South East Lincoln, Sherman and Grant. Lone Fir Cemetery.

See Portland Memorials for thousands of memorials in downtown Portland, Oregon USA.

Music: Aeolian Piano Roll – “Phantom Patrol” (1903)

Lownsdale Park, First Presbyterian Church and the South Park Blocks all contain memorials to the Civil War (1861–1865). First of a series.

See Portland Memorials for thousands of memorials in downtown Portland, Oregon USA.

Music: Aeolian Piano Roll – “Phantom Patrol” (1903)

1040 NW Everett St. Portland, OR 97209

Bearing Service Company was founded in 1929. The Bearing Service Company building was built in 1945. Above the entryway there is a Deco style sign and round overhang. The round overhang is completed in it’s reflection in the front window. At the base of the column supporting the overhang there is a circle drawn in the sidewalk. The round overhang, column and circle form two wheels and an axle, a good match for an automotive business.

See Portland Memorials for thousands of memorials in downtown Portland, Oregon USA.

Music: Aeolian Piano Roll – “Phantom Patrol” (1903)

The USS Oregon was launched in 1893 and served until 1919. The battleship’s crew saw action in five wars. The Oregon was scrapped in 1956. The bow, mast and anchor chain of the Oregon are in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, near SW Pine and Naito. One mile north is the Albers Mill Building. The smokestacks of the Oregon were in a Liberty Ship memorial park where this parking lot is now. The Willamette River Greenway Trail runs next to the Building. Walk along it until you find a wall running into the Willamette River. On the other side of this wall are the remains of some Liberty Ships that had been made in Portland. This is what remains of the Liberty Ship memorial park.

Music: Aeolian Piano Roll – Phantom Patrol (1903)

Learn of thousands of other memorials in Portland Memorials by Trevor Blake.

Oscar the Grouch: I Hate Christmas [youtube].

Eric Idle: Fuck Christmas [youtube].

Fear: Fuck Christmas [youtube].

The Attery Squash: Santa’s Laughter Mocks The Poor [youtube].

The Rudy Schwartz Project: A Sandwich for Adolph [youtube].

Current 93: Happy Birthday Pigface Christus [youtube]

Rex Martin – Holidays are Coming [vimeo]

See also our extended Story of the First Christmas from 2009.

First, find an abandoned projection television in 2008. Remove a lens with a hammer.

Lens removed by hammer.

In 2011, mount lens on cigar box base.  Mount video source upside down on cigar box sliding lid with Erector Set pieces from thrift store.  Sliding cigar box lid adjusts focus.  Image is mirror reversed, something that will be accommodated with a mirror in a future video projector – or, it could be used as a rear projector on a transparent screen, or projected from a mirror onto a screen.  This device works well in complete darkness but I don’t have a camera that can take a picture in complete darkness to show you.  Come by and I’ll show you in person.

Cost: older ipod ($79), cigar box (free), lens (free), Erector Set pieces ($2).  TOTAL: $81.00

Today, 25 November, was a special day in the life of Yukio Mishima.  May you have a special day as well.  I don’t want to do what Mishima did, I want to do what I do as fully as he did what he did.

“Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they’re just repeating what others before them have done.” – Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet.

OVO triumphus for Yukio Mishima for 2010.
OVO triumphus for Yukio Mishima for 2009.
OVO triumphus for Yukio Mishima for 2008.

… and more.

“I came here from the United States of America to stand for freedom, with all free people, against the forces of oppression and darkness that you all are representing. I came here in order to stand with the people who are fighting for the freedoms that make it possible for you to do what you are doing today. Not the violence and hatred, but to stand in dissent. But you can’t stand to have any kind of rational discussion. You can’t stand any dissent. You have to try to throw bottles, and drown us out, because you are cowards. Because you know that you stand on nothing except oppression and darkness and hatred. And that is why you are there, and that is why I am here.

You are fronting for the most radically intolerant and hateful ideology on the planet. Everywhere in the world where there are Muslims and non-Muslims there is conflict because the Muslims attack the non-Muslims. The Quran teaches to make war against the unbelievers and to subjugate them. And you are already subjugated. You are already their useful idiots. You are already their tools. You are out here in their service, and you think you’re fighting for freedom, and you are fighting for your own slavery. You are fighting for your own enslavement.

And it will come, it will come to you. You are fighting for an ideology that denies the freedom of speech. And one day you will wish you had the freedom of speech that you are trying to fight against today. ”

Links added by OVO. Watch the rest on youtube.

Robert Spencer: Spencer Versus the Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Stuttgart, Germany, June 2

Thursday afternoon I spoke in Stuttgart, Germany at the invitation of the human rights group Pax Europa. The event was well advertised, and so the thuggish Leftist/Islamic supremacist alliance mobilized and was out in full force.

About 1000 Antifa protesters showed up, banging drums, holding signs with the usual accusations of racism and “Islamophobia,” blowing whistles, and menacing people who came out for the Pax Europa event. There were also about 500 German police on hand in riot gear. The Pax Europa organizers told me, “This is all for you” — because they had publicized that I would be there. One young man came up to me as I was standing right in front of a line of German police and said, “You’re lucky there are so many police here today.” [...]

It was an incredible din. We had loudspeakers that appeared to be able to reach the considerable crowd behind the protesters, but the Antifa thugs did all they could to drown us out: the drums got louder, the vuvuzelas came out, they were blowing whistles, and of course they were screaming and yelling.

They started throwing things: bottles, eggs, excrement and more. One bottle narrowly missed the Coptic activist’s head and crashed onto the stage — other bottles crashed at our feet. Several speakers were hit with eggs. The manure they threw was all over the stage floor.

I stood right in front (they missed me; I dodged a few projectiles) and watched them as they screamed and gestured and threw things — it was like looking into the pit of hell. Here were young people passionately committed to their cause and believing it to be that of justice and freedom, and they are eager and willing useful idiots for the most radically intolerant ideology on the planet. So when my turn came to speak, I addressed them, and told them just that. I told them they wouldn’t like what happened to them when their friends took power, but by then it would be too late.

And it may be already, for Europe. But I was glad to be there yesterday, and to stand against what was so obviously a force for oppression, hatred, and evil.

Robert Spencer: Ugliness and Beauty in Germany

This morning I had the great honor of meeting with Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, one of the last surviving members of the White Rose, the nonviolent resistance movement that worked against Hitler’s regime in Nazi Germany in 1942 and 1943. We discussed numerous parallels between the Nazi era in Germany and the advance of Islamic supremacism today — as we saw in Stuttgart Thursday, Nazis and Islamic supremacists are remarkably similar in their taste for violent intimidation.

Susanne Zeller-Hirzel is the beauty mentioned in the headline of this post. The ugliness comes from an increasingly dangerous situation here in Germany. I have learned that the fascist Antifa and/or Islamic supremacist thugs have burned the truck belonging to the company that set up the stage for Pax Europa’s Thursday rally. Then last night they found out the hotel that the courageous anti-jihad politician René Stadtkewitz was planning to stay in when he came to Stuttgart to announce the founding of the local branch of his new Freedom Party; they broke the hotel’s windows and painted threatening messages on its walls. Also yesterday, I spoke to a Pax Europa meeting at a location in Stuttgart; Antifa thugs found out the location after the meeting had ended, and stormed and surrounded the place. Thirty-six were arrested.

Fascism is indeed coming back to Europe. But not because of the anti-jihadists.

Trevor Blake: Remmitron. Silent, color, 46 seconds. Electric razor, screws, wire, glue.