The Vig

Not to be outdone by the City of Portland’s white elephant auction, the City of Seattle has a nice opportunity of their own coming up.

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This is a picture of the access road between the Oregon City Fred Meyer to the south and the Southridge Center to the north.  Like every place else, back in the day this was all a big field.  The Southridge Center was built in the early 80s and originally featured an Albertsons and Bi Mart.  […]

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According to this article in the Columbian, light rail is supported by 2/3 of voters.  You could have knocked me over with a feather.  Of course it’s been a few years since that last vote, so things have probably changed.  I have to admit, if it were available to me up here, I’d probably take […]

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The excellent Cat Adoption team in Sherwood is opening a pet food bank next month.  I believe I’ll stop by this weekend with some Friskies.  The dear departed Peter J Katt would have liked that.

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To celebrate my birthday Wednesday, I treated myself to a couple of cheeseburgers from the Convention Center Burgerville. Not that it affected me, but I noticed the Gardenburgers were temporarily unavailable. The O tells us this morning that the ban may not be temporary.
The changeover was set into motion last Friday, when restaurant […]

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Arizona Cardinals: They seem to be getting B-pluses for their draft yesterday. I still don’t get the Dominique Rogers-Cromarte thing. The Deion Sanders seal-of-approval is just too much for me to overcome. I wonder if they’ll come to regret not drafting Mendenhall and cutting Edge. We should know around week […]

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Growing up in Oregon City, I’ve had contact with members of the Followers of Christ Church nearly all my life. The church eschews most modern medicine in favor of prayer. As a kid, I remember they were excluded from required immunizations at school on religious grounds.  They were also sent to a different […]

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Neat article in the New York Times about the end of the stockyards in South Saint Paul, MN.  Some of my favorite memories growing up were of my grandfather taking my brother and me to the old McMinnville auction.  It was held Wednesdays at noon.  You could buy everything from cattle to horses to sheep […]

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There was some consternation yesterday about the use of the word “awesome” in Portland’s newest blog sensation.  As one commenter put it, awesome is the balding son of cool.  And it is.  Portlandisawesome.com, though, is cool.  And awesome.
I am shocked that Davis, arbiter of all things cool and awesome in this town, missed the fact […]

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Portland’s vegan strip club is up for sale.
This person has the next great idea.

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