Hope For Humanity
I can’t write much today because I might have a book review due for a certain paper and I might have had to email the editor and blow the first deadline because the book is VERY VERY LONG. (Hi, Jeff! I’m totally working on it today and see how this is a really short blog [...]
Smooochy Wooochy
Sometimes I just want to squeeze Portland’s little cheeks and say “scoochy woochy you are sooooo cutie wootie.” It happened a lot when people would tell me St. John’s was a bad neighborhood. (I think it’s bad because there are *blacks* here and maybe a few *hispanics*.) Sure, we had a shooting at the bus [...]
Melissa Lion Asks Amy
You might remember last week when I fucking eviscerated analyzed in a scholarly manner the advice column of Amy Douhcebaginson Dickinson. This morning, Archie got up at 3:35 AM and told me to “do my work” so I promptly logged on to twitter and tweeted the fact that I was up (because the internet wants [...]
Arty Farty
Without a TV, I’m a little, okay a lot, behind the popular culture times. I haven’t had cable since I was nineteen and I’ve been without a TV for six years now, so you can see that whole trends pass me right by. And when I get really excited about something, chances are I’m like [...]
Back Fence PDX Day!
It’s Back Fence PDX Day, so click on over to check out this week’s story. The theme is True Colors and I can’t wait to see what people do with it. I was thinking about a story when I was in junior high and I went to a school whose colors were maroon and gold. [...]
California
Oh god, when I see this sort of thing, my heart aches for California. We lived on Point Dume in Malibu. Click here for a picture of where I used to walk. The beauty shocks me every single time.
A few things on my mind
1) I’m up in the Oregonian. I have no idea what happened to the first two paragraphs, but god are they awkward. I have no doubt that I wrote them that way, but sometimes I read things I’ve written and just think: gah.
2) We need stories for Back Fence PDX’s blog — True Colors is [...]
Sunday Parkways
Archie and I are doing Sunday Parkways today. If you don’t follow the link, six miles of streets in N Portland are closed to cars for the day and the streets are filled with bicyclists. It’s part of a convention in town to discuss carfree cities.
If I can bike someplace within an hour, I do [...]
Match Made in Heaven
Awww…look at these two cute girls. This is me and Miss Frayn on the day of Back Fence PDX. We’d handled all the stage set up from the lighting to actually drilling the legs into the stage. I used my Dewalt. I love that thing.
Not much of a post today. So warm and sunny out. [...]
You Know You Want It
UPDATE: Check out Back Fence PDX for three of last night’s stories. GO! Click HERE.
So here it is. Before it’s even up on the Back Fence page. It’s here.
All I can say is the evening was amazing. AMAZING. After every story I just sat in my chair, my cheeks hurting from smiling and my eyes [...]
