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OurPDX shared links for November 23rd

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 23rd — a Thanksgiving cornucopia of links!

How to Stop Unwanted Phone Book Delivery | Amanda Fritz’s blog – I’m very thankful to Amanda for this gem – she hasn't taken office yet, and already she's doing good! [...]

Pie-Off: Our Eyewitness Report

by Betsy Richter

We went (my young daughter and I, that is.) We brought pies. We joined the predicted hordes (over 100 people there to witness the event, with 49 pies entered into the competition.) We watched carefully as the judges were put through their paces trying said 49 pies (I understand from Gary’s wife [...]

08.30.2008 See the rest → 14 comments

My Winning Pie-Off Strategy

by Betsy Richter

Yes, I’m one of the hordes of people who will be baking a pie and taking it down to Washington Park on Saturday for the Pie-Off.
Yes, that Pie-Off—the one WWeek featured earlier this week, the one that had potential contestants on Twitter grousing about how “intimidating” it sounded now.
Intimidating? Who cares that [...]

08.28.2008 See the rest → 11 comments

OurPDX shared bookmarks for August 9th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for August 9th

Peterson’s saved (Jack Bog’s Blog) – Thanks to Bojack, The Merc & others for keeping the spotlight on this story until justice was done!
The Bite of Oregon: Day 1 Photo Gallery – The Lunch Lady over [...]

08.09.2008 See the rest →

Mmmm…pie!

by Betsy Richter

It started (as all good things do lately, it seems) on Twitter.
The pie smack talk, that is.
Lelo may have been boasting about the blackberry pie she had cooling on her counter just then. Or RadioGretchen might have been talking about never, ever having made a peach pie before. Maybe it was [...]

07.29.2008 See the rest → 3 comments