Image via Bike Portland
According to Bike Portland, a local cargo bike builder Tom LaBonty has built this to carry his kid to school (and many other cool rigs, check them out at that link).
For non-Oregonians, the New Carissa is a famous ship here that crashed on the Oregon coast in 1999, spilled a bunch of oil, and stuck in the sand as a nuisance/tourist attraction. When I first moved here in 2001 and introduced myself, people without fail made some joke about me crashing into Oregon. When they finally started dismantling the remaining piece of the ship in 2008, I got a whole new round of jokes and a front page newspaper headline: New Carissa, Manageable or Madness? That one is still on my fridge.
As I commented on that photo, it’s good to see another (cleaner) form of transport representin’ my name.
Two performance artist/ unemployed Brooklyn gals wander town, taking pictures of babes. Sounds like a blog to me. Check out 
Remember how I get all my news from blogs? Well today I read the paper and learned about TV. Anyhoo, Colbert has launched a write in campaign to overtake the NASA Node 3 naming competition. In December the node will be attached to the International Space Station, and according to NASA, “The name should reflect the spirit of exploration and cooperation embodied by the space station, and follow in the tradition set by Node 1-Unity- and Node 2- Harmony.”
Our friend Steve had a “Goodbye Steve” party a few weeks ago, not because he’s leaving, but because he’s a CPA and goes into a work cave until March. SOMEONE (
Will Steve prevail and get his tote back from the evil ransomers? Will he be forced to accrue dreaded plastic bags whilst grocery shopping? Will passerby mock him, thinking he is not literary without a clear sign of his love of books? Will his books themselves pitch off his balcony into the street below, and go to karaoke at the 