http://ignoregon.com/rss/Eugene Aggregated Blog Posts From Eugene Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:07:42 +0000 en http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_10.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_10.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:43:00 +0000 Morning Mud• Rob Moseley has your Thursday practice update.The Ducks were inside Autzen Stadium this morning for what is essentially a walk-through day, with lots of special teams work and refreshers about situational stuff on offense and defense.“We have a lot of young kids still, so they had to understand how we want to practice,” Kelly said. “Today, obviously you’re playing in the SEC, you’re playing Tennessee, and they understand how big the game is. There really doesn’t have to be a lot of motivation from our standpoint.”• George Schroeder takes an indepth look at Tennessee coach Derek Dooley.• Rob Beard is making his 2010 debut this week and has been putting in lots of extra work.• Ted Miller has his week 2 predictions posted for the Pac-10 and picks Oregon by 15.Oregon 35, Tennessee 20: The Volunteers won't make things easy. The crowd at Neyland Stadium will be juiced. But the Ducks myriad offensive weapons will break through with difference-making big plays. Interested to see how quarterback Darron Thomas looks in the early going.Ted also does his "what to watch for" weekly series and wonders if Darron Thomas gets off to a fast start at Tennessee or gets rattled early.• Ken Goe has a trio of articles for your reading pleasure. Starting off, Ken says Oregon's offense should expect the unexpected."We're going to have to react off of what they do," [O-line coach Steve] Greatwood said. "Basically be in each other's thoughts and minds, every snap, without a lot of time to talk and make decisions. We're going to have to react rather than analyze."Next, Goe reports that C.E. Kaiser has fully recovered from his mild concussion and the Ducks will have everyone available to play on Saturday.Lastly, Ken does a Q&A with a reporter from the Knoxville area.• John Canzano shares his radio interview with Chip Kelly.• Chris Courtney shares his opinion on what to expect from the Volunteers."Their front seven is very impressive," stated [Chip] Kelly, "they're very athletic. We know Malik Jackson  a little bit because he's a USC transfer -- I thought he played a really good game (vs. Tennessee-Martin) -- all three linebackers are solid, so it's a talented group and we're going to be tested."• The Armenian Demon is back with his unique perspective on the Oregon vs Tennessee game.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-v-tennessee.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-v-tennessee.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000 Article courtesy of Dave @ As Seen By DaveThanks for that Lobos.Okay...here is what we have learned from our first game...get ready...bet you can’t wait to read it...absolutely, positively, nothing. New Mexico couldn’t be a high school state championship team. They couldn’t keep from fumbling when our fourth string was in. No other team that we play, not even PSU, will play on that level. So, we don’t know much yet.But that makes this week all the more exciting! This week we will play a depleted Tennessee team...but let’s face it, they are still Tennessee. They still have a butt-load of fans. They still have athletes that can cause issues for our offense and defense.Still, the advantage has to be greatly in Oregon’s favor. What Tennessee doesn’t have is real experience. They are gonna roll out a ton of guys that have exactly one start on their resumé. What the Ducks provide is “seasoned” players that have played big games, have faced big crowds, and have beat much better teams.None of this is news. We all know it. We all expect to watch a Quack-Fest of epic proportions.So what can we add that isn’t so apparent. Well, who is going to show up for Oregon? Will Darron be the man? Will LaMichael thrust himself into the Heisman race after Kenjon already made that step? Will Maehl stiff-arm some sad back on his way to the promised land?Here’s what I see happening. I see the Ducks starting with a pretty scripted set of plays. It is likely to be loud, and they are going to want to keep it predictable for the offense. But, predictable doesn’t really fly for the Ducks, so I think they’re going to handle that with a lot of zone read plays. It keeps the defense guessing, but it is a play that the offense can run with one eye closed, and one hand behind the back.Of course we can’t just run zone reads. But I don’t think they are going to cut Darron lose quite yet. He’ll have several short passes, screens, and most importantly, he is going to look to Mr. Paulson for some easy completions. I think Paulson has a big game...maybe 5�"7 receptions. And then POW...it’s going to be time to put the sting on them. I think we’re up by 21 at halftime, and win by 38. Just like that. I can be this confident, because one thing I know we can count on is the defense putting a hurt on their inexperienced players. Dare I say it? So scandelous. YES...the defense is going to pitch their second shutout of the season...in two games...they are so bad! We’ll focus on the run game that you know they’re going to try to establish...but nah...that won’t happen. It’s too predictable. So then they’ll open it up once we go up by a few touchdowns, and that’s when we take every last ounce of confidence from the QB. Two interceptions just like that, and no gas left in the tank. Shapoopi! Take that to the bank!PredictionsDT gets three touchdown passess...Maehl, Davis, and Paulson each hauling one in.LMJ runs for 117 yards, and has a touchdown.KB runs for 123 yards, and continues his move towards being a Heisman contender. One TD.Oregon 38Tennessee 0And now onto the uniforms. They way I see it, we have two options here. The game is on TV, so they may want to represent Oregon in a classic, recognizable way. They may also want to represent Oregon in a “futuristic” way.Classic from top to bottom--YellowWhiteYellowFuturistic Duck from top to bottom--Chrome DomeWhiteBlackAnd of course, being the Ducks, we’re gonna rock that futuristic look. Go Ducks! Quack! Bring on those Vols!Be sure to leave a comment at Dave's blog if you enjoyed this article....GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/boys-of-fall-oregon-style.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/boys-of-fall-oregon-style.