Tag Archives: random
starboardpow!
POW! Sure I love to tell you all about my global roguery, but wouldn’t you rather see it for yourself in a manageable photo o’ de week format? It’s Sunday – lucky for you (and your hungover ass), there are … Continue reading
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Laughing out loud
The general misuse of lol is rampant. It doesn’t get under my skin as much as the whole business of confusing lose/loose/loser/looser, but it is bothersome. Here’s a chat from work: Me: Man – Northern Tool sells such shitty shit. … Continue reading
A ride in the taxi crap
“No one just drops someone in the middle of Northeast,” the cab driver said. “What a dick.” I sank back in my seat, warmth returning to my face. “Live and learn, I guess.” Really I fervently agreed, hoping that first … Continue reading
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Sitka, Alaska – Summer v. Winter
Sitka, Alaska is a beautiful little city. As you should know from my kayak tours and vast interpretive knowledge, it is mostly surrounded by Tongass National Forest, a temperate spruce-hemlock rain forest. In this varied climate, you may see a … Continue reading
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…
Time to dye the roots, cinch up the girdle, Botox the lips and generally give this fine bloggy broad a non-extreme makeover. Starboardport may get a little uglier before she’s perfect, but you have to break some eggs to make … Continue reading
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southbound
20 September 2007 Salmon brought me to Alaska, and the salmon are dead. It must be time to come home. In June, a tightly-coiled Alaska waits for the salmon schools to make their way north past fishermen, dams, animals and … Continue reading
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Concentrated Debauchery
Alaskan salmon season alters the time space continuum. When a work day lasts 12 – 18 hours, you confuse chronology. The shit that happens in one day equals out to a week’s-worth of shit back home, thus one day = … Continue reading
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Oh. Hello there.
Ahh. The career perils of unbridled debauch. I am alive and have resurfaced in Boise, Idaho. Having been on the road through NYC, Europe and the Northwest U.S. o’ A. since early March. I thought two and a half weeks … Continue reading
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