I'm about to leave for Chicago until Friday, Nov 7.

Hopefully I'll get Radio's stupid remote-access working by then, but so far I can't so I may be MIA until then.

But I can always add to the comments, so check in to the comments from this post from time to time. I'll use it as a really shitty blog till then. Feel free to jump in.

The one topic I'll keep separate is Survivor--since we already have a group commenting there each week. I have a separate post set up for that right after this one.

And if the remote access works, I'll update this post to let you know, and never mind.

Either way I'll be incredibly busy and can't keep up to my regular blogging schedule, but will come by when I can. Look for me especially this coming weekend.

I'll miss you.

As you may have read in the above post (which I'm about to leave after this), I'll be in Chicago until Friday, Nov 7. That means missing two Survivors. (Missing posting on them.)

Hopefully I can post from the road, but if not, let's all gather here. I can add comments from anywhere, and I will. I'll post my reactions to both shows here, and you can all do the same. Hopefully you will.

And if the remote access works, that will be clear from all the posts above this and if that's true then never mind.

If you live in Denver, you probably heard about this when it happened, last Wednesday. If you live elsewhere, you have probably missed most of the developments the past few years.

(Those would include more big leak's from Eric Harris's journal about a year ago, and the Harris and Klebold's parents making a private deposition with the other families a few months ago. A court battle is currently raging over the destruction of the transcripts to the latter. You can keep up all the developments via a special Columbine site the Rocky Mountain News maintains here. I link to it in my Columbine Almanac, so you can always get to it there--via the Columbine pic in the left-hand column of this page.)

But I was in Chicago last week, and couldn't get the latest news to you until now. Here's the gist, from the Rocky Mountain News story:

A bullet-filled video of the Columbine killers laughing, shooting and making gruesome asides was released Wednesday, raising new questions about the investigation and lessons from the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.

The tape - made only six weeks before the April 20, 1999, shooting - is the most extensive release of a video portraying Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. But the wisdom of publicizing the Rampart Range video, named for a forested, Douglas County area where it was filmed, quickly drew debate. . . .

Five people appear on the 15 ½-minute video: Harris, Klebold, Manes, his girlfriend Jessica Miklich, and Philip Duran, who introduced Manes to the killers. Manes was sentenced to six years prison and Duran received a four-year sentence.

The tape contains more gunshots than dialogue as the participants fire nearly 200 rounds at bowling pins and trees. Officials and others believe the video camera was passed around, with the various participants filming different portions of the tape.

You can watch the video yourself courtesy of the Rocky here: Video: Columbine gunmen video. Or you can buy a copy from Jefferson County for $20.

I was just asking for the comparable term to Deaniacs, and I got an email from the Wesley Clark people calling them Clarksters.

Lame. Someone can do better. I'm not using it.

They're also saying the camp is ecstatic about how well Clark did in the debate last night, though I'm sure they're all saying that. You can check out (or add to) the blog comments on it here, though.