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:49:00 +0000 • You might not be a country music fan and it's true that Kenny Chesney is a Tennessee fan but mrrustyduck has compiled some great clips, many I have never seen before, into this highlight video. Enjoy.GO DUCKS! http://swamigp.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/my-trip-to-nyc-and-beantown-felix-pie-a-rods-ego-and-the-fenway-faithful/ http://swamigp.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/my-trip-to-nyc-and-beantown-felix-pie-a-rods-ego-and-the-fenway-faithful/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:38:00 +0000 The Flight and the Manhattan stroll I stepped off the plane at JFK, stepped outside the airport, and soaked it all in. I was in New York. I hailed a cab for the first time in my life, got in, listened to “Where you goin’, kid?” from the driver in the stereotypical thick accent, and [...] http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2010/09/10/dec-hogan-summer-bug-steelhead-fly/ http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2010/09/10/dec-hogan-summer-bug-steelhead-fly/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:14:00 +0000 The Dec Hogan Summer Bug is tied with seriously fishy materials. A hot pink butt, purple body, mylar rib and two hackles topped with an arctic fox wing. What steelhead could pass this pattern up? Summer Steelheading is looking good all over the state of Oregon. We are hearing good reports from the Rogue, Deschutes, [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/tXOU/~3/_0WWmKaV2Ec/i-need-to-stop-answering-comments-for.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/tXOU/~3/_0WWmKaV2Ec/i-need-to-stop-answering-comments-for.html Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:39:00 +0000 I need to stop responding to comments regarding my last post because, after what I wrote to KJ, I realized that my heart is closed. A closed heart doesn’t necessarily preclude honesty, but it sure as hell precludes compassion and respect. We took Baxter to the vet yesterday�"on his eleventh birthday�"about a persistent cough. X-rays showed that the cause is most likely lung cancer. Our choices suck http://junknstuff.net/community/Ben/archives/003021.php http://junknstuff.net/community/Ben/archives/003021.php Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:00:00 +0000 My Tent Originally uploaded by 007Ben I will be using my semi expensive tent for the third time. It will also be the first time that it will be more than just myself sleeping in it. Kala and I... http://risashome.blogspot.com/2010/09/enjoy-sunrises.html http://risashome.blogspot.com/2010/09/enjoy-sunrises.html Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:17:00 +0000 I'm not, at root, a despairing type. So I plug along with my adaptive seed-saving and homestead projects, and everyone smiles at my "hobbies." I believe in a slow descent, beginning in my lifetime. It's already begun. But i'm not running for the hills. The emphasis is on slow. But descent (from the high tide of "civilization") is in the picture for sure. No, not so much from the global warming. That won't start killing rich white kids until after about 2050, meaning certain countries, mine included, won't feel sufficiently threatened by it to take action (way too late to do any good) until long after my time. And they will have enough troubles by then that they won't be able to take those actions.No, not so much from peak oil. There's truth in that, too, but at peak we have half the recoverable oil yet to burn (and choke on). It could be awhile before we panic much over that either.No, it will begin more, I think, with social disintegration. Conservatives have noticed this, and blame liberals (and blacks and browns and Asians and Muslims and gays and even transpeople (that would be little old me) for it, which is essentially false; but liberals blame conservatives for it, too, which is also pretty close to being false. That trouble originates not with people whose values have, or once had, their roots in a functional diversified subsistence agriculture, but with the cynical industrialists and bankers who  have, for a long time now, been playing us all for chumps -- and co-opting conservatives.I personally lay much of the blame for this on television, radio, print and Internet advertising and corporate sponsorships, including that for public media such as NPR -- and lobbying and campaign spending, all of which is rooted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision, back in the 1800s, to regard corporations as persons with rights -- the megacorporations' ads and commercials and Capital Hill connivings, with their wink-nudge ethos, have sapped the public domain and the will of millions to seek knowledge and judge of it critically. We, as a world, are slowly going insane from megacorporatism. And there's no cure. At best we can scurry around hoping the rotten apparatus doesn't hit us when it falls.As government processes driven by any other impulse than service to megacorporations grind to a halt, infrastructure service to the public will fray and ultimately shatter in many places; and as the local public infrastructures are all intimately bound together by what was, briefly in human history, the greatest public infrastructure of all time, the effects are extremely likely to snowball and bring the whole thing crashing down. Like what happened, on a smaller scale, in the fall of 2008.And then the conservatives will point to the liberals and the liberals will point to the conservatives and say, almost in unison, see, I told you so! While the industrialists and the bankers, much more at fault, will tiptoe away to their hideouts, which they've been fortifying for at least two generations now. From their point of view, all this is just so much population control, and it will have been successful -- except I don't think as highly of their fortresses' security measures as they do.Fossil energy will still be around in large quantities, but become difficult to transport or market effectively. This will exacerbate the food shortages, the water shortages, the sporadic attempts to mitigate the warming (which was caused by the transportation and marketing of fossil fuels), the electricity grid failures, all leading to further social disintegration, leading to more failures, and very likely to world resource war. Scarcity in the midst of plenty, brought on by simple greed "at the top."So social disintegration, for a largely urban (and very large) population within a framework of extreme infrastructure complexity, is the great danger. Almost anything can now nudge us off our balance beam: