tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177347332011-04-21T19:33:52.644-07:00a worldview from the Upper Left Edge<br> by Cynthia Price<br>Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1167678981702580602007-01-01T11:06:00.000-08:002007-01-01T11:17:26.636-08:00

. . . I'm going to write a book and spend more time with the people who have spent time here. No more scribbling or pictures in The Daily 750.Live well and prosper.Cindy

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Yesterday, 10:00am:Today, 10:00am:

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Do you recognize this woman?Do you know the name Alice Paul?I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't until earlier this year. And now that I've watched Iron Jawed Angels, I'm astounded that I could get the equivalent of a Masters degree in poli sci and not ever have heard her name in a class.I recommend the movie. And I challenge anyone to watch it and then ever again miss an opportunity to vote.

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All for a Few Perfect Waves: the Audacious Life of Legendary Surfer Miki "da Cat" Dora

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My position is straightforward: I'm for openness, full participation and competency in government. Openness: Conducting the county's business in open sessions. Making clear all conflicts of interest. Advocating for the use of our government channel to broadcast all County meetings. Using the Internet, the newspapers, our broadcast media and town halls to communicate the work of the

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photo by Joseph Robertson

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This Friday, August 18, Coast Community Radio begins its Summer Pledge Drive. Thoughtful listeners become members of KMUN-KTCB-KCPB every day, but during this ten-day period we broadcast special programming and thank-you gifts in an all-out aural extravaganza designed especially for you by our expert and entertaining cadre of volunteer programmers.The feds have cut funding to the Corporation for

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The arrow points to one of the tallest building in Astoria. Four stories high and sitting on pilings in the river, the Columbia House condominiums offer incomparable views within a c. 1972 Soviet-style box. Ten years later and even high up on the hill I'm awed by passing ships (this one's carrying cars) that are several times taller and every bit as long as downtown.

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Blogger has been slow this past week. By the time it's ready to go I've lost my train. Thus is the fleetness of summer thoughts, particularly when the winds have now a distinct chill at their back: summer itself is fleeing, enjoy it now!More garden photos to come.

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Visit and encourage:Astoria Oregon Rust, The Guy.*Bob's Blog, brainiac.Vodou Kitty, mathematician with a twist.We need all the non-bloviaters we can find. From Coastwatch to Al Jazeera, the ideological info-ma-shun dams that make their living appealing to the coarsest of society's interests are hurting us all, sometimes personally and always societally.* UPDATE August 4, 10:00am: Oh dear. The Guy

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LA freeway view. My friend Larry thinks a good high school essay question would be: What do you think this sign means, and do you agree?

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Dude at mung.net has (yet another) insightful and unique description, this one of a "narcotizing yellow-orange-blue glow from horizon to zenith." I think he's talking about this night, July 16 or 17.Rain is worth only the occasional comment about an unusual rain. I have it on empirical evidence that Sunday morning all of Astoria -- soundly asleep in their upstairs bedrooms, windows opened to the

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Since returning from North Carolina mid-month, I've been making this. You can't even get to the page that's taken this whole week -- the online pledge page -- because I'm still not finished with the behind-the-web gory details. I'm sustained by the great eye of some very talented photographers. But my right arm is mostly numb from sitting on the mouse all day. What am I doing wrong?Josh and I

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If you were caught napping on your chaise longue and need a quick catch-up on the battle in the Middle East before tonight's dinner party, you probably can't do better than to take five minutes and read Michael Totten's July 14 contribution. Michael spent most of the last year in the MidEast, and most of that living in Beirut.

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click on images for better reading

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I want to work locally. I want to raise funds from a broad and diverse group of people throughout this and the adjoining counties for a couple of my favorite non-profits. I want a VACATION. I don't want to argue. None of which goes well with blogging, unless you stick to plants and shoes.See ya in July. Keep the slugs out of your dahlias and the socks out of your sandals.

