From total ruin to a beautiful restoration, Mother! shows a dream house. HGTV does this all the time and no one complains. The Property Brothers find a client willing and able to knock a wall down to ‘open up the kitchen’ and everyone cheers. Jennifer Lawrence is the remodeler in Mother!. She […]
Oregon Loggers Work In The Woods Singing Johnny Cash
August 28, 2017 by
Tillamook State Forest has plenty of trees, and plenty of piles made by Oregon loggers. Visitors from around the world need to see the beauty of Oregon, and the clear cuts. A close up view. One belongs to the other. I wouldn’t advise anyone going into a working coal mine, but why […]
KEN KESEY, SOMETIMES A GREAT OREGON IN KERNVILLE
April 28, 2017 by
Kernville house for Ken Kesey’s Sometimes A Great Notion In some parts of America I balk at driving the back roads. I drive on, but carefully. Those roads show more about a shared history if you look hard enough. The Siletz Highway, OR 229 headed east off of 101 north of Depoe Bay, is one […]
WHO GETS FOOLED AGAIN? WHO? WHO?
May 12, 2016 by
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Baby boomers grew up with The Man. It wasn’t daddy, but daddy knew The Man. Sometimes daddy was on The Man reserve. Who is The Man? It’s the police Man. We saw him at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Man swung a hard […]
MODERN OREGON FOR EVERYONE
October 26, 2015 by
Move Here And You Won’t Miss Where You Came From. Oregon For Everyone. Oregon is more than Portland, much more, so much more that people who’ve lived here all their lives haven’t seen it all. There’s that much going on, too much really. Visitors have no chance of experiencing the Oregon-ness of Oregon, but they’ll […]
BOOMER DENIABILITY: WE DIDN’T LIGHT THE FIRE
August 22, 2014 by
We Know Where The Matches Are Though. Believable generational research relies on strong academic studies, insurance statistics, and the federal census. This triumvirate of detailed minutia creates a colorless picture of the past. Instead of men in grey flannel suits, it looks like grey men in flannel, lines of them. Baby Boomer research is the […]
STEPHEN GASKIN: THE HIPPIE KING EXITS FARM
July 3, 2014 by
Believe in something or someone enough and you’ll follow them to the ends of the earth. Those following Stephen Gaskin to the ends of the earth found it in Tennessee. Gaskin’s death at age 79 explains much about the counter-culture of the Sixties in general and hippies in particular. A mobile society means moving away […]
WHAT DO WILLAMETTE WRITERS AND THE PCC CLIMB CENTER HAVE IN COMMON
February 7, 2014 by
According to his son Zane, Ken Kesey’s goal was making today different than yesterday. Was yesterday different from the day before? Today makes the cut if you’re not doing the same things as yesterday. It seems so easy, but there is a penalty. Log two similar days in a row and you’re off the bus. […]
How Chief Broom Explains Politics
October 3, 2013 by
With Help From Ken Kesey. Every baby boomer born finds emotional relief in Beatles lyrics. It comes with the territory. You find yourself in times of trouble, then what? Do you let it be? Boomerpdx says consult the classics. Start with One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
