Bulldogs, pugs and similarly beautiful breeds tragically made up about half of cargo hold dog deaths in past 5 years. Never allow your dog to ride in the cargo hold of a plane. It’s that simple. For the full AP story, click here or on the photo below. ***************************************
Some Adventist pot sellers traveled from village to village across northern Madagascar. One Friday afternoon they arrived at a village and asked someone whether there was an Adventist church in the village. “No,” the person replied. “Does anyone in this village worship on Saturday?” they asked. “Yes,” the villager answered. “They meet in a house …
Here’s some bona fide, positive, East Portland news. Food trucks have opened for business at 43rd and Belmont in SE Portland, in the formerly vacant parking lot next to the Movie Madness DVD rental establishment:
This in from LA-DSH: I watched and enjoyed the pilot of this new show COVERT AFFAIRS on USA last night. I’ve met one of the writers, Chris Ord, a fellow Westsider here in LA. I’m sure they’re repeating it throughout the week, but it’s also STREAMable on their site. It’s quite entertaining and well-done, if …
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80 – Yahoo! News So the ol’ goat finally kicked off. World will be a bit duller, sans doubt! I’ll never forget his greatest quote, offered up during the 1981 World Series, when I was amidst a ton of New Yorkers during my first month at Brown. That was …
Happy Slip underwear humor. Happy Slip is the Stan Boreson of Fil-Am culture:
7/01/2010 – from the great Tom Kipp: I always suspected ol’ Bob would bow out in the anniversary month of CG. [July 1969 seems longer ago than EVER right now.] And, after the conversation we had about Consumer Guide in 2006, driving back to his hotel from Greil and Jenny Marcus’ dinner party at the …
A/V script for presentation at the 7th annual Experience Music Project Popular Music Conference; Saturday, 12th April 2008, 4:00 to 5:45pm. By Tom Kipp [A/V deployed by Dan Mohr] [Slide 1: title] Just a few words of caution before I begin—much of the material you will see and hear during this presentation is disturbing, some …
Almost every Swede speaks English well. If, on a trip to Stockholm, you ask a question to a random Swede in American-accented Swedish, most Swedes will curtly answer in perfect English and remain a little frosty and miffed with you because you inadvertantly insulted them by not assuming from the very start that they speak …
The Dick Van Dyke Show Episodes That Should Have Been These are Dick Van Dyke Show episodes as they should have been, balls out comedy written by Dr. Seuss, Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, James Michener, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.D. Salinger, David Mamet and …
From The Atlantic: “THE MOST UNSUNG birthday in American business and technological history this year may be the 50th anniversary of the Xerox 914 photocopier. Although it was introduced at New York’s Sherry-Netherland Hotel on September 16, 1959, commercial models were not available until March 1960. The first machine, delivered to a Pennsylvania metal-fastener maker, …
From Slate: “Last week the University of Virginia decided to fight a sweeping subpoena served upon the institution in late April. State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli subpoenaed documents in connection with five grants awarded to Michael Mann—a former UVA climate-change scientist who now teaches at Penn State. Cuccinelli is using a state fraud statute to …
Community Channel can still be amusing.
“High court rules suspect must invoke own silence right. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a criminal suspect must explicitly invoke the right to remain silent during a police interrogation, a decision that dissenting liberal justices said turns the protections of a Miranda warning “upside down.’’ http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/06/02/high_court_rules_suspect_must_invoke_own_silence_right/
Here’s a compelling, unusually upbeat, noir flick from 1961 which can be streamed in its entirety on Hulu.com:
Having faith in a person, a spouse perhaps, doesn’t require any specific action from the one in whom you have faith. It is a matter of sheer trust. It is open-ended: My faith in Christine is based not on facts I know about her (though they certainly enter in), but on my relationship with her, my experience with her. Faith in her doesn’t require her to do something, as in “I have faith that she will win the race.” It just requires her to be her. Faith in a person is trusting the character of the person. And that comes from relationship–shared experience over time.
Many of you already know and love John X. Ambrosavage. In the 1990s, he was named “America’s Best Loved Cartoonist” and “An American Treasure” by persons who ought to know. Time has only sharpened his humor. He has built up a website loaded with years (decades) of furious hahas. East PortlandBlog is an ardent Ambro …