January 2008

The Archives

• Music

  Stick This in Your Fusebox

  01.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shuffle just cued up AC/DC’s cover of “Baby Please Don’t Go”, which naturally brings to mind the recent release of their Plug Me In DVD box set.  Just about everything on that is a gem (I have footage of some of the earlier shows from other sources and enjoyed them, but the re-mastering for the box set is so […]

• Dogs, Walks with the dogs

  Various

  01.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have learned from more than one source that dogs’ paws can smell like Fritos.  I would assess this for myself, but I have more than once seen my dogs step blithely into large and avoidable dog poop piles. Yesterday evening we passed the crest of Belmont as it dips over the shoulder of Mt. […]

• Politics, Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Dude

  01.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you emerge from the bushes in the landscaping around the Walgreen’s parking lot, and I am walking by with the dogs, and if you’ve just been in those bushes for the purpose of getting high by whatever means, then please don’t try and engage me in incoherent, drug-logic small-talk.  I really don’t care what […]

• Dogs, General, Walks with the dogs

  A Shadow From the Past

  01.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday evening the power went out for about a half-hour.  Only a few hours earlier I had been walking with the dogs through a several-blocks-long blackout and felt relief when I turned a corner and saw I had reached the border of restored power and that our house was lit.  Whatever was wrong in that […]

• Music

  I Ain’t Got No Gigs

  01.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m entranced by Lucinda Williams again today; this morning it’s Happy Woman Blues.  There are other plates on the musical menu, however.  I downloaded a two-song e.p. just released by The Accused on their website.  As reluctant as I am to imagine the band without Blaine Cook, the new singer sounds sufficiently like him that it’s not a jarring […]

• Art, Music

  Seeing and hearing

  01.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The 2008 calendar above my desk here at work shows a different Wayne Thiebaud painting each month.  January displays this.  I like Thiebaud’s work for a sense of fun and detail, but not so much for creepy.  More than two-thirds of the month to go before I can stop looking at the devil’s toy closet. This week I […]

• Writing

  A Story

  01.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  What better way to begin a year’s blogging than to share another story with the internets?  Here’s one I dashed off last month, another bit of flash fiction.  It was rejected by the one magazine I submitted it to, and I’ve decided it doesn’t need to accrue the indignities of numerous rejections required to find a […]

G.E. Dempsey