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You know you live in a bike town when…

by Zed

It takes 3 weeks to get a service appointment at City Bikes. Now I know why I own 5 bikes. I could take my business elsewhere but there is something so satisfying about supporting an employee owned cooperative.
Ride your bike. If you don’t own one, buy one. From a local shop. We are fortunate to [...]

Thank god I don’t live in Texas…

by Zed

and Joe Horn is not my neighbor.
Shooting someone in the back is hunting. All over a couple of thousand dollars of stolen property. Had the old codger waited 30 seconds longer and the burglars were apprehended by the authorities would they be executed for STEALING PROPERTY?
Now I realize that this is not a “local” story. [...]

07.01.2008 See the rest →

Ridiculous sunglasses and the 10 minute Americano

by Zed

You know who you are. You wear obnoxiously large white sunglasses (indoors for that matter) with logo’s from such brand pimps as Chanel, D&G and Isaac. Stop it. Girl (and guys!?), they look silly. There IS a place for that sort of thing. It’s called a billboard. No disrespect.
Apparently I’m not alone. Related, ha ha [...]

07.01.2008 See the rest → 3 comments

I’m about ready to go crawl under a rock

by Zed

Wow the news week is off to a great start.
- Author Seymour Hersh charges in the new issue of the New Yorker magazine that the Bush Administration has begun a “major escalation of covert operations against Iran… to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.”NPR’s Fresh Air
- McCain’s “Truth Squad” This one should have a sweet graphic [...]

06.30.2008 See the rest → 6 comments

If Gordon Ramsay came to Portland

by Zed

While watching the quite entertaining Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on BBC America last night the inevitable “What if?” came to mind. What if Gordon Ramsay, loudmouth ex- futboler, honoree of 12 Michelin stars and host of Fox’s aspiring chef bitchslap Hell’s Kitchen (I’m pulling for Petrozza), worked his magic on one of PDX’s dining [...]

06.27.2008 See the rest → 3 comments

Our “Plan A” was “Plan B”

by Zed

When Dieselboi emailed me yesterday afternoon with an invitation to an impromptu afternoon meet-up with friends I was expecting Green Dragon on Rontoms. I was taken aback with an entirely new suggestion (well “new” to me), Plan B. Located on the corner of SE 8th and Main, it’s not the location that first comes to [...]

06.26.2008 See the rest → 7 comments