floods, storms, droughts, loss of ice cover or groundwater, crop failures, epidemics -- all of these are statistically associated with the warming, as actuaries in the insurance industry can tell you -- including the giant snowstorms. But also earthquakes and volcanoes and solar storms -- because disaster strains infrastructure, and our infrastructure is approaching the point at which it becomes more and more difficult to maintain.Y'wanna try and fix all this? Say, at the polls? Heh. Here in the U.S., the extra-constitutional 60-vote rule in the Senate will stop you before you start. Similar safeguards are in place elsewhere. Better start small. you won't fix anything, but you might mitigate the pain, for yourself and others, for awhile. After that, who knows?I'm fond of the endearing Transition Towns project, which if you are starry-eyed enough to want to sit in  a circle thinking up ways, with like-minded relatively powerless people, to regain the public domain in your town, may all the gods assist you, and may you succeed.I don't see much chance of convincing my largely Tea-Partyish neighborhood to go that route, personally.What's left to try, then, here? Starting even smaller, perhaps...The most accessible adaptive strategy, other than TT, I've seen online has been Mr. Greer's somewhat unfortunately named Green Wizards project. He is a proponent of General Systems Theory, which was the scientific movement, aka "cybernetics," that was the underpinning of, among other things, the Whole Earth Catalog and Coevolution Quarterly, which became redundant when the Internet came along.General Systems Theory was largely an academic movement with a side helping of back-to-the-landers, and its moderate success (Jerry Brown was a proponent) in the "real world," i.e., politics led to its being targeted and shut down by Ronald Reagan, whose administration pulled all the grants out from under everyone involved. Green Wizards will attempt to collect adaptive literature from that bygone era and make it available (he urges that we print everything out), organized in three Rings: Food, Heat, Crafts. The idea is that when our local communities get desperate, we might find an audience for these strategies, and be useful to them from a subsistence-and-mutual-aid standpoint. It's a form of hoarding the public domain on the public's behalf.Fritz Schumacher, who wrote Small is Beautiful, was a general systems thinker, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group, which was (and still is, under the name Practical Action) an effort to liaison with third world subsistence economies and help resist conversion to industrial/world trade economies -- because subsistence is more resilient. I see Green Wizards as like Practical Action, but aimed at the "first world's"  impending poverty as well as that of the "third world." It's somewhere along that continuum. So, I hope, are you and I.I recommend subsistence and resilience, along with getting to know the neighbors, a mixture of Greer and Sharon Astyk, as the sane approach. But don't ask me if I think it will work ... sigh. S'gonna go down heavy. But not all that soon. Meanwhile, enjoy the sunrises. http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2010/09/09/the-scariest-thing-this-side-of-the-steering-wheel/ http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2010/09/09/the-scariest-thing-this-side-of-the-steering-wheel/ Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:30:00 +0000 So we all know that Canada sometimes deals with municipal issues in an . . . interesting way. In my humble opinion this monstrosity takes the cake: Today, West Vancouver officials will roll out a new way to keep drivers alert and slow them down: a little girl speed bump. A trompe-l’�"il, the apparently 3D girl [...] http://beerandcoding.com/adventures-in-homebrew-wild-smoked-wheat-oaked-munich-ipa/ http://beerandcoding.com/adventures-in-homebrew-wild-smoked-wheat-oaked-munich-ipa/ Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:04:00 +0000 I was feeling a bit like a Mad Fermentationist myself after yesterday’s double brew. I finally got a chance last night to brew with the wild yeast I captured from my yard a few weeks ago. As I mentioned in my Previous Post, the plan [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/iBxuIPQ_3mo/musical-interlude-schoolhouse-rock.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/iBxuIPQ_3mo/musical-interlude-schoolhouse-rock.html Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000 One more school-themed song. Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Facebook http://blog.angelaharms.com/2010/is-agile-profitable/ http://blog.angelaharms.com/2010/is-agile-profitable/ Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:13:00 +0000 Yesterday I read (but didn’t much enjoy) a post about Agile suckage. And it got me thinking about why Agile is a good idea for business. I’ve been thinking about this because I couldn’t give a rats ass about profit. That statement might come back to haunt me someday, when I want to be fascinated by [...] http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/ken-goe-and-john-hunt-preview-oregon-vs.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/ken-goe-and-john-hunt-preview-oregon-vs.html Thu, 9 Sep 2010 07:52:00 +0000 College football: What to expect from Oregon at Tennessee• Ken Goe and John Hunt talk about the Tennessee game. Video courtesy of the Oregonian and Joel Odom.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_09.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_09.html Thu, 9 Sep 2010 07:50:00 +0000 Morning Mud• Rob Moseley and Ken Goe have your Wednesday practice updates.From Rob: The Ducks closed the day with a clutch period, needing a touchdown in the final minute of the scenario, and the defense won among both the ones and twos. Darron Thomas looked like he and a receiver got crossed up, and Eddie Pleasant came down with a pick on the first play for the ones. Nate Costa  couldn’t get so much as a first down with the twos. Two ways to look at all that sort of stuff, obviously, good for the defense, bad for the offense.From Ken: Oregon guard C.E. Kaiser (neck) wore a red, no contact jersey for practice. His participation was limited. I saw no other injuries of note.• A lot has been made of the fact that Tennessee has former Boise St. defensive coordinator, Justin Wilcox, working for them now and George Schroeder looks at the implications.He’s nervous this week, too, but that’s nothing new. And it has nothing to do with coaching against his alma mater, and against former coaches and good friends. It has everything to do with stopping the Oregon spread.