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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Important reminder

When Madonna breaks into "Vogue" during the Super Bowl halftime, you have to drink a shot of something strong.

We miss these guys.

Posted at 1:08 PM | Permalink

Comments (17)

Best half time I ever saw was two grade school teams playing for twenty minutes, in full pads.

Posted by David E Gilmore | February 5, 2012 3:05 PM

Poor Madonna. She just need to give it up. She's one click away from Indian Casinos. Good grief, don't these 'artists' ever get the idea that they never were and their half life is over?

Posted by nancy | February 5, 2012 4:11 PM

"Good grief, don't these 'artists' ever get the idea that they never were and their half life is over?"

Applause is more addicting than heroin.

Posted by Random | February 5, 2012 4:19 PM

hopefully there won't be any wardrobe malfunctions

Posted by Anthony | February 5, 2012 4:57 PM

I don't think ONE is goin to do it....for ME anyway.

Posted by LTJD | February 5, 2012 5:03 PM

Last good Super Bowl half time show was the Stones.

Posted by Nonny Mouse | February 5, 2012 5:14 PM

Not bad Madonna.

Kelly Clarkson and the kids blew my socks off with the National Anthem.

Posted by Gibby | February 5, 2012 5:14 PM

Well, if you lip synch something you recorded 14 years ago, I guess you'll sound pretty good. Sad. IMHO

Posted by nancy | February 5, 2012 5:18 PM

Well, is THAT going to make anyone wanna buy Bridgestone tires?

Did the Kia groundhogs, or chipmunks or whatever they are mess up and miss their cues? I did NOT know that KIA techno "shoot the robot" song was Madonna's.

The bar is open...whatdaya have?

Posted by LTJD | February 5, 2012 5:21 PM

Under the circumstances, either an Old Fashioned or a Kamikaze. Still, I appreciated the choreography. And, now I can see why the employment numbers bumped up a little last month. Cecil B. MeDonna!

Posted by Mojo | February 5, 2012 5:46 PM

Horrible, unbelievable non-call on that pass interference by Sterling Moore of NE!

Posted by Mojo | February 5, 2012 6:23 PM

Nancy
You may not care for her or her music... but her 2008-09 concert tour made over $400 million... and set a record for solo performers... quite a click above the casino circuit.

Posted by pacnwjay | February 5, 2012 6:25 PM

Great sfx, too.

Posted by Mojo | February 5, 2012 6:42 PM

Kelly Clarkson looked and sounded great.
I had low expectations for the halftime show but was impressed. I thought it was pretty darn good from beginning to end.

Posted by Ben | February 5, 2012 8:38 PM

I know a Clackistani who was there working the sound system for the halftime show.
I exchanged a few TM with him to find out where he was during the game.
He was on the sidelines on the Patriots side at the 25 yard line.

Posted by Ben | February 5, 2012 8:48 PM

That In Living Color skit is one of the best pieces of comedy ever made. I know that's high praise but you have to understand when I first saw it. Living in Eastern Oregon and surrounded by willful ignorance masking as 'old school' or 'conservative' or whatever else people couch their stupidity in.

I flipped the channel from the half time show to the Wayans' show and man...I think my father had a heart attack. I was disallowed to ever watch that show again. And had lecture after lecture about god and rightness and other bulls**t people parade around as truth.

I've never lived down the creeping suspicion by my family that I am 'light in the loafers.' Though I have finally quit trying. And this In Living Color skit looms large in that narrative.

Posted by Jo | February 5, 2012 11:05 PM

"Good grief, don't these 'artists' ever get the idea that they never were and their half life is over?"

cf. Most politicians.

They can't stand the ordinary guy, but, god, they love to stay in front of him.

Posted by Steve | February 6, 2012 8:32 AM

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
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Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
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Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
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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