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  • It starts with her looking at him and him looking at different her. It ends with a bottle of Scotch, three straws, and a bearskin rug.

  • “For all you young single ladies, I’ve got a couple of military history songs.” — Corb Lund, with the Hurtin’ Albertans in PDX tonight.

  • Me: Have you returned to “The Hockey Song” with the old lock out verse? Corb Lund: I’ve been ignoring hockey. Me too, and for a good long time to come, I think. I mean, really, grow up Gary. If you’re going to treat this as just a business — which you’re free to do, because…

  • It was announced last week that Pustulus Maximus has new joined GWAR as an official Scumdog brother.  Little is known about this being, other than that he has a skin condition where his face and feet are covered in painful pustules that can only be soothed by the application of savage metal, spoiled elephant semen…

  • “What I do for a living, is I imagine America.” — Bruce Springsteen, Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 5, 2012 Four years ago, I was trying to figure out where I was going to get drunk the next night. House party? Bar? Home with a friend or two? Whatever the decision, we’d cut out of work…

  • Bob Dylan was at the Rose Garden last night. It was complicated, but isn’t it always? How does it feel?

  • Probably my all-time favorite piece of newsroom mail. ‘Bob Dylan is well worth this story’

  • There is no good way to explain this to a 2-year-old who keeps saying “Why? Talk about it, Daddy. Why?” So I just told her some old people are mean.

  • Since the First Lady is all the rage this morning, and her brother, Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson just dropped in on the Oregon delegation at the convention, here’s the interview I did with him on the Live Wire Radio show a few years ago. He tells a great story about his sister and…