The Portland Project

So I flew in to Portland, OR last night for a West Coast variation on my East Coast vacation. While I'm out here I've been thinking that it might be fun to do some sort of project/artsy thing as a sort of time capsule for the trip. The problem is that it seems I am seriously lacking creativity.

My ideas, to date, in ascending order of stupidity:

1. Compete against the Portland Trailblazers in Free Throws. As in, go to a park every day with the box score of last night's game and attempt to shoot a better FT percentage than the Blazers did as a team the previous night. STUPID SCALE RATING: TWO OUT OF FIVE

2. Visit the same downtown Portland intersection at the same time everyday and ask a stranger to answer a seemingly innocent question but that when compiled into a string of video clips offers illuminating commentary on Portland and the human response to being accosted by inquisitive strangers. STUPID SCALE RATING: THREE OUT OF FIVE

3. Visit the same downtown Portland intersection at the same time everyday and scream "MOO!!!" as loud as I can. Document same as above. STUPID SCALE RATING: UNMENTIONABLE.

That's what I got. While I'm sure all of these ideas this would make for exceptionally stimulating video and text commentary, I'm not sold on any of them. So whoever any of you are that read this thing, please feel free to hit me up with any ideas you'd like to see me try to pull off. I'm wide open.

In other news...

1. We'll have our 2008 Democratic presidential nominee about this time next year, making the general election about TEN MONTHS LONG!!! Good for 24/7 cable news networks, bad for candidates, voters and republican democracy in general.

2. In related free throw shooting news, Jason Kidd used to blow kisses to his wife as part of his pre-free throw routine. Since Jason's divorce, his message to his wife seems to have changed:


3. FILE UNDER "Devestatingly Too Little, Too Late, Though Apparently Sooner Than We Think": For those keeping score at home, this week's State of the Union address marked the first time that our President has used the words "global warming" or "global climate change" in the speech. Unfortunately, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adds lube to the slippery slope.

LASTLY: ALERT TO PHILLY HEADS: Caps and Jones playing Haverford TONIGHT - warm yourselves up some with these two cool dudes whose musical flow is best described as pyroclastic.