p e n g u i n d e v i l

So stealing some content from my pal Kurty, I opted to take (and reveal!) the famed…

Book quiz… Of course, I feel it is fairly accurate (Ulysses certainly isn’t it), in a sense…

You’re The Sound and the Fury!
by William Faulkner
Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major crisis in your life. You can see many different perspectives on the issue, but you’re mostly overwhelmed with despair at what you’ve lost. People often have a hard time understanding you, but they have some vague sense that you must be brilliant anyway.
Ultimately, you signify nothing.

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at the Blue Pyramid.

Otherwise, though…
The family is back in town and we are busy liquidating the retail portion of our business, and the weather has gotten hot, so I haven’t been up to much moviewise or had any big gripes festering. Except I would rather be gone from the city for good. If this was Portland of the 70’s or 80’s I could stay here, but the relentless assault of yuppies and hipsters from the four winds has morphed it into an overpriced, dull, “irony is everything”, glossy facade with no real community or any soul. All those annoying “keep Portland weird” bumper stickers? Please, Portland hasn’t been weird for 20 years. It all reminds me of South Park episode where the film festival people leave Aspen because their film festival had ruined the groovy small town feel, so they set off to find another small town to ruin. Oh, I’d also like to be away from the heat for good. I have calculated (in my head, with no solid information), that being in a city makes the summer all the more unpleasant. Not liking either cities or summer, I am filling my time with thoughts of being far away from both…