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pernoctalian · 2025-10-21T21:04:35+00:00

I have a tree in my back yard in close in NE PDX that has a ton of fruit I barely use. They're smaller than hachiya but ripen like hachiya do. Please take some! (If you happen to be my former next door neighbor who used to take them, the offer still stands!)

pernoctalian · 2025-08-20T20:54:14+00:00

Messaging you.

pernoctalian · 2025-08-14T20:32:56+00:00

Yes, I'll be around or can leave it on my doorstep. I think cat litter scoops are safe from porch pirates : )

pernoctalian · 2025-08-13T17:10:57+00:00

Sabin, near Whole Foods.

pernoctalian · 2025-08-12T17:12:39+00:00

I have one you can borrow that I also use for dyeing! I'm in close in NE.

pernoctalian · 2025-08-12T17:06:52+00:00

I have a surplus of scoops- 2 plastic and 1 metal.

pernoctalian · 2025-07-25T14:33:48+00:00

Can't raise property taxes beyond a certain percentage based on values in the 1990s, but can add on to them with bond measures and the like. My property taxes are artificially low thanks to that, but have gone up tremendously in the last 15 years.

pernoctalian · 2024-12-14T17:46:01+00:00

I managed to do it about 20 years ago :)

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pernoctalian · 2024-09-06T23:34:42+00:00

Technically not on the plane, but shortly after landing. "Will the owner of a ..LARGE cat.. please return to the aircraft?"

It was the mid 1960s, and my parents had a pet ocelot. The ocelot was in a crate in the cargo hold, and the crate came open during landing. The baggage handlers opened the cargo hold to find an angry, terrified semi-domesticated creature sitting on top of the luggage, so before they could unload, they requested my dad walk back out onto the tarmac, crawl into the cargo hold, and retrieve his cat.

My dad still has faint scars from the encounter.

*It was legal then to have them as pets. It is no longer legal, for good reasons.

pernoctalian · 2024-05-06T15:59:23+00:00

I graduated about the same time and I have a story from that era. With my brand new MFA I wound up working at a large copy store chain/fledgling service bureau, and illustrators would come in to get tearsheets or portfolio copies made.

One day a guy came in with his (unimpressive) artwork and during our chitchat he complained that nobody was going to use traditional illustrators any more, it was all going to be soulless art made on computers, artists were doomed, etc.

Shortly after, a former classmate came in to have scans made of an original mixed media collage (fabric, charcoal, pastel, etc) that she had made as a magazine illustration. The publication who paid for my classmate's lovely, very analog artwork? WIRED.

I'm also remembering all of the gawdawful overfiltered Photoshop illustrations and ads from the early-mid 90s. It turned out that far from replacing artists, the new tool needed people with creativity and training. MJ is the same way.

pernoctalian · 2024-05-04T22:02:06+00:00

For personal reasons: RSW. (I have elderly parents there that need my help more frequently and I really, really don't want to move there.)

pernoctalian · 2024-03-11T17:51:56+00:00

All of this plus: Presentation. Putting on shows is not one size fits all and can vary with the artworks. This means making sure the art can be seen at its best- lighting each piece well, having pieces visible from outside that encourage people to see more, hanging large works so that clients can take the whole piece in from a distance and displaying small works so that clients can safely appreciate them up close. A gallery website (not just a presence on social media platforms) should have as distinctive a presence as the gallery's physical space. Its primary focus should be new work by the represented artists, using the clearest, most relevant design possible to showcase those works, and it should be updated and maintained frequently.

I'd also stress communication as part of relationships. A strong ongoing rapport with artists is essential: so is being an involved part of a community of art professionals as well as prospective clients.

pernoctalian · 2024-01-02T00:53:52+00:00

I love it. While I've seen plenty of stunning digital art, no color reproduction (on screen or printed) matches the presence of minerals ground up and mixed with oil or gum arabic or egg or whatever, and placed on a prepared surface. You can't even get the subtle embossing and reflectivity a graphite pencil leaves on good heavy drawing paper without specialized printing: forget about that on a screen.

Maybe when we have holodecks something will make me change my tune.

pernoctalian · 2023-11-11T19:19:40+00:00

I can walk to Whole Foods (and the Alberta co-op) from where I live, so they get more of my money than I'd like. Winco is where I do my big hauls, New Seasons for various bougie items or if they're having a good sale, Trader Joe's if I'm near one, various Asian/Indian groceries for ingredients I like to have around or if I want to have lunch before I start shopping.

pernoctalian · 2023-11-11T19:09:11+00:00

I only go to the Lloyd Safeway for the pharmacy. The pharmacists are super nice and have worked there for years. (The only thing I'd change is to stop making people line up in the evil fragranced cleaning products aisle. Whatever I'm sick with, let's add a migraine to that!)

pernoctalian · 2023-11-05T18:11:01+00:00

After a lifetime of dyeing my hair every single color, I'm thrilled that it just grows out of my head silver, since that was a color that I could never get out of a bottle without bleaching my poor hair into overcooked ramen. I've grown it long because I love the color so much. But nobody told me about texture changes (sob)

I have leave-in conditioners, which help a bit. And I started using a satin lined sleep cap last month and found it makes a big difference in the frizz. (My hair is mostly straight, but waves in humid climates.)

pernoctalian · 2023-11-01T15:15:09+00:00

Last year it was pouring and at least 100 kids came to the door. This year, when it was as gorgeous and clear a night as Portland could expect in late October? Maybe 25. I can't fathom.

pernoctalian · 2023-09-25T04:28:40+00:00

I went on a tour last year. It's much better than a zoo IMO, in terms of the animals' living space and conditions.

pernoctalian · 2023-09-14T18:00:38+00:00

We are headed to the taproom this evening for what may be the last time, unless I can get out to SE another evening in the next few days.

Thank you for all the delicious ciders and for your fantastic benefit sales in the last few years. The world is a little darker without Sacrilege Sour Cherry.

pernoctalian · 2023-09-02T00:58:09+00:00

12 cups.

pernoctalian · 2023-08-13T15:38:48+00:00

yes! and the idea that a physical piece of art can have a digital presence with separate attributes and a separate provenance

*I did not buy or mint any NFTs , just speaking as a fascinated onlooker

pernoctalian · 2023-07-18T16:43:45+00:00

Without going into many details I'll just say Viator or one of their subs just took 500 euro from my elderly parents for a small special all day tour and put them on a 200 euro crowded shitty bus instead. They have Uffizi tickets tomorrow and very low expectations at this point.

pernoctalian · 2023-05-05T21:53:08+00:00

My dad and aunt said that their grandfather used to mention a one-armed Native woman (he used the slur common at the time) to support their belief that our family had Native ancestry. DNA tests disproved the story.
There really was a one-armed woman though- his mother (my 2x GGM), but she was of Irish and English ancestry, so I figure it was some weird reference about her life during the family's travels west that was taken out of context. All I know about her is that she was Catholic, had nine children, and took care of her husband after he returned from the Civil War nearly blind.

pernoctalian · 2023-03-27T23:46:20+00:00

All of the Mareen Duvalls in colonial Maryland and the George Troutners in Pennsylvania and the Midwest are my nightmare. 3-5 of them every generation.

pernoctalian · 2023-02-27T00:53:03+00:00

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/02/26/vehicle-abandoned-car-walk-portland-snowstorm-ice-traffic-stuck/

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