Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Daffy Taffey
A Halsey mother has filed paperwork to have a popular graphic novel banned from the Central Linn High School library. There's just one hitch: Taffey Anderson refuses to return "The Book of Bunny Suicides" to the school district so a committee can review her complaint. She won't budge. In fact, she reportedly plans to burn the book. - Oregonlive
Once again Oregon's best and brightest makes nationwide news. Makes you want to strangle the Easter Bunny.
Labels: Oregon, Sick Sad World
Friday, August 22, 2008
Feeling Coastal
Labels: Oregon, Photography
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Portland, I love you...but you're fucked up.
Eric C. Gottschalk was at the bottom of the pecking order in the Parkrose apartment he shared with a "street family" of young adults. Prosecutors say the band's matriarch and its enforcer had the 23-year-old sign a contract in which he agreed to do whatever they said and gave them permission to beat him if he didn't. The contract was marked with Gottschalk's blood. The band of mostly 18- to 25-year-olds didn't allow Gottschalk to sit on the apartment's furniture. Members punched him with brass knuckles and -- in one of the more violent incidents -- put him in the bathtub and poured hot cooking grease on his genitals, prosecutors say. - Oregonlive
Labels: News, Oregon, Portland, Sick Sad World
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Stegosaurus
Labels: Dinosaurs, Oregon, Photography, Roadside Chic
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Ever Present Oregon Connection
In regards to Rachel Ray/Dunkin Donuts non-controversy, Oregon once again found a connection.
When conservative bloggers went on the attack this week against Dunkin' Donuts' latest ad, they focused on the stringy, white and black scarf draped around pitchwoman Rachael Ray's neck.
The scarf, they insisted, promoted some kind of terrorist chic. Ultraconservative commentator Michelle Malkin compared it to a keffiyeh, "the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad."
Of course, in Oregon, people seeing the ad would be forgiven for taking their eyes off the apparent fashion threat and asking, "Why is Rachael Ray standing in front of the Oregon Capitol building in Salem?"
Dunkin' Donuts' answer: Uh, she was? - Oregonlive
6 degrees.Labels: Food, Oregon, Sick Sad World
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