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I flew down to the Bay Area to visit my sister this past weekend, and persuaded her to make a side trip to Tower Records on our way from Pleasant Hill BART to her house. The inventory was heavily depleted because the store has been going out of business for
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I'm numb at the news that Tower Records is going out of business. When I was in high school, the first thing I would do with each weekly paycheck was spend part of it at Tower Records in Concord. I still have 12-inch singles with 1986 Tower price
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I have been out of town visiting parents for 12 of the last 14 days, first on the Big Island and then on Lake Chelan. In rough order, here is how I spent my time: Sleeping, reading, chatting, watching television, walking/sightseeing, putting together a jigsaw puzzle. My only regret?
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I was at KBOO all afternoon and evening working on the election night coverage, and I have to go to the airport at dawn, so I decided to stay up all night. (One advantage to being decaffeinated: Coffee is highly effective when I do drink it.) And I wonder now
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The rainy season in Portland began this morning, at the crack of mid-October. As a fair-skinned pedestrian, I don't mind the gray skies, but the driving rain can impede me.
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the Wit (52% dark, 19% spontaneous, 10% vulgar) your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn&
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I spent yesterday morning at the hospital, and I notice that the older I get, the less I hurt when a needle gets poked into me. I can't tell if I have become better at relaxing or if the nurses have become better at jabbing.
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On my days off, I have been getting up at dawn and walking/jogging laps at Laurelhurst Park. Each lap is about five-sixths of a mile, and I move counter-clockwise, so the long straightaways are generally downhill and the relatively steep climbs are all uphill (the highest points in Laurelhurst
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For about five years now, I have been intermittently weaning myself from caffeine. I started again last week. When non-caffeinated, I feel much more awake and alert for the first two hours of the day, but then more sleepy and dim for the rest of it. The non-caffeinated me can&
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...since I last owned a car. It was also the last time I lived in the suburbs. Not a coincidence. I see avoiding the trouble and expense of car ownership as one of the fringe benefits of living in a city. I have to admit, though, to feeling a little
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With Stephanie Potter at KBOO last night (cameraphone photo by Marliese Franklin) You can't see it in the picture, but Stephanie is wearing an Austrian peaked cap. In honor of which we sang "The Lonely Goatherd" from the Sound of Music soundtrack. Which we recorded, because
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* "Nature Anthem" by Grandaddy * "The Sun Shines Down on Me" by Guster * "Kicks in the Schoolyard" by The Rosebuds * "Are You With Me?" by Overnight * "Good Thing" by Fine Young Cannibals * "Death Disco" by Public Image Limited * "