The magazine says I’d be welcome at their perfect party, in the company of a few other nice folks, and a trash compactor: Thanks to Scrappers for sending me the scan. And to Michael Novak for the nice illustration: I …Read more…
Some well-meaning Portlanders — presumably bored and under-employed, because everyone is up there — are trying to raise $60,000 so that they can donate it to recovery after the BP oil disaster come to the Gulf Coast to “write” a …Read more…
Living in New Orleans and having just thrown away several empty bottles of O’Douls reminds me of one of my favorite “Stuff White People Like” posts: If you are in a situation where a white person produces an empty bottle, …Read more…
One of the best pieces of writing about Oregon is Ursula Le Guin’s short story, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. The premise—that a utopic city comes at the price of torturing a child in a downtown cellar—is one …Read more…
Read the story here.
Matt Davis is mostly a writer, photographer, editor, publisher, entrepreneur and communications professional. In the renaissance tradition he occasionally also turns his hand to sewing, acting, poetry, filmmaking and so on. But when he dies, he would like to be judged solely on the quality of the relationships he enjoyed throughout the course of his life with other people. Because he feels, in the end, that those are the only point in being alive to do anything.