“Fifty-two points in 18 minutes, 8 seconds,” he says, talking about the Ducks’ scoring spree in the first half against New Mexico, illustrating his challenge.• Ken Goe has a similar article on the defensive coordinator at Tennessee.• Goe also talks with Coach Kelly on playing Tennessee.“I would like to continue to play games like this,” Kelly said. “It’s good for your fan base. It’s good for your players. If we want to find out how good we are, we want to play against the best teams out there.”• Andy Mac shares some photos from the New Mexico game.• Ted Miller has a "stock report", as in whose stock is rising or falling and also says not to take the Tennessee game lightly.If Oregon handles the atmosphere in a businesslike way, the Ducks roll. They're just too fast, too experienced and too talented on both sides of the ball for the Volunteers. But the Vols also have enough talent that if the Ducks make mistakes or get distracted by 105,000 screaming Volunteers fans, then things could get interesting.• Making the trip to Knoxville? eDuck has all your game day activities and travel plans.• Think that it is easy and a cool job to be the Oregon Duck? Ken Goe caught up with Puddles and says to think again, you must have arms of steel.• Lord Beverage and Muchas G recap the slaughter of New Mexico and look ahead to the Tennessee game. Be sure to catch their podcast this week where they go over these stories and give out a well deserved Duck You.GO DUCKS! http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2010/09/09/palolo-worm-moal-leech-style/ http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2010/09/09/palolo-worm-moal-leech-style/ Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:43:00 +0000 The Palolo Worm “hatch” has become the holy grail for Florida Keys Tarpon anglers. Caddis Fly employee and Tarpon guru Barrett Christiensen has been fishing the keys for the past 13 years. Over the years he has developed numerous patterns for bonefish, permit and tarpon. His last pattern is a spin off of one of [...] http://robinwonders.blogspot.com/2010/09/chris-dudley-understands-high-taxes-in.html http://robinwonders.blogspot.com/2010/09/chris-dudley-understands-high-taxes-in.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:11:00 +0000 Willamette week --former Portland trailblazer's now candidate for governor Chris Dudley acknowledges that in 1993 to 1997 he lived in Camas, Washington to avoid paying Oregon taxes, since Oregon has the highest personal income tax in the nation.of course the Democrats are hammering Dudley over his actions. " His choice impacted the education and public safety of the Oregonians who paid to watch http://blog.angelaharms.com/2010/a-personal-rant/ http://blog.angelaharms.com/2010/a-personal-rant/ Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:24:00 +0000 I just figured something out. And wow. So Radical Love Project isn’t filling my time or my life, lately. Well, it kind of is, in that I haven’t stopped with the crazy pursuit of love. But since we moved to Columbus, that path is fuzzy. It’s taking a long time to feel like we have [...] http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2010/09/08/diversity-quotas-hooray/ http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2010/09/08/diversity-quotas-hooray/ Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:47:00 +0000 Just received this email via ASUO Multicultural Advocate Alexis White, via the infamous United States Student Association: Currently the USSA Board of Directors is in violation of diversity guidelines. It is important that we respect these guidelines for reasons we all might or might not understand. The Board has not met the diversity guidelines stipulated in [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/tXOU/~3/_ZTnu3-PPio/sic-semper-tyrannis.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/tXOU/~3/_ZTnu3-PPio/sic-semper-tyrannis.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:32:00 +0000 Doyd was 92. Whenever I phoned, his wife would answer and tell him it was me. “Hello, my friend,” he would say as my heart leaped for joy. Well, that’s over. Never again.I would hate funerals anyway, but I hate them a lot more when they’re religious funerals, and Doyd’s was about as religious as they get. Did the pastor actually believe that all of Doyd’s friends were conservative Christians, or http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyEugene/~3/_tBZ-DrDfag/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyEugene/~3/_tBZ-DrDfag/ Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:03:00 +0000 What if you could request and receive a garden in just a few hours? And the labor, consulting, and support was FREE? So what’s the catch? You pay for your plants and compost. You also have to volunteer to help create two other gardens. Victory Gardens for All builds community and charity in the Eugene area by installing [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/wUrBGdytQkg/musical-interlude-white-stripes-were.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/wUrBGdytQkg/musical-interlude-white-stripes-were.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000 Today's the first day of 1st grade for my youngest daughter, C. Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Facebook http://mattstansberry.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/walk-like-a-man/ http://mattstansberry.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/walk-like-a-man/ Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:44:00 +0000 He’s been walking for a little while now, but thought this was funny http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-motivational-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-motivational-video.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:09:00 +0000 • Oregon Gridiron has a new motivational video ready for your enjoyment, I think you'll like it.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_08.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_08.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:06:00 +0000 Morning Mud• Rob Moseley attended practice and they had the Moshofsky Center heat and humidity cranked up to simulate game day in Knoxville.Today was a much more physical practice than Monday’s lighter workout, with many more periods of 11-on-11 work. When the Ducks finished stretching and took the field for the first 11-on-11 session, what came over the PA system but “Rocky Top,” Tennessee’s ubiquitous unofficial fight song.