Teen Wolf vs. I Am The Law Caught some Wolfmother downtown last night. High intensity, good songs, and great musicianship. If you can rate a rock show by how much beer gets spilt on your person, than last night was tops. After the show I smelt like the inside of a beer bottle that’s been …
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Sunday Explosions In memory of the Trojan nuclear plant, I am sipping java from my mug that bears a radioactive likeness. When the coffee is hot and steaming, the resemblance is uncanny. They blew the I-5 landmark up yesterday. Did you see it? If you didn’t, here’s video. And there’s also a Flickr pool. In …
More About Maintenance The Master Wrench, an auto repair shop up the road from The Ranch, dishes out the sage wisdom. Every month or so they refresh the sign with some good horse sense. Right now there are no less than five dogs having a shouting match in the neighborhood. It sounds like reality television. …
Sea Songs for Volume & Flotsam for Breakfast A grand weekend at the coast celebrating birthdays (mine) and relationships (ours). Saturday, I had one of those perfect days. Everything was sunshine slow, young, ripe & oceansized. We cruised the beaches, scored at the shops, and the golf balls went far and true. We ate famously …
A Morning Smolder on the Shoulder Daily occurrence. Around 8:30 every morning this week a women in here late 40’s driving a newish Audi station wagon pulls up and parks outside our house. She rolls down her window and lights up a cigarette. She smokes about half the cigarette, blowing the smoke out the open …
Timber Town Portland’s a tuff town for sports fans. It doesn’t have a professional baseball team or a professional football team. Its basketball team is the laughing stock of the NBA. If you were luckily enough to have been born and raised here, then you probably get into the college football thing. But for the …
Hair Pride What’s up with Judy Dench’s period ‘fro in Pride & Prejudice? I love it. You could hide a whole battalion of soldiers in that coiffure. She should have won an Oscar for the hair alone. I wish I could go back in time and make a ‘short’ staring Judy Dench and Klaus Kinski. …
Slash And Burn An active but relaxing weekend which included: veggie barbecuing, some delirious Xbox killing, watching the NFL draft through sleepy morning eyes (AJ Hawk was a good pick up for the Packers), a visit to the Japanese Gardens, plant purchasing, outdoor patio furniture purchasing, and a heap of yard maintenance. When we moved …