Happy New Year! We hope you had a great start into 2010!

We can’t wait to see Colin back on the tv screen and surely there will be other interesting projects and Colin related things this year ….

Dan Phillips the owner of Vinyl Renaissance send along a paparazzo-worthy photo of actor Colin Hanks stopping by Phillips’ Shawnee record store on the way to a film shoot in Iowa.

Hanks, who is apparently a jazz aficionado, purchased albums by Max Roach, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims, Pink Floyd and Washboard Doc.

Please visit blogs.pitch.com to see a picture of Colin in the record store.

A huge ‘thank you’ goes to Carly!

Colin’s father Tom Hanks joined the micro-blog network Twitter. Go to twitter.com/tomhanks and follow Mr. Hanks in order to find out “What he’s doing.”

…. and if his son decides to sign up, Tom surely tells his followers.

Tom is on MySpace, too: www.myspace.com/tomhanks

I cannot believe we missed it but this past Sunday, June 21st was Alex Whitman’s 25th birthday! Many of Colin’s fans–myself included–fell in love with Colin during the period of time he portrayed Alexander Charles Whitman on “Roswell”. So happy belated birthday to him!

The E-bay auction “Colin Hanks’ DKNY tie” for the good cause ends in 17 hours and 31 mins. Make sure to place your bid: DKNY tie

100 percent of the proceeds are going to Career Gear to support their mission of assisting disadvantaged men find and retain employment!

Thanks to Shelley we can show you bigger versions of the tie Colin donated to the nonprofit organization Career Gear:

Thanks a lot Shelley!