Random Sunday Night Blatherings.....

• Bills barely lost to a San Diego team that appeared to be rather over-hyped!! Besides LaDainian Thomlinson, I really didn't see anything about that team that just blew me away.....

• NFL officiating is horseshit! If one blatant pass-interference penalty flagged (instead of ignored, which it was)....the Bills win this match and are right in the thick of the AFC Wild Card race!

• First weekend on the slopes in a coupla years.....man, ya gotta love going skiing in Oregon: No "villages" with pretentious affluent wankshafts walking about window-shopping and gawking at antiques that were assembled in China ten minutes ago. Naw....a good number of reasonably priced, mom-n-pop ski areas....and even the larger resort areas here (like Mt. Bachelor and Timberline) aren't priced totally outta hand! Damm....can't believe I haven't gone skiing in Oregon sooner!!

• Now, I am not a big fan of Young Urban Professionals moving into da hood and displacing people, and I pretty much despise fur as a fashion accessory (but I'm NOT militant about it), but are graffiti and crazy glue in locks and harassing customers of a legally-operating (albeit repugnant) business the best way to go about resolving issues? But, then again, extreme actions, love 'em or hate 'em, at least bring attention to these issues, issues that people otherwise hope will magically go away on their own. Yeah, North Portland actually has a fascinating African-American history.....but now blacks are being economically barred from residing in the neighbourhood where it was the only place in the entire city where African-Americans were allowed to reside between 1930 up to almost 1969. I mean, people squirm and become uncomfortable about it (gentrification) whenever it's brought up in conversation (especially Caucasians who have moved to North Portland in the past four years), but when it DOES get brought up, the subject quickly gets changed!! It IS THEE Elephant in the room.

My point being that love 'em or hate them, ya gotta give kudos to Portland's more militant Lefties in the respect that, violently or non-violently, they ACTUALLY ACT upon their beliefs and values (as opposed to several cities that are veeerrry faux-lefty, where people do go "tsch-tsch" about things like gentrification in coffee shops whilst drinking their $6.00 latte-mocha-espresso-cappuccino-or-what-ever-the-fuck-they're-called, but actually DO very little to change things like that)!
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• Speaking of which: This Blog offers it's congratulations to President Chavez on his landslide re-election! Hugo, you is our last beacon of hope against right-wing/corporate terrorism in the Western Hemisphere! BUY CITGO GAS!!!!

• The video for Multiplier NO! has finished shooting........in the editing room now....release party sometime in the next few days.....

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