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Poking and Peaking: January 2013
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Friday, January 18, 2013. A member of the hair nation picks the best songs ever. Hair metal is a loose term, as loose as the women in your average hair metal video (this kind of wit is prevalent throughout this blog, so pat yourself on the back, wise reader, for choosing to read this). But here you go. The top 25 hair metal songs of all time. I also didn't put them in order. Maybe I should, but just to make this list is an honor. About as big an honor as a Grammy, I'm pretty sure. Let's get to it:. Of co...
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Poking and Peaking: Helloween Show, Oct. 2
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Sunday, October 06, 2013. Helloween Show, Oct. 2. Sometimes, something happens that blows your mind. If your mind printed a newspaper, the headline would be 80-point type. Yet it would probably only sell one copy on the newsstand because no one else seems to care. But it did happen to me many months ago. That's when Helloween announced they were coming to Denver. So I gave up on them. Years later, I heard they got a new lead singer and were still putting out albums. I bought a couple and was unde...I lov...
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Poking and Peaking: September 2012
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Sunday, September 23, 2012. As I was swimming through mile 16, I looked up into the trees, desperate for anything to take my mind off the agony of de feet, and I saw a bird. It was a big bird, and it peered down at us, with an expression that was hard to read. I glanced at my dog and looked back at the bird. For a moment, I thought it was sizing up my companion. But I decided against that after a bit. The bird wasn't looking at my dog. It was looking at me. 8226; • •. Even so, I'd yet to have a bad train...
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Poking and Peaking: Rock You To Hell (and 24 of the other greatest metal songs of all time)
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Thursday, February 28, 2013. Rock You To Hell (and 24 of the other greatest metal songs of all time). Growing up in high school, I was not a U2 guy, even when everyone else was ga-ga over The Joshua Tree. I distinctly remember sitting in the band room before school and arguing, vehemently, about why Helloween was a better band than U2. (No, I didn't get many dates in high school.). 8226; This is a heavy metal list, so I stayed away from hair metal songs or groups I've previously mentioned in the last lis...
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Poking and Peaking: A member of the hair nation picks the best songs ever
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Friday, January 18, 2013. A member of the hair nation picks the best songs ever. Hair metal is a loose term, as loose as the women in your average hair metal video (this kind of wit is prevalent throughout this blog, so pat yourself on the back, wise reader, for choosing to read this). But here you go. The top 25 hair metal songs of all time. I also didn't put them in order. Maybe I should, but just to make this list is an honor. About as big an honor as a Grammy, I'm pretty sure. Let's get to it:. Of co...
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Poking and Peaking: January 2014
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Saturday, January 25, 2014. Many times, during a run, I find myself talking to my body. I am not talking to myself. I am talking to the vessel carrying me across the path. I have had that kind of relationship with my body for years, decades, really, since I began climbing mountains and trying to find a way to work through the altitude sickness and reach the top. I treat my body as if it has a conscience. It works for me. If it makes me look a little New Agey, well, that's OK. My sinuses are a mess. At ti...
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Poking and Peaking: Chicago Marathon
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Monday, October 14, 2013. When I first started running, a marathon seemed like an impossible feat. But if you did it, if you somehow managed to run 26 miles, your time didn't matter. That changed when I started running them. As with any other race, it was never enough to finish. I had to beat them. I'm not exactly proud of that. But it was what attracted me to running in the first place. Every year I saw progress. That progress was intoxicating. I measured that progress by my times. I didn't approach the...
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Poking and Peaking: Cheering out the ugly
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Cheering out the ugly. It's not often, but there have been times, during a race, when I wasn't sure I was going to make it. It happened more often earlier in my running "career" than it has of late. I've learned a few things. I've learned how to enjoy running more, and I've learned that with that enjoyment comes pain. If you think about it, lots of fun stuff hurts, and that goes for things that are bad for you and good for you. This is why God made spectators. That ran in today...
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Poking and Peaking: June 2012
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Sunday, June 17, 2012. I'll admit it. The Mount Evans Ascent made me nervous. When I head into races any longer, I'm rarely nervous. I know that if I run well, and I should, it will turn out well. There's always a question as to how I'll feel, like whether my bitchy stomach will act up, but really, there aren't many other variables. There's a few hills, and you wonder about the weather, but it never changes much. As predictable as those races are, that's how unpredictable Mount Evans would be. Right away...
