Today, I Took Powell Pow took me on his first hike. Because this was his first "training hike" my plan was to carry him in his p...

The earth’s atmosphere is a (relatively) closed system, which has trapped water on the planet since the earth formed about 4.5 billion year...

Today we hiked in Forest Park along the Leif Erickson Trail, which is an eleven mile, one-lane, dirt & gravel road (off-limits to motori...

Today is the June Solstice (1st Day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere and 1st Day of Winter in the Southern Hemisphere) and the longest/s...

If degenerate artists see fields blue, they are deranged, and should go to an asylum; if they only pretend to see them blue, they are crimi...

Powell, 4 months I am providing this to avoid being cited by feline-failure-to-post-a-feckin-foto enforcement officials. More importantly (a...

Decided it was time (the 14 months without a cat was fine, but it was time), so I looked for a month or so and finally found and brought hom...

UP - Pixar continues to generate greatness. It will make you cry and laugh; for adults who like an intelligent story behind their animatio...

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned. — Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf

When was the last time you thought for yourself? It is a simple question. Immediately, one wants to—jumps to, knee-jerks to—say:   I always ...

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know be...

     In his latest post at ex movere , Driz included his interpretation of the quote:  The disappointed man speaks: ‘I listened for an ec...

digital rendering by veach st glines — 2009 The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will ...

      trees cat die   family trees cat die unless their cut down — Graffiti, on street-side of an electric box, in black marker Thirteen yea...

digital rendering by veach st glines — 2009 Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art....

With a snide but oh so smarmy wink and nod to Davecat at Shouting to Hear the Echoes I present my first single-cell comic: The only things...

The Eta Aquarids are predicted to reach a peak of about a meteor-a-minute. The peak will be the night of Tuesday, 5 May. Best being the m...

I met Sean while visiting Olympia, Washington, in 2007 (before I knew I'd be moving to Portland). I was sitting in the Urban Onion an...

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are—in almost every case—gotten at second-hand, and without examination, ...

Thanks to Border Town Notes for this meme. To make your own: BAND NAME: Random wikipedia The first random wikipedia article you get is the ...

0700 hrs. It was a clear, cool, early-Spring morning. The victim parked his motorcycle near the grassy edge of an almost-full paved parkin...

Many thanks to my sister, Kim, for discovering (and forwarding to me) this wonderful music—mash-up. Travel is fatal to prejudice. — Mark Tw...

Stuffed stuff from Mahar Drygoods . Idea poached from Owl Farm Blog (by Anita Thompson, Hunter S.'s widow). Every generalizati...

Please do something special for our planet today. Whether is be something simple like not using any of the electricity you would normally ...

digital rendering by veach st glines — 2009 Note: The title is an anagram for the collection of items in this rendering. Anyone wish to...

Beginning tonight—20 April—the Lyrid Meteor Showers will be visible to most of the Northern Hemisphere. The Lyrids are caused by the Ear...

Stuffed stuff from giant microbes , the rest comes from me. Zeal and sincerity can carry a new religion further than any other missio...

digital rendering by veach glines — 2009 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do...

This is: A) a vid-demo of the newest funked-up skratch-laden LP "each-ahh-lader" by DJ Blex. B) a very-extremely boring special ...