It took me this long to recoup from a weekend of back-to-back chowder and pig. Booze was likely a factor in the slow recovery. I just recently received the results of both the Chowder Challenge and Cochon 555 events that happened last Saturday and Sunday, respectively. I’m posting them here with a bit of comment. […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Theater: It’s a SIN
People in the service industry work odd hours. It’s a condition of their employment that bars them from certain cultural activities normally scheduled in the evening. As a result, the only theater many bartenders, waiters, chefs, and dishwashers are exposed to is the tragic/comic antics of their customers… And also, auditions: “I’m just gonna bust […]
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Last Weekend in PDX
On my way to buy shoes before hitting the Chowder Challenge, I spotted TriMet testing out the new downtown Max line. Here it is rolling past Union Station. I wasn’t fast enough to catch a shot of the profile, but it sure is sleek. Makes the old Max trains look like relics of 1980’s urban […]
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Chow-Dah!
If you didn’t have enough food contests to attend this weekend, consider attending the Chowder Challenge at New Old Lompoc’s 5th Quadrant tomorrow from noon to 6pm. Twelve local restaurants and brewpubs will be fighting for Portland chowder supremacy. This is New England style clam-chowder… Perfect for the end of winter. Categories include most authentic, […]
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Cochon 555
The pig is such a marvelous, versatile creature. It’s a natural garbage disposal. It’s cute. It’s smart. It’s delicious (so fucking delicious). Growing up in the sparsely populated Southwest, on high desert land irrigated into lush clover fields by the Colorado River, my experience with pigs began early. I remember one fateful afternoon, at a […]
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Free (uncooked) Pasta Dinner
In this economy, you certainly can’t go wrong with free food. Actually, you could go wrong. I wouldn’t be accepting any large “discounted” vats of peanut butter, for instance.Still, you probably shouldn’t balk at most free food. Consider Save-A-Lot’s free pasta dinner giveaway this Saturday, when Save-A-Lot stores will be giving away a full uncooked […]
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Mr. Beer Goes to Salem
Oregon Brewers Guild vs. Taxes
Oregon brewers face a huge tax increase. Can it be avoided?
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I Am a Sick Bastard
Thanks to Hulu and the Fox “Reality” TV Channel, I’m not sure my soul will ever be clean again. I speak of my current obsession with the show Solitary, which is one of the most painful, despicable, outrageous, and disgusting abuses of television to ever be fed in steaming shovelfuls to the lowest common denominator. […]
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Cheap Drinks. Clyde Common.
Kevin Ludwig is working diligently with his business partners to open up the much-anticipated cocktail emporium Beaker and Flask. He’s also been pulling double duty heading up the bar at Clyde Common where he is known as one of the cities top bartenders. Before long he’ll have to step away from Clyde Common’s bar to […]
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Beer Tax Hearing: Hot Live Blog Action
It’s nearly ten minutes until the start of the hearing for HB 2461 in hearing room A at the capitol building. The beer supporters are in attendance, sitting towards the back of the hearing room with SNOB shirts and “I heart Oregon beer” buttons. As a whole, I’d say they clean up very nicely. The […]
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Winter Boozy Taxes
Three billion dollars is a lot of scratch. It’s also the forecast state budget shortfall for the 2009-2011 biennium. You know how when shit’s looking really bleak, and you see your life teetering at the edge of a crucible? You know how your throat gets all dry and raspy? Like someone got down in there […]
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The Feed Me Show: Portland
No. Seriously. We’re having roadkill for dinner. On our first date, my wife Kitty seduced me with an omelet. It was a light and lovely thing: flavorful and perfectly done. But it took years before we could share the kitchen. Preparing meals together would sometimes lead to hurt feelings, or the overwhelming urge to commit […]