Author: ryanwwhite
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Glitter sucks: A Metro Parent column
For Metro Parent this month, I examined glitter. To wit: Glitter was the 11th Egyptian plague, and Dante’s 10th circle. The Inuit have many words for snow, but only one for glitter, and it’s unprintable. That’s right. Glitter was 72 percent of disco (the rest was some combination of ABBA, Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, […]
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Watch: Are Big-Time College Sports Worth It?
Very much enjoyed hosting last week’s City Club of Portland forum on whether or not big-time college sports are worth it. I don’t think we solved the problem, but we at least covered some of the important questions. It’s a big topic that’s only growing. Thanks again to City Club for the invite, and here’s […]
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City Club of Portland’s Friday Forum asks “Are Big-Time College Sports Worth It?”
Are big-time college sports worth it? Depends? Unless you got $95 million to throw around. And then definitely.
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Newsletter: Nostalgia’s a hell of a drug
An excerpt from this week’s newsletter (subscribe) on college football, loving uncles and warm memories: “What I wasn’t expecting was that it would make me homesick. But it did. It happened when he talked about saving his money to go into Moe’s Sports Shopand buy Michigan gear. His childhood was set in the same world […]
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“You give them the best, and the world takes care of the rest” (Or: Thanks again)
Happy New Year, friends. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love a good sunset, and if I had to pick one day from 2014 to take with me into the new year, it’d be a perfect evening at the beach with a bonfire, and great friends and family. If I had to take two days, […]
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Old Gold office hours, kind words from New Jersey and beyond
Reminder: If you’ve got a book you’d like signed for yourself or someone else, I’ll be hanging out at the Old Gold tonight starting at 6:30 p.m. It’s casual, not remotely a “book signing.” I’ve been calling it office hours, but really the Old Gold is one of my favorite bars in town and it’s […]
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Office hours: Come get books signed, hang out
See that guy right there? That’s the fantastic Redray Frazier. Fantastic singer. Fantastic writer. Above all, fantastic human. And I say that not just because he sent me that photo via text from the coast just before Thanksgiving. He’d be all those things even if he hadn’t bought a copy of the book. Go check […]
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The Grinch 2.0
So the grumpy green guy comes down from on high, tries to steal every last piece of Christmas, has a heart-enlarging change of heart, returns all the trappings and trimmings and gets invited to dinner by very people he robbed? I have never – not for one second – believed the Whos were actually cool […]
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Just to buy you some shoes …
I saw a local media outlet promoting a reporter whose job it is today to help the dear readers sort out the Black Friday chaos–as if Americans needed help buying stuff. It’s just about all we do well these days, and of course we’ve fetishized it and commoditized the oddest hours of the day. It’s […]
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Speaking Freely with Sheila Hamilton on KINK FM
It was a strange and fun thing to hear–myself sounding not completely stupid on the radio, a lead-in to “Trapped.” It was nice to hear “Trapped.”
Ryan White & Associates 