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Week in Review, Vol. V
Review: The Lure of Japan's Railways
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Week in Review, Vol. IV
2007: Ten Best Images
Week in Review, Vol. III
Week in Review, Vol. II
Other Notable Blogs
Cafe Unknown
Travel, History and Portland Oregon by Dan Haneckow
Jack Bog's Blog
By Jack Bogdanski of Portland, Oregon. (Like he needs any other introduction by now? -- A.B.C.)
For Portlanders Only
"Why buy a mattress anywhere else?"
Good Stuff NW
Featuring stuff that is good in the NW
LOST Magazine
LOST Magazine is an online monthly magazine that combines elements of many other literary, online, and national magazines with a singular mission--to reclaim in writing lost people, places, and things.
Mapes on Politics
Way West of the Beltway
Outside Is America
A journal about photography, roadtrips, trains and life, with occasional detours into movies, baseball, music, family and more.
The Photographers' Railroad Page
Good photos usually have good stories to go with them.... The goal of The Photographers' Railroad Page is to provide an outlet for top quality photographs and their story.
Portland Food & Drink
Throwing Ourselves on the Grenade of Bad Food to Save You
Portland Transport Blog
A Conversation About Access & Mobility in the Portland/Vancouver Region
PowellsBooks.Blog
Authors, readers, critics, media -- and booksellers
Rambling West
The musings of a farmer with a typewriter and camera
Stumptown Confidential
Documenting Portland, Oregon architecture, history, and culture through photos, postcards, and words.
The Unauthorized Observer
Observations on faith, photography, trains, baseball, the city where I live (Fullerton, Calif.), anything that I find funny (a lot of things) or irritating (some things) and various incidents involving friends and family.
Under the Weather
...the open road, fatherhood, family life, music, railroads, photography, popular and unpopular culture, sex, violence, religion, the oppression of consumerism and capitalism and the general bullshit that makes up modern life.
Urban Planning Overlord
A blog to counter the myths, lies, and demagoguery others use against sound city planning to further their own ends, fair and foul - but also to urge the profession itself to pull back from the occasional wretched PC exces.
VanPortlander
Living in Vancouver; working in Portland. I have some thoughts.
Whiskey, Texas
...life and experiences in Texas and the Southwest. Recurring themes: Photography, railroads, fading ads / ghost signs, fallen-flag railroad logos, boxcars, bicycling, Texas music, pop culture, sports, road trips, literature, kids and family.
World Scott
The Travel Writing and Photography of Scott Lothes
Blegs & Bargains
Amazon Book Wishlist
B&H Wishlist
My eBay Listings
Powell's Books Wishlist
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Week in Review, Vol. VI
Okay, what is this? Is the Willamette Week taking a page from the Onion? If so, can't hurt. Labels: Blogging, Civics, History, Media, Photography, Portland, Portland History, Public Policy, Site News, Transportation, Week in Review
While you're there, check out this acerbic piece by Corey Pein. I don't think I've read as entertaining of a summing-up of the Portland political landscape in a while. Informative while hilarious; well done.
And while we're on Portland subjects, just a brief note that quid pro quo is alive and well.
Tuesday, the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission released their report to Congress containing recommendations on future surface transportation policy."The Commission is working to examine not only the condition and future needs of the nation's surface transportation system, but also short and long-term alternatives to replace or supplement the fuel tax as the principal revenue source to support the Highway Trust Fund over the next 30 years."
Since the report was released only two days ago, I have yet to open it much less digest it. Regarding the production of the report, a source of mine wrote:"...all work was done by or for US-DOT directly. I reported to Susan Binder, executive director of the Commission and deputy secretary of USDOT. She reports to Mary Peters, [Secretary] of US-DOT who reports to George W. Bush who probably doesn’t know or care what we are doing. But I am in the fourth layer down from The Top. This is the highest I have ever been or am ever likely to be."
It will be interesting to see what exactly the report -- called for in 2005's transportation funding bill -- consists of, much less recommends. Apparently one of the recommendations is a $0.40 hike in the Federal gas tax, something that Portland Transport reports isn't going down well with the administration. I'll take a look at the report later this week, and will likely have some thoughts.
While researching obscure Cuban cocktails I located (via this article) a cool little publication called Lost."LOST Magazine is an online monthly magazine that combines elements of many other literary, online, and national magazines with a singular mission--to reclaim in writing lost people, places, and things."
For lovers of history, nostalgia junkies, as well as obsessive collectors of obscure trivia, it's a really cool site. Lost is a welcome addition to our blogroll. Check it out.
Speaking of lost things and blogrolls, I stumbled onto this cool site this week. Sleek design, neat concept, great content, luscious photos. Sadly, it's not updated anymore. As a former boss of mine used to say, "drat".
All the blog overload has lead me to try out an RSS reader. No Safari has one built in, but all the geeky types are using standalone RSS Readers. With an overload of blogs to keep up with, I thought, hey, why not try this out? So lately I've been trying a few, and I've found my favorite so far, an app called Vienna. It's sleek, so far it doesn't hiccup too much, and on an added note I can view web pages directly in it rather than opening a browser. (It uses the Safari architecture to power a simple browser function).
While we're discussing blogs, here's one more "best images of 2007" post, this one on Elrond Lawrence's Outside is America. Nice stuff, El.
Keep Portland Weird may be an understatement on this one: it was No Pants on MAX Day on Saturday.
What's worse? Hockley has photos. Click if you dare.
How about a blast from the past to clean those images off the insides of your eyelids? Stumptown Confidential has Portland circa 1964, and Dan Haneckow has a farewell to Nick's Famous Coney Island.
Nick's reminds me a bit of the pictures of the original Camp Washington Chili in Cincinatti. Camp Washington modernized in the last decade or so; Nick's stayed blessedly old school and blessedly Portland.
Alas, no more. Wonder if it will be condos, or apartments?
More Portland news: Friday the city will be putting on a press event celebrating the 50th anniversary of... parking enforcement?"(PORTLAND, OR) -- The City of Portland Office of Transportation's Parking Enforcement Division will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Friday, January 18, 2008. The media are invited to attend this special event that includes an entertaining slide show presentation on the history of parking enforcement in Portland."
What next? Can we have a 100th anniversary of indoor plumbing event?
Rolling Stone brings us this story about the decline in audio recording quality.
I'm from the mp3 generation and love their flexibility and portability. That said, vinyl is way better than anything you can hear these days. Once more its a case of modern digital technology replacing a superior analog one. Mass production always has more upsides than downsides, but it's always a loss in quality too.
A few additions to the blogroll this week:For Portlanders Only;
Good stuff all.
Elrond Lawrence's Outside Is America;
Kevin Scanlon's The Photographers' Railroad Page;
Martin Burwash's Rambling West;
Dave Styffe's The Unauthorized Observer;
Scott Lothes' World Scott.
I'm confused. Is this a promotion for a new form of mass transit, or a statement in favor of private automobile commuting?
Last up, a bit of sound advice from the Powell's blog. I may be following it myself more in the future.
Until later, folks.
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