When you’re here (at the dentist!) you’re Family!

Before I had kids, getting my teeth cleaned was NEVER the most relaxing part of the day.

I’ve barely finished my thanksgiving dinner and I’m already dreaming of the goyish Hillel sandwich tomorrow.

You were right about Gnarlys, @thatbilloakley! So good.

Follow a new person now. Why not?

I'm going to come up with a clever last tweet as soon as this site actually shuts down.

Very, very excited to talk with #AnthonyDoerr tomorrow.

@donie In normal companies, an email like this would be forwarded to IT to report a phishing attack and promptly deleted. Click this random link or you’re fired is wild. I’m curious what level of opt-in he gets 😂

I have 20 windows open each with multiple tabs and I can't hunt down which one keeps autoplaying videos/ads. I may need to throw the laptop in the trash and get a new one.

It's my annual question: what are your favorite games to play with kids around the ages of 5-8? We've enjoyed Go Nuts for Donuts, Rat-a-tat-cat, Sleeping Queens, Mole Rats in Space, etc.

“winter cycling kit”

Thirty years ago, when I was a counselor at a summer camp, a counselor from Australia told me that back home they'd play "spaceship," meaning they'd get drunk, turn their dome lights on and their headlights off, and then drive into the outback. Is this a thing?

But is “earbleeder’s monkey cacophony of idiot noise” a parody of the REAL earbleeder’s monkey cacophony of idiot noise?

The coin of the new realm? Name ID, whether from previous office, social media or political activism — and the ability to excite a slice of the electorate.

If 2024 is the first year for Portland's new city-council-by-district elections, what does that mean for someone (say, potentially, Rene Gonzalez) who won last night? Was that for a two-year term? How is this going to work?

Even the NYT is getting on the Blazers bandwagon.

today, after i narrowly missed my subway, a woman came up to me and ask if i spoke spanish. i said yes and she asked me how to get to east harlem. i told her that we would be transferring at the same stop, so she should just stick with me. we sat down and started talking

I'll be talking to @ErikaHayasaki about transnational adoptions, identity, and family at 10:15am; then @beatonna about the Alberta oil sands, capitalism, migration, and misogyny at 12:15pm; and finally @kwamealexander about Ghana, poetry, history, and much more, at 5pm.

Who's ready for an atmospheric river of literary talk? The #PDXBookFest is only two days away!

I would miss quality content like this.