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Watching the stumble bums ride their bikes is an exercise in disorientation. Interspersed among the touristing nuclear families, they stand out with their "grizzly adams" and leather boots. My first impression of the Northwest was marveling that everyone seemed to ride a bike until certain logics took hold: Astoria is a lousy place to bike unless...

We headed out early this morning to Oswald West State Park. By the time we ended parking around 9am, the parking lot was full. I had forgotten there was a surfer culture here, much more nomadic than the southerly surfer species. Mostly suburu hatchbacks, VW hippie-vans and crusty looking Datsuns1 with plates from Idaho,...

Like, whoa.1 I don't know about you, but these past few weeks, months has slowly seen my cash diverted from books, music, and fine art to more and more caffeine by way of RockStar, RedBull and DietCoke, to compensate for how unmercifully gray the days have continued, unceasingly, to be. You would now believe how long...

HelmetJohnPDF May 31st, 2008 ~4:23pm Every once in a while, this town can still collapse the socio-economic strata into a mishmash. I was going to say "of a bygone era" but I know that was never true. One of the things that first impressed me about the town was the level of integration between most of the...

Languid, limpid, humid, moist, almost sweltering heat are exactly the words that I never thought I would ever use again to described a day in Astoria, except that summer of 2002....

Stalking Dandelions PDF April 26, 2008 ~2pm It's still sunny now (1:50pm). It rained all week and for once it's sunny on the weekend. So with my trusty "weed-hound,"1 I go outside and start stalking dandelions. If you accept the idea of lawns as aseptic expanses of fuzz, then the worst offender aesthetically is the Dandelion.2 If you...

Stakling DandeLions PDF It's still sunny now (1:50pm). It rained all week and for once it's sunny on the weekend. So with my trusty "weed-hound," I go outside and start stalking dandeLions. If you accept the idea of lawns as aseptic expanses of fuzz, then the worst offender aesthetically is the Dandelion.1 If you accept lawns are...