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Collapsed in ditches or staggering through the woods and sodden fields, near delirium from hunger and fatigue, they not only offered little resistance to being gathered up; they seemed to welcome capture as a comfort. For them at least the war was over, won or lost, and winning or losing made less difference than they had thought before they reached the end of their endurance. Not that all of

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PansiesBlue Parrot tulipBlue Wave PetuniasMore Blue WavesColumbinemore ColumbineCarolina Blue ColumbineClematis HenryiiSolanum crispum Glasnevin (blue potato vine)more GlasnevincatmintCorydalis Panda Blueforget-me-nots

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My dear friend Joe Miller died last night. Joe lived a glorious life, and if there is glory after life he is shining in it now.Joe was a paratrooper on D-Day. A Kentucky Colonel. The head of a large division of the American Medical Association in Chicago. A stern father. A kindly and generous grandfather. An interesting husband for two terrific women. Joe's first wife died right about the same

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Eight o'clock a.m. Thursday, April 27th. 49 degrees. Winds, calm. Tide, -0.9 at the Port of Astoria docks. The Zhen Hua 1 carried a post-Panamax crane under the Astoria Bridge on its way to the Port of Portland.It's likely to be the final working voyage of the Zhen Hua 1, a rust bucket always held up in its recent sailsby the Coast Guard .

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I made a commitment to many people to follow the County Budget process. There are two long meetings, today and tomorrow. I'll be there and I'll report on them. The DA is requesting four new positions in order to service the third judge that begins in January 2007. The County Manager has already announced, in an "emergency" Department Head meeting yesterday, that he'll find the money for the new

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1145578024869817092006-04-20T17:05:00.000-07:002006-04-20T17:07:04.886-07:00

I'll be posting a picture a day so you can still get your view from the upper left edge, but writing is on hiatus until the day after election day, May 17th. If you're interested in local issues, wander on over to the campaign blog in the meanwhile.Thanks for reading.

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Josh has written a searing review, published today in the Wall Street Journal, of the new book by Sebastian Junger, who wrote "The Perfect Storm." The new book, "A Death In Belmont," might better be called "The Perfect Muddle." You can read the full review on Josh's blog.

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New piece on meth over at the campaign site. Check it out. Leave your comments.

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KMUN/KTCB's spring pledge drive starts today. Over 100 extraordinarily active and committeed volunteers and six immensely underpaid and overworked staff deliver creative, informative, entertaining programming all day, every day. It's a creative refuge of listening and learning for all ages, all interests.Slide 'em a few bucks by becoming a member or upping your membership level. 503.325.0010 or

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Friday night conversation with my grandmother. She starts:How's your Hattie Mae cat gettin' along?She'll be 20 this year.Twenty! Twenty years old?!Yep. She's spunky but she's deaf as a door knob.She's what?She's DEAF.I've never heard of a cat that likes to get wet.D-E-A-F. She can't hear.Oh. Well, I feel for her. [Mamaw nods her head.] You should use that in your campaign.How?"I've kept a cat

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Thanks to Lisa for the wee Scandinavian Queen whose mighty powers I call upon from time to time.

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This time of year Charlotte is like a billowy polka-dot dress, something June Cleaver would've worn while making The Boys a sandwich, form-fitting to the waist and then yards and yards of skirt, the background a soft taupe, the color of tree trunks, the big dots of soft pinks and off-whites, the colors of cherry and apple blossoms, and vibrant magenta and violet red, the colors of redbuds. A

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The Daily 750 is on hiatus until March 26th (as if postings hadn't gotten infrequent enough). In the meanwhile I'll be posting a few essays on the campaign blog.

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It's the question I ask over at the campaign site. Let me have your thoughts.

