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Friday, November 18, 2022
Ike Ike complex
Sunday, October 16, 2022
I don't know what they were told
About 80 other venues will divide $9.7 million. For Portland and the metro area, they are:
• Portland (37 at $5,689,168): Aladdin Theater, $497,000; Alberta Rose Theater, $198,940; Artichoke Music, $52,885; Atlantis Lounge, $82,600; BodyVox dance studio, $45,962; Bossanova Ballroom, $120,400; CoHo Productions, $24,605; Crystal Ballroom, $526,414; Dante's, $191,100; Doug Fir Lounge, $268,898; Goodfoot Lounge, $61,600; Hawthorne Theater, $315,700; Headwaters Theater, $24,675; Holocene $205,100; Imago Theater, $73,269; Jack London Revue, $64,120; Kelly's Olympian, $36,400; Kickstand Comedy, formerly Brody Theater, $60,935; Laurelthirst Pub, $56,840; Milagro Theater, $25,711; Mississippi Studios, $294,049; New Expressive Works, $25,081; Northwest Children's Theater, $80,500; Old Church concert hall, $87,500; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, $187,133; Polaris Hall, $183,694; Portland Playhouse, $85,281; Revolution Hall, $434,294; Roseland Theater, $486,094; Shaking the Tree Theater. $63,049; Stage 722, $179,753; Star Theater, $150,500; The Siren Theater, $41,300; Theater Vertigo, $18,375; Tony Starlight Showroom, $51,422; White Eagle, $116,452; Wonder Ballroom, $271,537.
• Other metro area (four at $597,450): Lakewood Center for the Performing Arts, Lake Oswego, $84,000; Pickathon, Happy Valley, $425,131; Theater in the Grove, Forest Grove, $25,900; The Vault Theater, Hillsboro, $62,419."
House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, said lawmakers have worked for months to find the best way to help these organizations. A few are run by government, but most are nonprofit or private.
"What we are trying to do is give them a base level of funding so they can be here on the other side of this pandemic," she said Tuesday, July 14.
"I don't want the public to assume something nefarious is going on here."
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"But Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, said some advocates may believe that the aid will make them whole.
"Every venue was encouraged to write in support of this item.
I don't know what they were told, but I think their expectations are through the ceiling," she said.
https://pamplinmedia.com/sp/70-features/473628-382957-lawmakers-approve-50-million-for-arts-groups-performing-venues
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Saturday, October 08, 2022
Cannonnonadieu
Look at my tree, no possessives can't grasp
Don't got a hold myself
On myself most daft
Can't not undo that's done writ not like we take a
Dodge to the dump, there by the tree
Fjording the motors only i was mbody, sic looking sic looking city counsellor ex daily
Jest my spreadsheet, zeros and a few wrong decibels not sick of purpose
Letterflo
Pre parliamentary paws, off leash diatribe squat
My tree one of many just a sprig out abounds wilderness
Everywhere
Friday, September 30, 2022
Picnic, table
The police drop off some guy from their squadcar, 9 am
At the corner of this park. He's mumbling, a clear plastic bag holding his possessions.
A tweaker, who's to say. The homes around have overflowing wino bins of glass.
He joins my picnic
(As pack my nighttime gear to depart.)
Table. I depart
9-30-22
SE PDX
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Grifting Gonzalez and Jordan Schnitzer
"Paying $250 month
in rent for the 3,185 square feet
at 1010 SW 11th Ave
with two parking spaces, when the advertised fair market value is $6,900 per month,
constitutes
a 96.37% discount,”
___
______
Meanwhile, 'The bandlea meder tells WW the proposal headed for the ballot is too complicated and,
although it expands
the City Council to 12 members plus a mayor,
does not guarantee
better candidates
will run for office. "
How does Thomas Lauderdale imagine that anything Mingus Mapps puts forward is going to
GUARANTEE
BETTER
CANDIDATES?
Oh, let Phil Knight choose.
Or Jordan Schnitzer.
Or Kevin Looper/Betsy Johnson.
____
"City Commissioner-Elect Rene Gonzalez Shares Map of Portland Shootings,
Mistakenly Asserts It Shows Homeless Camps"
____
"What is unusual:
asking for help to pay
for the campaign’s winning battle
against City Hall
over an elections complaint."
Monday, September 19, 2022
Hence the name, cooperative
Cooperatives are based on the values
of self-help,
self -responsibility,
democracy,
equality,
equity,
and solidarity.
