Jeff’s Blog

Portland

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View from my hotel room window.

Turkey on the BBQ

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Protest crowd at Volunteer Park

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My old roommate Ben got free tickets to a sneak preview of Gus Van Sant’s new film Milk tonight, but he wasn’t able to make it. So instead, Jeff and I went. Sure, I had to wait around for almost 2 hours so that I’d be near the front of the line, but the standing [...]

A friend of mine decided to organize a protest in front of the Mormon temple in Bellevue this afternoon. In case you haven’t heard, a lot of people are very pissed off at the LDS church in the wake of the passage of California Proposition 8.
Even though it was organized only yesterday, there were about [...]

Initially, I had thought about going to the Showbox for The Stranger’s election party. However, because of heightened interest in the election, I’d heard it was at capacity long before I was even going to leave to go there.
Instead, I decided to go to an election party my coworker was throwing. The election was called [...]

From Tuesday through Thursday of last week, I had nasty cold of some sort. Fatigue, congestion, headache, sore throat and for one night a low fever. Atypically, I wasn’t coughing and didn’t have a runny nose, although there was congestion in my nose and throat. On Tuesday, I stayed home from work and slept most [...]