• It's finally official, the opening game next season will be on September 3rd at Cowboy Stadium against LSU.• Nice article on DL coach Jerry Azzinaro by Rob Moseley.A ferocious motivator and conscientious teacher, Azzinaro has helped mold the Oregon defensive line into the one of the better units in the Pac-10 in less than two years on the job.• Kenjon Barner's stock rose with the HeismanPundit as he is tied for sixth.• Kenjon also received Pac-10 Player of the Week honors along with Cliff Harris.• Oregon moved up to 7th in the AP poll and 8th in the coaches poll yesterday.• All the facts and figures are included in the Oregon Football Release - Week 2 article at GoDucks.com.• John Hunt and Chris Courtney have rundowns on the fast approaching matchup with Tennessee and the common denominator is the speed and pace of Oregon football. Even the Vols are well aware of how fast the Ducks are.• John Hunt notes that the play of Brandon Bair and Dion Jordan is just part of the master plan.At the ends, Oregon is gradually breaking in Dion Jordan, the former tight end and wide receiver who �" like Bair �" stands 6-foot-7. It’s all part of the Ducks’ master plan to have long, strong and fast guys at the end who can chase down ballcarriers and cover receivers downfield.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/chip-kelly-press-conference-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/chip-kelly-press-conference-video.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:34:00 +0000 • Coach Kelly on preparing for Tennessee. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/lamichael-james-interview-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/lamichael-james-interview-video.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:30:00 +0000 LaMichael James talks about his return to action• LaMichael James talks with reporters after practice yesterday. Video courtesy of Joel Odom and the Oregonian.GO DUCKS! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/antsaint/~3/3_kmrLSleKk/blog-update-coming-soon.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/antsaint/~3/3_kmrLSleKk/blog-update-coming-soon.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:26:00 +0000 Working on/Coming soon Lots of Food & Drink! Food preservation. Homebrew. Eugene grub. Cookbook series. And more. Writing: This category may go by the wayside. I'm not really interested in "writing about writing", but do enjoy talking about productivity posts... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/kZYaKpDCuEU/good-readsrandom-cool-sites-972010.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/kZYaKpDCuEU/good-readsrandom-cool-sites-972010.html Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Noam Chomsky is the new judge on Simon Cowell's X Factor show (h/t: Mind Hacks). Fareed Zakaria: "Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat?" Me: No shit, Sherlock. It took you nine years to figure that one out? Inside the "mind" of the right wing: Obama says "They talk about me like a dog." Muslims don't like dogs. Therefore, his words are http://robinwonders.blogspot.com/2010/09/vote-bums-out.html http://robinwonders.blogspot.com/2010/09/vote-bums-out.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:35:00 +0000 Robin's commentary --The other day, I was listing to Coast to Coast AM and George Norrie's guest [unfortunately I cannot remember his name] was talking about what we could really do to send a message to our representatives that we are tired of the political games that they are playing in Washington and at home.He said that the best way to send the message would be to vote all the incumbents http://robinwonders.blogspot.com/2010/09/you-could-be-using-illegal-showerhead.html http://robinwonders.blogspot.com/2010/09/you-could-be-using-illegal-showerhead.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:07:00 +0000 Wall Street Journal -- What has a 24 inch surface358 no clog nozzlesTriple massaged optionSells for as much as $5,000Feels really great in the morningAnd the Department of Energy wants to make these illegal?You guessed it.The multiple showerhead.In fact, there are so evil that the Department of Energy's general counsel, Scott Blake Harris, fine four showerhead makers $165,104 in civil penalties http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyEugene/~3/AL_3ck_nI0Q/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyEugene/~3/AL_3ck_nI0Q/ Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:06:00 +0000 Here’s the latest on the major road construction in Eugene and Lane County. Information about road work and traffic delays is also available at the Keep Us Moving website and the Metro Road Report hotline: 541.984.8484. Eugene construction updates West 18th Avenue, between City View and Chambers:  The south half of the intersection at City View [...] http://sgttanuki.blogspot.com/2010/09/david-letterman-on-view-9710.html http://sgttanuki.blogspot.com/2010/09/david-letterman-on-view-9710.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:31:00 +0000 Occasionally we watch The View, and this morning their guest was David Letterman. From the second he walked out, he owned the stage. And for the next forty-five minutes he put on a display of impeccable comic timing, improvisation, and craft. The guy has the best delivery in the business, and some of the quickest reactions. This was a master at work.It reminded me of how much Letterman has meant to me through the years. From the '80s through the '90s I was aware of him, and watched him when I could - I'm 40, and it's fair to say I was part of the generation that grew up on Letterman's brand of humor. Between periods out of the country and periods when I just didn't own a TV, I never got to watch him regularly until 1999, when I came back from an extended stint in Japan. For the next six or seven years I watched almost every night...until finally it became apparent that he was just going through the motions. I know a lot of people gave up on him long before that, but I thought he was incredibly strong in the early '00s. His running Campaign 2000 bit in that year was the best commentary (completely dada) on that crazy season in our national life, and of course he was the guy who got us through 9/11. But eventually I had to admit that his show was stale. I stopped watching him regularly a couple of years ago, and I haven't watched him at all in about a year.Maybe I'll tune in tonight. Because this morning he reminded me of why during many of my years outside the US, Letterman was the piece of American pop culture I missed most: that dry, wiseass wit. I'm on the record as not liking snark, and he basically invented it, but Letterman's different; you can always sense an angry, passionate intelligence just beneath the surface. And even when he's not particularly engaged, he's still probably the best remaining practitioner of a particular, ancient and honorable, brand of professional comedy.That's a lot of qualifiers, I guess. But anyway, maybe we still need Letterman. