Category: report from the field

Anon.com »

Developments in the burgeoning Portland* blogroll, of which this Nut House is** a part: a tempest flares and is calmed (?) over at the anonymous Point (who is this fractious critic?). Meanwhile, someone or something who is obviously (?) a pseudonym is reviewing baked goods on the city’s preeminent music blog (??). (Related, will I [...]

Hill report: 2:38 p.m. »

This afternoon three burly men stood smoking outside Colucci’s, directly below the sign advertising 3 HAM ITALIANS $10.99. They coughed and lifted cigarettes to their lips, their bare arms moving through shadow to light and back again. “You have mustard on your leg,” one said to another as I passed. Everyone looked down. Mustard-leg was, [...]

Going outside and walking in the mud »

…after three full days cooped up inside sick and wheezing, let me tell you, it’s up there in the pantheon of prime good feelings. I walked down the hill to the ocean and aired out my wheezy lungs. I even stopped thinking about a few things for a minute. The ocean smelled complete. Walking back [...]