles, which showed him that, no
matter where you are in this world,
life is always unique and yet similar.
He realized the most effective healing
was to write down his thoughts and
feelings in song. Back home, Brian
joined up with fellow musicians to
create the Dirty Hat Band. Together
they created “Coming Home—
Thoughts from Afghanistan.” This
show takes the listener on a musical
ride from Brian’s arrival in a war
zone to coming home to Fruita two
years later. This music has been
described as heartfelt, and it brings
out humankind’s emotion.
Tickets are $12 in advance and $15
at the door and may be purchased by
calling (970) 241-8801, Ext 202 or
online at kafmradio.org. The Radio
Room is located at 1310 Ute Avenue,
Grand Junction, CO 81501. Doors
open at 7pm, with show at 7:30pm.
Radio Room Concert Series
Radio Room concert series are
held in the KAFM Radio Room,
1310 Ute Avenue. The Radio Room
is a live music venue in an intimate
environment, with only 75 seats and
great acoustics. KAFM Community
Radio is a public access radio station
serving Mesa County in Western
Colorado. KAFM has been on-air
since 1999 and is programmed by a
passionate staff of over 150 volunteers.
Lifelong Learning Series
These are lectures and presentations
that we present in the Radio Room
on a regular basis. They are part of a
lifelong learning initiative involving
storytelling, theatre and lectures.
Topics have included: a young
man who spent a year in Antarctica,
a Marine One helicopter pilot telling
stories of his years at the White
House, a presentation on the Burning
Man Festival along with a fire dance
exhibition in our parking lot, a
program of a staged reading of a new
play along with interactive feedback
with the playwright, a lecture and
demonstration on naturopathic
medicine and a storytelling/musical
performance by John Winn, a
musician who was part of the folk
revolution in New York City during
the 1960s with the likes of Bob Dylan
and Judy Collins. The Gallery at the Radio Room
Located in the Radio Room
at KAFM, 1310 Ute Avenue, the
Gallery at the Radio Room features
the work of some of the area’s finest
artists. Works in every medium are
represented in ongoing exhibitions
throughout the year. The Gallery is
open Monday through Friday,10am1pm, and at all events at the Radio
Room. The Gallery is also open by
appointment. Call 241-8801, ext. 223
to arrange an appointment. A portion
of all gallery sales benefit KAFM
Community Radio.
STYX Slated to Play at BellyUp Aspen on January 15
Tommy Shaw, James “JY” Young,
Lawrence Gowan, Todd Sucherman
and Ricky Phillips (along with the
occasional surprise appearance by
original bassist Chuck Panozzo),
have performed more live since
’99 than all of the previous years of
its career combined. Two SuperBowl appearances, Pollstar Box
Office chart-topping tours with Def
Leppard, Journey, Boston, REO
Speedwagon, Bad Company (to name
only a few), two more studio albums
and no end in sight, STYX continues
to conquer the planet, one venue at a
time.
Early on, Styx’s music reflected
such then-current prog rockers as
Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the
Moody Blues, as evidenced by such
releases as 1972’s self-titled debut,
1973’s Styx II, 1974’s The Serpent Is
Rising, and 1975’s Man of Miracles.
While the albums (as well as nonstop touring) helped the group
build a substantial following locally,
Styx failed to break through to the
mainstream, until a track originally
from their second album, “Lady”
started to get substantial airplay in
The band decided that their first
release of the ‘80s would be a concept
album, 1981’s Paradise Theater, which
was loosely based on the rise and fall
of a once-beautiful theater (which
was supposedly used as a metaphor
for the state of the U.S. at the time
-- the Iranian hostage situation, the
Cold War, Reagan, etc.). Paradise
Theater became Styx’s biggest hit of
their career (selling over three million
copies in a three-year period), as they
became one of the U.S. top rock acts
due to such big hit singles as “Too
Much Time on My Hands”. It also
marked the first time in history that a
band released four consecutive tripleplatinum albums.
A career-encompassing live album,
Caught in the Act, was issued in 1984,
before Styx went on hiatus, and the
majority of its members pursued solo
projects throughout the remainder 13
of the decade. A re-recording of
their early hit, “Lady” (titled “Lady”
‘95”), for a Greatest Hits compilation,
finally united Shaw with his former
Styx bandmates, which led to a
full-on reunion tour in 1996. But
drummer John Panozzo fell seriously
ill at the time (due to a long struggle
with alcoholism), which prevented
him from joining the proceedings
-- as he passed away in July of the
same year. Although grief-stricken,
Styx persevered with new drummer
Todd Sucherman taking the place
of Panozzo, as the Styx reunion tour
became a surprise sold-out success,
resulting in the release of a live album/
video, 1997’s “Return to Paradise,”
while a whole new generation of rock
fans were introduced to the grandiose
sounds of Styx via a humorous car ad
which used the track “Mr. Roboto,” as
well as songs used in such TV shows
as South Park and Freaks & Geeks.
