PORN HEALS ALL WOUNDS Porn is the gift that keeps giving; and not just in obvious ways, as I hope to prove with this 36-part series. For 36 posts, I am going to seek and present porn knowledge — fun facts, obvious truths, exciting trivia and even some pictures. I’m no expert but I hope to transcend...
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From the sadness of the Internet’s tragic clown face. Carl Sagan is dead. There will never be another Carl Sagan, so stop saying there needs to be a new Carl Sagan. Some kooky children’s books e.g. “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?” “Never Smile at a Monkey” and “Joined at Birth: the Lives...
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George Lucas quote I had in a dream circa 2006: “We find out in the prequels that Chewbecca can speak as articulately as a human.” “Хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда” (We hoped for the best, but it turned out as usual.) ex-Russian PM Viktor Chernomyrdin My feet stink. Such a problem. My whole household...
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I recently started up some groups at Flickr. Please join and share your pics in the following: COLD LONELY  PLACES ‘NEGATIVE’ SPACE and… STILL LIFE a.k.a. Inanimate Immortality
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Don’t look now, but it’s List Time! (Lists abound at the end/beginning of every year, in case you live in a cave and didn’t know.)  Below is my little contribution to the literary scorekeeping process — my favorite books from the past decade.  Arts and Entertainment If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, by...
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The best thing about this first day of 2010 is that I haven’t heard U2’s “New Year’s Day” even once. Thanks to all who made “Guest Blogger Month” a fun time in December. Kind thoughts and good vibes for a new decade go out to: The lovely and talented Ruth Waytz; Iced Borscht’s point man in Orange...
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From the spiraling love appendages of the Internet universe… Conrad a.k.a. Substitute offers some damn fine holiday advice The Westboro Baptist Church announces that God hates Lady Gaga Reason.com’s Michael Moynihan looks at the Year in Hyperbole Oregon ranks 40th among states in terms of religiosity Scott Stein channels Thomas Paine over at When Falls the Coliseum Phil Plait alerts...
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Had some fun taking pics tonight at the Grotto. Gorgeous place, even for us non-believers.
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From the sad shame of the Internet… Weezer Snuggy Skeptics are making a big deal out of James Randi’s comments on climate change Smoke photography is beautiful World’s largest salt cave Earth’s most incredible arches The Cadillac(s) of post-apocalyptic survival vehicles The Urantia Book knows all Wikipedia’s list of stop-motion films Wikipedia’s list of black supervillains The world’s most psychedelic lake? Gallery of power plants...
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From the Internet! OREGONIAN writer Betsy Hammond calls Portland “startlingly white” but assures us that: “Portland will grow less white and more diverse — just more slowly than the rest of the country…” A blogger named Stumptown Girl feels immense pain due to Portland’s whiteness: “I’m writing this from a relatively new coffee shop in NE Portland on...
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Last Saturday, I took the family downtown for a joyous jaunt through our lovely sustainable city. We gazed in awe at Portland’s inarguably wonderful mass transit system, and our mouths watered when we walked past the city’s delightful and quirky food carts! YUM! Multiculturalism! Sadly the carts were closed for business on this Saturday night....
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“High Desert Cosmonaut,” the award-winning feature film about the ICED BORSCHT & OTHER DELIGHTS weblog, contains one of the finest soundtracks of the (no-longer new) millennium. What follows is a detailed account of the soundtrack’s finest moments. Our journey begins on some nameless highway in the American Southwest. Grainy, 1970s-style cinematography captures an Oldsmobile Cutlass...
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