Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for June 29th:
- Coping with deployment: A wife’s tale | KATU.com
Sarah Gilbert writes a moving guest contribution about planning for her husband’s eventual deployment to Iraq – “I don't know whether it was minutes or hours or even a day: the time it took me to understand that my husband, Jonathan, was really being deployed.
"July 17," he'd said.
That was in May, and that day he thought he was going to Afghanistan. At first I almost laughed; he'd threatened to go when we had argued about disciplining our boys, or when I complained about overdue bills or our lagging mortgage payment. This was his logic: He could leave the child rearing to me, and I'd have his twice-monthly paycheck as solace.”
- Art Scatter | A Portland-centric arts and culture blog
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know my neighbor (and former writer/editor at The O) Bob Hicks had started a PDX arts & culture blog (sadly, it took Keith Goodman's passing to make me aware of the site.) He's also pulled in O contributor Martha Ullman West to add dance coverage as well.
Adding it to the RSS reader as we speak…!
- Dear Portland Radio, Please Pull Your Head Out of Your Butt | Portland Sucks
Sure, the radio industry's going to to hell in a hand basket. But Portland Sucks has more: "What’s worse? The very same egocentric behavior that had almost the entire radio industry ignoring the obvious change in the air seems to have permeated its personalities too. In the past two months I’ve been in contact with three different ex-radio personalities – big names around these parts – and have offered to work with them to demonstrate the power and potential of internet broadcasting. After all, while traditional radio’s numbers are quickly heading toward zero, the opposite is true of podcasts and streaming programming." All true — but what was the reaction he got? Click through to read the (shocking!) results…
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