Fail to Obey A little run in with Portland’s finest this weekend. At exactly 00.00 hundred hours the flashy new Skelton Mobile was pulled over on NW Burnside for failing to obey a Traffic Control Device. Apparently, the officer who stopped us is color blind and doesn’t know his yellows from his reds. Everyone in …
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The Madcap Adventures of Danny Ho A few weeks ago a gentleman named Danny Ho (name changed to protect the innocent) showed up at my door. Although quite young in years, Danny Ho is a throwback to a time when June Cleaver housewives bought vacuum cleaners from guys like Willie Lowman. Danny Ho is a …
The Cornbread Corner Current favorites: Baking and eating corn bread, reading the beautifully designed The School of Fencing, enjoying the beauty of stark Black and White Paintings and the saturated color of Hanna Werning’s Animal Flower Wallpapers. Also, enjoying the photo, Woman on Swing by William Eggleston, and (last but not least) the pheasants that …
Isetta Karavan Wow. Two posts in a row about cars. While that might be a first for me, I can’t help the fact that I find the BMW Isetta to be one of the silliest and coolest little cars I’ve ever come across. Those Germans were on to something with this vehicle. I think they …
Not-So-Standard Here, in the quite Sunset community where the Skelton Ranch is allowed to stretch out, relax, and ready itself for the rainy season, a peculiar phoneme is taking place. It seems that our newly purchased car, the 2006 VW Passat, is turning out to be way more of a celebrity than the humans that …
Ranch Pumpkins Our pumpkins had a serious problem with tooth decay. No doubt this was brought on by swallowing up way too many left over kit kat bars. Once again, as happens every year, I completely overestimated the numbers off boogieman bambinos that would parade across our entry. I am left still holding a kings …
Afrojet Costume Contest Winners For my costume this year I went dressed as a photographer for Citysearch, which turned out to be, not just a pretty easy costume to wear but a fairly convincing one as well. Folks lined up for the chance to win the City Search’s ‘Best Halloween Costume in Portland’. Unfortunately, those …
It’s A Catastrphe Another weighty telephone directory showed up as a blight on my lawn yesterday. Before I take it down to the garage and feed it to the chop saw, I thought I’d share with you, all the fine business establishments here in Portland that have chosen a name that really takes control of …
Hell-O-Ween There is something about the late October air, the quickening onset of the darkness, the slow, amber laced death of my Japanese Maple tree, and the approaching witching hour of Halloween, that has turned all my attentions to the sonic appreciation of Metal. The more horrifying the better. Luckily all this will come to …
The Buccaneers of Elliot Bay Another great trip up to Seattle this past weekend. Partied with Brother J and the rest of the Wages of Sin at their historic record release party. Sea-shanties have never sounded so good. The gig was at the Jules Maes, Seattle’s oldest bar (founded in 1888). We began the evening …