In the tradition of their founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values
of honesty,
openness,
social responsibility,
and caring for others.
Friday, September 16, 2022
Community Funded Music
"In a nutshell, busking and begging may be alike for that they both solicit donations in public space, but at the same time busking should be distinguishable from begging in that it additionally provides performance and entertainment which have the potential to make public space more favorable.Dec 2, 2021"
_____
"Street performing is legally considered to be artistic free speech and is protected, just as is panhandling or begging."
_____
"Subsistence strategies such as panhandling (begging for money, food or other items), busking (providing entertainment for money), and squeegeeing (washing car windshields for money) are
informal economic activities commonly associated with homelessness"
_____
"Performances are anything that people find entertaining, including acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions, escapology, dance, singing, fire skills, flea circus, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime, living statue, musical performance, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketching and painting, street theatre, sword swallowing, ventriloquism and washboarding. "
"Some of the bands that performed in this manner were Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Moby Grape and Jimi Hendrix. "
"Joshua Bell, a noted classical violinist, posed as a busker in the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington, D.C. at rush hour in 2007, as part of a feature in The Washington Post.
In the 45 minutes that Bell played, only seven people out of over a thousand who passed by stopped to watch, and he took in just over $32.
Gene Weingarten later won a Pulitzer Prize for the story."
Kickback City PR
"Despite continued violence, Portland windshield smasher won’t be charged"
"So far, the victims whose cases were connected to 51-year-old suspect Robert Casey McClatchey tell KOIN 6 police told them he would be cited $100 for second-degree criminal mischief — a charge confirmed by PPB."
"However, according to Multnomah County’s jail booking criteria, that charge is a bookable offense.
KOIN 6 reached out to Portland Police to ask why McClatchey was only cited if he faces charges he can be arrested for —
especially as these cases continue, including past charges for similar crimes that he’s accused of —
but have not received an answer."
____
Corrupt Police (glass repair shop Kickbacks)
Political tricks to make Portland an unlivable city
Insufficient Resources
Hippy torus school-work
Coadjutor indifference large/long
Office-holder collorobationism tall-fescue
Explain-away amplitude output
Jute wool black-crappie
100 centavos
Belonging shortly meteoroid
Demand accession estrus
Nationalism lambaste Conspire
Hippy torus school-work
10:40 am
SE PDX 9-16
Monday, September 12, 2022
Al Bloodgood NFL
Bloodgood made his professional debut in the NFL playing two years with the Kansas City Cowboys in 1925-1926.
On December 12, 1926 against the Duluth Eskimos he tied an NFL record (with Paddy Driscoll) of
4 drop-kicked field goals in a single game.
The drop kick is significantly more difficult; as Jim Thorpe once explained, "I regard the place kick as almost two to one safer than the drop kick in attempting a goal from the field."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bloodgood
____
"In both American and Canadian football, one method of scoring a field goal, fair-catch kick (American Football only), or extra point is by drop-kicking the football through the goal, although the technique is very rarely used in modern play."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_kick#American_and_Canadian_(gridiron)_football
the only successful drop kick in the NFL since 1941 was by Doug Flutie, the backup quarterback of the New England Patriots, against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006, for an extra point after a touchdown.
Flutie had estimated "an 80 percent chance" of making the drop kick, which was called to give Flutie, 43 at the time, the opportunity to make a historic kick in his final NFL game;
the drop kick was his last play in the NFL.
*.
On October 24, 2020, Iowa State University backup punter Corey Dunn attempted a surprise on-side drop kick off against Oklahoma State University.
It was nearly successful as the Cowboys failed to cleanly field the kick, but Oklahoma State recovered the ball in the ensuing scrum.
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Filiopietistic
Filiopietistic rhythm-band character
Overgraze erase bon-ton
Subsist saltation extent
Nuptial muscularity athletics
Big-hearted issue midsummer
Upstream Thalia separative
Dictionary fix output
12:20 SE pdx
Dada
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Locum-tenens crampons
Driven sly glacial
Locum-tenens crampon aqueduct
Man-year hexen-besen Confederate
Trepidation shut-eye lug
9-10-22
SE PDX
Sunday, September 04, 2022
Pie tin pewter (dada)
Pewter running government
Chasten I'm blemish
Celadon prompt pity
Squamous bagpipe bullion
In-favor klan paresis
Arena-theater fescue Lamarkism
Seminole caution to
Rather lay-up stall
Certainty incurvate notation
Usurp decreasingly ambassador
Gavel seisen court
Amobea cliff-hanger enviable
Resolve chronicle gag
Under-production put-out out-standing
Do-proud galago medium
Tie-pin orphanage glucose
9-4-22
SE pdx dada
Thursday, September 01, 2022
You Hamm
Shove me down if you think that work
I spring back up if linguistics help
You're nothing in a four pound can
You hamm.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Our ferns
Our ferns burn by directive order as milk rots by rote
In the other store tote bag, silence leaks. Nada local
Niente fresca other than halfsmiles, wispy smoke.