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Spawned from a suburban Chicago
basement in the early ‘70s, Styx
would eventually transform into
the virtual arena rock prototype by
the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, due to a
fondness for big rockers and soaring
power ballads.
late ‘74 on the Chicago radio station
WLS-FM. The song was soon issued
as a single nationwide, and quickly
shot to number six on the singles
chart, as Styx II was certified gold.
By this time, however, the group had
grown disenchanted with their record
label, and opted to sign on with A&M
for their fifth release overall, 1975’s
Equinox (their former label would
issue countless compilations over
the years, culled from tracks off their
early releases). On the eve of the tour
in support of the album, original
guitarist John Curulewski abruptly
left the band, and was replaced by
Tommy Shaw. Shaw proved to be the
missing piece of the puzzle for styx
wikiStyx, as most of their subsequent
releases throughout the late ‘70s
earned at least platinum certification
(1976’s Crystal Ball, 1977’s The Grand
Illusion, 1978’s Pieces of Eight, and
1979’s Cornerstone), and spawned
such hit singles and classic rock
radio standards as “Come Sail Away,”
“Renegade,” “Blue Collar Man” and
“Fooling Yourself.”
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Sunlight Mountain Resort Skier Appreciation Day Jan. 9
and Teacher/Student Appreciation Day Jan. 11
Sunlight Mountain Resort Skier Appreciation Day
Jan. 9 and Teacher/Student Appreciation Day Jan. 11
Friday, January 9, 2015, will mark the 28th United
Companies Skier Appreciation Day at Sunlight
Mountain Resort. Lift tickets are only $20 for everyone,
and all proceeds go to United Way. Last year’s event, held
on a perfect powder day, delivered a record-breaking
sales event, and the event team is aiming to top that
record in 2015.
“$20 Ticket to Paradise” is this year’s theme. Sunlight
is beating every travel deal in the Rocky Mountains by
offering $20 lift tickets to the Tropics (mountain tropics,
that is)! Bikinis and swim trunks are acceptable, and
you’re likely to see the mountain sprinkled with lots of
tropical shirts, too! Attendees are urged to show up in
their best beach attire to win a Sunlight Season Pass for
2015-16, with extra points for vintage swimwear and
xtra points for creativity! As in years past, the boisterous
après-ski crowd will be the judge of the winner.
Not only do attendees get a chance to win a season
pass for best costume, but there also will be a drawing
to win a brand new pair of skis, a flashy new snowboard,
the Gold Pass for a later ski day, $500 in gift cards and
many more great prizes.
The Whittingtons band will be performing in the
lodge. Tiny bikinis and coconut bras for a tropical danceoff are on the program. The dance floor will be hot!
Come, help support United Way. Not only will
participants be benefiting a great cause, but they also get
a once-a-year opportunity to ski or snowboard for $20!
It’s a tropical tantalizer!
Sunlight has not forgotten about the teachers and
students of the valley, either… Sunlight will host a
Teacher and Student Appreciation Day on Sunday,
January 11, so nobody will have to ditch school (which
is more important than anything). Nevertheless, RE-2
students and personnel can take advantage of the
Sunlight slopes on their usual Friday school day off. RE-1
students can grab a lift ticket for only $20 on Sunday, and
teachers and staff will ski for FREE! It’s easier than taking
an exam—each student, school employee or teacher
needs only to show a valid ID or report card to receive
the Sunday discount.
Sunlight Mountain Resort – So Much to Smile About.
CMU’s Mesa OutLoud! performs
Fundraising Concert in January
CMU’s new contemporary vocal
ensemble Mesa OutLoud! will
perform in the Moss Performing Arts
Center Robinson Theater Sunday,
January 18 at 2pm in a fundraising
concert for Mesa Repertory Theatre’s
summer season.
When it was formed last year for
a performance at the Taste of CMU
event at the Denver Center for the
Performing Arts, President Foster
and the Board of Trustees decided
to create a permanent community
outreach and touring ensemble in the
Department of Theatre Arts.
The result was Mesa OutLoud!
