Archive for April 2009

the mushroom

Lots of people were very intrigued by the 70′s mushroom building I’m working on, so I took advantage of the beautiful day and went up two flights to the roof of CHNN World Headquarters and snapped a picture.  I’ll do some interior pictures and closeups soon.

victory, even in defeat

There’s something strange about the way the right approaches defeat, no matter how decisive; they wish it away by pretending, loudly and fervently, determined to bring poor Tinkerbell back to life by the power of belief alone.  Facts are stupid things to them, as we’re all aware.  But so are elections, polls, and the goddamned [...]

Is that green shag original?

The hills that surround downtown Portland to its West and South have some of its loveliest, leafiest neighborhoods, and although the most famous postcard view of the city is from Washington Park, where Mt. Hood towers behind the skyline, I’ve always liked the south hill views better.  Just steps from Downtown, (CHNN’s Park Avenue headquarters [...]

there’s one born every minute

Having lovingly but seldom soberly slapped out some sort of “content” here over the past few months every other day or so, I find myself still wondering about what readers want.  What I consider Rushmore-worthy monuments to probing thought and discourse might draw a scandalously small audience, while something shallow, slapdash and crummy to my [...]