Sellwood, NoPo, and Seven Corners for bikes |
I rode the bus to three different bicycle stores today in three parts of the city, and straddled the cute, the trashy, the non-descript. The theme of Portland, if there can be said to be one, is...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:00:00 PST |
There were trumpets |
Team Evil made us happy tonight. I cut my hair earlier, with some help from Roommate John at the end in the form of advice (he is a font of excellent advice): tapering in to the ear makes one lo...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:11:00 PST |
Craigslist |
I called a number given for a job listing on craigslist. The woman who answered sounded relieved when I stated my reason for calling, and asked if I could come in at 2.15pm for an interview...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:02:00 PST |
Bubble-gram |
Had a great discussion with Bill today about focus. This the morning after an out-of-sight Tilly and the Wall show at Doug Fir. The lead singer of this band completely uninhibited, un...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:40:00 PST |
Adventures in Furnishment + Games you can play with food |
Got my bass amp in the mail today, along with oceans of excelsior, whose crumbs I vacuumed up with a cat-sized sweeper. I turned the amp on and played a little bit, and later decided I'd had a g...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:41:00 PST |
The Popsicles |
It rained today. I walked down Grand Avenue to catch the Burnside Bus to West 5th Av. After stopping at the PiP gallery, I went to see a film about Todd and Kraft, two artists that were pa...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:05:00 PST |
Squash soup, squash pie, squash |
Toucan the dog greets me with growls and waggles. He wants to play tug of war with what appears to be a large spaghetti fork. I worry about spelling spaghetti correctly. Even now I f...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:07:00 PST |
He said it was a jazz song |
I thought it more like Grunge/Classic Rock guitar bashing--he sang, "my shit doesn't sparkle/since you stopped feeding me glitter" over and over again. I've never loved that genre so much in a l...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:26:00 PST |
Job hunt |
I have eaten 5 pasteries in the last twenty-four hours.
Posted by Joel Kraft on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:49:00 PST |
G(r)ay Portland |
Arcata:
1. It rained blankets as I entered the city from the far end, having missed the exit.
2. Dena and I splashed our way to a friendly breakfast spot; halfway through eating, big white tufts of s...
Posted by Joel Kraft on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:35:00 PST |
