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Architecture. Portland, Oregon USA. 5 December 2009.

Trevor Blake: Ginkgo Biloba. Portland, Oregon USA. 16 November 2009. Public Domain.

On October 10, 2009, a Cyclone of Slack will slam into Portland bringing true SubGenius mutation back to Stumptown for the first time in a decade! Cast aside your false profiteers and your hipster biscuits, and bask in the Yetisyn glow of true Dobbsian mutation! Experience the gene-twisting joy of a SubGenius Devival in all of its mutated glory!

Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St.
Portland, OR
Doors open at 8, show starts at 9
$10

Jack Donovan reads from Blood Brotherhood.

CounterMedia
October 1, 2009 -  7:00 PM
927 Oak Street, Portland OR USA

Blood-brotherhoods and similar rites have been employed by men to mark friendships and alliances for thousands of years. Evidence of the practice can be found in the lore, literature and recorded history of most cultures – from Norse and Celtic mythologies to the tribes of Africa, Australian and the South Pacific, to the fiction of Jack London and Mark Twain.

Today, many homosexual men are adopting and adapting marriage rites and relationship ideals that were designed to unite males and females, and which remain steeped in millennia of culture, tradition and imagery inspired by heterosexual unions. Blood-Brotherhood offers an alternative mode of perception. Blood-Brotherhood removes the feminine element and the trappings of heterosexual romance from the equation altogether, and models bonds between androphiles after the bonds that men have made between each other for thousands of years. Blood-Brotherhood bases these unique unions between men on a tradition that honors male friendship.

Blood-brotherhood is not an attempt to “homosexualize” history or to “homoeroticize” the practice of blood-brotherhood, which has traditionally been practiced between heterosexual male friends. Rather, it is an attempt to inspire homosexual men to think about and solemnize their relationships differently – no matter what legal arrangements they decide to make.

Blood-Brotherhood contains a wealth of research about blood-brotherhood myths and practices from a wide variety of cultures and time periods, including excerpted texts and original translations by Nathan F. Miller. This follow-up to Androphilia: A Manifesto, also documents Jack Donovan’s own bond with his compadre in a unique blood-brotherhood rite, presented as modern adaptation of this ancient ritual.

EsoZone is a mutant unconference, Portland Oregon USA, October 9 and 10 2009.  See you there!

Portland of yesteryear

Flickr: Vintage Portland

eat food at night

Late Night – pdx PLATE

In the 90s, the advent of the Internet age, many people, including myself, thought the Internet’s democratization of media would be vehicle for social progress. R.U. Sirius was correct that “consensus reality” would be demolished. But instead of a new enlightenment, we have a new dark age in which disinformation flows at will and even educated people can’t be bothered to check Snopes before hitting forward on the latest right wing chain e-mail. The thinking seemed to go: access to information outside the mainstream media would in itself cause the media establishment’s authority to crumble and foster a new age of critical thinking. “The people” would get a better sense of what was really going on in the world, and demand change. People, awash in unverified sources, would also become more critical thinkers. By 2002, in the wake of 9/11, and the rise of the “Warbloggers” it should have been clear that this simply wasn’t happening. [...]

There seems to be no point in speaking truth to power. Power does not care what is spoken to it. This should not be read as a reactionary rant. The yearning for a “golden age” of investigative journalism is a case of rosy retrospection. What to do then when the watchmen are evil, and the populace is mad? I have no answers. My only solace at this point is that every outbreak of insanity seems to die down eventually, even if society writ large learns nothing from them.

[Article continues. Highest recommendation for the works of Klint Finley. - Trevor Blake]

eTec, a subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc., is working with Nissan North America to deploy approximately 5,000 electric vehicles and 12,750 charging stations in five U.S. markets, including Oregon.

Portland Lands Major Upgrade to Electric Vehicle Infrastructure : Gas 2.0

This is a book in process documenting the history of the concept of mutants in popular culture – from early science fiction to counter culture to modern mainstream media.

Evolution of the Mutant in Popular Culture

Tom Lechner’s Art

Architecture of Portland, Oregon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portland outdoor sculptures

Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center

The Hung Far Low sign was removed in October 2008, when renovators discovered that the 40-foot icon was on the verge of collapse thanks to rotten anchors and a rusty frame. The last anyone saw of the Portland landmark, it was tucked into a giant sign graveyard in Scapose, patiently waiting while we Hung Far Low enthusiasts try to drum up the $30,000 needed to bring it back.

Re-Erect Hung Far Low

The park is named for 19th century lawyer and Marion County judge William Waldo, who planted the tree on his property in 1872. Waldo later sold his property to the city, under condition that the tree be preserved.

Waldo Park – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Over the years, contributions have been made to the park, such as the small swimming pool and diving board for butterflies, many statues, a miniature Ferris wheel (which was brought in by a normal-sized crane), and the occasional flying saucer.

Portland Parks & Recreation :: Mill Ends Park

Portland Octopus

This is the German military ocean-going vessel that docked in Portland, Oregon in January 1936.

MaritimeQuest – Emden

Date: Friday, August 7, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Jennifer Bates Gallery @ Germ Books
Street: 2005 Frankford Avenue
City/Town: Philadelphia, PA

Stacy Barich – atomiccheesecakephotography.com
Stephanie Crabe – stephaniecrabe.com
Jack Donovan – jack-donovan.com
Stephen Kasner – stephenkasner.com
Peter H. Gilmore – churchofsatan.com
Christopher Mealie – christophermealie.com
Jen Tydings/Ida Slaughter – catfightphotography.com
Kevin I. Slaughter – underworldamusements.net

Joseph Buchtel

Portland, Oregon, Its History and … – Google Books