April 2008

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Foreigners
Underground
04.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I want to emphasize to you that AT NO TIME while I lived in Austria did I keep anybody in a secret room underground, nor was I ever kept in a secret room underground, nor did I ever know anybody who lived in a secret room underground. On the other hand, one of my favorite […]
Music
Oh Yes
04.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Weezer’s new album is out 6/24. And, oh my, what’s up with that cowboy hat? In other music news, for some reason I’ve been in a mood to listen to Terence Trent D’Arby today. TTD is the poor man’s Prince. I’ve never much cared for Prince.
Art, Books
Two Women
04.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been reading through John Updike’s collected early short stories. From “Snowing in Greenwich Village”, we have this passage: Her face was pale, mottled pink and yellow; this accentuated the Modiglianiesque quality established by her oval blue eyes and her habit of sitting to her full height, her head quizzically tilted and her hands palm […]
Music
Commercial Opportunity
04.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

In the Black Sabbath song “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”, there is a moment towards the middle of the song, after the second jazzy acoustic interlude and leading up to the solo, where Ozzy shouts “You bastards!”. Just that snippet would make a great cell phone ringtone. I’m not going to go looking for one; I don’t […]
Foreigners, Politics
Honi soit qui mal y pense
04.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

When Gorgeous George Galloway appeared before the Senate way back when, even some of those who thought he was lying through his oil-smeared pie-hole could admire his artful use of parliamentary rhetoric. In a similar vein, I present an official defending his government’s policy with an élan that Condoleeza Rice was unable to summon when confronted […]
Portland, Walks with the dogs
Haruspicy
04.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

It’s felt lately as if we’ve been stuck in a late-winter fugue state. We the people anticipate warmer days, or at least warmer rains, and yet we are chilled and our limbs are weary of cursing the gods. Perhaps it is the early onset of Daylight Savings Time this year we will blame. Such falsely […]
Uncategorized
Local Hero
04.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Last night I went to a party where some half of those in attendance had all gone to high school together in Tillamook; indeed some had known each other going back to kindergarten. I can’t even remember the names of anyone I went to kindergarten with (though I remember one teacher: Mrs. Romero) much less […]