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  Freedonia

  02.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I assume the graphic arts department, as well as at least three layers of the Oregonian’s vaunted editing resources, will be resigning over this map. I’m not talking about the typo in the attribution. I’m referring to the no-longer-existent country just south of Chad.  Even during its existence said country never shared a border with Chad.  Tant pis.

• 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 […]

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Holidaze

  12.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  After a traditional Christmas breakfast I took the dogs on the traditional Christmas Day walk.  I wondered that it felt so cold and abruptly we were in the middle of thick, heavy snow.  This felt like the kind of snow fall you get high up in the Alps, where sitting in the chairlift leaves you […]

• Portland

  Two Tales of Two Deaths

  12.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is a sad tale, but it is also an example of first-class journalism and writing.  I read the original story of the two deaths in the Oregonian, thought it was odd but never saw any follow-up.  Thankfully Nancy Rommelmann has the instincts and chops to find out far more than the original reporting uncovered.  Nancy is […]

• Portland

  A Sorry Sight

  12.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  This article about the Western Culinary Institute reminds me of my experiences with its graduates back in my restaurant days.  I don’t recall any of them lasting long; one thing you apparently don’t learn in cooking school is the speed necessary in a busy kitchen.  The article says that the WCI is misleading potential students […]

• Music, Portland

  Stormy Weather

  12.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I just walked over to the windows here at the office and it looks like we’re under water.  On the eleventh floor.  It’s been pouring rain lately.  Yesterday evening I drove in the downpour and wished I had not.  We’re used to rain but in these amounts even the locals develop apocalyptic twitches. Earlier today […]

• Portland

  Just wait five minutes

  11.28.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Last week the weather turned cold.  By cold I mean the mercury dipped below freezing in the middle of the night a few times.  Last weekend was sunny but chilly, with whipping winds to make me grumble as I raked leaves.  Then it began to rain again, so I cursed under my breath as I […]

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