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How Long Will This Last?

The Portland Oregonian reports:

An image of a very pregnant Mary, the mother of Jesus, looks down on Old Town from a billboard on West Burnside Street and Northwest Third Avenue. In the weeks before Christmas, she is a reminder of the approaching celebration of her son’s birth.

Here’s a photo of the billboard:

It’s good to be reminded of the shame Joseph and Mary were willing to endure.

Oh, and if anyone in my Portland fan club can take a picture of the billboard for me, I’d really appreciate it. Then I won’t have to mooch the Oregonian’s for very long. 😯

Guard Duty: Is It Your Turn?

You can help protect someone else’s property…as well as their right to free speech. 🙄

Anyone thinking of swiping an Obama/Biden ’08 sign from a front lawn in Portland might want to consider this: The world may be watching.

A Portland woman known as “Poverty Kids’ Teacher” has created an Internet sensation with a webcam that’s streaming video around the clock of the political signs in her yard.

No, it’s not another artsy viral campaign in support of the Democratic ticket. It’s one woman’s response to thieves taking her political signs when she wasn’t looking this month.

Wait a minute! That’s an $8 sign?! 😯

If a campaign wants me to display their sign, why should I pay for it?

That’s dumb.

Source: The O

Learn About Life in the Shoe

Except here they’re out of their shoe and in someone else’s.

And it doesn’t seem to have panned out too well.

But it does make for a funny read.

Here you have the outer edges of the sandwich:

The Great Getaway

Paul and I like to take an overnight getaway in June before our marriage takes its annual battering during harvest in July and August. This time Paul went above-and-beyond and booked a lunch cruise tomorrow on a ship in Portland and a room at the Holiday Inn. Through Priceline of course.

So we checked in this afternoon. The room was on the fourth floor, and beautiful. And cold.

[…]

Just a few minutes ago he left again, saying something we couldn’t understand. I don’t know if the drain is fixed or not. He’ll probably be back soon with his toothbrush and pajamas and popcorn and a movie.

Go visit your Holiday Inn for your next romantic getaway, the one with three curved sides, on NE 2nd just across from the Rose Garden.

So there you are — a ringing undorsement of the kind I thought I had posted for the Super 8 in Tucson at West Starr Pass Blvd (but which I can’t find here now).

Paul and Dorcas, I hope today is better. And if that guy showed up again, I hope he brought his interpreter.