Family Field Trip: Sauvie Island
Celebrate the fall harvest with your family on Sauvie Island, the bucolic wonderland just outside Portland
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Archive for June 28th, 2010
The Lady on the Bus
The Lady on the Bus Recently I had the privilege of riding the Greyhound Bus for the first time. I love to travel and have spent a lot of time on the road, traveling around this country and occasionally taken a trip to a foreign location. I’ve never ridden the bus. Frankly, it just never really cros …
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Contemplating the furniture
I’ve noticed a thread of furniture art in Portland over the last decade.. and while it’s by no means unique (artists like Robert Rauschenbeg, Rachel Harrison, Donald Judd, Anne Hamilton, Roy Mc Makin, Damien Hirst, Carol Bove, Inigo Manglano Ovalle, Kiki Smith, Tom Sachs, Vito Acconci, Ed Keinholz, …
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Title: The Truth Will Set You Free Author: maiden_rising Rating: PG-13 (language and references to adult situations) Word Count: 2400 Challenge: cinnamon raisin 23 (the truth will set you free) More about Daniel and Eleanor, c. 23 years after the last piece I posted. I’m seeing a theme here: outdoor …
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Fictionaut Faves, 6/28
On Ann Bogle’s “ My Crush on Daniel Ortega” by Bill Yarrow What I love about Ann Bogle’s “ My Crush on Daniel Ortega.” The cool title. Grabs me instantly. Beginning with “A week later.” Very funny. Very Un Chien Andalou. “In this room.” Immediately, the “this” sets up a real place and the reader is …
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Oregon Senator Ron Wyden Supports Consumers Over Corporations
Saturday evening, at Andina Restaurant in Portland, Oregon, I enjoyed dinner with Senator Ron Wyden. The experience reminded me how lucky we are to have smart, public-spirited people willing to devote their lives to the rest of us. Senator Wyden is running for re-election, and he needs our support i …
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Arts Advocacy Update 136: A 50 Cent Fall in Raleigh
The content below is from Americans for the Arts’ Arts Watch email blast of June 23, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.) South Carolina: Legislature Overrides Some of Governor’s Budget Vetoes Bloomberg Businessweek, 6/18/10 “Technical schools, public libraries, and health programs were saved from Gov. Mar …
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An oldie-but-goodie piece of NPR-bashing
One of the odd little side effects of the Internet for journalists of a certain age is to see old stories rise up like ghosts on Halloween. As more and more publications put their archives online, stuff I wrote years ago and haven’t seen since pops up out of nowhere. The latest example is a piece I …
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Erica & Christine
Please join us in congratulating Erica & Christine on their recent engagement! Read below the story of how they met and the fantastic story of the proposal . Erica & Christina The Couple: Erica Ciszek , age 24 Christina Raymond, age 31 Wedding Date: September 10, 2011 Where: Long Island, Maine In Er …
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Life on the River
I spent my formative years living within a few miles of the ocean in San Diego. In the summer we went to the beach to cool off. Now I live in Portland, Oregon which is a few hours from the ocean. It has been a tough adjustment period and after nearly five years here, there are a few things I still h …
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Chloe Walks with the Dinos at the Oregon Zoo
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Square Pixel Inventor Tries to Smooth Things Out
Russell Kirsch says he’s sorry. More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film …
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Square Pixel Inventor Tries to Smooth Things Out
Glenn Garvin on the Cult of NPR
From the Chicago Reader: Every few years I make an anthropological visit to my sister’s home out west. My sister–her name is withheld to protect the guilty–is a lifelong bureaucrat who’s never worked for anyone who had to show a profit, and she is deeply suspicious of the whole concept. She’ll dri …
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