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WORKING WITH ART WORKS TO HELP DAVID HOCKNEY WORK BETTER

‘Meet me at the art museum’ is a sure way to discover how art works, starting with the installation.
Don’t have time for a trip to downtown Portland?
Leave it to boomerpdx to fill in the frame.
Sometimes the art work delivers in mysterious ways.
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LIFE CYCLE: TOMATO KING 2026

The life cycle of tomatoes starts with an idea:
‘Let’s do something with the space we’ve got.’
When the space includes a side yard with lots of sun?
Plant that tomato.
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SOCCER, FOOTBALL, AMERICAN WORLD CUP, FINALLY

The American World Cup showed city after city jumping for their teams.
Not so much the American team in the finals and semi-finals, but the good teams.
Why not American soccer? What’s gone wrong to prevent the home team from becoming regulars in the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight, and the Final Four?
Maybe it’s the branding since college basketball has taken all the cool names.
Maybe it’s that American football is more about passing and running than kicking?
I’ve figured out the problem, and solution.
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THROWBACK BEACH RUN TO SEASIDE

Growing up in a coastal town took the drama out of any beach run.
North Bend was surrounded by Coos Bay with a high tide creeping on Virginia Avenue and sometimes giving 101 a good rinse.
With beaches to the north, south, and west, it was easy to find the right one.
Going to the beach wasn’t so much a plan as it was a possible destination a half hour away from town.
Then we grew up and things got more complicated.
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THE ‘HISTORY ANGLE’ TO CONFUSE CITIZENS: IT DIDN’T HAPPEN

The ‘history angle’ is not so much a disguise as an omission, of leaving things out.
Traffic on boomerpdx started coming in large numbers from China and Hong Kong, so I thought of ways to include them.
Write historical posts about the events banned in their country and address historical omissions gaining ground in America?
That’s one idea.
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Wellness Luxury: Feeling Good For Doing Good Again

To do good you don’t have to feel good. If you do it’s a wellness luxury, an expression I just made up. Google wellness luxury. This isn’t that sort of post.   Take mental health for example. Nothing makes any difference to you? No one cares about you? Feeling earful about the future? Feeling sad […]

GYM MEMORIAL FOR BOOMERS

  The first thing you notice in a new gym is the pecking order. Strong guys group together. Old guys over there. Young men pumping out the reps. Ladies all over the place on every piece of equipment.   Women have the gym all figured out. Guys not so much.   Over time a few […]

RESPECT WOMEN IF YOU RESPECT YOURSELF

It’s hard to respect women, or anyone, unless you respect yourself.   Find a mirror and give it a hard look while you’re in front of it. Do you respect the image reflected back? If not, get to work. You’ve heard this saying, “You say you respect someone if you can’t say you like them.” […]

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SCORING THE COMPLAIN GAME

The Married’s Complain Game. How Good Is It? For the complain game to work right, you need to score early. BOB The movie starts in five minutes. We’re late. CAROL I wouldn’t be late if you remembered to call. We miss the previews? Oh boo. The movie is The Godfather. You want to see the […]

Man Married At Age Thirty One Sees Image Thirty One Years Later

    The saying ‘Like a deer in the headlights’ must have been coined at a wedding. My wedding.   Things changed that day.   We’re going through a phase, call it the non-hoarding phase, and this came up in an album.

A SEXY BOOMER

Do You Need Statistical Support To Prove There’s Such A Thing As A Sexy Boomer? What looks like a nice website for baby boomers posted “Baby boomers had more sexual partners than today’s young adults.” Wouldn’t you hope a page call oversixty.com had a better handle on this? The writers used data from the Archives […]

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PORTLAND’S FARM TRIP

How Far Away Is Portland’s Farm, Portland’s Midwest? Not Far At All. Do you ever imagine golden waves of grain while sweating it out in your hotbox apartment? You wait for a breeze to blow through the crops in your mind while heat mirages rise off the asphalt beach parking lot. Or you’re standing in […]

BROADWAY ROSE MAMMA MIA: I WENT AGAIN AND LIKED IT MORE IF THAT’S POSSIBLE

    The first time I saw Mamma Mia: The Play, Kevin Pritchard still worked for the Portland Trail Blazer. It was about six years back when Portland had a guy who built the Blazers by ‘Pritch Slapping’ the NBA before he got fired for too much ‘Pritch Slapping.’   Mamma Mia: Touring Broadway Show […]

THE OREGON BEER TRAIL TO PORTLAND

Oregon Brewers Festival Fans’ Points Of Origin. Courts of law rely on evidence. They need proof. Nothing helps close a case like proof. How do you prove Portland is a big draw, that the recent Brewers Festival draws huge numbers to Portland, who then go home and tell others? Put a map up with push […]

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