more links while moving…
but first, just an apology to any of you who may be trying to view or link to specfic archive pages. the archive republishing at blogger is not functioning, and i’ve not gotten any word back from support (in like 13 days or so…). we are working on it and will try to resolve it soon. in the meantime…
- i wouldn’t normally link to a for-profit business site just for a recommendation, but in portland, there’s a few sources for the good stuff you need when setting up house like mirador (where we found good canning and storage jars and chatted the propriatirx up about the various qualities of different brands of garlic peeling tubes) and endura wood products (specializing in recycled and sustainable wood for just about any project. Christopher, the super skilled super friendly brit, whose shop in back of endura sometimes does jobs for their customers, helped us build a frame-and-slat thing to keep the girls from pawing the window in the mud room.
- i didn’t know that david duchovny was a big animal lover, but apparently he did paintings for this group i’m interested in checking out, farm sanctuary.
- our pal trevor is in palestine again, and soon we’ll be linking to more of his writings
- billy bragg and the blokes were just amazing the other night (thursday) here in portland. after negotiating our way through roseland’s unannounced and very hardcore security (almost couldn’t bring in our bike stuff, see they let women in with purses, but men can have nothing, fully wak) we got a couple of brews and watched black 47 warm up. the hour and a half of rollicking billy was so great, with newer stuff and totally inspired re-interpretations of the old stuff. some updated lyrics, cool new riffs and tempos, and of course his poignant or hilarious banter between songs. i’d always wanted to see him, and it was so worth it.
- the portland off-leash dog meeting we went to was not as contentious as it could have been, but there were a couple of detractors on hand, who just need to get over themselves. looking forward the the next C-SPOT meeting, that’s citizens for safe parks with off-leash territory. will update more on the whole portland off-leash stuff here later.