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You may have noticed that it seems I made a purposeful decision to make all of my mistakes in the first two days of my campaign. I consider myself mediocre at asserting my opinions publicly; and my use of language is naturally more like a writer's than a politician's. I'll work on becoming braver and smarter, if not necessarily more political.Here’s one mistake that’s gotten a lot of play. (read

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My month of non-deliberately ignoring the Big Issues of the world is officially, and I do mean Officially, over. Yesterday I filed to run for County Commissioner. You can read all about it at the new blog I threw together, and also in yesterday's paper. Election day is May 16. I'm running against an incumbent who has money and whose family has deep roots here, so I'll be fundraising and seeking

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And so now you know why I don't care much about whether my toes trip lightly over one flooring or another. The pants improve but it's a rare day, usually one spent out of state, that I'm not in socks and thick slippers when home. I satisfy my visual cortex instead. '70s lineoleum doesn't feel much different from old-growth fir, with or without socks and slippers, but . . . ack! Cover with paint

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Yesterday, Virginia Postrel posted a link to a page that will use a little bot to scan your blog or web site and come up with a "Word Cloud". Here are mine and Josh's.UPDATE: and here's the radio station's:

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I can't say it any better than James Lileks:>>>It just doesn’t sit well. Period. It’s one thing for an Administration to misjudge how a particular decision will be received; it’s another entirely to misjudge an issue that cuts to the core of the Administration’s core strength. That’s where you slap yourself on the forehead in the style of those lamenting the failure to request a V-8 in a timely

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Rare clear skies reported in Southern California yesterday. Josh's sister Annie, walking her dogs in the wash by her house in Claremont, near the foot of Mt. Baldy, could see the ocean (40 miles) and on to Catalina Island (26 miles across the sea, as the Four Preps sang.)1: Pico and Pippi2. going for a walk3. Annie's beloved wash4. Wheee!(pictures from May 2004)I'm glad I wasn't there. That one

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Really, I'll do anything to keep from working on the inside of this 100-year-old house. Painting? Okay, I love to paint. All the other stuff is . . . "Work!?", and I tend to channel Maynard G. Krebs. I need a new passion. I've designed and planted the yard (several times over, and don't have the knees to do it again) -- so now what?Fashion.Three months ago I read James Lileks, The New York Times,

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1139590008733789742006-02-10T08:36:00.000-08:002006-02-10T08:46:48.826-08:00

You don't win wars by dying for your country. You wins war by making the other poor son-of-a-bitch die for his!"-- Gen. George Patton.Thanks to DarkSyde at Daily Kos for reminding me of this. Patton, by the way: another movie I could and have watched over and over again. Seering visuals. Haunting music. But here we are, in 2006, with, as Andrew Sullivan says, the "fathomless incompetence" of the

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1139463679299797172006-02-09T00:01:00.000-08:002006-02-08T21:42:23.596-08:00

I watched only five minutes of the Grammies this year, and only because it was Paul McCartney. When I was a young girl of 12 or 13 I created a whole world in which I was a famous writer and a Goodwill Ambassador to the World, seriously dabbling in political and social causes, and married to Paul McCartney. I made schedules of our busy lives. I wrote interview questions -- questions that Merv

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1139250558620618472006-02-07T00:01:00.000-08:002006-02-06T21:38:12.793-08:00

Spectator I: I think it was "Blessed are the cheesemakers".Mrs. Gregory: Aha, what's so special about the cheesemakers?Gregory: Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products. -- Monty Python, "The Life of Brian" If, like me, you listened to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testify about wire-tapping and the FISA law before the

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1139207213273145382006-02-06T00:01:00.000-08:002006-02-05T22:26:53.273-08:00

This is going around and since I haven't had an original thought in, oh, two weeks, here goes....Four jobs I've had:cocktail waitress, the Palomino Clubproduction manager, Larry Flynt Publicationsdirector of a strategic studies instituteinterim general manager of a public radio stationFour Movies I can watch over and over:In Harm's WaySayonaraAll the President's MenRedsFour Places I've Lived:

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Today's shopping: bread, pre-roasted chicken, tuna, baby shrimp, crackers, peanut butter, Starbucks Double Shot coffees (sorry, Sam), candles, battery-operated Coleman lamp, battery-operated TV. Get the picture?A rapidly developing storm well offshore will race to VancouverIsland tonight and early Saturday. A very strong cold front willmove to the coast line by 11 PM tonight... with strong

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister Jacky, who turns the age today that completely changed the course of my life. If it does the same for her, may it please her as much at least as much as it pleased me. I wanted to take a sunny picture to match her shining personality, but couldn't get a flight out today. Hah!

