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30 Hour Day: Charity event? Or Insidious Cult of Anti-sleep?

I don’t know about you, but I loves me some sleep. I really, really love it. Yeah, I’ll say it: I love sleep in…that way. Sleep? I’m so into it, dude.
In fact, if I could spend my days dozing off to the dulcet sounds of rain bouncing between the lonely wisps of hair on the [...]

12.17.2009 See the rest →

Adams Recall Effort Fails; Backers Kick Off New Approach

by Metroknow

With the signature campaign to recall Portland Mayor Sam Adams failing to meet the basic requirements, Portland residents in favor of the recall are not giving up. In a surprising turn, “Recallers” are now focusing their efforts on a different issue: The lingering question of the Mayor’s citizenship.
The “Pretty sure he wasn’t born here” effort, [...]

10.06.2009 See the rest → 3 comments

ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW DESIGN CONTEST FOR PDX CREATIVES

by Metroknow

(also known informally as the “Ass Redesign ‘09″ Contest)
This, is my butt.
As you can plainly see, it needs work. I mean, just look at it…the design is dated and flabby, the navigation is unclear, and the usability apparently sucks, or so I’ve been told. You don’t EVEN want to know what’s under the hood.
So why [...]

07.13.2009 See the rest → 12 comments

Benefit Screening of Food, Inc. at Cinema 21

by Metroknow

Quick info:
Screening of Food, Inc. to benefit Slow Food Portland
Where: Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave.
When: June 23rd at 7:00 PM
Mention “Slow Food” and Cinema 21 will donate $2 of the ticket sale to Slow Food Portland.
In case you have not seen my hearty, hungry-jack face at your table lately asking you leading questions like, [...]

06.22.2009 See the rest →

Memoir of a Pie Virgin

by Metroknow

There are few times in life when you get to document the moment of your own demise, and then live to tell about it.
Last night, I decided I’d had enough of sitting in my cluttered and increasingly farby home office. It was time to walk the line; time to cross the trestle bridge by moonlight; [...]

06.05.2009 See the rest → 8 comments

Top 10 PSU Saturday Market Survival Tips

by Metroknow

Do you go to the PSU Farmer’s Market [the Saturday Market at PSU]?
Or maybe the question these days has become, “Can you handle going to the PSU Farmer’s Market?”
In addition to foraging for free-range grass-fed cage-free naturally non-hormone treated dandelions and pre-pubescent nettles (we indeed made nettle soup for the first time this year), the [...]

04.06.2009 See the rest → 7 comments

“The process of remaking America” Starts at Home

by Metroknow

The flooding that recently occurred in the Portland Metro area seems like a distant memory to most of us, especially if our own home was unaffected. The biggest reminder for me was driving on Redland Road in Oregon City on my way to and from our house, looking at the garbage each day, wondering when “somebody [...]

01.24.2009 See the rest →

Photos of Flooding in Oregon City

by Metroknow

These photos of Abernethy Creek in Oregon City were taken today after the latest round of heavy precipitation. According to residents who live along the creek and Redland Road, the water had already receded by a couple of feet when I shot these earlier today. Additionally, this is apparently 10 feet or so less than [...]

01.02.2009 See the rest → 4 comments

Oregon Governor Requires New Gas Metering Device for All Portland Residents

by Metroknow

Portland residents received a surprise delivery this morning from the Oregon State Department of Revenue that is causing a stir among local residents and privacy advocates nationwide. The package contained a new, mandatory electronic measuring device that pushes the envelope in innovative taxation approaches.
In a sweeping decision made during an emergency overnight double-overtime holiday session [...]

12.31.2008 See the rest → 7 comments

Torn between two druthers

by Metroknow

To love, or not to love…that is the question. On the one hand, I would like to officially cast my ballot in favor of Loving Snow, which is either a) an endorsement of the enthralling natural beauty and stunning visual changes thrust upon the sedate urban landscape, b) a lost Billy Idol song, or c) [...]

12.16.2008 See the rest → 4 comments

You’re living in your own private Writaho

by Metroknow

(C’mon – where else but OurPDX do you get titles like that?)
Every time the global economy collapses, I always do two things: Stop showering, because what the hell for, and start writing a potentially unfinishable novel, because why the hell not. Well, that and an ancillary task that involves solace in the company of [...]

10.10.2008 See the rest → 8 comments