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/xfeESuLtlXo/musical-interlude-blur-girls-boys.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ToTryANewSwordOnAChanceWayfarer/~3/xfeESuLtlXo/musical-interlude-blur-girls-boys.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000 Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Facebook http://culinariaeugenius.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/senfgurken-vengeance-will-be-mine/ http://culinariaeugenius.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/senfgurken-vengeance-will-be-mine/ Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:56:00 +0000 Senfgurken, mustardy pickled cucumbers popular in Germany, are warriors in the battle of the summer squash.  Vengeance will be mine! We all know the war — summer squash vs. you.  One day, you’re harvesting tiny cucumbers and zucchini, some even with their blossoms still on the fruit.  You look carefully every day or so, removing [...] http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/flotv-ad-featuring-puddles-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/flotv-ad-featuring-puddles-video.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:40:00 +0000 • Maybe you saw this during the big game last night. Pretty fun and thanks to keeerrrttt1 for posting on YouTube.GO DUCKS! http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2010/09/07/rainbow-bead-steelhead-damsel/ http://oregonflyfishingblog.com/2010/09/07/rainbow-bead-steelhead-damsel/ Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:12:00 +0000 In our latest video Jay Nicholas utilizes a new bead, UV Chewee Skin, and a new bobbin. All products/materials come to us from Hareline Dubbin. The Multihued Rainbow fly tying bead gives any fly an exotic array of colors within each given bead. The Stonfo Elite adjustable tension fly tying bobbin is well [...] http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_07.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_07.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:42:00 +0000 Morning Mud• Rob Moseley was at practice yesterday and files this report.There was a lot of special teams work and positional drills today, but some team situations right at the end. Rob Beard drilled a 38-yard field goal in a clutch situation with the offense trailing by two points, but Nate Costa and the twos were unable to convert with 40 seconds left needing a touchdown.Darron Thomas put the first offense in position for the “game-winning” field goal, in his first practice following his debut as the Ducks’ starting quarterback Saturday.• Moseley also shares his feature article from yesterday's R-G as the Ducks focus on Tennessee. Notes about the Vols top receiver who will likely miss the game due to injury and part 2 of his round table discussion with other reporters on recruiting.• Adam Jude talks with LaMichael James about preparing for his season debut.To have success Saturday, James knows the real work must begin today, the start of the Ducks’ game-week preparations.“You can’t just show up on Saturday and expect, ‘Hey, I’m gonna be this great player,’” he said. “You have to show up on Monday, too.”• Ted Miller has some quick previews of week two, a Pac-10 rewind article and his Pac-10 Power Rankings going into week two.1. Oregon: New Mexico isn't very good, but the Lobos badness doesn't completely account for 72-zip and 720 total yards. The Ducks look athletic and poised on both sides of the ball. Now let's see how they handle a tough road test against Tennessee.• In case you missed it yesterday, Tampa Bay picked up LeGarrette Blount off of waivers after he was released by Tennessee. • John Hunt talks about the 13.5 point spread that has the Ducks heavily favored against Tennessee.Oddsmakers no doubt watched the Ducks cover that 35-point spread �" twofold �" against New Mexico in Week One. Still, it’s a bit of a surprise considering the Ducks have to travel cross-country and play in such a hostile environment with an inexperienced quarterback.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/darron-thomas-interview-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/darron-thomas-interview-video.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:28:00 +0000 • Darron Thomas talks with reporters about the trip to Tennessee and his first road start. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/brandon-bair-interview-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/brandon-bair-interview-video.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:24:00 +0000 • DT Brandon Bair talks with reporters after practice yesterday. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/rob-beard-interview-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/rob-beard-interview-video.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:21:00 +0000 • Rob Beard talks with reporters about his 2010 debut and going to Neyland Stadium. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/lamichael-james-interview.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/lamichael-james-interview.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:18:00 +0000 • LMJ talks with reporters after practice yesterday. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/kenjon-barner-interview.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/kenjon-barner-interview.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:07:00 +0000  • Kenjon Barner talks with reporters after practice yesterday. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/chip-kelly-on-tennessee-week.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/chip-kelly-on-tennessee-week.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:03:00 +0000 • Coach Kelly talks with reporters after practice yesterday. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-duck-is-interviewed-on-espn.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-duck-is-interviewed-on-espn.