Favorites 2.18.15

Sloans: A dive bar on Northeast Russell. Old Portland magic. Cheap drinks, grandma's-house decor, rad rock-and-roll pedigree. They let our buds'  bands play right there in the dining room! I hope it doesn't get bought out and replaced by a new Portland hipster bar with antlers and edison lights everywhere.

 The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway: Hilarious post-apocalyptic existentialism. I'm not a rabid sci-fi nerd, but Nick Harkaway's my guy.

 The first 5-7 seconds after you wake up in the morning: Before you tip toe off to the shower—before you even have a single thought. Before you remember about your life, all the ways you blew it and all the ways you made magic happen, all the things to look forward to and all the things to dread, all the fears, all the worries, all the wild happinesses. Before all that shit, when your mind's all empty like a newborn babe.

A concrete backyard miniramp: Fuck a lawn, anyway.