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"Shameless Promotion of New Blog" is the entirety of an email I got this morning from local commentator Patrick McGee. Patrick doesn't mince words, so his are worth reading if you're interested in Astoria's fishy back room. Visit the site -- Grass Roots People -- and then beg him to change to black-on-white. I won't use up precious cones and rods trying to decipher white-on-black and I really

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"Look, Josh. Hooters.""Where?""There.""They shut down Waddle's to make room for a Hooters? That's a sure sign of the end of civilization."

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Josh's first OpEd for the New York Times was published today. There's no place in the Upper Left Edge to buy a copy!

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Canadian political and cultural columnist Mark Steyn never fails to inform and entertain. Today, posted on macleans.ca, Steyn reviews NY Times columnist Margo Jefferson’s new book, “On Michael Jackson” -- duly noting that Jefferson wasn't actually "on" Michael Jackson, "a position few, if any, ladies are known to have assumed", and wondering whether there is less than meets the eye to her

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. . . or that I've watched three minutes of all the games played all year, but . . . GO PANTHERS!

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Looking through some pictures last night, housecleaning the computer, I came across this view of the Upper Left Edge over the back of the regal Alex, taken on January 9, 2004. Notice the white rooftops.It's leftover SNOW from three days before, the morning of January 6. Here's the intrepid Josh, scraping off the overhauled poe-leece car, determined to slide down the hill to the courthouse on

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1137441788853287262006-01-16T10:35:00.000-08:002006-01-16T12:03:08.926-08:00

As I wrote yesterday to the people who made it happen, The Riverwalk Project presentations on Saturday were one of the Top Three Most Inspiring Events I have witnessed in The Upper Left Edge, and I say three just in case I've forgotten something, which I usually have. Why? The quality and creativity of the art, the thoughtful intelligence of the artists, their unique ways of expressing the

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1137261525592494012006-01-14T09:43:00.000-08:002006-01-14T10:00:24.823-08:00

I've been dreaming of living in Venice, Italy, surrounded by water and sinking, slowly, through the millenia; and of living in California and driving, slowly, through the milieu; and of living in Florida and snorkeling, slowly, through the mmm-mm-mmm deliciously warm waters.And during the day I've been deciding: black rain boots or pink?But complaining about the rain is like grumbling that your

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1137000045762024112006-01-11T09:12:00.000-08:002006-01-11T09:20:45.883-08:00

I got Nothing. Oh sure, in the Movie World in my head there are ideas a-plenty on a loop like never-ending full-color news shorts: dot-dot-dot FLASH: Safety Will Never Kill The Calpine Project dot-dot-dot FLASH: County Commissioners meet now meet at 10 in the morning in the Boyington Palace o' Meetings dot-dot-dot FLASH: Yikes! It's 9:15, if I'm going to go I'd better get dressed dot-dot-dot

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"What time is it?" our red-headed creative brainiac dinner guest asked."Just about 11:30," Josh said.The redhead sat straight up. "My GOD these chairs are comfortable!" she swore, and then poured herself a wee bit more port before sitting back for a wee bit longer.In 1969-70 my subdivision developer Dad made his first, and last, million dollars. The Queen of the VFW -- who was more of a Desperate

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1136308133920032032006-01-03T09:07:00.000-08:002006-01-03T09:41:03.450-08:00

. . . and where are the contents of my posts? Oh boy, just what I wanted to do today: find out why color #555 isn't showing.24 minutes later: Fixed. Added color: #555 to a bunch of places that hadn't had it before. Could I have been hacked? Hmm. When I get over being grumpy about this I'll write something grumpy about LNG.

