- This 1963 view of the Burnside Bridge on Vintage Portland is just great. Looking at the part of inner Southeast that is visible, you can see Fishel's, which is still located there in the Buckman Building; Thorp's Restaurant, which later became La Casita (24 hours!) before the building was torn down sometime in the last ten years; an old house still hanging on at Ankeny and MLK JR (then Union Avenue); the Wentworth Chevytown sign was then Fields Chevytown; and the Lloyd Hotel, which has been replaced by a Plaid Pantry. Also from VP, a 1917 advertisement for Thanksgiving dinner at the Multnomah Hotel, and the long-gone Speedball Cafe in 1939.
- On Retronaut, outtakes from the Seargent Peppers album cover photo shoot. Also, a few cool pictures of London in 1899.
- Here's an interesting article about the wreck of the Great Republic out on the Columbia Bar. How great would it be to see it exposed?!
- Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics) is making a Hamlet Choose-Your-Own Adventure novel.
- Paula Abdul and MC Skat Cat have finally reunited.
- I like the new bike lanes on NE Multnomah, but I'm really confused about the color choice for the buffer zones.
- Archaeology and concentration camps.
- A State Highway Safety Director in Massachusetts has resigned after being in many traffic accidents.
- A collection of depressing climate change maps.
- I haven't read Axe Cop in a very long time.
- Earl Blumenauer on the "Fiscal Cliff".
- Here's some hypnotic looping GIFs.
- Reruns of WKRP in Cincinnatti are used as an example of the inherent absurdity in the details of copyright law.
- The future: storing unimaginably large amounts of data in DNA. Awesome.
- Here's a generic National Weather Service link in order to represent all of the flood warnings that I've looked at over the past week. (I haven't included them in these link lists because they are generally temporary links.)
- From the Oregon State Archives: weird photo of a plane flying above a mule train, an aerial photo of Rocky Butte in the 30s or 40s (that's the old Hill Military Academy in the foreground), and a 1916 photo of the Oneonta Tunnel on the old Columbia Gorge highway. (Facebook links)
- A decade ago I could not even begin to imagine 6-story buildings on Williams Avenue.
- The results of a survey that the people that make Fallen London did. Fallen London is a pretty fun browser game that I don't play very often.
- It's very cool that Portland will be home to a professional women's soccer team, but all I really want to know is what the team's name will be?
- A man beat a monkey to death at the Boise Zoo. Don't read the article; it is too depressing.
- The guy who does the comic The Oatmeal is the subject of another frivolous lawsuit. Unrelated, but I really, really dislike that guy's comics.
- Sometimes I look at the road cameras on Trip Check just for fun. I live a wild life!
- TriMet statistics!
- An article regarding the future of the Multnomah County Courthouse.
- Every year, Heather and I discuss going to ZooLights and then we never get around to doing it. Will this year be different?
- Here's just one reason why you should never by anything from Walmart: the Walton's personal wealth is greater than the combined wealth of 40% of Americans.
- Here's an air horn sample on YouTube. Thankfully, I had the sound off on my computer when I clicked on it.
- The hyper violent 8-bit game Hotline Miami is on sale for $5 right now. I kind of want to buy it, but I'm sure that I won't.
- A link that will lead to the Tumblr portion of "Yo, Is This Racist?" And a link to Wednesday's podcast.
- A TLDR post by a guy who supports height limits on buildings in Washington DC.
- Here's a really uninformative review of Hitchcock that isn't worth reading.
- A breakdown of how different precincts in NYC voted in the Presidential elections.
- Detectives in Clackamas have re-opened the 66-year-old case of a woman who was dismembered and tossed into the Willamette.
- An island exists on all of the world's maps, but apparently does not really exist.
- Police Blotter:
- That the fire at Mack & Dub's Excellent Chicken & Waffles might be a hate crime is super-depressing news. Here's some additional reporting from Willamette Week.
- Someone robbed a theater with a gun.
- Sadly, the woman that was hit by a car out on SE 108th and Washington died from her wounds.
- Some cowboy thought that he could get away with a bank robbery and carjacking.
- Someone got stabbed out in far Southeast.
- There was an Occupy Portland protest at Walmart on Thanksgiving. There was also another protest on Black Friday.
- Unfortunately, it appears that the police officer attacked by the tree on Hayden Island is paralyzed from the waist down.
- A robbery in Glenfair including a casual mention of the suspect climbing into a woman's car and asking her to help him find crack cocaine.
Wikipedia pages:
- USS Plainview
- Muskox
- Joseph Bruce (general gross dude and half of Insane Clown Posse)
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I've been to Zoolights and found it okay for once, not worth going to again. It may be different if you can accompany a child (or person in general) who is mesmerized by all the lights, but mostly it was lights in the dark. They are kind of all over the city.
We went last night, and it was fun, but I don't know that we will be making it an annual tradition - maybe if we have people visiting from out of town.
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