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:01:00 +0000 • The Oregon Duck is interviewed on ESPNews' The Beat 9-06-2010, with the assistance of Dana Guthrie interpreting the Duck calls, in the wake of the Duck's epic 506 push-up performance during the 72-0 romp over New Mexico 9-04-10. Thanks go to keeerrrttt1 for posting on YouTube.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/chip-kelly-on-oregon-vs-tennessee-video.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/chip-kelly-on-oregon-vs-tennessee-video.html Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:58:00 +0000 • Coach Kelly talks about the road trip to Knoxville with reporters. Video courtesy of NWsports300.GO DUCKS! http://eugeneunderground.blogspot.com/2010/09/another-observation.html http://eugeneunderground.blogspot.com/2010/09/another-observation.html Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:42:00 +0000 In any town on the coast, there's a bayfront dive that can out-kitchen most of the other restaraunts in town combined.Unfortunately, they also have a drunk girl who wants to fight over everything she doesn't understand. (Which is usually alot.) http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-are-oregon-cheerleaders-so-hot.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-are-oregon-cheerleaders-so-hot.html Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:23:00 +0000 Video: College Experiment: UO Cheerleaders• This video is worth a repeat... And thanks go to StallionVol for re-posting. The traffic to my website today is crazy!GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-duck-song-2010-put-your-os-up.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/oregon-duck-song-2010-put-your-os-up.html Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:44:00 +0000 • This is pretty fun. I like it.GO DUCKS! http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_06.html http://winesfamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/duck-stuff-morning-mud_06.html Mon, 6 Sep 2010 08:50:00 +0000 Morning Mud• The Register Guard (R-G) had a ton of extra content in yesterday's paper and they were kind enough to share it. First up, George Schroeder, says we have nothing to worry about "this kid can play."Darron Thomas raced downfield, and caught the guy, and then he brought him down. And here was the criticism from the Oregon coaching staff:“It was too clean,” offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich said. “We don’t want him to look that good.”Yeah, that’s about it. Oregon beat New Mexico by the astonishing score of 72-0 on Saturday.• Adam Jude says the shutout over the Lobos was a team effort.There was a lot to like for a defensive coordinator, and Nick Aliotti certainly enjoyed his unit’s first shutout in seven years Saturday afternoon.The Ducks held New Mexico to 107 total yards, an average of 1.8 per play, and forced five turnovers in a 72-0 rout.“It was awesome. It really was awesome, and we should all enjoy tonight,” Aliotti said.• Adam also reports on the starting debut of Darron Thomas and what his teammates thought.“I saw some things from him that I haven’t seen from other quarterbacks,” [Nate] Costa said. “It was his first start, and he was a little nervous in the beginning, and that’s understandable, everyone’s going to feel that. But he settled down more quickly than I’d seen from other people in the past. For his first start, I think he did a helluva job.”Nate is always the gentleman, classy guy.• Ron Bellamy looks at the special teams and they were just that, special.Sophomore Cliff Harris, the backup to return specialist Kenjon Barner, took the first two punts he fielded for touchdowns of 61 and 64 yards, becoming the first Oregon player to return two punts for scores in one game.Walk-on freshman kicker Eric Solis, who played while projected starter Rob Beard served a one-game suspension, connected on his first 11 placements �" eight conversions and field goals of 24, 29 and 30 yards �" to match a UO school record and tacked on another extra point after his fourth field goal attempt was blocked.• Rob Moseley shares what Chip Kelly had to say in yesterday afternoons teleconference with reporters.Darron Thomas graded out really well. Kenjon Barner's role in next weeks game at Tennessee hasn't changed in light of his record tying performance. Rob Beard will return next week as the placekicker.Defensively, Kelly said Brandon Bair graded out the best on the line, while Casey Matthews, Josh Kaddu and Bo Lokombo also looked good on the video. • Ted Miller reports on "what we learned" in the Pac-10 on the first week.FCS teams have no chance vs. the Pac-10: Arizona State, Cal and Stanford buried three FCS teams by a combined count of 168-29. While that's really not something to celebrate, at least one BCS conference[SEC] can't say the same this morning.• Lindsay Schnell at the Oregonian reports on how future Ducks did in high school play this weekend in a new feature called "Friday Night Lights, Oregon Duck Style."Johnny Manziel is probably tired after attempting 75 passes and racking up 503 yards and four touchdowns in Tivy's 39-34 win over Madison. Oh yeah, he also ran for 78 yards and one touchdown.• Ken Goe call the Oregon win impressive but notes it will be tougher next week.The Ducks put the hammer down.It gets tougher this week in Knoxville, Tenn.This might the worst Tennessee team in recent memory, but the Volunteers still will be a big step up in competition level.How good is this Oregon team?Stay tuned.GO DUCKS! http://sgttanuki.blogspot.com/2010/09/very-early-santana.html http://sgttanuki.blogspot.com/2010/09/very-early-santana.html Mon, 6 Sep 2010 03:06:00 +0000 Santana is a band, not a man, or so goes the theory: in practice, most of Carlos Santana's solo work is pretty indistinguishable from his eponymous band's output, but it is true that his music is always more than just him and some sidemen. And if only because he doesn't sing, Carlos doesn't tend to dominate his bands the way, say, Clapton does his. Santana, when billed as such, is a band.Of course for most of us there's only one Santana band, the first one. The one that gave us the only three Santana albums that matter*: Santana, Abraxas, and Santana III. The Santana that slew everybody at Woodstock.But it turns out that this wasn't the first Santana band. It was the second. The first one consisted of Carlos on guitar, Gregg Rolie on keyboards and vocals, David Brown on bass, Marcus Malone on congas, and Bob "Doc" Livingston on drums. The first three, of course, were the instrumental core of the Woodstock-era band, but the two percussions were replaced for the first album.Is this ur-Santana worth checking out? Surprisingly enough, it