July 2008

The Archives

Music
Rock Steady in Back
07.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been listening to the Vandals this morning, and so am reminded of some other names for the mullet: Ape Drape Hockey Hair Forbidden Hair Achey-Breaky Hair For some reason this reminds me of a dream I had last night, where I was out doing some serious shopping for a pair of cowboy boots I […]
Books, Portland, Walks with the dogs
Otium sine litteris mors est
07.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Recent books read: We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Warden, by Anthony Trollope Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (Modern Library Edition), by Edward Gibbon Today is muggy and I am logy but I still […]
Portland
I Got a Letter from the Government
07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I can’t roll up the sidewalk outside my house and take it indoors, and the city considers it part of the street system, and outside of my property. Yet I am legally responsible for its upkeep and repair. I suppose it’s a more direct form of taxation for infrastructure maintenance than we normally see, and […]
Portland
Civic Competition
07.22.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

My neighborhood may not be a walker’s paradise, but it is at least rated very walkable. Which makes sense, given how many street walkers there are.
Portland
Where I don’t make the evening news
07.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I went for a bike ride yesterday evening. Luckily nobody attacked me, nor did I find it necessary to use my AK. Nobody screamed “Faggot!” at me from their huge black pickup truck, no carload of yoots made barking noises at me, no crackers blared their horns at me for daring to ride in the […]
Music, Portland
Here is something you can’t understand
07.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

People of Southeast Portland! If you post a “free stuff” ad on craigslist offering free bricks, and if I have been refreshing the free stuff page every fifteen seconds because I want me some free bricks, and if I call your number three seconds after the ad posts, and if I leave a voicemail swearing I want the […]