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News From The Front Lines of Weirdness
I'm very seriously toying with the idea of moving to Portland, OR. On balance, it's pretty much what Seattle was 10 or 15 years ago, before runaway Californication and gentrification set in. Portland also has a magnificent history of civil rights, particularly free speech; the city opted out of joining the US government's Joint Terrorism Task Force ( Read more... ) -
What Lies Within
Mam'selle Evie Takahashi and I merrily lunched upon burgers and Stella Artois at Julia's on Broadway this noonday. We took seats by an enormous plate glass window that overlooks Seattle's most bohemian of its many bohemian boulevards, contentedly watching an endless promenade of drag queens, starving artists, black-clad anarchists both young and ( Read more... ) -
A Woman After My Own Heart
Heard of those Nigerian con artists who send out e-mails promising great financial rewards in exchange for monetary investments by the marks? Well, it seems that a group of them, operating a phony car sales Website, hired an Australian woman by the name of Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey to open a bank account in her moniker into which the Nigerians ( Read more... ) -
Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know
Seattle is, of course, a city of whores and con men, sleazy millionaires with the morals of rabid badgers, greedhead developers wrecking everyone’s view of Elliott Bay, and pot-addled hippies alongside more junkies per square mile than any other municipality in North America. It’s also a port town in the grand traditions of Jack London and John ( Read more... ) -
And the Witches of February Come Stealing
For some reason, as I slowly and indelicately slouch toward cranky old man status, I no longer care much for either coffee or beer. I'll indulge in either one if that's all that's available, but I never have more than one cup of coffee or one schooner of beer; neither substance does much for me anymore. I used to drink pints and pints of either one ( Read more... ) -
Spooooooooky!
I've just found a podcast, through iTunes, that features episodes of the late and great CBS Mystery Theater. The show ran, for many years, on the CBS radio network, and your humble narrator was hopelessly in love with its positively gothic creepiness. The program featured all kinds of radio play dealing with everything from ghost stories to murder ( Read more... ) -
Cha-Ching! Welcome to Technology!
Howdy, gang--long time no post, eh?
Welp, my bi-yearly contract with Sprint was renewed last Friday, and--as a bonus--I received an iPhone 4s to replace my Blackberry Curve. And, so far, I find it ab fab. It has a metric ton of available apps, many more than the Blackberry. I recommend the iPhone emphatically!
Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.
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So far, Australia's best export to the United States has been Strictly Ballroom.
Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias.