is. Where can you check it out? Three places.First you'll want to track down the 1988 compilation Viva Santana! Hokey name, but worth getting if you're a Santana collector, because it has a ton of rarities. The one that concerns us here is "Ballin'," a demo recorded in late 1967 by this original lineup. A demo, it's called, but it was clearly professionally recorded, and it shows, in six and half minutes of instrumental fire, the musical conception of the classic Santana band already fully-formed. Hot crying guitar, cool caressing Hammond organ, seductive multi-percussionist rhythms. If this is the earliest Santana available, it's a magnificent overture for the man's career.You'll also want to get the 2004 reissue of the eponymous debut album, the two-disc "Legacy Edition." This is a problematic release; it claimed to include, among its goodies, the complete Woodstock set, but in fact it's missing one song - which later came out on a two-disc set that includes the first album, the complete Woodstock set (for reals this time), but not the other bonus tracks from the Legacy Edition. Typical Sony/Columbia chain-jerking. Anyway, among those bonus tracks are six studio recordings from early 1969 that constitute the band's first attempt at recording their debut album. And although the liner notes to this edition very ungraciously fail to name-check Malone and Livingston, they are in fact the percussionists on these sessions.Now, these tracks - early drafts of "Soul Sacrifice," "Persuasion," "Treat," "Shades Of Time," and "Jingo," plus a studio take of "Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries" - are mostly disappointing, just like you'll read in any number of discussions of the classic album. They really are unfocused, slightly dead-sounding jams; particularly disappointing after the excitement of "Ballin'." I'm not sure I can even recommend checking them out, although "Shades Of Time" is interesting because it's not on the live album, so this is the only way to (legitly) check out the early stage in this song's evolution. ...It's worth noting that the liner notes to the live album (see below) mention that the first album was originally going to be called Freeway Jam, after a song by that name recorded during the sessions. But it's not here (although it shows up on the live disc). The notes to the Legacy Edition say this is the complete unreleased album, but is it? Or are we going to get yet another reissue someday with "Freeway" on it? This is Columbia/Sony: of course we are.The live album. In 1997 Sony, who can do some things almost right, released a two-disc live document called Live At The Fillmore 1968, which features the original lineup. Drawn from shows at the Fillmore West on December 19, 20, 21, and 22, 1968, it was an odd move, coming at a time when the classic Woodstock lineup still hadn't been featured on a full-length live album. But never mind: we're glad we have it. And while we're never minding, let's try to forget about the fact that each disc in the set is under an hour long, while bootlegs from the era suggest that the band had more songs in their repertoire than are represented on this release. We're still glad we have it.Because it's fantastic music. Carlos, Rolie, and the underappreciated Brown are just tearing it up on these nights, while Malone and Livingston hold their own: they're not Shrieve, Carabello, and Areas, but they hold their own.The set includes four of the tunes that would eventually make up the first album. "Jingo" and "Soul Sacrifice" are pleasant, but definitely pale in comparison with what they'd become. "Persuasion" has yet to be tightened up into a by-gum-that's-a-pop-song; here it starts out with a shaggy fusion vamp before settling into the song portion. You can see why they stripped it down for the final version, but you can also tell that the earlier arrangement was more fun to play live, and maybe even to hear live. Lots of nuance and drama to this arrangement. But the prize of the familiar numbers is "Treat," stretched out to twice its album length here. Still follows the same basic pattern, but Rolie's piano work benefits from the room to stretch out. This is the Santana band as classic jazzers, a role they pull off with astonishing conviction. They had the goods.The balance of the album consists of numbers that would never show up on an official album. The Willie Bobo number "Fried Neckbones," Chico Hamilton's "Conquistadore Rides Again," and Albert King's "As The Years Go Passing By," plus the originals "Chunk A Funk" and "Freeway."Quite simply, these should have been the band's first album, and Santana the second. "Fried Neckbones" and "Conquistadore" are as funky and catchy as anything the classic band ever did, with that confident, at-home looseness that only the Fillmore could breed. "As The Years Go Passing By" is maybe the most assured blues performance to come out of San Francisco that year, and is a welcome representation of the straight-blues side of the band, a side that was fully assimilated into the Latin melange by the time the first album was recorded, but which in the beginning was raw enough that they called themselves the Santana Blues Band."Freeway," meanwhile, is...I'd love to hear a studio version of this someday. Live, it's a half hour long, and it almost justifies its length: it's their "Who Do You Love," their "Dark Star," their "Bear Melt": lots of solos all around. I don't mind this kind of thing, obviously; there are some who think this kind of thing was self-indulgent, but (a) what's the point of rock if you're not going to indulge, and (b) you have to understand that these jams were meant for dancing, and as a dancer as well as a musician, when you're in the groove, you don't want it to end, and the whole point of the SF scene was to ask, well, why should it have to end? "Freeway" has a great riffy first seven or eight minutes, before all the solos start, and that's why I'd love to hear a proper studio version: what did they consider the essential part of the song? Live, a lot of it is taken up by a percussion duet, and it's here that the inferiority of the Malone/Livingston battery to the Shrieve/Carabello/Areas team becomes glaringly apparent. But in the last six or so minutes the rest of the band comes back in, and all is forgiven.An essential listen, made all the more so by the fact that it documents a band that is otherwise all but lost to history.*For the record, I don't buy this line. I think Caravanserai is interesting, and Welcome and Borboletta are damn near essential albums. I haven't gone beyond them yet.