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Girls weekend! My wife, my daughter and my mother-in-law are all headed to the coast. “What are you going to do with your bachelor weekend?” my wife asked. “Have you seen the Miller Lite ad that’s been popping up during every other timeout during NBA games?” “Of course I haven’t.” “Of course you haven’t. There’s…
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The studio where Bruce Springsteen made “Born to Run” is a carwash now. An “Auto Spa,” technically, and I guess there are much less sensical options. I mean, once Mary got in that car and they headed off down “Thunder Road,” it was bound to get dirty. This summer marks the 40th anniversary of Born…
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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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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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Are big-time college sports worth it? Depends? Unless you got $95 million to throw around. And then definitely.
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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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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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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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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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