since july 1998

"We want to be poets of our life —
first of all in the smallest
most everyday matters."
-Nietzsche


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I recommend listening to my custom Launchcast station whilst perusing the site. Think of it as my soundtrack. The result of 2000+ ratings you are likely to hear Steve Martin, Warren Zevon, Chris Rock, The Violent Femmes, Maria McKee, Jason & The Scorchers, The Cure, Sinead O'Connor, The Monkees, Nick Drake.

 

 

my old intro: an introduction

christening naze.net: i am naze

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wish list



long overdue thanks to:

Bobofett
For Leonard Cohen and the meteoric years

Treppenwitz
For credit of inspiration, passion, music, and Israel

Rob Rummel-Hudson
For the attitude, the trombone, and the father's fierce devotion to his daughter

Derek Powazek
Inspiration, Fray3, dinner in Cole Valley

John Halcyon Styn
Spring of good vibrations, Grandpa Caleb, and the laughter

February 08, 2010

men i admire: tom mccall
09:40 PM

I just saw a brief documentary on the only state-sponsored rock festival in U.S. history. It was Governor Tom McCall's response to an explosive political atmosphere in which the American Legion was scheduled to hold a national convention in downtown Portland, blocks away from intense protests against the Vietnam War at Portland State University.

I look at McCall's profound wisdom and pragmatism and think: that's what it means to be an Oregonian.



January 25, 2010

it's hard to be patient with the willfully ignorant
11:51 PM

"So please, for your own sake, for your family's sake and the sake of your children, stop. Stop demanding that problems not get fixed. Stop demanding that you keep getting screwed."

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E Pluribus Unum

Oregonians: Vote Yes on 66 & 67
Your ballot must be in by Tuesday, January 26

The bullet: 1) Oregon will move from the 3rd lowest corporate tax to the 5th lowest; 2) if you make more than $250,000/year, you'll pay a little more; 3) if you are unemployed, you are going to get a little help on your taxes; 4) we get to maintain basic services instead of slashing them with devastating consequences to our society.

Frequently Asked Questions About Measures 66 & 67

Our elected state legislature decided to fund services at a basic level with modest increases in taxes for some of Oregon corporations and the wealthiest Oregonians. Relentless right wingers continue to abuse the ballot initiative process by second-guessing the people we elected/hired. (Here's the definition of representative democracy.)

Oregon started the initiative process in the first half of the twentieth century to reform serious systemic government corruption. And it was successful.

Now it is used to empty the pocketbooks of teachers (the Oregon Education Association, Oregon's teachers' union, is always one of the leading progressive forces opposing retrograde ballot measures).

Vote Republican: You'll get what you deserve.

To take back our country:

1) Be informed

Blue Oregon

Daily Kos

Air America Radio

Huffington Post

2) Take action
Whether it's an e-mail, a petition, a phone call, a donation, holding a sign, going door-to-door, or making a donation -- do something. That's how we won in 2006.

MoveOn.org

Democracy for Oregon

Democracy for America

3) Talk liberal, own liberal. Refuse the right wing frame.

LiberalOasis

4) Remember why we fight

The Liberal Legacy
Consider a short and incomplete list of 20th-century liberal triumphs, all vehemently opposed by conservatives at the time...

W's record of failure and weakness.

           

     

May you never be

more active

than when you are doing

nothing.

-Cato

         

They may forget

what you said,

but they will never forget

how you made them

feel.

-Carl W. Buehner

           

 

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