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POWELL JOBS, XQ, AND FOOD EDUCATION

Connecting dots for Powell Jobs and America, one post at a time. When stars align, you see things. Big dippers, little dippers, archers, crabs, lions, the whole scope of imagination is out there in the stars. Closer to home the stars look like Powell Jobs and her commitment to better education, better schools. Her husband, […]

INFLUENCER MARKETING FOOD PRODUCTION

When an idea takes off with Influencer Marketing, it flies high. How many times do you see an ‘Organic’ label at the grocery store. How about ‘Natural?’ It’s all over television commercials, but what’s it mean? Is ‘organic’ a case of influencer marketing, or just a passing fad? Who’s the influencer? The question resonates with […]

NO OTHER PORTLAND BUT FRESH HOPPED PORTLAND

No city can be the Portland of the north, east, south, or west due to one basic truth. And it’s so obviously Portland. No place on earth is closer to the most valuable ingredient in beer. Hops grow down the road from a city with over 142 breweries in the metro area that pour 53 […]

NEW BEER BUYS, NEW CONSPIRACY THEORY

When Big Beer adds new beer buys, it’s more than beer. What’s better than a cold one on a hot day? The next person who says a glass of wine on a hot day is better than beer will be the first. Beer is the answer. What was the question? Oh, right, the antidote for […]

FARMERS FISHERS BAKERS, MARY SCHMITT

BoomerPDX spotlight: Georgetown’s Farmers Fishers Bakers. What happens when you’re late for breakfast and the place you want is shifting to lunch? When the place is Georgetown’s Farmers Fishers Bakers, and Pastry Chef Mary Schmitt asks you to come back in an hour, you come back in an hour. Most of the time you find […]

THE CARE AGE SANDWICH GENERATION

If elderly people depend on you, you’re in the Care Age. Ages come in different names defined by the dominant materials like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Epochs and eras all have names. If you find artifacts made in America before the explorers got here, they’re called Pre-contact, as if everything after early […]

HGTV / FOOD NETWORK MYSTERY

Property Brothers kidnap Barefoot Contessa. Edina and Patsy take the case. A black and white photograph sits on a table separating two women on one side, a man on the other. The photo shows a woman’s legs with her feet in a pair of Nike sport shoes. Drew Scott leans back in his chair, hands […]

OREGON STATE RAPE RIPPLE EFFECT HITS HOME

An Oregon State rape phone call starts the rape ripple effect. Throw a stone into a calm lake and count the ripples until it’s a calm lake again. Then throw a bigger rock for bigger ripples. An Oregon State rape phone call makes a rape ripple and it goes through every room of every place […]

THE POSITIVE OPTIMIST POINT OF VIEW

On the darkest day look for light from The Positive Optimist. Bob Dylan told us we don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Turns out he wasn’t talking about the weather. You don’t need a weatherman, but you might want a translator to translate just what he means in Subterranean Homesick […]

DEFENSE CONTRACTOR LOBBY OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE

Special Interests and Defense Contractor Lobby: Same thing, or different? One of the unifying parts of America are military arms manufacturers, the guys who turn shock and awe into SHOCK AND AWE. It’s scientific, academic, economic, and a huge money maker. Call it the glue that holds us together. Or call it the most powerful […]