Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?

    Last night we took the kids in to downtown Portland to see “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” which was showing on a big screen in Pioneer Courthouse Square. They do a series of free films on Friday nights during the summer called Flicks on the Bricks. I hadn’t gone since I first moved out [...]

Just dry lightning and you on my mind

One of my criticisms of Portlanders is that they have no fucking idea what a real storm is like. Sure, they get a lot of rain. But so does Minneapolis. Almost the same amount, in fact; Minnesota gets it in huge summer storms instead of the constant dribble that we get in the Pacific Northwest. [...]

And it snowed

Portland rarely gets cold enough to get snow of any notable amount. When it does happen, the entire region falls to its knees. Schools shut down, the public transit system is overwhelmed and people don’t leave their houses for days. Over the last two weeks of December we received about 18 inches of snow—more than [...]

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