Sellwood Street

I'm not the first to find a similarity between these two logos. The first time I saw John McCain's logo on one of his ads, I immediately thought "mmm... french fries." The typeface used in the John McCain logo is Optima, Straightforward, plain, and just about as ho-hum middle of the road as it comes as far as text goes. Not so coincidentally, this is the same typeface used on Maya Lin's Vietnam...

Watch them all. Found at Schadenfreude Surviving the New Depression: Tip #12 from Steve Delahoyde on Vimeo. Surviving the New Depression: Tip #16 from Steve Delahoyde on Vimeo....

I believe this video shows the precise moment that a new euphemism for masturbation was born. If only Borgnine wasn't such a funny word in the first place. (Probably the only Fox News Video link you'll ever see here.)...

So it was Friday after work, 102 degrees, and I didn't want to cook. So I headed to Lloyd Center to wait out the heat of the day and get some mall food court dinner. Luckily the Lloyd Center has my second favorite fast food pleasure - Arbys. And since it was payday, I sprung for the mozzarella stix as a special treat. Lloyd Center is an especially awesome air conditioned oasis on a dreadfully...

Update - The video was promptly taken down from all the usual sources, but it is still available here. Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai dislocates his elbow. Use care, the video is pretty nasty, but still not as bad as this still image of the infamous "blown 'O' ring." (Use even more care with that picture. Don't click that link in mixed company, unless you really want to bother someone for...

Its hot. I'm struggling to keep the apartment under 80. It was supposed to be even warmer today but the predictions didn't pan out. I figured this was the perfect day to make a crock pot meal. It doesn't heat the house too much, and although a little heavier of a meal than I really needed to eat tonight, it was a success. I almost lost my favorite crock pot roast recipe, it was written on a tiny...