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{ Monthly Archives } November 2009

Keep on Rockin’!

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2009 11 30 crushinator oy
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Overheard After We had Landed and were Taxiing to the Gate

Well dressed twenty-something pulls out her phone the second they say we can and starts making calls. The call that begins “hi daddy” continues: Yeah (pause) Yeah the flight was okay. (pause) Well it’s just so cramped, you know it’s been a long time since I’ve been on a public airplane. Related posts Seat Guru [...]

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2009 11 22 squidocto travel Comments (0)

Seat Guru

If you’re like me (not if you like me, which of course you must), you wanna pick your seats on an airplane with some sense of where the bathrooms and bulkheads and, most important, where the view-obscuring wing is. Seat Guru let’s you look at the layouts of tons of airlines and comment on the [...]

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2009 11 21 crushinator travel Comments (0)

You can look but you better not touch

Now that I’m out west I need to learn to recognize the cousin of my old pal poison ivy, poison oak. This article helps explain what’s going on when you get a rash, the oil involved, the structure of the plants, “immunity” (it’s a myth), and some treatments. What surprised me about poison ivy and [...]

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2009 11 21 crushinator Oregon
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JFK, 2009

OK, not much of a photo, but how long has it been since TWA went under? Related posts Overheard After We had Landed and were Taxiing to the Gate (0) Wolf Creek Pass (0) The McFarthest Place (0) The Border (0) Seat Guru (0)

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2009 11 19 squidocto NYC
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How to Negotiate Like a Democrat (by Lloyd Dangle)

From the great Troubletown strip. Related posts Roll Over and Play Dead (2) What Things Do (1) Tech Support (1) I Continue To Love The Random (0) Hark! A Vagrant (0)

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Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon

A series of photos of people posed on a crescent moon prop. [Flickr collection via The Invisible Agent] Related posts The Sky Can Be Pretty Here, Too (2) Terrible Tilly (1) Suite 1905 (1) Ridgewood Stone Faces 2 (2) Ridgewood Stone Faces 1 (1)

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RIP Equalizer

Actor Edward Woodward dies at 79. Stewart Copland did the Equalizer theme, btw. Related posts Of The Infinite Possible Themes For A Blog… (3)

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2009 11 16 crushinator Film & TV Comments (1)

The Yes-Men Smother The Cake Eaters!

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2009 11 09 squidocto Film & TV
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This one’s for John

Found at the Fubonn grocery in southeast Portland. And yes, that’s five pounds of chili flakes. Related posts No related posts.

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2009 11 08 crushinator Food
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Really? On the Subway?

Some light reading courtesy of the MTA. Related posts The Sky Can Be Pretty Here, Too (2) Subtle Graffiti (1) Spuyten Duyvil (1) Ridgewood Stone Faces 2 (2) Ridgewood Stone Faces 1 (1)

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2009 11 06 squidocto NYC Comments (1)

Finally, Sun

First clear day in quite a while. This here is Mt. Hood from the top of Mt. Tabor Park; both mountains are volcanoes (luckily Mt. Tabor is extinct). Related posts Suite 1905 (1) Mossy writin’ (0) Woodring Tree (3) The Border (0) SE Portland Bars (2)

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2009 11 02 crushinator nature
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