Monthly Archives: July 2011

Thursday at the Oregon Brewers Festival 2011

After going on Friday for five of the last six years, the ever increasing crowds finally won. I went on Thursday. I’d expected much thinner crowds, but I had also expected the Festival to not really have its act together. … Continue reading

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Oregon Brewers Festival 2011

Teaser – The Titanic Tale of Oregon Brewers Festival 2011, coming soon! Fun, photos and flights of fancy! A walk through Portland! A visit to Powells! All will be revealed in these very pages! Stay tuned True Believer!

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John Carter of Mars (AKA “Edgar Rice Burroughs, Part 2″):

While I enjoyed the first few seasons, the television series “ER” still started out on my bad side when it introduced Noel Wyley as Doctor John Carter. I understood that its a common name, but the name John Carter would … Continue reading

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Do you have the crazy?

The Signal – In which I blather on about various movies and books before finally getting to the point and offering a mini-review of the 2007 film. I enjoyed Stephen King’s 2006 novel “Cell”. It told of a pulse transmitted … Continue reading

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Edgar Rice Burroughs, Part 1

Edgar Rice Burroughs is most famous for his creation, “Tarzan of the Apes”. It featured “Lord Greystoke”, a British noble orphaned at birth and raised by the somewhat sentient creatures of the jungles of West Africa. Burroughs wrote 26 Tarzan … Continue reading

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A Gat in the Hand Means a World by the Tail

My new YCN article reflecting on Raymond Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe can be found here.

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Roy Jones Jr – Its a damn shame

From college on, I’d long been a fan of boxing. I went to painfully brief pay per view parties featuring Mike Tyson fights. My best friend Jan was a huge boxing fan, and in Raleigh we regularly rented PPVs. We … Continue reading

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OMSI and the 4th of July

I had a great 4th of July weekend. We headed over to Diamond and Portia’s for a barbecue. Diamond, always great with a barbecue, really outdid himself this time. Using a gigantic grill, he cooked up several dozen pieces of … Continue reading

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