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MONDAY MEMORIES: WHERE TO START

January 8, 2024 by

Monday memories matter because why not start the week strong? However, the matters of Monday to be solved require clear thinking. So ignore that hangover, lack of sleep, the cold and rain. Let’s go, but where?

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DISPLACED WORKERS ‘RETIRED’ FROM OLD JOBS

January 5, 2023 by

Displaced workers retire? From what? Ask a Coos Bay logger about it, or a Charleston commercial fisherman. What did they retire from? Getting jacked around by new ideas on sustainability.

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OREGON PIONEER, GOLD MAN, GOLDEN LOGGER, THAT GUY

March 5, 2021 by

The Oregon Pioneer atop the Salem capitol dome is every boy who grew up in the golden era of Oregon logging when you could drop out of high school, get a job in the woods, then buy a house, a truck, and a boat. All you had to do was show up early and do […]

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STAYING HEALTHY IN A TIME OF SICKNESS? RIDE HARD

November 26, 2020 by

Staying healthy online is a mixed bag of clickbait advice. See an interesting headline, click it, and suddenly a slideshow turns up and down the hole we go. An hour later, or ten minutes that feels like an hour, you learn how to max out biceps, widen your chest, build crusher thighs, all while keeping […]

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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 […]

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Air Oregon My Oregon Paradise West Of Cascades

August 27, 2017 by

      For a moment let’s skip the romanticized view of the state. The brown patches across these images are clear cut lumber sections, replanted with more trees. Why are they brown? It’s not because of brown trees. Air Oregon shows too much.   Oregon, My Oregon via Oregon Blue Book, music by Henry […]

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HOW TO FIND PORTLAND AROUND YOUR TOWN

April 13, 2017 by

  Exhibit A: Lumbersexuals always find Portland A gen y or later man whom is trying desperately to be masculine by looking the part instead of being the part, eg, dressing up like a lumberjack. Did anyone notice the stage clothes of the grunge movement? Jeans, plaid flannel shirts. Same clothes, different context. But if […]

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LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT.1: NORTH BEND

March 22, 2017 by

    Ask the North Bend question. In a reflective moment that soon passed, I asked my Dad which of us grew up in a rougher town. I felt certain he’d say his town, Ryderwood. Ryderwood was a logging camp town, a company town with a company store. The one thing all logging company towns […]

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