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Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1136097293874274782005-12-31T22:27:00.000-08:002005-12-31T22:39:41.890-08:00

(tips to Brave Soldat Svejk)

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1135879651289716062005-12-29T10:03:00.000-08:002005-12-29T10:07:31.376-08:00

Cheers to the New Year! Let it be filled with an Abundance of Food, Friends, Family, Joy, Love and Acceptance -- even, and especially, when we're at our dorkiest.

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1135409949563936172005-12-24T00:09:00.000-08:002005-12-23T23:39:18.676-08:00

Wearing one's religious heritage like the Flying Nun's habit is all the rage now. So is wearing Uggs and I don't like them either. I'm reminded of what the Queen of the VFW said -- I bet you heard it too -- whenever I wanted to do something because "everyone else" was: "If Everyone Else wanted to jump off a bridge, would you want to do that too?" This was pre-bungee jumping, obviously. I don't

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1135358753460569302005-12-23T09:11:00.000-08:002005-12-23T09:26:02.996-08:00

If you're interested in the LNG issue you must make the Astoria Citizen's Journal Community Forum a daily read. Port Commish Glen Taggart is a regular writer, and today he comments on the Daily A's editorial.On Calpine's bankruptcy presenting an opportunity for the Port to terminate its lease, Taggart writes:The port's lease is with Skipanon LLC (not calpine). For the port to get involved would

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1135311264808949082005-12-23T00:02:00.000-08:002005-12-22T20:14:24.840-08:00

Exit strategies are hard to come by these days. Here's a unique Christmas gift from the editor of the Daily Astorian.Calpine gives the Port an exit strategyBankruptcy filing exposes the Port of Astoria’s lack of due diligenceThe Daily Astorian editorialThursday, December 22, 2005Calpine Corp.’s bankruptcy filing presents the Port of Astoria and the city of Warrenton with an opportunity to become

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1135188125993978322005-12-21T09:24:00.001-08:002005-12-21T10:07:12.866-08:00

Welcome to the first day of winter, on tap to be 10 degrees warmer than the penultimate day of fall. I mention that the rains have returned only to salve the concerns of the PETA crowd, who complained that I was gleefully shocking the cats by rubbing them during the dry spell and generating enough static electricity to power the Dell. Well, it WAS fun to see them jump. And the bright blue sparks

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1135099955315735712005-12-20T09:31:00.000-08:002005-12-20T09:32:35.336-08:00

“Hello, this is Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon. You had a question about your coverage?”“Yes. I received your letter advising that there will be a ONE THOUSAND PERCENT INCREASE in prescription co-payments for up to a 34-day supply, and wonder if that also applies to the 90-day mail-order prescriptions.”“Yes, it does. But only for non-preferred brand medications.”“Who decides what is

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1134667057036246372005-12-16T09:06:00.000-08:002005-12-16T11:29:25.333-08:00

One of the first things I remember Josh writing about himself is that he was known locally as "the DA DJ" because he had a Thursday jazz program on our local community radio station, and it was pure serendipity, like everything associated with our meeting and our rockin' good lives separately and together ever since, that I was able to enroll in the on-air training session that began 10 days afer

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1134519722912488102005-12-13T16:08:00.000-08:002005-12-13T16:22:02.930-08:00

The Queen of the VFW says she never, ever served me an uncooked livermush sandwich. That she has always sliced the livermush thinly and fried it very well done, and served it on white bread with French's mustard. That my father preferred it that way too and would have said, "What the hell is this?" and made a terrible face that would have infuriated her and giggled us girls if it had been served

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1134493945422819762005-12-13T09:07:00.000-08:002005-12-13T09:12:25.466-08:00

Freezing fog. The cat left a cutout in the air from the backdoor to his patrol spot under the contorted filbert. All the schools are starting at least two hours late -- except the catholic school, where the kids and the teachers are already on page three of the day's chapter. Guess which school provides the best education in Clatsopia.

