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A one-line job ad on Craigslist/Portland caught my eye:

You will be a soldier in the war against button-less garments and bags.

The story behind it:

Two different acquaintances recently e-mailed me links to Despair, Inc. I'm sure this is because I blog about quirky items, not a suggestion that I am the target customer for the Austin-based purveyor...

Both teams gain some redemption with wins at home over the weekend. The Dawgs enter next week's Apple Cup at 4-7, while the Seahawks lead the NFC West with a 6-4 record.

If I write 3,571.5 (or so) words every day for the rest of November (except Thanksgiving, when I have plans) I will be a novelist. I'm not going to make it, but not because I'm lazy. It's just that I...

A small band of Guardian Angels

The mighty wind of the NFC West is at their backs as the team, with only an air attack, breezes to the playoffs.

Couch surfing is no sport for the lazy. A global site that matches travelers with free places to stay makes for satisfying stays, real and virtual.

Three reasons for Monday-morning quarterbacks to be optimistic:

• Yes, the Washington Husky gridders (3-7) have lost to four top-25 teams (Oregon, Ohio State, Arizona State, and USC), but they also...

As the sun went down on Wordstock, Portland's sprawling annual book festival, none of the event-goers were slowing down. If anything, the readers, writers and teachers who attended all four days...

Large gatherings of writers are normally not fun. More than two in a room are enough to make one wish for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting instead, where more of the stories are true and no one asks...