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{ Monthly Archives } September 2008

Fire on the Mountain

The Gnarl Ridge Fire has been burning the area around upper Pollalie Creek, Cloud Cap, and Inspiration Point on Mt. Hood. The old Cooper Spur lodge is intact, last I heard, as well as the Cloud Cap Inn. There are downloadable Google Earth file that will show you the extent of the fire. Related posts [...]

Mandatory Autumn Reading

I can’t wait to get my hands on the paperback edition of “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Sanitary Paper and Paperboard Tablecloths, Soda Straws, and Ovenable Paperboard Food Trays in Greater China.” Related posts No related posts.

Sneaky kitty

He only moves towards you when you aren’t watching him. Related posts No related posts.

“What do you do when your insane dictator loses his mind?”

–A fine Roy Blount Jr. quote from Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Related posts No related posts.

RNC in St. Paul; Police pre-emptively raid protester organizers and documentarians, arrest Amy Goodman, behave badly

This weekend in St. Paul, as a prelude to the Republican convention, police and FBI raided protest organizers homes, “detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants.” More here, and here, and here. The house where i-witness video, the group that documented police misconduct in the 2004 RNC in New York, was [...]