Updated 12/21 to extract the live streaming couplets — thanks for your support!

I’m at 30 Hour Day — the 30 hour livestreaming telethon benefiting 3 PDX charities — up close and personal right now (well, at least for the first 12 hours or so). As part of the OurPDX sponsorship of #30HD, I’m pulling my Christmas tree stuff out of an eight-year deep storage to decorate the 30 Hour Day tree, bringing my menorah to light the candles for the last night of Hanukkah, and serving as Stage Manager for the first 8 hours of the telethon itself.

But it isn’t just about me. Or Cami Kaos or Rick Turoczy (the two intrepid co-hosts who’ll stay up the entire 30 hours). Or any of the rest of the talent, crew, volunteers or sponsors. It’s about doing good things for Free Geek, the Oregon Food Bank, and Toys for Tots.

And you have the most important role of all here, you know.

First, do be part of the show yourself:

We’re showing We showed a live stream UStream 30HD Channel, courtesy of UStream.

We had live remotes from Beer & Blog at the Green Dragon from 4-6 today as well, so come on by.

Or follow along with your mobile browser, either via PDX.fm or the UStream iTunes application (look for #30hd).

But however you watch, whenever you watch — or even if you don’t watch AT ALL — please do donate here via Causes.

(You didn’t watch? I knew that already, but won’t tell. Instead, I’l invoke my super-patented double-dipping dose of Catholic/Jewish guilt & suggest that you ease that guilty conscience by digging extra deep, y’know..)

Because right now, you’re the one who matters most.

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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 balding head of my worst enemy (you know who you are, Skipper), followed by a nicely warmed meat sandwich (perhaps a Reuben from Kenny and Zukes, or, oh, anything from Meat Cheese Bread), followed by more drool-inducing anti-insomnia action, only to wake up leisurely for a smattering of #afterhours, maybe the occasional StrangeLoveLive episode, a snack, and then back to Winkysnoreyland for 18 hours (somewhere in Iceland I think), I would so take that. (I might also have to pee somewhere in there, but that can be worked around.)

In other words, when it comes to sleep: I’m a fan. In fact, I’m more than a fan – I’m your biggest fan. Sleep, you are so hot. I would totally do you.

Seriously, in a heartbeat.

Where was I?

Oh right. So here’s the deal: As a citizen (give or take) of our fair city, I am imploring you, You, the non-sleeping marginally-employed semi-awake readers and ever-vigilant defenders of the right to cross arms (and nap), to help me do one thing:

Save. Portland.

That’s right. Save the town from being overrun by a new cult that is invading like a Sunday parking ticket infestation. This dangerous group of fiends hates one thing, and one thing only: My beloved Sleep. I know, it’s hard to believe. (See these spots? Well if you could, you would see they are tears.)

In particular? This Cad, this Bounder, who goes by Rick “EyesWideShut” Turoczy, and this…this…brazen antisleeper, Cami “WakingLife” Kaos (observe them in typical form – Kaos wide awake running the show; Turoczy asleep at the wheel):

Take a good look, fellow citizens. Wake up and open your eyes, because they are… [whisper]everywhere…

Rumor has it that that these two and their handler, “Herr Dokterr” as he is known, originated as members of the Philippine mafia, but they have very recently relocated to Portland to wreak havoc and disrupt rapid eye movement for men, women, and children alike. In Portland they have a public front: they are known simply as members of the 30 Hour Day.

In underground anti-sleep circles they are known by their secret cult Twitter name of #30HD. On the streets of our glorious city they go by any number of names: Sleep-haters; Lid-lifters; Toothpick Tanglers; or my personal favorite:

The No-Doze Hos. (I might have made that last one up.)

This den of heartless thugs is giving the figurative finger to my everloving sleepytime maiden, in whose ample bosom I take such great…comfort. They are refusing sleep altogether for 30 torturous hours, as if sleep is something that they detest, as if sleep could be denied, as if sleep was as easily dismissed as the trite, meaningless wedding vows of an unimaginably wealthy golfer.

And WHY? Why why why would they do this thing? Commit this grave abomination? Be as cruel as Tommy Baldingas on the middle school bus beating the crap out of me while I slept (…wait. I’ve said too much…)?

They claim that it’s for charity. They assert that it is, “an effort to raise money and materials for charities like Free Geek, the Oregon Food Bank, and Toys for Tots.” To which, fair citizen I say a hearty Hhhhyeahhhright. As. If.

In fact, the press release goes as far as to say, “Beginning December 18 at 4 PM PT and running through December 19 at 10 PM PT, Portland podcasters will be taking the concept of the charity telethon and updating it for the Web age with “30 hour day” <http://30hourday.org/>, an effort to raise money and materials for charities like Free Geek, the Oregon Food Bank, and Toys for Tots.”

