Bryan Robb

  • Why I’ll never move to the country again. “Opinion | Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage?” nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion

  • I guess Mr. Bungle is on tour. Everyone used to talk about the feud between Mike Patton and Anthony Kiedis, but no one talks about how Incubus ripped off some of Mike’s sound.

  • Looking at real estate in just for fun. As a Portlander, the housing there is cheaaaaap. This must be what Californians feel like looking at real estate literally anywhere other than CA.

  • Being a parent has forced me to reevaluate so much of my own upbringing, in ways I don’t think I ever could have without kids. Every single day I think: “damn, how did my parents do it?” But also: “what in the actual f$&k were they thinking?!”

  • Don’t really understand the explosive growth of cordless power tools the last couple of decades. Y’all don’t have outlets at your house?

  • People today:
    “Something is just off about society after COVID. Can’t place my finger on it.”
    Also people today: “I would rather die a fiery death than go back into the office and have to interact with people and support local businesses.”

  • Someone is blasting Coheed & Cambria on the train like it’s 2003.

  • Google and are taking away my unlimited cloud storage for alumni. This, after 10 years of me uploading all of my photos and videos from every device I’ve owned since. Gonna be fun offloading several hundred gigs and figuring out another solution. Most likely their plan all along. mobile photos app, where are you when I need you?

  • Any operators in western Oregon? Just getting into and was hoping to pick up on some single side band but haven’t had any luck yet.

  • One day the world will see plank flooring like we now view linoleum over hardwood. Can’t stand it, especially in gray.

  • Shake Shack really be like “Hey, go ahead and put in your own to-go order. That’ll be $50, how much would you like to tip?”

  • Single-use plastic is awful, but we have got to figure out a middle ground between paper and metal straws.

  • Snowing in . Full on wtf this a.m.

  • Why do refried beans smell exactly like wet dog food?

  • Wow, guess I’m done using . That was short lived.

  • In 5th grade, me and my classmates in Midland, Michigan were each assigned a state and were tasked with writing letters to their tourism departments requesting information. I got California and I remember clearly that they just sent me a huge envelope of brochures for out-of-the-way places. Still thinking about checking you out someday, Pismo Beach. Someday.

  • Finally made it into the Chef Store for the first time and my eyes are at long last awakened to life’s glories.

  • Habitat ReStore will always be my happy place.

  • Will never understand people who do Zoom meetings and work calls at coffee shops. That should be a punishable offense.

  • One positive about today is that I almost never see anyone smoking anymore. Maybe it’s just an Oregon thing, but when I do see someone light up, I do a double take because it’s so out of place.

  • When I was about 12, my parents took me and my two brothers to Niagara Falls. The cigarettes in Canada were quite a bit more expensive than in the U.S., so we drove over to Buffalo so they could buy a carton. It took me years to realize I hadn’t gone to New York City!

  • I dunno if the title of this article made me feel better or worse: “A 5 p.m. sunset is just around the corner for Portland” koin.com/weather/a-5-p-m-sunse

  • Booked 4 nights at one of the last remaining campsites on the southern Oregon coast for middle of July. Nothing like having to plan 6 months out to sleep on the ground.

  • I’ve had the same Gmail address for going on 19 years. This is by far the longest digital relationship I’ve ever had, probably ever will.

  • Followed one conservative on the bird site this morning and within 10 seconds I saw a promoted tweet that was just the tailgate of a truck with the words “F#%^ Joe Biden and F%#^ You for Voting for Him”.