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  • August
  • 2008

Chicken Lists

Chicken Delight Squawking and clucking and the clicking of sharp beaks. Flight, especially the reckless kind. Free nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Watching the Girls stalk and eat each others' feathers. Probably not a very healthy practice, but hilarious all the same. Fowl Displeasure Poop on the picnic table. Unexpected decimation of ...
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  • 8
  • July
  • 2008

“Crocin’ in the USA,” plus, the Belton Chalet

When we left our house last Saturday our only stop on the way to Portland’s Union Station was the Thai Laundromat (er, Monsoon Thai Cuisine on N. Mississippi and N. Skidmore). Strapped into our backpacks, we aroused only a mild interest from our server/hostess. “Are you doing laundry,” she asked ...
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  • 4
  • July
  • 2008

The No-Brainer That J9 Forgot

In planning a menu, for heaven's sake – consider when it will be consumed! In mid-April, when the Squeeze and I met with the catering manager at Oakway Wine and Deli in Eugene, it was cold outside. And drizzly. And it had been cold and drizzly for as long as we ...