“The live Web-based telethon — which will use streaming media services to deliver the content, the Causes Facebook application <http://www.causes.com/causes/415137> to collect donations, and Twitter to spread the word — will consist of 30 consecutive hours of music, variety acts, podcasts, and other entertainment, all accessible from a typical Web browser. Most importantly, the creators are making the live webcast — which can easily be embedded in any Web site with a few lines of code — available under Creative Commons, allowing any organization or person to use the live event to raise money for charities of their own choosing.”

Can you believe that? Yeah me neither.

So what can we do to stop this? According to the local authorities, there is nothing that can be done officially (although one officer *may* have slipped me a leaflet for “counseling services”, which everybody knows is law enforcement code for the black-ops services of one Blackwater International…), but as citizen police? That, dear friend, is an entirely different matter.

We, the defenders of sleepytime, can do one thing: We can be vigilant. The public eye is everywhere. In fact, we’re not just gonna’ keep an eye on ‘em – We’re gonna’ watch the Hell out of ‘em.

Join the crusade against anti-sleep thuggery by watching every minute, here: <http://30hourday.org/>. You can also follow 30 hour day on Twitter at <http://twitter.com/30hourday> (and study their insidious, evil ways), or join the Facebook fan page at <http://facebook.com/30hourday/> (double agent goodness). For ideas on how to use the content to support your favorite charity (and break the backs of this evil organization in the process), visit <http://bit.ly/30HDideas>.

Band together with me, marchers of the Sleep Brigade. We shall defeat thine enemies with our ever watchful eye. We shall destroy the scourge of wakefulness arm in arm, even if we have to march our way to hell and back. Onward, Napping Soldiers! Bring pillows!

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If you want to know how you can fight against this horrible, horrible thing, here’s some more info (just be sure that it doesn’t infect you too):

“Some of the guests include representatives from the selected charities, as well as scheduled appearances by Portland Mayor Sam Adams; noted pioneer in the use of social media for nonprofits Beth Kanter; Stephanie Stricklen of KGW; Tara Hunt, author of The Whuffie Factor; Brian M. Westbrook of KXL; Pete Grillo of Iterasi; Scott Kveton of Urban Airship and Bac’n; the Portland Sucks podcast; Cort & Fatboy; Courtenay Hameister of Live Wire Radio; reggae band Red Eye Soul Tribe; Renny Gleeson; Pete Krebs Trio; and ska band Target for Tomorrow. In an effort to give the event more international impact, the producers have also lined up guests from Australia, Brazil, England, and Malaysia, with more locations signing on every day.

Current sponsors include Anne Bocci Boutique, Blue Hour, BootsNAll Travel Network, Bridgetown Printing, Comcast, Hot Lips Pizza, Iterasi, Locket2You, NedWater, Reser’s Fine Foods, Tinymeat, Whiffies, Voodoo Doughnut, and Yelp, among others.

The telethon will be hosted by Kaos of Strange Love Live, a popular tech-oriented web talk show, and Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist <http://siliconflorist.com/>, a blog that covers the Portland startup scene. The studio will be provided by the Portland Incubator Experiment and on-site video event streaming services will be provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

The telethon and instructions for embedding the content will be available at <http://30hourday.org/>.”

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We knew NBC had been in town in late August to follow Dieselboi around on a typical food cart odyssey. We knew that they’d been at the food carts at SE Hawthorne & 11th late on a Friday evening to observe the scene for themselves. And we knew they’d been by Strange Love Live’s studios to watch the interview with both Dieselboi and Gregg Abbott from @whiffies.

And then we waited. And waited. And waited a little bit more…until earlier today, when the footage finally saw the light of day:

And if that’s not enough food cart love? Check out this companion video, featuring Jesse Sandoval (formerly of The Shins), Karen Brooks from The O, and our own Mayor Sam Adams, throwing the smackdown to NYC’s carts (& almost-ousted Mayor Bloomberg.)

Way to represent, Portland! And congratulations to Dieselboi, Greg (better known as @whiffies to a lot of us), Cami Kaos & Dr. Normal for your moment in the sun.

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Friday night we were joined in studio by Scott McCarty and the entire Locket2You team. While we chatted with Scott on the couch Miranda and MeaganKate kept everything in check from the sidelines.

During the Tech Edition we talked about the business end of Locket2You. Where, When Why and How they built their handmade jewelry company and used Twitter and other social internet tools to strengthen it and get the word out.

SLL Episode 145: Locket2You

Watch the Tech Edition

But afterhours was a whole different thing. A schtick was prepared a month ago and carried out in the first half of Afterhours, then there were the custom drinks I made for the occasion: The Locket, The Pocket, The Rocket and Big Purple. With the skit (featuring the voice talent of MeaganKate and Miranda) and drinks out of the way we got back to the business of afterhours and chatted our hour away.