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1134411309953012302005-12-12T09:47:00.000-08:002005-12-12T10:15:10.183-08:00

A couple weeks before Thanksgiving, for no reason at all, I lost my taste for animal products of all sorts, except for milk, eggs and fish. I didn't see the banned PETA commercial and think America should pardon the turkey. I didn't stop cooking meat for Josh or start curling my lip in disgust when he orders his usual steak-n-eggs at Steve & Edie's. Apparently the beef-poultry-pork taste buds

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1134324257344211262005-12-11T09:46:00.000-08:002005-12-11T10:04:17.596-08:00

Nothing like a lovely night on the town for greeting old friends, solving mysteries, and gathering the odd bit of information.To wit: In a blessedly short conversation about Calpine held in the cozy den of a hilltop home, I was told that #10 Sixth Street holds the contract to provide housing to the workers who would build the LNG facility. Ah hah! Also that neither the port nor the City of

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1134157888747879352005-12-10T00:01:00.000-08:002005-12-10T09:31:27.206-08:00

The Neese's Sausage Company is located at 1452 Alamance Church Road, Greensboro, North Carolina, just up the road from the Neese family farm George Neese bought when he came down from Pennsylvania in his wagon, in 1769. It distributes its small line of sausage products only to parts of three states -- most of North Carolina except for the upper eastern corner and the far western edge, and a small

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1134165288765575872005-12-09T13:51:00.000-08:002005-12-09T13:54:48.780-08:00

. . . I don't even care that everything and everyone in my house is a high-wire transmission line of static electricity. The cats, usually so snuggly, have taken to turning in the other direction when they see me coming --- zzzzzt!

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Scott Reuter at his best. My favorite so far may be: LNG: A national security state with every shipment. Add yours for a chance to win neat-o prizes!

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Nancy Rommelman is republishing her Leaving LA series.

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Who is this man and why is he smiling?It's Dr. Sunny Park, and he's smiling because he's bringing 50 family-wage, professional, skilled, long-term jobs to the Upper Left Edge in an addition to his five-year-old Park Medical Center. (The addition is the four-story building -- one floor is underground, for parking -- on the right-side of the rendering.)The well-designed, professional office

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1133889353687185402005-12-06T09:14:00.000-08:002005-12-06T09:15:53.686-08:00

Click here and scroll to the bottom. (Tips to Patrick McGee.)

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Kitty O'Keefe is one of several special people who chose to move to the Upper Left Edge in the past five years or so. In Southern California she was a financial advisor to individuals who made their living in the entertainment industry, taught graduate economics at UCLA, and occasionally spent a summer teaching remedial math at an inner city high school. Among other things. She retired at an age

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1133809247923998142005-12-05T10:56:00.000-08:002005-12-05T11:00:53.676-08:00

Over at Burning Corn, Scott Reuter has dug up some interesting information on Dr. Michelle Foss, who was in town last week to give an "unbiased" presentation on LNG. The center Dr. Foss directs includes in its mission statement: We educate stakeholders on energy economics and commercial frameworks using comparative research to facilitate energy development. And the hits just keep on comin'.

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I haven't wrapped my head around much except a pillow since arriving Home Sweet Home late yesterday afternoon. Josh has a lead OpEd in the Los Angeles Times today, on Tookie Williams. Josh's title was "Karma Comes Around For Tookie," much better than the editor's choice for a number of reasons, including most particularly that it relates to the specific reasons why this specific murderer deserves

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1133397569688749692005-11-30T16:16:00.000-08:002005-11-30T16:41:17.813-08:00

Creaky Win98 laptop that's been revived twice in the same number of days from the Blue Screen of Death. Creakier Grandma who requires -- and deserves -- oodles of attention. Family members who exclaim, "Gee, Mom, you look great" and follow that with rolling eyeballs and sneers of "Gee, I bet you LOVE that," when Mom (aka Grandma) says that Cindy has dog ears and is right beside her as soon as she

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1133234278794538492005-11-28T19:12:00.000-08:002005-11-28T19:17:58.806-08:00

Coming Wednesday: 1001 Ways With Neese's Liver Mush. Fully Illustrated.

