A wounded wing has grounded TV traffic reporter Amelia Earhart (her real name) who’s been spending her terra time recently as the 9News morning weather watcher.
Earhart, who’s sporting a sky blue cast on her left arm, which she camouflages with an Ace bandage while on the air, announced the injury on her Facebook page.
“I decided to get super motivated one day and take a run in Wash Park,” the eye in the sky told me. “I made a single lap, caught a toe on a root and went down chin first. My chin was the scary part because your face bleeds a lot. It looked like my throat had been slashed.”
In addition to the facial wound, which has since healed, air jordan 9 Earhart broke part of her left hand. Although she’s a righty, the clipped wing has kept her grounded because the plane she flies has a control stick on the left side.
“I’m out of commission six to eight weeks,” she said. “I was planning my flight to Paris in July, but I don’t know if that will happen.”
Earhart, who’s namesake is obvious, was planning to recreate the U.S.-to-Paris transatlantic flight of the pioneer aviatrix whose later attempt to fly solo around the world ended in her disappearance somewhere over the Pacific ocean on July 2, 1937.
Denver’s Earhart originally asked her Facebook followers to choose the color of her cast. Pink was the fan favorite.
“The pink was too close to Pepto-Bismol, and it scared me,” she said. “Someone suggested sky blue since I fly. I couldn’t resist!” The first signature on her cast? Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Although Earhart’s current condition is not without challenges – “putting peanut butter on an apple, putting on my skinny jeans and everything to do with undergarments” – she says it pales in comparison to the ordeal a colleague famously faced after a dog bit her face.
“When I think of Kyle Dyer and as much as she went through, I just need to shut up and suck it up.”
Liquor is quicker
Argonaut Liquors owner Ron Vaughn was none too happy when The Post let me go, so he got in a dig against the paper in Friday’s ad that appeared on page 9A. “Miss Penny Parker? Read her column at blacktie-colorado.com,” is printed at the top of the ad. Can you say customer for life? Thanks for the props, pal.
Have a heart
Denver designer and Project Runway All Stars winner Mondo Guerra will head up Team Mondo, who will camp out Thursday at Racines during Dining out for Life, a fundraiser for Project Angelheart.
Guerra, air jordan 10 who revealed his HIV positive status during an emotional season 8 of regular Project Runway competition, has become a tireless advocate for local charities by lending his fledgingly famous name to events.
On Thursday, more than 300 Denver and Boulder area eateries will support Project Angel Heart’s mission of delivering no-cost nutritious meals to those coping with life-threatening illnesses.
Here’s your mission: Find a participating restaurant, go out for dinner, and 25 percent of the night’s food sales will go to the charity. Diners can make additional donations in the envelopes provided at each table.
Eavesdropping on a man: “Every time I get a new Twitter follower, an angel gets its wings.”
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