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the dirty dancing's ultimate fan quiz just came out. can't say i'm going to ace this one but lots of my friends will!!! you know who you are.

lastly

here's an amusing and cute story of the guy who came in LAST at the boston marathon on monday. i enjoyed the photos since i have a lot of memories of walking those same areas of comm ave, beacon, & boylston (just never walked it all in one day!).

breaking news!

menudo is back!! the legacy continues...

joss stone's male counterpart

just found out ryan shaw is touring with joss this spring... love them both, but that might be soul overload.

and now for something unrelated msn has a really cool photoblog and my favorite photo of the year is of the hunky jesus contest on Easter Sunday in San Francisco. only in san francisco!!

technology's so cool

i just discovered there's now a way to give money to charity (a little or a lot - depending on how much you're online) just by using microsoft instant messaging. also there's a search engine called GoodSearch that gives money to the charity of your choice every time you search (even at 1 cent per click, it could really add up...) I hope Google acquires them soon and then I'll be really happy!

my hero, will

check out this automated will-farrell-movie generator. too cool! seriously i don't know where people come up with this stuff but it's great.

in other will news, he is launching a web site of original comedy sketches. check out funnyordie.com in the coming days.

yay cranberries & peeps!

dolores o'riordan is back and she has beautiful hair, too! i wonder why she's not "the cranberries" anymore? she's playing a tiny theater in denver on july 17th, note to self. i saw her in boston once and it was one of the best performances i've ever experienced.

and if it's possible, an even bigger YAY was this peep diorama contest on the washington post. oh my gosh, if i had known about this sooner, liz - you could have had a project encompassing hours & hours & hours of fun! these were all so well-done but i think i love the peepmobile the best.

DAM that's great art

I visited the newly rebuilt denver art museum today, finally. I really am not crazy about the funky angles, angles, angles architectural style of Daniel Liebskind. It's taking the theme too far for me, like when someone collects cows and there's cows in every room in their house, cows on the toilet paper, cows on the door knob...

but the new space definitely does a great job accomodating the modern art work and the layered levels remind me a lot of the guggeinheim, so I can see why Denver is so proud of the darn thing. more photos are on larasue.photosite.com.

probably the most thought-provoking and powerful part for me was a temporary exhibition called RADAR which featured a private colorado couple's interesting collection of surreal contemporary cartoony artists including yoshitomo nara (left) and michael joo (whose beheaded buddha statues with plastic Ken dolls for heads, were hard to accept as art, yet amusing).

the most interesting painting that is still on my mind is gottfried helnwein's epiphany (click for link). it's stiking how the mother and baby are so beautiful, so sharp in focus, and clearly from a different era than those around her. also just fascinating how much it looks like an actual photograph. even close up, it is so real.

i finally got about 100 photos from the last year of walking around Denver up on Picasa, so you can see the neighborhood where I work. it's certainly... what's the word... unpredictable.

here's what's dope

i keep forgetting to mention that if anyone wants to listen to my favorite mix that i have on at work (no login required) click here.

i love finetune. it's like sharing your ipod with friends! lots of similar sites are cropping up too. i'll try to make more mixes throughout the year.

thanks to slammy for tipping me onto a new craze - credit card skins! I can’t believe no one’s ever thought of this idea before. And I can’t believe I already bought one. (I got the one called "ohmigawd", appropriately).