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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

It's o.k. to be jealous

I got this for Christmas, and you didn't:

Posted at 11:31 AM | Permalink

Comments (24)

Is it solid or hollow?

Merry Christmas! And a white one at that!

Posted by Alexander | December 25, 2007 12:15 PM

There's a story behind this cow's head. Can you tell us what it is?

Posted by Doug | December 25, 2007 12:25 PM

My friends are trying to tell me something. But I'm not sure what. Maybe when last night's festivities wear off a little, I will get it.

Posted by Jack Bog | December 25, 2007 12:31 PM

Did they make you an offer you tried to refuse?

Militant Vegans?

Wealthy heirs to the Laughing Cow fortune?

Was it carved out of wood?

In unpredictable Storm of the Century fashion, we have a 1/2 of wet snow in SW Portland (about 300' elevation), and the big wet flakes continue to fall.

The WeatherLady just said "no accumulations" (ahem!).

Posted by Mister Tee | December 25, 2007 12:44 PM

Hey, at least it wasn't the hind end of another quadruped we could name.

Posted by dyspeptic | December 25, 2007 12:53 PM

Do you have "cow rustlers" on your family tree?

Posted by Jack Peek | December 25, 2007 1:02 PM

Godfather imitators that got confused?

Posted by mrfearless47 | December 25, 2007 1:27 PM

I'll see your cow head and raise you this one........
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katheworsley/2135852983/

Posted by kathe w. | December 25, 2007 2:30 PM

I feel kinda dumb. I thought it was chocolate moose.

Posted by Alexander | December 25, 2007 3:40 PM

To answer the first question, it is hollow. The back is made of wood. The sculpted surface appears to be a plaster of some kind. I took a long nap, but I still don't get it.

Posted by Jack Bog | December 25, 2007 6:14 PM

Hmmm. The head of Elsie. What could it mean?

Posted by Sue Hagmeier | December 25, 2007 7:37 PM

Sometimes a cow head is just a cow head.

Posted by Jack Bog | December 25, 2007 7:56 PM

Sometimes a cow head is just a cow head.

Having been raised on a big cow ranch in southern Oregon, I'm just at a loss, as to what it may mean.

Questions:

1. Godfather imitators that got confused? (best possiblity)

2. A signal, your blog maybe getting read at city hall more then you think.

3. The council has voted you off the island.

Please fill in your thoughts as this mystery is uncovered.

Posted by Jack Peek | December 25, 2007 8:55 PM

The Cow, a bovine

1)Of, relating to, or resembling a ruminant mammal of the genus Bos, such as an ox, cow, or buffalo.
2) Sluggish, dull, and stolid.

Posted by Marla | December 25, 2007 9:09 PM

2) Sluggish, dull, and stolid.

Not in Jack's close circle, but if there is lineage to the above, he is not even close to the defined post on our bovine friends.

Grew up on a ranch, if you ever tried to milk a cow. and they aren't buying your cold hands..... Sluggish, dull, and stolid, is not how they act.

Posted by Jack Peek | December 25, 2007 9:40 PM

Lemme guess, left in your bed by the Potter & the "4th Ave. Mafia" to warn you about talking critical of them in the coming year?

Posted by Jon | December 25, 2007 10:16 PM

The answer came to me in a dream:

There are no sacred cows left, thanks to BoJack.

Posted by Mister Tee | December 26, 2007 6:43 AM

If the council "mafia", did it, Randy should be reported to PETA!

Posted by Jack Peek | December 26, 2007 6:52 AM

I'm not even going to ask about that moose head...

Posted by alal | December 26, 2007 7:54 AM

Thinking outside the barn, perhaps it's a de-horned bull?

Posted by genop | December 26, 2007 11:06 AM

"Thinking outside the barn" heh heh.

Posted by Wacky Mommy | December 26, 2007 11:15 AM

Everyone has a ruminant head in their living room. I thought you got that gold chair for Christmas!

Posted by JD | December 26, 2007 2:33 PM

I got a "Hillary Nutcracker"
Thighs of steel!

Posted by portland native | December 26, 2007 4:38 PM

sayin' yeah, yeah ...
if you hold the head steady I'm a milk the cow ...

Posted by tenskwatawa | December 27, 2007 3:16 PM

In Vino Veritas

Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007

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Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 21
At this date last year: 52
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269