Just in case you haven't been paying attention, Cyndi Lauper recently released a blues album and is on a rare tour. We saw her on Wednesday night at the Oregon Zoo. The last time she was in Portland, she was pregnant with her son...who

Beautiful Starry, from N. Albany.Starry again.Peko, with ringworm in tow.Nemo, who likes my trendy trap bed.Nemo took over the trap bed from Buffy. Before that, Gretal had dibs on the trap bed.Machi, taken shortly after he was returned. He now has one spot of ringworm on his upper lip.The athletic sisters Echo and Fantasi

Chris Dudley would have you believe that he's pro-choice. He even deliberately picked a fight with Right to Life to make the point. But the fact is, as Carla Axtman noted a few weeks ago,

The artist says that it takes her three weeks to paint a portrait in a studio, during which she might have four to seven sittings. This is in contrast to painting on location, which would take only five days. The location of where the artist does her work, whether at home, an estate, or farm, [...]

Here's more good legal news for the vast majority of Oregonians who want our state to stay as green as possible -- both environmentally and economically. Hot on the heels of a Marion County District Court judge's reversal of the...

I learned how to play cribbage when I was fairly young. My parents were friends with a couple who had two boys about my age; they would bring the boys over, we’d have dinner and then the grownups would drink beer and play cribbage while the kids watched a movie or played together. The real [...]

Nightlife Of Weeds LXX. Portland, OR. Photo by Zoe Hoeltzel. …………

Today was the reveal of the latest Twelve by Twelve colorplay challenge. The theme was "Lorikeet Colors" proposed by Brenda Smith of Australia, who has beautiful lorikeets actually flying around her yard! I think we all loved the cheery colors when we saw the photos of the lorikeets, then had a difficult time making such bo

Next week, the kids are heading back to school! What else is new around the neighborhood?Remember that while David Douglas starts school on Tuesday, September 7, Parkrose schools won't start until September 8. September 7 is a district-wide furlough day for Parkrose; all campuses and the district office will be cl

Big day here on the farm. First of all, Sydney started first grade. First grade. Full days, every day, with a new teacher, at a new school that has lots of kids, compared to the itty bitty pre-school/Kindergarten Syd attended...

Taplynx: Case Study: All Things Digital Another way to move web content to a native iPhone app using TapLynx.

1. There are no ultimate sources of knowledge. Every source, every suggestion, is welcome; but every source, every suggestion, is also open to critical examination. As long as we are not dealing with historical matters, we usually examine the asserted facts themselves, rather than investigate the sources of our information.

I've been invited to climb Mt. McLoughlin again, and so, since returning from the campout, I've been training. Today I walked out the door promptly at 5:00 and reached the summit of Nugget Butte, that is at 6:30. The old radio beacon tower is still hanging in there and so, apparently, are my legs. I wasn't even sore.

Today was the first day back to work for the Oregon Symphony and the beginning of the 2010-2011 season.  It was good to be back in the Arlene, and there were both some new faces as well as missing familiar ones.  Introduced at this morning’s rehearsal were our new Principal timpanist Jonathan Greeney (whose wife [..

Or I was in development hell. I have regained some of my enthusiam and urge for my project, which has had to be reduced down to a short, and will finally-FINALLY- be shooting in the next few weeks.I think that one of the reasons why I was stuck was that I was in "analysis paralysis". My preporduction research ha

On Baseball Tonight this evening, analysts Aaron Boone and Steve Berthiaume gave the Boston Red Sox no hope. Boone has already pegged them dead in the water, saying, “it was a valiant effort.” Berthiaume went a bit further, believing the Red Sox had already hung up their spikes by giving guys like young outfield

Metro and the City of Wilsonville invite you to the grand opening of Graham Oaks Nature Park on Saturday, Sept.18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with guided nature walks, activities for kids and families, learning stations at each...

image from fuckingawesome.netWOOT!Crappy Indie Music strikes again!I LOVE YOU GUYS!I'M OUT!Love,Goldie

A young female Italian artist, Bianca Pistillo, created these two paintings. Filed under: Art, beauty, Brown Trout, fly fishing, Fly Fishing Art Tagged: bianca pistillo art, bianca pistillo fly fishing, bianca pistillo italy, swittersb, swittersb and fly fishing

This is a great industrial film by Jam Handy for Hamilton Watch Company in 1949. It explains the mechanics of a wind-up watch. If they were making it today they might call it F*cking

I just tried to download some updates to some iPhone apps. Before I could do so, Apple insisted that I agree to the new version of iTunes's "terms and conditions." O.k.... At the bottom of the first page of legalese that constituted such "terms and conditions," I noted that it was "Page 1 of 55." I could read all 55 pag

So far at least, Deng Xiaoping's approach to open up the economy without political

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Faith wakes up after dreaming about snakes. Buffy and Spike Kiss. The Watcher's Council sends in the C-Team. And the ol' switcheroo!