Under the direction of CMU’s
director of Musical Theatre Jeremy
Franklin and Department of Theatre
Arts head Tim Pinnow, Mesa
OutLoud is a show ensemble that
focuses on contemporary commercial
music from the American Songbook
and the Broadway stage to current
chart-topping favorites. In their short
five weeks of existence, the group
has performed for Grand Junction’s
Farmer’s Market, CMU’s Donors and
Scholars Event, a dinner hosted by Bob
and Louise Sammons for contestants
at this year’s Porks ’n’ Hops, and most
recently for Community Hospital’s
Annual Gala. In just a few weeks, they
will be leaving on a week-long tour
to New Mexico and will be back at A
Taste of CMU at the Denver Center
next January.
The members are scholarship
students from the music theatre,
acting/directing, and dance programs
within the Department of Theatre
Arts at CMU. They are accompanied
by staff pianist Doug Morrow.
Tickets for Mesa OutLoud! are
available at the Box Office by calling
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JANUARY • 2015
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Name: MacKenzie R Barrett
Age: 29
Occupation: Professional Tattoo Artist
Hobbies: Painting, drawing, snow
boarding, traveling and spending time
with my dogs, friends and family.
Family: Family..... is everyone to me.
Favorite Restaurant: Himmil Haus,
South Lake Tahoe, CA ...The Schnitzel...
Goals: My goals are to expand my
knowledge of art and create one of a kind
tattoos.
Top 5 Bands on your Ipod: I don’t own
an Ipod, but top five Pandora is Rise
Against, Devil Makes Three, Stick To
Your Guns, Unwritten Law, Eminem
How long have you worked at Krypt
Tattoo?
I have worked at Krypt Tattoo for ten
months.
When did you first decide you
wanted to become a tattoo artist?
In 2011, I was in the ER in South
Lake Tahoe after a snowmobile accident,
laying on a gurney, pissing blood with a
broken arm and shoulder, thinking what
the hell am I gonna go with my life. That
is the day I decided I wanted to become
a Tattoo Artist.
Prior to that, did you were you a
lover of art & what medium?
Art, has always been a part of my life.
In my younger years acrylic has always
been my medium of choice.
How long did it take before you knew
you were “ready to go” to the next level
& be done with the apprentice phase of
tattooing?
It took two years before I took the next
step in my career as a professional tattoo
artist, but as an artist I learn every day.
How old were you when you got your
first tattoo?
18
Is it me or does there seem to be a
wave of popularity for people to get
tattoos on their neck, hands & head?
I see people from every walk of life,
they come in and want a tattoos on
every canvas on their bodies. I feel that
decision is a personal decision, neck,
hands or face it does not matter. Its all
about what makes you happy. A surge in
people getting these tattoos, I do not see,
what I see are people willing to express
themselves.
What advice to you have for people
who are pondering getting their first
tattoo?
My advice is to study and research as
much as possible about the tattoo and
the style that you want. After you have
decided on the style and what you want
for a tattoo, I recommend searching out
the professional tattoo artist in your area
that is capable and willing to work with
you. This will help ensure that you have
the best tattoo that you will love forever.
Is their a type of tattoo or tattoo
technique that is your favorite to do?
My favorite tattoos are custom!
Style is something you constantly grow
in and out of as an artist. Polka trash, neo
traditional and new school tattoos are all
techniques I enjoy.
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THE NEW WORLD ORDER
By Sharlene Woodruff
Marijuana
has
now
gone
mainstream and is no longer thought
of as socially taboo or something
sinister, as the nearby strip mall has
become a virtual one-stop shop,
much like a 7-11 store after midnight.
But with legalization a solid year in,
many more support-type companies
have connected to fill customer
service needs that never existed
before. With all the new recreational
marijuana shops opening in this
otherwise conservative suburb just
east of Denver, it’s a welcomed sign of
social progress.
Some favorites of mine are the
various tour and limousine companies
already established in Denver,
Boulder and Colorado Springs that
now offer marijuana tours. That’s
right, cannabis-seeking visitors’
can be picked up from DIA, given a
dispensary and grow facility tour, and
off to your hotel, all for a modest fee.
Your plush ride includes tours and
visits to downtown dispensaries and
the opportunity to buy some of the
best pot in the world. You’ll also have
bragging rights for life among your
social circle back home. I’m willing
to bet that many tourists and visitors
from across the world have some
really good stories to share about
a recent 2014 visit to the Mile High
City—and the pictures to prove it.
