Archive for August, 2008
Recipe for a tasty Sunday
Start with some Stumptown Sumatra blend coffee. Think about their future New York City location (H/T Dave Knows: Portland), become highly annoyed with the Flash-based design of their website. (Hello, world, it doesn’t work for rock band websites, and it doesn’t work for yours, either.)
Head to farmer’s market the moment it opens. Obtain all the [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2008 under Food.
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Dumbass servers in SE Portland
I had dinner with a friend this evening at a place in SE Portland, Wild Abandon. We were seated on the patio, and the mosquitoes were aggressively awful…she was mopping blood off her arm with her napkin. We waited about twenty minutes for our server to come by after the onslaught started, and when we [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2008 under Food, living.
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Primary complaint: complains too much
I’m in a mid-summer fit of feeling sorry for myself. They are all quite tangled, the complaints I have, and the situations are real–quite unlike the ones my mother complains about, which are in her head.
Note to self: you deal much better with the acute than the chronic. This may say things about whether you [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2008 under the body.
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Call me crazy…
…but is Santogold channeling the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on “LES Artistes” or what? The vocals are a bit different, but the vibe of the song is extremely Yeah Yeah Yeahs. If you ask me.
Posted: August 4th, 2008 under music.
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