You're untrue. I call you untrue.
Our ferns die, your cars
Lavished.
SE PDX 8-16-22
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
Thursday, August 04, 2022
empty ballcap
Cody kicked his bucket
But I know nonothow, heard the idle chatter on the last bus home
A gas station guy on the counters other side
He was ringing up beers just yesterday
*
Bussing from the pool over in cheery blossom
Feeling not too bad for Thursday
There at the mall got on the grimnews, out of the mouth of Rene
*
He just die
Just like that
Another hard fact
Just like that
____
Probably the Covid I'd think, he was heavy, 40 in a wide orange vest
Smiling Colorado, a blond ole hick, said he knew
Nostradamus from his history class
Lived at the corn, the unicorn inn, said his nayburr near burnt it up,
He smiled and moved his big ballcap, rubbed his belly
tweren't a flu, twas MTN spew
*
He just die
Just a fact
No more alive
That's where he at
___
Sweating in the field there pump #9
Idaho family gotta make good time,
school starts up and dad's three jobs
Cody wipes his brow, sounds lots like mine
That's why I'm here on the worst damn road,
filling tanks
with petroleum
*
Back inside turn the slushy machine, 20 little cameras record the scene
A maskless montage of death on the go,
poor Cody poor Colorado, we all know
Life in a motel
so far from home, friends to all but close to none
Standing and breathing just hours close passed,
Cody lie still and none soon asked
____
Why we go
Just like that
Leaving no mark
Just an empty ball cap.
Period.
SE PDX
8-4-2022
Montavilla
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Datachew
Hey mad, I'm really dad
So rad I'm datachew.
Just numb or numbered
Aspoonafood
Unremembered
Yer boon of fools
Harpy holydaze
Lest Sedition be a manjob
Ginni robodialed Arizona
Wishing for trumperbonna
Sedition slut dudes, gaetz
Graham cawthorne and Cruz
Jordan McCarthy McConnell and all GOP ....eat. my.
Lost climate of thought.
Se PDX
7-15-22
Friday, July 08, 2022
Knight Pooplooper
Reconnoiter yer sole phil, gumshoe fascist, waffle face sweatboss
It's the last lap for humanity dance
Grinding the middle class into shoegoo
To fix the billionaire fix it's alltrix no kids
Them were made forbidden, heavy metal in their soup
2Mr Knight, you benzene
Bin zine
Beensawed and people for Portland yer pet project....get a scoop pooper for yer looper
7-8-22
Pdx
Sunday, July 03, 2022
Fourth of July (1988)
Fireworks celebrate the fourth of july sky over the gulf of Persia
And you’re in italy sleeping off a siesta,
The planes passengers crossing the channel to their homes
Smelling of Lebanese meats and spices, the sound of silly
Children happy to see daddy, spouse’s complaint of the local
Vicious dog that terrorizes the innocent meter reader doing daily duties
I’m pitching horseshoes in Oklahoma, taking aim
And firing with my lower lip silently chewed in contemplation
Pitching my shoe and hoping for a ringer the macho
Burst of fireworks resounds in my mind
And all I felt was disgust, and all I felt was this remorseful code
Dashdashdash dotdotdot dashdashdashing thru all the
Miles and differing wartime zones, and all I felt
From this celebration of isolation was nausea
My mind churning with the bloated floating dead
O spangled banner of america who’d guess you’re not an island
Though surrounded by mental waters you only
Lower your drawbridge to send out armed salesmen, what
Carrion you produce along the skyways of commerce!
What blisters swelling on the triggerfingers of ignorance,
What vain nationalism with your civil plights
And comdom-nation of others! And what say I of myself?
