Thursday, May 18, 2017

Lloyd Condominiums....1928...




the old Portland is still there
one just has to search for it in 2017...
these condos were built next to golf course..
now its a shopping mall.....

Man on Crane.....


Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Decoy.....




still a great breakfast cafe...
a great cook..
some of waitresses are infected w/
cultural marxism.....the 'Portland Disease'....

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Bike Shoes.....2002----2017...RIP....

my first pair of mountain bike shoes....
bought with my Trek 6700 in 2002...
they certainly gave me a workout...
it is like losing an old friend.....

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Plywood Assn Linnton...




i love old buildings...
Albert Speer, always was concerned about the 'ruin factor'of the buildings he was
building.....
there are  not many in America....
but i have located many of them around Portland....

Plywood Assn Worker Owned...






The Decoy.....




Best breakfast in a long time..
Linnton.....lumber town , even today....
family owned since 1978......
the year i was  graduated from  Florida State University.....

Friday, May 5, 2017

In America....

Travels with John Steinbeck..
50 years after his journey....1960......2010...
Geert Mak is too much of a liberal for me, but im reading this book for literary reasons..
i like Steinbeck......Steinbeck turned into a conservative.....and in 1960s covered the Vietnam War
as a journalist...Steinbeck also criticized anti-war protestors and said  they should have gone into
military as medics, if they were interested in saving lives....but as we all now know, The Left in the 1960s and in 2017, hates America...

Amtrak......


Monday, May 1, 2017

A Trio by Harold Bloom.....




Forbidden Knowledge....

Roger Shattuck.....

Cultural Cohesion....

Clive James.....

Irrational Man.....

William Barrett....

The Pursuit of Power....Europe 1815---1914...

Richard J. Evans....

The Erotic World of Faery.....

Maureen Duffy....

Wilkie Collins.....

Peter Ackroyd....

The Liberal Imagination.....

Essays on Literature & Society...
Lionel Trilling...

Passions of the Mind....

A. S. Byatt.....
A Provocative Collection of Essays on Subjects Ranging from
George Eliot to Toni Morrison...

Spirit & Reality......

Nicolas Berdyaev.....
brilliant Russian philosopher of 20th Century....

Silence in Henry James.....

The Heritage of Symbolism & Decadence....
John Auchard.....1986

Cultural Amnesia.......

Clive James.....
Brilliant book....

Why Read the Classics?

Italo Calvino...
advanced study of said question.....

Libra.......

Don Delillo....1988....

e. e. cummings


a biography.....
1894---1962......
American writer, poet.....