Faith wakes up after dreaming about snakes. Buffy and Spike Kiss. The Watcher's Council sends in the C-Team. And the ol' switcheroo!

What better way to kick off the re-launch of Animal Intelligence than a story of inter-species friendship? As long-time readers know (if there are still any long-time readers remaining), and as new readers will soon learn, I have a soft spot for stories about animal odd couples. A cat who is raised by a crow? [...]

Portland International Airport will be the site for the long-awaited announcement of the shirt sponsor for Portland Timbers in their inaugural season in Major League Soccer. Rumors have been swirling for some time that Alaska Airlines will be said sponsor, perhaps even taking over the rights to the name of the stadium. Inte

There is a vociferous ongoing debate about current stock valuations. Some argue that stocks are "dirt cheap" while others

Portland Timbers will play their last ever second division home game on Thursday night against Puerto Rico Islanders. Amazingly the Timbers have played twenty-five times without yet facing Puerto Rico. Now the game with the Islanders comes both as an emotional end of an era in the Rose City, but also as an important game [.

A wonderful day to start the month, with a downpour, a brilliant clear sky for sunset, and good work done. The highlight of the day was celebrating with Ricardo his win in our World Cup Soccer bracket contest from earlier this summer. As he savored h

U.S. Department of Labor will hold joint hearings with the Department of Treasury on September 14-15 to discuss “lifetime income options for retirement plans.” According to Coin Update News “…the unstated agenda of these hearings, as I understand it, is to push for the US government to eventually na

Per the earlier post re resurrected flies from an old, plastic tub, I found some five dozen or so serviceable flies out of many hundreds of not so serviceable flies. Some of these flies have been nibbled upon by moths. Some have been in that tub for years. I estimate the tub was started some [...]

Chehalem Mountains Looking south from Cooper Mountain Vineyards, our local organic, bio-dynamic winery… their attitude is right, the pinot’s pretty damn good, and the view is sublime. Copyright © 2010 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.Share This

Day Seventy-three: A summer skirt or two. Ok, it’s not for me, and technically I didn’t sew it. But I did supervise its construction. In fact, I supervised the construction of two, since Miss Faith also made a skirt along with her sister Miss Sara. And yes, I call them that. I have no idea why, [...]

Domestically Challenged has challenged the world with a meme:1) The 5 books every person should read .... Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Montaigne's Essays, The Odyssey, and The Republic. From those it should be

Saturday of MusicFest NW has the hopeless allure of the Smashing Pumpkins. If you didn’t get tickets (sold out) or a VIP pass (sold out) you have little chance of making it through the line of all the nostalgic fools from the PDX metro area who wants to relive the most depressing points of their [...]

the Houston Chronicle --the place, Dover New Hampshire high school.A student got an a electrocuted in class so severely that his heart stopped is suing the teacher for not warning him of the consequences.The student, Kyle Dubois [being the brainiac that he is] attached an electrical cord to his nipples and had another stude

A nose view of the new (ca. 1960) EPT GMD1.

If free Northwes

One of the cows from the farm down the street and around the corner. Seven is absolutely fascinated with them.

The Hadley Centre has been doing some nip-and-tuck work on their global temperature data, but they now seem to have things up-to-data. The data have 2010 as the 2nd warmest year in their records, year-to-date. (1998 is the warmest, year-to-date.) Th

Over the past generation, we've witnessed much debate and lobbying in regards to the issue of prayer and religious activities in the public schools. There have been heated exchanges at local school board meetings, legislatures and the halls of Congress. So, you'll be happy to learn that, in the new American theocracy

I think the dog trained the guy to dance like this...

Is the amount of money your films take in an accurate gauge of a star's worth?

The Man experienced a momentous occasion last night just as he was arriving home. His little putt-putt car crossed the 500,000-mile mark. He ran inside to grab my camera and take pictures of the odometer. The moment has been preserved for eternity. At 500,000 miles, that's enough to have driven around the earth at the e

If I find myself in Multnomah Village at lunchtime I like to stop by the Village Hut for yummy bento. They offer more selection that the standard chicken or beef kabobs. Today they had Ahi, shri