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So long, old friend


Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

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A brutal blow …

I knew this was coming. But I still can’t keep from crying all over my keyboard as I write this.

The Rocky Mountain News is closing tomorrow after an amazing 150 year run.

I wanted to make this about me. About my time at the Rocky, short as it was, and what an impact it had on me. About the fact that now every daily paper I worked for is extinct. But it’s not about me. It’s about the Rocky. So suffice it to say: Denver won’t be he same without you, Rocky Mountain News. Best of luck to everyone who is about to become unemployed in a tough economy, and thanks for producing an amazing newspaper. I love all y’all.

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Happy Mardi Gras …

I remember my first brush with Mardi Gras. I was living on the Florida Panhandle in the mid-’80s, and my girlfriend at the time greeted me at the door, a colorful Medusa of plastic beads with a drink in her hand.

“It’s Mardi Gras,” she slurred.

“Huh?”

As a recovering Yankee Catholic, I knew about Ash Wednesday, Mardi Gras’ dour doppleganger where we smear ashes on our heads to remind ourselves that we’re mere mortals, born in sin, composed of dust. But those damned Eastern European Catholics never taught me about the cool part. Fat Tuesday. An orgy of fun before embarking on the ashes and self-deprivation of Lent. Needless to say, I learned fast and Mardi Gras is now one of my favorite holidays, right up there with Dia de los Muertos.

And for some reason, I’m feeling much more of a need to connect with Mardi Gras this year. I started Sunday with a bloody mary, a fire and Cubanismo’s “Mardi Gras Mambo.” It’s been pretty much a blur of Professor Longhair, Jelly Roll Morton