I’m america too, an isolatoe, but I think that think my nation
Hates thinking, knockout those with something to give
Wrap nature in disposable diapers and talcum the
Consciences by proclaiming I am
Not me! Swear it doesn’t hurt though the drought burns
Our pink skins like sonic insults! Independence day
Fade away like a pipe bomb, like a tummy ache, like
A cramp in the side, and shatter our illusory caskets!
Midland Review, Oklahoma State Univ., 1989
"Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed"
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Boise Betsy Johnson
"I just told the New York Times that our beautiful City of Roses was turning into the ‘city of roaches’.
“Now, unbelievably, the forces of ‘Tent City Tina’ and some woke professor from Portland State are attempting to manufacture false outrage.
My comment was about trash — not people "
https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL9IBamh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aenhttps://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL9IBamh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
_____
Trashy Betsy tries Trump speak.
How dare you insinuate that I'm a born-wealthy NRA plop of Phil Knight excrement hiding behind wall sized glasses to hold my jowls from needing a bra made of steel meshing.
____
"Portland does not actually have a cockroach problem."
Monday, June 27, 2022
Gavoted Democrat
Go vote yourself a life jacket, drowned children.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
E Fer
Ya get an E fer effort, that fort atop the twig
A for atoned, a tone notto
B for being besides a C
D cider halfwit blended what the F for.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Forestmostly
Sleep is a mixed bag, what with headlightless dirt bikes doing wheelies at 4am upn down the neighborhood
Breaking the monotony of gunfire, gunfire, more funtire
After stepping in dogshit, I awaken 12 hours later to a dog shitting near my bed under the redwood, with me in bed
Some semblances of silence assuredly assimilate my unsanctimonious nest
Screeching hawk runs from the crowboys harried in the fearless canopy, thud drops the rat a mere ten feet from my bed unpeopled
It all happened just like that, first& forestmostly unimportant
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Friday, May 27, 2022
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Rene Gonzalez Internment Bureau
"Gonzalez has said his number one priority
is getting rich.
He has called for city and county leaders to
rapidly build more shelters
and said, if people
refuse to go, he believes
they should face
jail time or a citation."
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEEptSHP4uLgW5gbj22qQ5zsqMwgEKioIACIQ8JOk3mr40NIj2qaTzWaopSoUCAoiEPCTpN5q-NDSI9qmk81mqKUwot_ABw?uo=CAUiANIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aenhttps://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEEptSHP4uLgW5gbj22qQ5zsqMwgEKioIACIQ8JOk3mr40NIj2qaTzWaopSoUCAoiEPCTpN5q-NDSI9qmk81mqKUwot_ABw?uo=CAUiANIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
When you're houseless, everywhere is home. When you're heartless, every touch revives. I'm neither less nor more than a sum of my losses, without you. Gold sinks, water dances still. There are no strangers in our open morning, no friends bearing a true compass other than the baby sun and harbor moon. Silence can't be broken like a horse. Rope and saddle and wishes stay selfish in the pecking orders of mountains. My glacier thirsts for the ocean floor, shaggy with salt. When we're helpless, we help ourselves to suffer. When the polis eats us, we're political. A routine checkup checks all the Pandora boxes, unpostmarked by design. Everything done comes undun, washing the tomorrow clean of whence. Worn out thread becomes a nest, with effort feathers. I bark another tree, spin a yarn, and tumble in my bagworm skin. When rebooted, our toes map the cavernous naps and spatial tuck. When pulling oneself out of the tarpit, the tar comes along to the dino museum. It's free.
SE Pdx 5-17-22
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Google Slop
I click "less stories like this" day after day, yet Google won't screen this Nothing soap opera slime.
It amounts to nothing newsworthy. It's a petty grotesque Intentional Distraction.
Figure it out Google or I'll switch browsers.
FLB
5-10-23
Saturday, May 07, 2022
Monday, May 02, 2022
Montavilla Farmers Market, Forest on Fiddle
https://youtu.be/z3TSlR3r4cY
Fiddle at the Montavilla Farmers Market 2021
East Portland News, David Ashton.
Sunday, May 01, 2022
Park Rangers Malicious Harassment for Political Purposes
"Portland broke its record for the rainiest April in city history, getting drenched with at least 5.60 inches of rainfall by 5 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service."
Perfect time for Park Rangers to harass the homeless; the moment it stops a monumental downpour.
It has happened to me 3 times.
***
"Oregon State Legislature
Provides that local law regulating sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property that is open to public must be objectively reasonable as to time, place and manner with regards to persons experiencing homelessness.