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I'm here,with Queen Charlotte.

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I chose these stylish, comfortable, 1-1/2" heels:Patrick writes that there was a little bit too much sage for him yesterday. I find it hard to have too much sage. It's not like dill or tarragon, where one tiny dried flake can make the difference between having Dill or Tarragon soup instead of Cauliflower or Chicken. But, to each his own. The Shoalwater used its herbs and spices mostly well. I

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132802295839465082005-11-24T00:01:00.000-08:002005-11-23T20:50:44.870-08:00

Because our relative families live far to the south and east of us, Josh and I have joined a small family of friends in the tradition of crossing the bridge to Washington and having Thanksgiving dinner at one of the best restaurants on the coast, the Shoalwater. This will be our fourth year together, and the only decision I have to make is what shoes to wear, and for that I am thankful.We're an

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132722568255498312005-11-22T20:54:00.000-08:002005-11-22T21:09:29.570-08:00

Everyone, I mean each and every kind one of you who took the time to comment or call or email, said the American Standard's problem was on the inside. I took your advice and bought the bright blue guts. I took a few days to collect my thoughts, my tools, my turkey baster, my knee pads, a couple towels. And today, at 12:00 high, I looked the Standard square on and decided it needed a new shutoff

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132677484180862312005-11-22T08:37:00.000-08:002005-11-22T08:38:04.196-08:00

Today's the day.

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Congressman John Murtha said: "Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency." Like Bush, he either received bad information or he's lying for political purpose. I'll say he got bad information and offer him some fresh details.US fatalities:July -- 54August -- 85September -- 49October -- 96November -- 67Total: 351Iraqi fatalitiesJuly -- 304 police/military &nbsp&nbsp 518

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Another magnificent day in history. Today's hero:He is Robert Jackson, the chief American prosecutor in this trial:The Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal began 60 years today, November 20th, in Nuremberg. The sentences: 12 deaths by hanging, three life sentences, four prison sentences of under 20 years. Franklin Roosevelt appointed Jackson to a number of

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132438596956041832005-11-19T13:51:00.000-08:002005-11-19T14:16:37.090-08:00

Last night I dreamed that Josh and I lived in a working class neighborhood of attached brick houses with front porches, characteristic of Baltimore, four doors down from Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. I was astride my big-kid-sized plastic red Testarossa, pushing myself along with my feet (in navy blue super Keds), going up to help Nick change the sheets on the pull-out sofa, and saw Buzz

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132335916644116382005-11-18T09:28:00.000-08:002005-11-18T09:45:16.676-08:00

This is my task for the day.No, I haven't developed a dooce problem.It's this valve, which is -- what? stuck? broken? I dunno. When we flush, the water comes up through this valve and its attachment thingamijig, into the tank and then refills the bowl. American Standard. Probably even works that way in France. We've completely ignored this valve for the entire eight years we've lived with it,

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132332134888791122005-11-18T08:31:00.000-08:002005-11-18T08:42:14.906-08:00

The Commission voted to table the vote until the next meeting, on December 15. Time to get some facts together, particularly: What were the projections and how much exactly has the Hermiston Plant added to the tax base of Umatilla County? The post-construction, post-operational conduct of these plant operators -- in other words, the reality -- when cities have jobs and faces to protect, is the

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132251388372802892005-11-17T10:11:00.000-08:002005-11-17T11:00:06.296-08:00

