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The last time I was in Los Angeles, my son took me to the legendary Amoeba Music store on Sunset Blvd. where we killed a quick two hours.Online music buying is quick and convenient, but nothing beats the experience of browsing leisurely through a well-stocked, well-organized record store.

Saturday is national Record Store Day, with hundreds of independent retailers participating, including Records On the Hill in Boulder and Denver's venerable Twist & Shout, which will feature a free live performance by Jackie Greene at 2 p.m.

Let's have some memories about the record store where you hung out as a kid. Anybody remember their first serious record purchase? Do you still shop at record stores or have you joined the online revolution?

ABC News anchors Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous were buffeted by journalists, supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and the blogosphere for their line of questioning, especially in the first half of the debate.

By Thursday evening, more than 16,800 comments were posted on ABC News' Web site, the tone overwhelmingly negative. A prominent TV critic, Tom Shales of The Washington Post, said Gibson and Stephanopoulos "turned in shoddy, despicable performances."

There was some positive feedback, with columnist David Brooks of The New York Times giving ABC News' performance an "A."

The Obama campaign, whose supporters were most angered by the debate, quickly sent out a fundraising appeal Thursday titled, "Gotcha." The liberal advocacy group MoveOn said it would run an ad protesting ABC if 100,000 people signed their petition.

"Last night I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people," Obama said at a rally in North Carolina on Thursday. "Forty-five minutes before we heard about health care, 45 minutes before we heard about Iraq, 45 minutes before we heard about jobs, 45 minutes before we heard about gas prices."

Every time you slide your credit card into the slot at the gas pump it comes back a little more bruised. Records for gas prices are made to be broken and we're going to set state records all spring.

Regular unleaded hit an average of $3.363 on Thursday and forecasters believe we'll hit $4 per gallon before summer, reports Gargi Chakrabarty.

Experts have warned that Colorado drivers could see $4 a gallon before summer. That possibility came closer to reality Thursday when regular unleaded gasoline hit a high of $3.363 a gallon. Nationwide, the average was $3.418 - setting another record.

"I am seriously thinking of taking my bike to work every day," said Alan Perkins, who lives in southeast Denver.

Gov. Bill Ritter's former campaign manager wrote himself and his company more than $80,000 in unauthorized checks but may face no legal consequences because of soft laws, statute of limitations and the fact that the money has been returned, reports Chris Barge.

The Ritter administration may never be fined for violating campaign finance laws, despite an audit that found Greg Kolomitz improperly paid $217,164.56 in campaign bills with money donated for the Democratic governor's inauguration.

Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers will have her work cut out in building a theft or embezzlement case against Kolomitz, said Scott Gessler, a lawyer for Republican candidates and ballot issues.

"It's going to be a lot harder to press charges than people may be thinking," he said.

Former Catholic and soon to be former Congressman Tom Tancredo blasted the pro-immigrant message of visiting Pope Benedict XVI and accused the leader of the Catholic Church of supporting immigration because it swells attedance at U.S. churches.

M.E. Sprengelmeyer reports:

"I suspect the pope's immigration comments may have less to do with spreading the gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the church," said Tancredo, a former Catholic who now attends an Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Tancredo interpreted that as a call for lessening restrictions on illegal immigration and said intruding in American politics is not part of the pope's job description.

All right, show of hands for everybody who stayed up to the end of the Rockies' historic 2-1 triumph in 22 innings over the San Diego Padres.

Of course if you did you'd still be sleeping in.

Tracy Ringolsby was our man on the all-night scene and reports that even better than the victory was the performance of starting pitcher Jeff Francis:

Not only did the Rockies pull out a record-setting 2-1, 22-inning victory against the Padres as Thursday night turned into Friday morning at Petco Park, but they also rediscovered the ace for their rotation.

The game ended at 2:21 a.m. Denver time. There were 15 pitchers and 683 pitches.

Troy Tulowitzki (above, smacking the game-winning hit) made the early-morning flight to Houston, where the Rockies start a three-game series tonight, with a two-out double into left-center field that scored Willy Taveras with the go-ahead run.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made international news by visiting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi but the Russian boss is making gossip news amid reports he has divorced his wife and will marry a 25-year-old Russian gymnast.

Pravda reports:

A recent issue of Italy's La Repubblica newspaper said that Russia's outgoing President Vladimir Putin was going to marry a girl who is 30 years younger. Furthermore, the newspaper wrote that Putin secretly divorced his wife, Lyudmila Putin, in February of the current year. With reference to rumours, La Repubblica wrote that Putin was going to remarry on June 15.

President Bush's call for the U.S. to stop the growth of greenhouse emissions by 2025 has drawn jeers from the international community.

"Losership instead of leadership," Germany's environment minister said Thursday of Bush's new strategy. A major disappointment, South Africa said. Too little and too late, a Chinese official added.

Bush's speech Wednesday, in which he said the United States must stop the growth of its emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 2025, dominated U.S.-sponsored climate talks in Paris involving the world's major economies.

Beyond the buzz over Bush, negotiators at the closed-door meeting pushed ways to expand the production of biofuels from sources beyond corn and other food crops, the chief French delegate said. The growing use of biofuels is blamed in part for grain shortages and rising food prices that have caused recent riots in several countries.