Catchline/Summary: Provides that local law re...
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of public pr...
HB3115 2021 Regular Session
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"Carmen Rubio's chief of staff, Jillian Schoene, is the wife of Kevin Looper of People for Portland."
And Rubio runs the Park Rangers.
google it.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Harassed on Orders from Worms in Loafers
Harassed AGAIN, 10am, "Jacob" after it rains on my canopy ALL night.
Canopy, "The forest canopy is a structurally complex and ecologically important subsystem of the forest.
It is defined as
“the aggregate of all crowns
in a stand of vegetation,
which is the combination of all foliage, twigs, fine branches, epiphytes as well as the interstices (air) in a forest” (Parker, 1995)."
Definition of canopy
"(Entry 1 of 2) 1a : a cloth covering suspended over a bed. b : a cover (as of cloth) fixed or carried above a person of high rank or a sacred object : baldachin A canopy hung over the altar. c : a protective covering: such as. (1) : the uppermost spreading branchy layer of a forest."
"The definition of a canopy is a roof like covering or anything that seems to cover. "
A CANOPY is a roof.
____
Is Political Power a canopy or a tent?
Who orders me harassed? Those already sheltered.
You can see me under my roof. You hide behind walls and send Dogs, like Jacob.
It happens over and over in a Loop, Looper calls his Dog, who sends a Pup, who I have to potty train.
Looper unelected has his Wife in the office of Dogs, she's unelected too. She's a bureauCat rightpaw. Pull the string, yarn, play Consequential!
The harassment leaves no paper trail. Off goes the white Publicity owned truck, mudless. Soil and soul-lacking.
Law is my Canopy, my second roof of protection.
Write me up for not catching pneumonia, office worms.
Do your math and figure out how much the City will spend to keep a single Houseless man from sleeping under a tree, on Public Land, as allowed by Oregon State Law.
Staying dry and warm is my big crime, you say.
Decent Oregon and the 9th Circuit Court disagree.
Happy May Day, public tools.
An Injury to One is an Injury to All.
Forest🌲
Friday, April 29, 2022
Lowly bean eating quacker
Of course I did not rush the hawk,
stoic gloat atop a squirrelpup
They flew upwherehow (else view matters, above
The coastal redwood furspective
Statuesque dripping red on
Redress, dropping
Thud at my turned back
an accident or offering
To we lowly bean eating quackers
SE pdx
Hohummery
Cars curious creep peer discernedly their peers less enabled
Out in the rain
Staying dry, immobile as humans managed the other 6 million years
Not in a snoozemobile on auto-jerk
Or in a halfmillbungalobotunseen
Rubberneckin Friday drizzle, enraged by sciatic tedium and hohummery.
Idiot Cedric Richmond
"Richmond was one of a few Democrats who voted to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline.[18]
"He is the fifth-biggest recipient of money from fossil fuel donors among House Democrats.
Richmond's campaign received almost $113,000 from the oil and gas sector, which donated more than any other sector to his campaign. 2020"
Cedric sides with OIL in BP Disaster territory.
'in 2008, the Louisiana Supreme Court suspended Richmond's law license for six months in a 5–2 decision.
It found that he had falsified a sworn statement
claiming more than two years of residency in New Orleans's "D" district in order to be eligible for the district's city council seat.[23]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Richmond
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Sondland Fraud
"Provenance Hotels, the chain founded by Portland hotelier Gordon Sondland, former U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Provenance qualified for a loan of $9 million.'.
TRAITOR and money launderer Sondland, worth Hundreds of Millions$$$.
"Benchmark Pyramid, based in
The Woodlands,
said it would acquire Provenance Hotels, adding Sondland’s 12 hotels to its 240 properties in the U.S., Europe and the Caribbean."
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Popular Oregon Law HB 3115 ignored by Wheeler, People For Putin PBA
" According to advocates and government representatives who developed the bill, HB 3155 is meant to ensure that cities and counties comply with a series of recent federal court rulings that governments cannot criminalize camping or issue fines if people have no other place to go.
“If a city wants to arrest you for being somewhere, they have to provide somewhere else reasonable for you to be,”
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/15/oregon-house-bill-homeless-camping/?outputType=amp
"The House passed the bill on a near party-line vote, with two Democrats voting against, and two Republicans voting in favor."
Tina Kotek don't need the Luglugluggage
Do endorsements matter when it comes to pick predecessors for Oregon Governor?
