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After you’ve gorged yourself on Thanksgiving Day fare, why not visit the 25th Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Downtown?

On November 27, 2009, Portland will light their annual holiday tree in Portland’s Living Room. I’ll be there for the first time ever. If you haven’t been, come out and join us! The event is planned for 5:30p, I’ll be there significantly early, especially with the 25k expected people in attendance.

Let’s grab some coffee or coco, huddle togehter in the cold and HAVE FUN!

Hope to see you there!

-Jered
Portland’s Underground Inkslinger

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What is it with Portland’s city leaders? Honestly, why do they think it’s necessary to frivolously spend all of our money?

So now they want to MOVE the streetcar that they pushed for so hard. Well the new Oregon Sustainability Center, a $100m, 13 floor project just wouldn’t be complete without a street car. OF COURSE! Why didn’t I think of that?

May I draw your minds to the OHSU aerial tram that was ridiculously over budget? I think we can safely assume that the $4m estimate to move the tracks of the street car will seem like bargain discount price once they’ve had their way of completing the completely unneeded project.

10 ways the city can put $4m to better use:

Contribute $4m to the broke Portland Public School District
Pave some of the UNPAVED streets in SE Portland
Stir up some jobs for the homeless people on W Burnside
Feed the homeless people on W Burnside
House the homeless families of Portland
Feed the NOT homeless, unemployed families of Portland
Help families survive the winter by offsetting their energy costs so they don’t freeze to death
Fix the Sellwood Bridge that is getting ready to fall into the Willamette
Clean-up the Willamette
Repave streets that ACTUALLY need it

If you haven’t noticed, this really pissed me off. Why must we employed people drag ourselves to work EVERY day so that our leaders can piss away our tax money?

If this pisses you off too, send Commissioner Dan Saltzman an email. I sent mine from portlandonline.com. I received an auto reply from dan@ci.portland.or.us, feel free to try that one, in fact, try both.

The only way this kind of frivolous spending will change, is if we stand-up to be heard. So with that regard, PISS AND MOAN away! (my favorite pastime).

Read the whole story at KGW.com.

Hello anxious readers!

I know some of you are anxious to read some content. I promise, its coming soon!

I’ve been brainstorming some ideas and have one I’m working on. That brings up the point, if you have suggestions for recipes, restaurants or anything that you’d like me to review, let me know. I welcome the suggestions and co-accomplices

Blogging again soon,

Jered

Welcome to my new blog. This is where you can get up-to-date information on the happenings of my scheme for world domination.

While I wish I had the creativity for such a scheme, sadly, I don’t. Here you will actually be able to find some useful information along with trivial information that may come in handy one day, you’ll never know!

Originally I had an idea to write a blog about all things Portland (restaurants, cool places, happenings, etc.), then I had the idea of a recipe blog. I have a feeling that all of these things are going to get jumbled up into one random blog about my thoughts that may, or  in fact, may not include information about cool Portland happenings or cool foodie things. So sit back, relax and blog!

Also, being a new blog and all, I am still figuring out this fancy schmancy content management software, so please excuse the inevitable technical difficulties that I’m sure will arise.

Till the next blogging adventure!

-Jered

Your random Portland blog resource!

PS- I am holding interviews for my world domination scheme [insert evil laugh here]