SLL Episode 146: Afterhours with Scott McCarty

Watch Afterhours

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Tune in Friday night at 10 PM for an evening of music and a dash of tech with Duo Chronicles‘ John Nastos and Clay Giberson.

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With the holiday season fast approaching, you may have noticed we’re doing things a bit differently around SLL. We wanted to start celebrating early which is why this week we featured Locket2You (a great holiday gift solution, I’m just sayin) and next week we’ll be featuring some fantastic music with John and Clay. Then we’ll move on to gadgets with Brian M. Westbrook which will satisfy your craving for tech and give you a peek into what’s hot and techie for the holidays. Staying with that good for the holidays theme we’ll also be joined by Foodgeeks (get some holiday menu ideas) and Simler (because you need a new site to play on with all that Holiday downtime) in early December.

We’ll Round out the year with 30 Hour Day, a livestream telethon the likes of which the world has never seen, A Kaos family Christmas with my daddy, Daddy Kaos. Then we’ll kick off the new year with a review of 2009 and predictions for 2010 with Rick Turoczy. As you can see we’ve got a full plate for the next couple of months, I hope you’ll come along for the ride.

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Friday night we were joined by family friend and musical man John Borroz to talk about his upcoming album with our very own DrNormal. Sit back and listen to a few good tunes and a bit of silliness:

Did I mention that this was John’s second appearance on our show? Check out the first episode with John from earlier this year:

As always you can listen to the shows here, download them, subscribe or pick us up on itunes so you can always be the first to know when we’ve released a new episode…

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Join us Friday October 31st at 10 PM for special Halloween episode of Strange Love. It won’t be live, but it’ll be quite lively. Join us at the usual time and place for a very special episode hosted by my evil twin Camilla Kaos, her man servant Dr. Abnormal and a very special guest you’re sure to gobble up.

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WARNING: This episode of Strange Love Live contains explicit content.

Friday night the Strange Love studio played host to two very sexy guests and one very sexy audience member… As stunning as they all were to look at, their real sex appeal on Friday was their calm frankness in discussing sex. There were so many topics that we didn’t cover I think we’ll have to do this all again in a few months if the girls are up for it. Join Cami Kaos, Melissa Lion, Missburrows and KamBam (and the occasional peep from DrNormal) and listen in on nearly 2 hours of girl talk about sex.

As always you can listen to the show here, download it, subscribe or pick us up on iTunes so you can always be the first to know when we’ve released a new episode…

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Join us Friday October 24th at 10 PM for another episode of Strange Love Live. Next week we welcome back music man John Borroz. We’ll talk about the album he and DrNormal are working on and no doubt hear a few more stories about the Portland music scene in days gone by.

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Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for September 7th

• Cami Kaos: strange love episodes: betsy & ourpdx – How can I resist promoting this One. More. Time? Answer: I can't. Thanks again to Cami Kaos and Dr. Normal for a fantabulous evening!
• Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker to Open Chinatown Eatery | An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink – From OregonLive, Pok Pok owner Andy Ricker is teaming with John C. Jay, Wieden+Kennedy's branding guru, and his fashion-designer wife Janet Jay to open Ping (note that I’m spellling Wieden correctly here…!)
• Vidoop – The Oregon Trail! – The 42 new Oregonians are here to join the rest of the Vidoop staff – but first, they had to travel in an RV following the Oregon Trail to get here. See their travel log (complete with video) here…

Note: you can share bookmarks back to our site if you have a Mag.nolia account – just join our group and then send relevant links to that group when you mark a site, article, or post!

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Why, that would be Yours Truly.

What will I be talking about this Friday at 10 pm at the house of our own Cami Kaos & Doctor Normal?

Why, OurPDX, of course!

I hear we may even have a studio audience. I know I’m bringing some tasty munchies and a bottle or two for our hosts (I hear that Cami Kaos mixes a mean dry & dirty gin martini; I’ve always stuck to the chilled vodka version myself, but may need to expand my boundaries here.)

What’s Strange Love Live, anyway? A weekly streaming podcast (via UStream) in two parts – first, the official question and answer session with someone who’s part of Portland’s web and/or tech scene. Then, after a brief intermission, it’s the afterhours portion of the show, where the studio audience gets involved, we field questions from the chat room, and generally loosen up a little (or a lot, depending on how freely the martinis are flowing.)

(While Cami promises in this week’s promo “and then we’ll go wild,” um, I can’t guarantee it – I’m an old and decrepit type, don’t you know.)

We’ll kick things off at 10 pm this Friday night. Drop by live if you’re not doing anything, will you? (Or you can catch the archived podcast via UStream or iTunes later if you’d like.)

Just be kind – no hair, wardrobe, or other appearance critiques, thanks. I’ll tell you right now that while Sarah Palin and I might be approximately the same age, the comparison (on all fronts, thankfully) ends there (no one would ever mistake me for a babe, although I may occasionally get the pitbull designation…)

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