John Kitzhaber, always the bridegroom never the, whatever. 10 counts of influence peddling and a happy ending too soon.
Neil Goldschmidt, who do you prefer? No tweens.
Barbara Roberts, a true trailblazer in Oregon, why is Terry Bean the only photo on your Wikipedia page? Hoo cares, you're in Ukrainian colors!
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Vigilant Twait
Made it thru a wet night ok again, guy passed by at 9 am asked if I wanted a sandwich
Packed away my home what fits on my back trekked over the sogged field leaving a choir of naked worms where my body just sprawled
Took my little pop up canopy to my buddies van to stow, up pulls a car woman with her seats full of bagged recycling cans
Is this your van you can't park here the Lecture starts
No. Bluntly.
I walk off as she informs me that America Needs Pride. She ain't done, follows me pulling over again to speechify, so out comes my camera and I take a fond shot of the silver honda plate
If you put that on FB or tweeter, I'll Find You and Get You, she states. Pride.
That sounds like a threat sezame. She's had enuff. Redemption of Pride Can
Twait.
3-22-22
Stumptown
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Equiknocks
I got the stolen bike snooze,
Chained to hues blue
Now I hoof it, chartered
Sidewalk cruise
You have a borrowed riff raff,
Falstaff in the bath
Wanna be muddy water
Not a melody squatter
A con etiquette yank
FU Chet Hanks, ringaround yer collar, proud boy waller
Con Ye even weaker than
Most whiteteash tweakers
Sumfin soup, maybe shark or snail
If snails had trails o wait they prevail
It smears to datwitter with witless insouisance
Being dumbass yer only insurance, expired
As tracks yuhdrase
If they didn't nap yo face
Equiknocks
SE pdx
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Enid (2015)
I figure it must be in our durum,
in the iron of the grain
resonated with the rails it rode on
to the rebar in the cement silos
extending for miles,
metal irrigated prarie spines,
seedheads of enid bigger than their boots
covered in oil, red dirt, and alfalfa
boots up to the chin cut strange figures
desperado dna& wildcatter mrrroww
out now in deep oceans with lotus stalks
sipping rudely a wine not theirs to take
sucker sooners, good at sucking off the cream
promenading among young fresh minds and bodies,
it is fer sure in our wheat, then in our chow,
and darn dagnabbit in the worridoors of power
shucking loan by graft by script
watching land family blow away called the dust bowl
banks assume, amass.
the city
rises from the plain
buyonant sic of oil, water held apart in silica primordials
resistance flowers in fractal petro units,
shoots up her weed, enid
fingerstyled hedge fund a bowl of starry gritz
more grain than the milky way of a billion cereal mornings,
&grandma dorothy in camelot
if the refinery smell cut loose
from the masonry
3-13-15 Portland Oregon, living in the divorce Van
"In his July 2021 essay “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” Mr. Putin refers to
Prince Volodymyr, a Viking warlord who belonged to the Rus tribe in Kyiv and who converted to Christianity in the year 988.
St. Vladimir of Kyiv, as the Russians came to call him, became credited with Christianizing Russia.
Mr. Putin has argued that this ancient link between Ukraine and Russia “largely determines our affinity today,” justifying the invasion.
Friday, March 18, 2022
Putin Pays Trump
"Madison is wrong, if there's any thug in this world it's Putin,"
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at his weekly news conference on Friday, though he said
he's still supporting Cawthorn's reelection bid. "
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/18/politics/madison-cawthorn-republican-reaction/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/18/politics/madison-cawthorn-republican-reaction/index.html
"There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said,
according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia."
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Amigas
Oily Gwawk ya Nembrain.
Getmerikn. Whaddya dunk
Snot fraudulent? Tirescreech
205, my backyard, tho tree nestled my haven
Gracias amigas. Amigas. Amigas.
SE pdx, toda pdx
Friday, March 11, 2022
Tuesday, March 08, 2022
Squirrelenski
Our outdoor mansions a canopy of limbs grown in hard won harmony, where gusts barber the ancients
Water filtered a thousand ways tethering now-n-then
Forgotten acorn fossil, pillow of glacial sand barfed into geological symmetry next to montanergeodes
Amber earrings full of ant army MREs, bluej sorties, squirrelenski taunts
Mordoors of Crows is correct, no?