Do you know this man?This will help:The poster says:Vaclav HavelCandidate of Civic Forum and Public Against ViolenceFor the office of PresidentI picked up the 1990 election poster during my first visit to Prague, in early spring of 1991. The posters were still up all around town and lives were lived through an electricity of freedom, the friction of a new democracy rubbing against the ebbing

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132248536098942692005-11-17T09:25:00.000-08:002005-11-17T09:28:56.123-08:00

Just faxed this letter to Warrenton. Now we await the flying pigs. :::::::Dear Commissioners, As residents of the small and interconnected Astoria-Warrenton community, we request the Commission deny the zoning and development code changes requested by Skipanon LLC/Calpine, and offer these comments.A myriad of crucial, everyday issues associated with the construction and operation of a heavy

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132163276910240892005-11-16T09:37:00.000-08:002005-11-16T09:47:56.910-08:00

Here's the Warrenton City Manager's email address. citymanager@ci.warrenton.or.usThanks, Patrick.For the gist of the letter I will send, see my previous posts on LNG. Liquid Gas is an overview. The Warrenton Vote lists important issues that have yet to be addressed. The Hermiston Plant provides only a few concrete examples of broken promises after a plant is in operation. Warren Tare is a

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132116774956635352005-11-16T00:02:00.000-08:002005-11-15T23:03:04.150-08:00

A week or so ago there was a packed CEDC (Clatsop Economic Development Council) meeting, with Betsy Johnson and Deborah Boone as the featured speakers. The meeting began with reports from the various CEDC groups. I can't remember the name of the fellow who gave an interesting if rather detailed report on the various successes of the Fisheries Project, but when he asked if there were any questions

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1132078879780903442005-11-15T10:17:00.000-08:002005-11-15T16:13:15.996-08:00

Hello, Clatsop Crud. Goodbye, brain. And LOOK AT THAT SKY. I'm going to ask Josh to come home for lunch, place me in the wheelbarrow, tuck in a fluffy blanket, and push me around in the sun.PS later: No, the Crud is neither an STD nor a weather phenomenon. It's a fold, a clu -- that thing between a bad cold and the real flu that starts with a throat on fire and a feeling elsewhere that you had

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1131996275120203872005-11-14T10:45:00.000-08:002005-11-14T11:30:00.320-08:00

They've already converted us. The very fact that we now use the phrase "intelligent design" when we mean "creationism" was half the battle.Renee Mitchell: Don't watch Next on MTV.Renee's the newest Metro columnist for the Oregonian and in today's paper she's seduced, sensualized and, mostly, shocked by liquor ads that are -- yep, seductive, sensual and (I guess, if you just woke up from 1976)

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1131753267162195992005-11-12T01:26:00.000-08:002005-11-14T09:07:54.203-08:00

This is a view from my kitchen. I'll be surprised if it lasts through the weekend. Here's a closeup of the tree, an Acer palmatum dissectum 'Seriyu'. Makes my heart go pitty-pat every time I walk into the room but it's been raining Lewis and Clark all day, and supposed to rain Lewis and Clark through Tuesday, so I'll be fixing my eye on something else by this time next week. That damn huge blue

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1131732036863869332005-11-11T10:00:00.000-08:002005-11-12T07:50:01.713-08:00

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." -- Thomas Paine, Valley Forge, December, 1776 Michael McCusker is a journalist and radio broadcaster. He publishes and edits the political, bimonthly North Coast Times Eagle

Cindy Pricenoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17734733.post-1131657955919602662005-11-10T13:01:00.000-08:002005-11-10T13:25:55.973-08:00

A friend whose son is serving in Iraq has made a 22-month comparison of the firearm death rate of troops in Iraq (60/100,000) with that of Washington, DC (80.6/100,000) and, given that you are 25 percent more likely to be shot and killed in America's capital, concludes that "We should immediately pull out of Washington."Could similar calculations be the answer to questionable recent events in

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