In the spirit of full disclosure, we want to alert our readers in advance to some changes to this site that will become evident this summer. After a fair amount of soul-searching, and consultation with a couple of reader focus groups, we have accepted a generous offer by SagaCity Media to bring this blog under its umbrella of world-class publications. Having this blog hosted on their servers will enable all sorts of new interactive features that will make it an even better outlet for the news and views that you've come to expect. We're also looking forward to the excellent editorial guidance that their leadership can provide.
Don't worry, we'll still be the same old us, but come our ninth anniversary, this July 2, our old server will automatically refer you to our new blog location, here. Wish us luck with this exciting transition!
What the charrette? I was never informed of this so called "reader focus group" I could have rode my bike over and participated! I have a feeling that the "powers that be" already made the decision and and the "public process" is a joke. I'm sure with a little digging we will find a connection between whoever Mr Bog is sleeping with and this SagaCity Media. For the next week we will be bombarded with tweets and tricks as how green these servers are and each has its own bioswale. I'm very disappointed and am in the process of contacting your main advertiser and telling him I will no longer support him..Now where is Welches, OR?
I recently went to an event where my wife and I sat with Portland radio legends Mark and Dave. A couple of young women sat down at the same table and they turned out to work at Portland Monthly. They were really nice and I asked them the obvious question: Do you ever run out of lists? Does it ever come down to, "Our 10 Greatest Garden Utensils"?
Then I told them the magazine had done an article about me when it first started. I didn't tell them this part, but I sort of bagged the vibe over there with the picture. I was wearing a business suit, but I saw a tennis racket in their office, so the picture is of me playing tennis in a business suit.
At this point I asked them what their jobs were, and without getting too specific, they were both upper management types. Being a relentless freelancer, I immediately switched gears and asked them if they wanted another columnist. They looked at each other and I think they were very impressed in a sort of "Do you want to go?" kind of way.
So I don't know what's going to happen first: Jack starts up there, or I get my column. But at least I have an in with the editors.
Good luck with this, Jack. When I see how much Dwight Jaynes has improved under the wing of Comcast, I just know this is really going to work out.
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
The Occasional Book
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
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
Comments (19)
April Fools Day?
Posted by Mary Volm | April 1, 2011 9:18 AM
Will SagaCity Media collect your readers' addresses for use in ways unexpected by your readers?
Speaking of readers' addresses, isn't it time for another telephone book directory? This site might be helpful to keep the deadtree editions off the front porch:
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_conscious_consumer/155/how-to-stop-getting-the-yellow-pages.html;_ylt=Ame85GXKGqGABv2ILdvwbSTJV8cX
Posted by Gardiner Menefree | April 1, 2011 9:22 AM
So...Jack will only be updating us on a monthly basis.
The blog will be bursting at the seams with PDX goodness!
By the way, a server is just a server.
Posted by Mike (one of the many) | April 1, 2011 9:23 AM
Maybe Randy Gragg will lend you one of his black turtlenecks.
Posted by Garage Wine | April 1, 2011 9:25 AM
Do me a favor and pull the other leg for me. This one pulled my left one so far that I'm walking in circles.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | April 1, 2011 9:33 AM
heh, heh!!!
You wouldn't let Gragster edit your crossword puzzle.
You ought to be compensated for this blog, Jack. It's far more informative than the Oregonian or the Tribune.
How to reach a broader audience? Then you can make the advertising model work.
Posted by Mister Tee | April 1, 2011 9:35 AM
Hmm. I was expecting maybe a sale to AOL, or the News Corp. But this is exciting, all the same.
Posted by Allan L. | April 1, 2011 10:01 AM
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/01/chicos-new-sustainable-firefighting-idea/
U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. This was something championed by Portland’s big green mayor.
Turns out there’s a spec for sustainable fire hydrants.
Posted by Ben | April 1, 2011 10:01 AM
Damn site won't even load. Guess we'll miss you, Jack.
Posted by Conrad | April 1, 2011 10:05 AM
Hopefully its his version of an April fools joke for sure.
Posted by AL M | April 1, 2011 10:41 AM
What the charrette? I was never informed of this so called "reader focus group" I could have rode my bike over and participated! I have a feeling that the "powers that be" already made the decision and and the "public process" is a joke. I'm sure with a little digging we will find a connection between whoever Mr Bog is sleeping with and this SagaCity Media. For the next week we will be bombarded with tweets and tricks as how green these servers are and each has its own bioswale. I'm very disappointed and am in the process of contacting your main advertiser and telling him I will no longer support him..Now where is Welches, OR?
Posted by dman | April 1, 2011 11:10 AM
Google's Gmail Motion is a pretty good attempt but Jack's was better!
Posted by Starbuck | April 1, 2011 11:39 AM
I recently went to an event where my wife and I sat with Portland radio legends Mark and Dave. A couple of young women sat down at the same table and they turned out to work at Portland Monthly. They were really nice and I asked them the obvious question: Do you ever run out of lists? Does it ever come down to, "Our 10 Greatest Garden Utensils"?
Then I told them the magazine had done an article about me when it first started. I didn't tell them this part, but I sort of bagged the vibe over there with the picture. I was wearing a business suit, but I saw a tennis racket in their office, so the picture is of me playing tennis in a business suit.
At this point I asked them what their jobs were, and without getting too specific, they were both upper management types. Being a relentless freelancer, I immediately switched gears and asked them if they wanted another columnist. They looked at each other and I think they were very impressed in a sort of "Do you want to go?" kind of way.
So I don't know what's going to happen first: Jack starts up there, or I get my column. But at least I have an in with the editors.
Good luck with this, Jack. When I see how much Dwight Jaynes has improved under the wing of Comcast, I just know this is really going to work out.
Posted by Bill McDonald | April 1, 2011 11:42 AM
Good Luck Jack; we can all say we "knew him when".
Posted by portland native | April 1, 2011 11:48 AM
I can picture it now: The list of the 10 silliest things that significantly bumped up the City-of_Portland debt-o-meter!
Posted by John Rettig | April 1, 2011 12:27 PM
sagacity [səˈgæsɪtɪ] n. - foresight, discernment, or keen perception; ability to make good judgments;
related words: indiscreetness, injudiciousness - lacking good judgment.
Use in a sentence: Dis servering is so gackity.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | April 1, 2011 12:57 PM
Um Tensky? I think you lost something in the translation...
Posted by dman | April 1, 2011 1:04 PM
I, for one, welcome our SagaCity overlords.
Posted by Kent Mulder | April 1, 2011 5:02 PM
You are just plain mean. Wait, wait...I think my heart rate is finally slowing down now....
Posted by kbm hartnett | April 2, 2011 7:06 AM