December 31, 2008 by p00ky.

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing

Now all the truth is out,

Be secret and take defeat

From any brazen throat,

For how can you compete,

Being honor bred, with one

Who were it proved he lies

Were neither shamed in his own

Nor in his neighbors’ eyes;

Bred to a harder thing

Than Triumph, turn away

And like a laughing string

Whereon mad fingers play

Amid a place of stone,

Be secret and exult,

Because of all things known

That is most difficult.    

                                        w.b. yeats

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December 25, 2008 by p00ky.

in the depths of the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression, retail sales are reportedly off a devestating 2%. it costs nothing to stop the killing.

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December 15, 2008 by p00ky.

okay, another few beautiful inches of snow to hide the body parts, and within an hour of the snowfall, with less than an inch on the ground and no insidious freezing rain in the mix the freeways in greater portland were again littered with stranded cars and pissedoff drivers. 

Before the snow began an ODOT spokesperson informed the public that their proactive measures have been focused on the freeways and mair arterials with apologies that the sidestreets did not receive their attention…. Attention?  Does ODOT actually “DO” anything to mitigate the damages resulting from the first inch of snow on the roads?  Perhaps they pray? Think positive thoughts? 

And no, sadly, it is not the hills that take the fall.  Believe it or not, folks, there ARE hills in Montana and Colorado and even in the midwest.  Duh.  And somehow…. just Somehow the half the country that gets regularly snowed upon somehow manages to get thru the winter without roads and schools and essentially the whole economy shutting down. 

How do they do it???  How do cities and states and regions of this country deal with snowfall that makes portland’s look like dandruff without skipping a beat and without local news reporters exploiting endlessly the chicken-little routine for which they were apparently trained?

Golly…. i do not know how they do it!  perhaps ODOT should admit they are generally fucked and…. take a fucking field trip.

As an aside, and because this is after all a gay blog, think if nothing else how a remedy to the portland folly would serve to silence the whining cretins in craig’slist m4m longing for someone, Anyone! to “mitten manly” (sorry Dylan) at their door and relieve them for even a second of the consciousness of their pathetic existence.

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December 14, 2008 by p00ky.

 Yes, it covers up the body parts!

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December 7, 2008 by p00ky.

the original video to A Long December generally sux, so i opted for this one instead. i have an affection for Counting Crows… at least they presented posibilities as a band in the wasteland.

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