why cant my food look this colorful?? am i just a dark guy??

Trump modeling himself on Charles Foster Kane?

Travails of the NY restaurant business.

Caws and Cr-r-rucks in NY

Very cool origami measuring spoon kickstarter.

the most quixotic campaign of this election season.

One hour into this debate and the 10 million vapers are waiting to hear who will stand against prohibition.

— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) October 20, 2016

got a salad at sweetgreens for dinner. was taken aback when they wouldnt accept the $20 i not so happily proffered. have to get a prepaid debit card not to be tracked in the future cashless universe.

bob nickas in PDX 

Looking at high schools here lead me to NW Acadamy, the brother of the founder created claymation, got an Oscar even.

Mary Vinton Folberg is the sister of Will Vinton, creator of Claymation.

what's at stake for abstract painting (b. nickas)

Pono Farm beef tail stew......Ginger, Garlic, Celery, Asian Greens (stems), Shallot, Carrot, 1 Bottle Red Wine, cooked @ 200 for 7 hours

Chilled overnight, remove all fat, add squash & brussels, cook 9 hours @ 200

good ol' billmon straps on the pessimism feedbag in this trump/alt-right thread. click below the picture (by the likes & retweets) to see it unspool.

Piece by @sarahposner & @DavidNeiwert advances story on "alt-right" & Donald Trump. Also draws on earlier reporting.https://t.co/St0um5LpKB

— Billmon (@billmon1) October 15, 2016

oregon tornado today, maybe more

the good ole switcheroo

1507 world map

- erin

moss reveals cadmium hot spots in Portland near artisan glass studios

“My first husband didn’t allow me to work, so I stopped being married. I briefly had this gallery on the Upper East Side. It was there that Walter De Maria had his first solo show, in 1965. Tom Wolfe wrote a piece about the collector Robert Scull for the Herald Tribune. Scull was quoted as saying he discovered De Maria at a tiny gallery with a dumb ‘girl’ running it. My first exposure to the press.”

c = commodity

any one have success with small format piza ovens? this one is $180 but i guess you might as well just get a piza stone and use the oven. 

randomly, also in the box with the fortunes was a medallion. i had no memory of a connection to it and was on the way to the garbage as i inspected it for the first time. appeared to be wrestling related. on the back is my grandfathers name, dave wolff, etched in. above that it says 160 Division, 1927 - 28. probably senior year of high school.

if there is any question what i ate in the mid to late 90s, the answer is apparently crappy chinese food. i have over 100 fortunes i cant seem to throw away to prove it. thankfully the internet was invented so i have a place to annoy others with the flotsam and jetsam of my very uninteresting endeavors. 

salt shed