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Time was, that I used to make a lot of posts about weird and unusual news items.  For awhile around 2009 I was posting an average of three and a half times every day and more often than not they were wacky stories I found around the Intertubes.  The notion has crossed my mind at times that maybe I should do more of that.  Blogging doesn’t seem to be as big as it used to be but this is still my real estate in cyberspace and I do my best to tend to it.  So maybe a bit of fresh soil would be nice…

With that in mind here’s a story I found on X/Twitter today, about an interesting-sounding chap who prefers his meat rare:


So Game Wardens in Texas have arrested this guy, 39 year old Ethan McNeely from Oregon. 

He was crouched in the woods attempting to

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After dinner tonight (which may or may not have been in celebration of today being the Festivus holiday) Kristen’s sister-in-law Melissa presented me with a gift: her rendering of one of the many memorable moments from our trip to Oregon this past June…


That’s Uncle Bob and yours truly, when I suggested we drive from our rental house in Hood River all the way to the Pacific coast. Because that was when Astoria was having its annual Goonies Weekend and I always wanted to see the house from that movie.

Alas, we did not make it that far. Maybe we’ll be there in 2015 for the big party they’re already planning for The Goonies 30th anniversary 🙂...

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A little over a week ago I was in a rented SUV thingy riding up to Mount Hood in Oregon along with m’lady Kristen, her brother and his wife. And it just so happened that “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen came on the radio.

Well as many people know I can’t help but perform along whenever that song gets played. So much so that I’ve developed a little “act” over the years. But Melissa had a bit of a headache so Kristen quickly asked me to “tone it down” a tad.

As you can tell, I did indeed maintain some decorum… though I couldn’t help but cut loose a bit 🙂

You may have to turn up your speakers to hear the radio.

Thanks to Kristen for posting this (and I’d totally forgotten that she recorded it 🙂...

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Struggling writer Christopher Knight becomes the latest caretaker to fall victim to the madness of the Overlook Hotel…
Except it’s not winter: it’s early June. This isn’t Colorado either: it’s Oregon. And this is not the Overlook, but the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood (open for skiing year-round) which is what was use for the exterior and establishing shots of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic The Shining.
And while we were there I just had to channel my inner Jack Nicholson for a pic (especially since there was so much snow around us!).
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Looking at Mount Hood from our chateau this morning…

And later today we are headed across the Columbia River into Washington State to visit Mount Saint Helens.

Will try to post some pics when I get back home 🙂

Oh yeah, we saw a marijuana store in Portland yesterday! This place out-weirds even Asheville… but Oregon has still gotta be one of the most beautiful places that I’ve ever visited 🙂

And oh yeah, here is Kristen and I at Multnomah Falls!

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To quote that bard of our age Will Smith: “AWWW HELL NAWWWW!!!”

The state of Oregon has a problem, according to its governor Ted Kulongoski. In his words, “As Oregonians drive less and demand more fuel-efficient vehicles, it is increasingly important that the state find a new way, other than the gas tax, to finance our transportation system.”

So Governor Kulongoski wants to use Global Positioning System technology to impose a “mileage tax” that will “replace” the gas tax.

If his mad plan proceeds and you are an Oregon citizen, every time you take off in your car its movements will be monitored by your state government, and a tax will be imposed for each mile that you drive.

I’m gonna say it, my Worst Possible Epithet for Anything: This sucks donkey’s balls to no end.

If Kulongoski gets away with this, it’ll only be persisting the pattern that ...

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