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Here’s our 2008 family video, the non-director’s cut. Prepare for nearly two hours of redundant cuteness.
I had to edit the music out of the last sequence because the evil robot Prince sent to monitor YouTube had a hissy fit when he heard “Baby, I’m a Star.” Those who want to watch Maggie’s 5th Birthday as [...]

When I worked at Blockbuster in the mid-1990s I was one of those annoying snobs who tirelessly tried to convince customers that they really wanted the rare “letterboxed” editions of VHS releases like “Schindler’s List” and the “Star Wars” Trilogy, and took pains to explain that there was actually more movie preserved in the smaller [...]

If I were a cranky old man, the kind with insane eyebrows like Andy Rooney, who write angry letters over every minor peeve, I’d have to write one to Hickory Farms.
Now, I like HF gift boxes, with their nice but unremarkable little beef sticks, pseudo-gourmet cheeses and run-of-the-mill sweet-hot mustards, and I received yet another [...]

While I’m yet again shamelessly shilling for Okkervil River, I just found their new video of the insanely catchy first song from their new album, The Stand-Ins. Here:

OK, I promise the next blog post will not be about Okkervil River.

I’m pretty slow when it comes to embracing new music, which is why the “new” songs that I listened to most this year were not actually new, and many of them sat on my collection for a year or so before I discovered that, once listened to in earnest, I couldn’t turn them off.
Here are [...]

And there’s been a lot of snow, too.
What have I learned during Portland’s worst winter storm in 40 years (before I was born)?
That when you’re wearing gloves, in order to take pictures with your iPhone, you have to use your nose to push the button.

I just stumbled across and utterly charming little movie, the offbeat 2007 indie New Zealand comedy Eagle vs. Shark, starring Jermaine Clement from HBO’s Flight of the Conchords.  In some ways similar to Napolean Dynamite, telling the story of uneasy love between awkward, socially inept loners, EvS is far far funnier and has a much [...]

Might be going to see Michael Medved tonight at Clackamas Town Center

I should be working, but I’m joining Twitter instead.

A Dutch gay group said Monday it has planned a “Pink Christmas” festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys.

This April, Charlie and I will be fending for ourselves. The final offspring from my loins is female.
While this means another wedding we may have to pay for, the upside is, short-term, in a few years Maggie will no longer need to dress her brother in girly costumes. Meet the impending Stella Catherine Dorr.