Helped a worm and vice versa said a soily sky borrowed from underseas
SE pdx
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Mayor Sam Wheeler
"Adams wrote. “Our work so far, mine included, has … failed to produce the sought-after results.”
Rich Chatman, a spokesman for Wheeler, said Friday he was not familiar with document and declined to comment on it."
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"Espinoza described the proposal as an attempt to criminalize homelessness, reverting to prior anti-camping policies in Portland and elsewhere that courts ruled were unconstitutional and harmful."
"An approach to homelessness led by law enforcement and a sector of our military flies grotesquely in the face of our city’s stated goal to advance racial justice and will disproportionately harm our BIPOC houseless neighbors,” said Miller, whose non-profit develops affordable housing and provides emergency shelter and assistance to homeless families."
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"This is not a proposal, this isn’t even a plan,” Adams says, and added that Wheeler had not seen or approved of the notes.
“This is Sam Adams"
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2022/02/11/portland-mayoral-aide-outlined-ideas-to-eliminate-unsanctioned-camping-across-city/
"Officials would site the shelter locations on city-owned land or use eminent domain to use private property, according to the memo.
Adams suggested staffing them with unarmed National Guard members as well as graduate students in social work programs at Portland State University."
And maybe Mayor Adams can use Girl Scouts and duct tape, too. Or, the usual Proud Boys, the Business Alliance GOP gazpacho teams.
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"City Commissioner Dan Ryan has spent the better part of a year trying to construct six large outdoor shelters.
His office initially planned for the shelters to be finished at the end of 2021.
None have been built and only three locations finalized."
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"Adams nor Kafoury has responded to KOIN 6 News’ requests for comment as of Monday afternoon."
"This proposal contravenes social work values and is not being considered by the SSW,” Coll said.
The school was not consulted about this plan, and we with PSU Government relations are handling this matter.”
Wheeler says "I directed my team to leave no stone unturned in finding a solution that will address this problem in an urgent and meaningful way"
Cockroach Consultants scurry scurry when Portland flips over the Mayor's office.
Winning Mark Weiner put both Adams and Deb Kafoury in power. Scurry, scurry. Oh, and Kurt Shrader, one of the worst Democrats in Congress.
Monday, February 07, 2022
Lop lop
Lop, lop, the trump lugs in a flox, smitten in shitten, punked by smeary cretin
Lop lop, trump dingledoozies trot
Lop lop, a GOP crop with all husk no grain
Lop lop
It were, once
My lil corner, mauve tea sky
Tease antipathy
Yer big dormer, brats inna belfry
Holdinstank as per perfidy, personified
Our lil bower, one wee noon not encumbered,
Succor the air
It were, once.
Saturday, February 05, 2022
Hamletette Ach Du Macbeth
"His wife, Patricia McCaig, said Walsh developed Alzheimer’s disease few years ago and suffered a fall a few days before he died."
"Blumenauer said. “But he was the first one to roll up his sleeves and the first one to write a check.”
Such a warm remembrance.
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"McCaig's billings show she has worked more than 800 hours since mid-2011 trying to convince Oregon lawmakers to approve the CRC.
But records show she has never registered as a lobbyist with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, which could be
a violation of state ethics laws (see below)."
https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20317-the-woman-behind-the-bridge.html
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"Every time we meet with them, we know Patricia's got 15 lobbyists meeting with them."
Political consultant Mark Wiener says that's McCaig doing what she calls "running the traps."
"McCaig has also shown skill in deflecting the CRC's accountability with one big misstep: The bridge had been designed too low.
After all the planning (costs have now hit $165 million), the bridge was designed at 95 feet—not high enough "
Thursday, February 03, 2022
Monday, January 31, 2022
Cover Ups Come Back to Haunt
"The police said last year that Houston knew information relating to the sexual abuse of a young male in the 1970s and failed to bring it to the attention of police."
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/30/australia/hillsong-church-australia-charges-intl-hnk/index.html
"Brian Houston, charged in Sydney in August of last year with concealing a serious indictable offense, said he had already been told to step aside from all Hillsong boards."
"A government inquiry found that Houston became aware of allegations against his preacher father, Frank Houston, in 1999 and
allowed him to retire quietly rather than report him to police.
His father confessed to the abuse before he died in 2004 at age 82, The Associated Press reported. "
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Illegal Dumping
They bought an auctioned Storage Unit and dumped the crap they didn't want 2 blocks from the Storage facility.
Crapitalism. Don't blame the homeless.