Many regional entities, such as
Regional Transportation District
(RTD) or the Colorado Department
of Transportation (CDOT), collect
a hefty percentage from tax revenue
brought in by sales of recreational
marijuana. I believe we have a
product and a market in high demand
that will be recession proof for
decades to come. In other words, this
newfound industry won’t be crashing
or collapsing anytime soon.
My millennial comrades would
claim legalization one of their
generation’s greatest achievements
next to the invention of social media.
They say, “It’s a part of the new world
order,” as we move forward with
this historic American experiment.
Sociologist and historians of decades
and centuries past could have never
Guns and Spoons
an hour or so, I checked on the
gun. It was still sitting there,
right where I had left it. It hadn’t
moved itself outside. It certainly
hadn’t killed anyone, even with
the numerous opportunities it had
been presented to do so. In fact,
it hadn’t even loaded itself. Well,
you can imagine my surprise,
with all the media hype about how
dangerous guns are and how they
kill people! Either the media is
wrong, or I’m in possession of the
laziest gun in the world.
Today
I
swung
my
front
door wide open and placed my
Remington 30.06 right in the
doorway. I left 6 shells beside it,
then left it alone and went about
my business. While I was gone,
the mailman delivered my mail,
the neighbor boy across the street
mowed the yard, a girl walked her
dog down the street, and quite a
few cars stopped at the stop sign
near the front of our house. After
imagined the socially free society we
all get to live in today. Having studied
both Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud,
I can only wonder what they would
think of marijuana legalization for the
masses. That would be an interesting
book to read!
A now urban legend and running
joke around town, which is actually
true, is that “the city of Denver has
more dispensaries per capita than
Starbucks stores.” So, back in 2008
when I relocated to the 5280, the
first steps and plans necessary for
this historical event even to occur
were being laid. By 2009, when
Source and I connected to write this
MMJ monthly column, it became
all too clear. The pioneer state of
Colorado was on a whole other level
when it came to the business, and
now industry, of marijuana. If done
right, Colorado will continue to lead
the way in the national marijuana
legalization movement.
Still, many cities throughout the
state have voted down or even banned
recreational or medical dispensaries.
This includes unincorporated areas
of Mesa County, Grand Junction and
Fruita; yet they know Amendment 64
changed things across the board. The
significance of national legalization
is a movement, not just a moment in
time.
It really boils down to a simple
and legal theory: If you are 21 and
older and have valid identification,
you may partake in the purchase
and consumption of recreational
marijuana. The MJ industry’s
message is to always conduct yourself
responsibly when indulging in
cannabis in any form. That is what
being 21 years old means. Being able
to smoke pot legally in anybody’s
lifetime in America is truly a privilege.
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The United States is third
in murders throughout the world. However, if you take out Chicago,
Detroit, Washington DC and
New Orleans, the United States
is fourth from the bottom for
murders. These four cities also
have the toughest gun control laws
in the United States. ALL four are
controlled by Democrats ... but
it would be absurd to draw any
conclusions from this data, right?
Now I’m off to check on my
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people fat.
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COLORADO – In 2014 Colorado
shared with the nation the blueprint
for the legalization of marijuana
through an implementation of
progressive ideas that actually work,
proving to skeptics and critics what
a 21st century America can look
like after 100 years of prohibition.
In a booming-market, positive way,
Colorado set the tone for an emerging
industry that’s really just getting
started. As the Rocky Mountain
models for medicinal marijuana
(MMJ) stores began to increase,
people in the business and legal
communities began to take notice
and get involved.
Colorado entrepreneurs and even
well known, established companies
from different types of industries
have almost, by default, become
part of the MMJ industry. Without
actually selling or distributing the
main product, many companies are
reaping the now continuous financial
benefits. Companies that produce
or sell wholesale lighting equipment
or storage space are a perfect match
for the MMJ industry. There are
noticeably more smoke shops, aka
head shops, in Aurora than ever
before. These stores sell all the
vaporizers, glassware and bongs you’ll
ever need in life and are popping up
everywhere. These customer-friendly
stores exist solely because people
engage in the cannabis experience in
the first place, and I find it all quite
interesting as I go about my daily
cross-town commute.
The potential for profit is beyond
substantial, with many Aurora
residents being the new MMJ support
business owners. One esthetic feature
about Aurora I’ve always enjoyed is
that it is a very multi-cultural, diverse
city. People are here from all around
the world speaking many exotic
languages including English, and
it’s most welcomed. And, no matter
where you go, people are generally
friendly. Why drive way across town
when you can take a nice walk or a
short drive to a legal pot store right in
your own neighborhood? That’s one
of the best highlights to legalization.
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