digital rendering by veach glines — 2008 People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?'  In the first place I don't ...

Hanging on my studio wall, higher than I can reach without a boost (remember when gimme a boost was followed by someone interlacing their...

The film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a wondrous feat of storytelling and certainly worth investing three hours of your time and ...

Craftsmanship Pride A dozen rational reasons to enjoy living in Portland, Oregon: Number three . I—like everyone—have heard the ' where...

Aluminum pole, Food, Grievances to be aired, Feats of Strength to be tested, Beer (in that order). I think a painting is more like the real ...

Today is the shortest day and longest night of the northern hemisphere; the solstice (here on the US western coast) is at exactly 4:04 am. ...

I read in fits and starts. Fiction can be a wonderful escape and non-fiction is a simple way to learn things; so, I’ll gorge myself by devo...

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk rating: 4 of 5 stars [Page 220:] ...brinksmanship, the tendency to leave things un...

Make your own at Make A Flake . I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop at the time that I am bored or understa...

Today was the first snowfall, at all elevations, in and around Portland. Nothing better than a warm fireplace, hot toddies, and the ambient...

The Germinid Meteor showers should be in full streak tonight. I wanted to do something that had no purpose. It didn't have to fit with...

Don't start playing the Demo of Auditorium unless you've got some time to waste.

Sometimes something is just so good, the only thing to do is tell others. Thanks, Bobby! I think maybe chance works better in a situation l...

digital rendering by veach st glines — 2008 They think it was a gesture, a protest against abstract expressionism ... or just a pure a...

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin My review rating: 4 of 5 stars The world works in a mysterious and incomprehensible fas...

Non-walmartization A dozen rational reasons to enjoy living in Portland, Oregon: Number four . There are three Wal-Marts for 2.1 million re...

Got invited to screen a big-budget film scheduled to be released next Spring. It was something I'd never done, so after IMDB'ing ke...

At times, my mind combines a memory with something happening in the present and I get a mini-eureka moment. A few nights ago, out with my pa...

This was a first for me. Although I've had a few memorable nightmares as a child and a couple scary dreams as an adult; never something...

Get-around-ability A dozen rational reasons to enjoy living in Portland, Oregon: Number five . Many cities have some of these effective, ...

Altruism is defined as a selfless act of kindness. While saying altruistic kindness is rhetorically redundant (like free gift or rhetorica...

My paramour Pam a native of this great land whom I think is grand I don't give any thanks today. For non-North American readers: today i...

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Bookstores A dozen rational reasons to enjoy living in Portland, Oregon: Number six . A conducive climate exists here, literally and figura...

Following in the footsteps of Mr Allen—of Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons —who enjoys Vonnegut and (accordingly) has, maybe, the best esote...

Charlie Kaufman has just become one of my favorite directors. The writer of such wonderfully bizarre films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotl...

Voting Simplicity A dozen rational reasons to enjoy living in Portland, Oregon: Number seven Step one: register to vote (like in every sta...

          Most people rarely contemplate the place they call HOME—even less question it.  Many people move away from someone else, while...

Art Theaters A dozen rational reasons to enjoy living in Portland, Oregon: Number eight . Cinema 21 , Bagdad Theater & pub , Hollywood ...

Urban Boundary Lines (UBL) A dozen rational reasons to enjoy living in Portland, Oregon: Number nine Decades ago, urban planners passed la...