[blog_life] Oh *&^$. Jim Went and Bailed.

So I’m reading my newsfeeds, and I see this post over at It’s Jim.

Oh, crap.

You know how it is when someone is putting on a really cool party and you find your way into it, and it’s really fun and it turns out it was ending and the host didn’t tell anyone? You know that feeling?

Pretty much happens to me all the time. Notch another one.

Was it me? Did I not post enough? Was it my breath? Were my 0’s and 1’s a the wrong size?

I’m leaving the It’s Jim link up for now because, frankly, I was so pleased to have it that I just can’t bear to take it out right now. Jim was really funny and a pleasure to read. I’ll miss him.

[blog_life] Oh *&^$. Jim Went and Bailed.

So I’m reading my newsfeeds, and I see this post over at It’s Jim.

Oh, crap.

You know how it is when someone is putting on a really cool party and you find your way into it, and it’s really fun and it turns out it was ending and the host didn’t tell anyone? You know that feeling?

Pretty much happens to me all the time. Notch another one.

Was it me? Did I not post enough? Was it my breath? Were my 0’s and 1’s a the wrong size?

I’m leaving the It’s Jim link up for now because, frankly, I was so pleased to have it that I just can’t bear to take it out right now. Jim was really funny and a pleasure to read. I’ll miss him.

[metro_transit] C-Tran Wins!

Good news to bus riders and transit fans in Clark County!

According to the latest figures, garnered from the KGW-TV website, here are the results for Clark County Proposition 1:

APPROVED: 37,960 (67.39%)
REJECTED: 18,369 (32.61%)

C-Tran and transit believers win in Clark County today! For now, your best information source is the 164.KAQJ.com site, cited in an earlier article here.

Congratulations, Clark County! Good on you!

[pdx_life] A Header Image Changed In Memory of Zim’s

Dig, if you will, the picture above.

According to a story in this last Sunday’s new High-Def Oregonian, in the “O!” section (if A&E got upset when The O debuted that self-named section, I wonder when Her Oprahness is going to get all up ons) Margie Boulé commented that this wonderfully kitschy sign, which commanded the intersection of SE 223rd Ave (a.k.a Fairview Avenue) in Alto Gresham for decades now, has come down.

They are going to turn Zim’s Shopping Center-or what’s left of it (which was latterly a Yamaha dealership then an indoor go-cart run) into a corner of a car lot.

Thank God. I was worried they weren’t going to cover eastern Multnomah County in car lots before 2012. Looks like they’re ahead of schedule now.

Margie’s point in the article was that there is precious little around anymore that’s wonderful and odd in a roadside-sort-of way. With the loss of the Zim’s sign, Greater Portland looks a little more like Greater EverywhereElse.

So, for the time being, Zim’s will virtually command the intersection of Zehnkatzen street and Times Avenue.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

[metro_transit] C-Tran Wins!

Good news to bus riders and transit fans in Clark County!

According to the latest figures, garnered from the KGW-TV website, here are the results for Clark County Proposition 1:

APPROVED: 37,960 (67.39%)
REJECTED: 18,369 (32.61%)

C-Tran and transit believers win in Clark County today! For now, your best information source is the 164.KAQJ.com site, cited in an earlier article here.

Congratulations, Clark County! Good on you!

[pdx_life] A Header Image Changed In Memory of Zim’s

Dig, if you will, the picture above.

According to a story in this last Sunday’s new High-Def Oregonian, in the “O!” section (if A&E got upset when The O debuted that self-named section, I wonder when Her Oprahness is going to get all up ons) Margie Boulé commented that this wonderfully kitschy sign, which commanded the intersection of SE 223rd Ave (a.k.a Fairview Avenue) in Alto Gresham for decades now, has come down.

They are going to turn Zim’s Shopping Center-or what’s left of it (which was latterly a Yamaha dealership then an indoor go-cart run) into a corner of a car lot.

Thank God. I was worried they weren’t going to cover eastern Multnomah County in car lots before 2012. Looks like they’re ahead of schedule now.

Margie’s point in the article was that there is precious little around anymore that’s wonderful and odd in a roadside-sort-of way. With the loss of the Zim’s sign, Greater Portland looks a little more like Greater EverywhereElse.

