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Don’t love Nintendo? Love books? What if they crossbred? In the UK, people will soon be able to read classics on the Nintendo DS. COOL. Nintendo, the Japanese video games has announced a deal with the publisher HarperCollins to make the classics available to read on its DS games consoles. Continue reading
How does the national media love the man Eugeneans voted Best Bartender? I’ll spare you from counting the ways; you can check the press page of his website for that. I just want to mention the two latest, er, mentions: • Last week, The Wall Street Journal did a story on Repeal Day, the growing-in-popularity sorta-holiday that celebrates the end of Prohibition: Continue reading
So now that Peter Matthiessen has won the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, will the literary world erupt into a noisy discussion about whether a “reworking” of an older trilogy should really be eligible for the award at all? I admit to a bit of skepticism myself, but the book description on Amazon goes to great pains to suggest it’s a totally different thing (except not): Continue reading
A record crowd of more than 1,000 people packed the Lane County Fairgrounds pavilion to watch the elections and Barack Obama victory speech on projection TVs. Here’s a short look: Continue reading
Not sure what to make of this disgruntled insider video of KEZI news from a year ago. Have things changed? Continue reading
No, it hasn’t been that long since I last saw Frightened Rabbit at Holocene and blogged a little about it; yes, it’s still worth seeing the Rabbit every single time you possibly can. I mean that. Even though it’s taken me a week to say so. Continue reading
After crashing and burning, the McCain-Palin campaign, along with the Republican party, continues to implode. Here’s the Republicans at Fox news on just how clueless Palin is: Continue reading
Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy, Lane County Commission candidate Rob Handy and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley have all won their tough and pivotal election fights. In unofficial final results, Piercy beat Jim Torrey by 2 percentage points. Handy beat Bobby Green by just one percentage point. Merkley leads by three percent with 79 percent of the statewide vote counted. Smith reportedly plans to concede shortly. Continue reading
Jeff Merkley appears likely to defeat Gordon Smith in Oregon’s tight U.S. Senate race. With an estimated three quarters of the vote counted at 8:18 pm, Merkley had come from behind for a 0.5 percentage point lead of 8,270 votes. With late counted returns in Lane and Multnomah counties heavily favoring Merkley, it appears mathematically unlikely that Smith could make up the deficit. At 7:33 pm, the Oregonian projected a Merkley victory. Smith has not conceded. State law triggers an automatic recount if the margin is less that 0.2 percent. Continue reading
The pivotal Rob Handy v. Bobby Green race for Lane County Commissioner has tightened and remains too close to call. At 7 pm with about three-fourths of the vote counted, Handy holds on to a lead of just 113 votes, 0.44 percent. Earlier returns had showed Handy with a lead of up to 2 percent. State law triggers an automatic recount if the margin is less that 0.2 percent. Lane County Elections will release it’s next results, what appears likely to be a near complete vote count, at 10 am Thursday. Continue reading