So, for the time being, Zim’s will virtually command the intersection of Zehnkatzen street and Times Avenue.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

[pdx_life] A Header Image Changed In Memory of Zim’s

Dig, if you will, the picture above.

According to a story in this last Sunday’s new High-Def Oregonian, in the “O!” section (if A&E got upset when The O debuted that self-named section, I wonder when Her Oprahness is going to get all up ons) Margie Boulé commented that this wonderfully kitschy sign, which commanded the intersection of SE 223rd Ave (a.k.a Fairview Avenue) in Alto Gresham for decades now, has come down.

They are going to turn Zim’s Shopping Center-or what’s left of it (which was latterly a Yamaha dealership then an indoor go-cart run) into a corner of a car lot.

Thank God. I was worried they weren’t going to cover eastern Multnomah County in car lots before 2012. Looks like they’re ahead of schedule now.

Margie’s point in the article was that there is precious little around anymore that’s wonderful and odd in a roadside-sort-of way. With the loss of the Zim’s sign, Greater Portland looks a little more like Greater EverywhereElse.

So, for the time being, Zim’s will virtually command the intersection of Zehnkatzen street and Times Avenue.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

[pdx_life] A Header Image Changed In Memory of Zim’s

Dig, if you will, the picture above.

According to a story in this last Sunday’s new High-Def Oregonian, in the “O!” section (if A&E got upset when The O debuted that self-named section, I wonder when Her Oprahness is going to get all up ons) Margie Boulé commented that this wonderfully kitschy sign, which commanded the intersection of SE 223rd Ave (a.k.a Fairview Avenue) in Alto Gresham for decades now, has come down.

They are going to turn Zim’s Shopping Center-or what’s left of it (which was latterly a Yamaha dealership then an indoor go-cart run) into a corner of a car lot.

Thank God. I was worried they weren’t going to cover eastern Multnomah County in car lots before 2012. Looks like they’re ahead of schedule now.

Margie’s point in the article was that there is precious little around anymore that’s wonderful and odd in a roadside-sort-of way. With the loss of the Zim’s sign, Greater Portland looks a little more like Greater EverywhereElse.

So, for the time being, Zim’s will virtually command the intersection of Zehnkatzen street and Times Avenue.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

[pdx_life] A Header Image Changed In Memory of Zim’s

Dig, if you will, the picture above.

According to a story in this last Sunday’s new High-Def Oregonian, in the “O!” section (if A&E got upset when The O debuted that self-named section, I wonder when Her Oprahness is going to get all up ons) Margie Boulé commented that this wonderfully kitschy sign, which commanded the intersection of SE 223rd Ave (a.k.a Fairview Avenue) in Alto Gresham for decades now, has come down.

They are going to turn Zim’s Shopping Center-or what’s left of it (which was latterly a Yamaha dealership then an indoor go-cart run) into a corner of a car lot.

Thank God. I was worried they weren’t going to cover eastern Multnomah County in car lots before 2012. Looks like they’re ahead of schedule now.

Margie’s point in the article was that there is precious little around anymore that’s wonderful and odd in a roadside-sort-of way. With the loss of the Zim’s sign, Greater Portland looks a little more like Greater EverywhereElse.

So, for the time being, Zim’s will virtually command the intersection of Zehnkatzen street and Times Avenue.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

[pdx_life] A Header Image Changed In Memory of Zim’s

Dig, if you will, the picture above.

According to a story in this last Sunday’s new High-Def Oregonian, in the “O!” section (if A&E got upset when The O debuted that self-named section, I wonder when Her Oprahness is going to get all up ons) Margie Boulé commented that this wonderfully kitschy sign, which commanded the intersection of SE 223rd Ave (a.k.a Fairview Avenue) in Alto Gresham for decades now, has come down.

They are going to turn Zim’s Shopping Center-or what’s left of it (which was latterly a Yamaha dealership then an indoor go-cart run) into a corner of a car lot.

Thank God. I was worried they weren’t going to cover eastern Multnomah County in car lots before 2012. Looks like they’re ahead of schedule now.

Margie’s point in the article was that there is precious little around anymore that’s wonderful and odd in a roadside-sort-of way. With the loss of the Zim’s sign, Greater Portland looks a little more like Greater EverywhereElse.

So, for the time being, Zim’s will virtually command the intersection of Zehnkatzen street and Times Avenue.

Sic transit gloria mundi.