Source Weekly, Author at The Source - Bend, Oregon

Keep Digging Around

Source WeeklyJune 9, 2010April 11, 2024

I begin with a question regarding the Constitution and the Declaration. My friend Carlos Wysling, with his great political articles, notes: African [Americans] were protected under these two documents. Further study will show these documents were written long before the 13 colonies would consider anybody but a white man with land [a person], so women and Africans did not exist.
Next, Bravo to H. Bruce Miller for his insight into Bend housing – “Bend Over” – great title. It tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Listen to Mr. Miller will you all!!!

Culture

Big Sky Country: Red Dead Redemption dreams big and nearly delivers

One of the most frustrating things about designing a world is that someone will always come along and criticize it. The days are too long. The nights aren’t long enough. Weather patterns are erratic. The trees lack variety.

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010January 4, 2023

One of the most frustrating things about designing a world is that someone will always come along and criticize it. The days are too long. The nights aren't long enough. Weather patterns are erratic. The trees lack variety. Can't I play any poker game other than Hold 'Em? Why do the telephone poles look old and weathered when they've been newly installed? And what kind of cougar stalks somebody who has been firing a rifle for the past five minutes?
The designers of Red Dead Redemption have undertaken videogaming's most ambitious virtual world to date – an outdoor, open-ended Old West circa 1911. And while the game aims to simulate an actual environment, it also makes necessary concessions to videogame flow. The landscape is divided into several distinct climates, ranging from tumbleweed dry to boggy swamps, each within a few minutes ride from one another and all encircled by trains like a giant theme park.

Culture

Gay in that Way

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010February 5, 2024

Look, let's get one thing clear: regularly watching Glee does not make me gay. Reading Men's Health magazine makes me gay. Thinking up increasingly convoluted high-fives to give my softball teammates makes me gay. Cut off jean shorts – makes me gay. Spending waaay too much time detailing my car? Makes me gay. In fact there are tons of “straight guy” stuff I do every day that makes me flaming gay. (However, squealing like a girl when I heard Liza Minnelli doing a cover of Beyoncé's “Single Ladies” – that makes me a very different kind of gay.) My point is that it really doesn't matter how many women or men I've pleased sexually (87 and 42, though that's a conservative count). While Glee may, in fact, be the gayest show on television – gayer than RuPaul riding a rainbow unicorn at the annual Gaytown Gay Rodeo – it's a show that celebrates everyone: gays, straights, minorities, majorities, nice people, and a-holes. Though I'm pretty sure it hasn't celebrated gay monkeys yet. They should get on that.

Outside

Work It, Baby: COTA Trail Report

Welcome to the first installment of the Central Oregon Trail Alliance’s (COTA) Weekly Trail Report.

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010February 11, 2023

Editor's note: This is the first installment of a new trails column that is being produced for The Source by the Central Oregon Trail Alliance. Look for COTA's weekly reports in The Source to keep you updated on the latest news from around Central Oregon's always bustling trails, including, closures and events. Ride on. – EF.

Welcome to the first installment of the Central Oregon Trail Alliance's (COTA) Weekly Trail Report. I hope to provide you, dear trail lover, with up-to-the-minute information on trail conditions, COTA work events and progress and trail etiquette tips and timely issues facing trail access. If you have some pertinent trail info you think needs to be shared, please send me an email: chairman @ cotamtb.com

Opinion

Drill Baby, Drill: A Memo to BP and Obama, cage fighting mushroom mishaps, and more!

The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from an urban verb along a French river flowing opposite of expectation, for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010April 21, 2023

The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from an urban verb along a French river flowing opposite of expectation, for Or-Bust.

Opinion

A Hostile Response

Your cynical response to John Sabo’s letter (5/20) says all I need to know about The Source Weekly.

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010February 4, 2024

Your cynical response to John Sabo's letter (5/20) says all I need to know about The Source Weekly. I have 35 years of experience working in government, private industry, politics in my younger years (as a Democrat) and even a little community organizing (in Chicago no less), and I can tell you that Chris Dudley has as many tools to be a good governor as Obama's very short Senate career and “community organizing” (which means nothing in terms of running a country well). Your blind liberalism and anti-Republican approach to everything lacks any insight into real problems of our country. Every several months I check out the Source to see if it's become more enlightened (that is balanced), and I'm sad to see nothing has changed.

Opinion

Blood On Our Shirts

The Republican primary victory of Rand Paul in Kentucky for the seat of Jim Bunning who is leaving the Senate was so revealing that it merits some follow-up. Mr.

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010April 14, 2023

The Republican primary victory of Rand Paul in Kentucky for the seat of Jim Bunning who is leaving the Senate was so revealing that it merits some follow-up. Mr. Paul, whose initial claim to fame comes from his famous, decent and independent father, Ron Paul of Texas, was fully embraced by a fringe part of the so called Tea Party movement and kept at a distance by the traditional Republicans (Senate Majority leader (Mitch) McConnel supported his opponent Trey Grayson). Suffice to say that other fringe members of the “give me my country back” crowd such as Mrs. Palin and Glenn Beck also backed Mr. Paul's incursion into the “small government” is the only form of acceptable government movement. Presumably, rolling back guarantees of fair treatment under the law would be forthcoming.

Culture

What Doesn't Kill You

Source WeeklyMay 26, 2010January 4, 2023

Ever heard that phrase, “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger?” That's exactly why I eat Popeyes fried chicken every morning for breakfast, four Reese's peanut butter cups for lunch (washed down with a tumbler of Jack), followed by a sensible dinner. Doctors say this diet will surely kill me – while my Aunt Wanda (and Nietzsche, apparently) says “what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.” So the way I see it, statistically, there's a 50/50 chance of this diet either killing me, or making me stronger – preferably as strong, or stronger than the Hulk. Obviously, I'm going with Aunt Wanda and Nietzsche on this one! SCREW YOU, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS!
Obviously, the same logic can be applied to television watching. Let's say, for example, MTV is showing a nine-hour Memorial Day Jersey Shore marathon (which they are, starting at 2 pm on that day), and you're considering watching the entire thing. First of all, you should ask yourself, “WILL THIS KILL ME?” If the answer is yes – don't watch it. BUT! If the answer is “no, this will not kill me,” then by all means watch the shit out of it! BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER! Your muscles will be stronger (particularly your glutes, because you'll be squeezing them in embarrassment), your eyes will be stronger (it takes a lot of work to hold your eyes open for nine hours), but most importantly your BRAIN will be stronger (because… umm… wait. I've lost my train of thought. WHAT?).

Food & Drink

India by Way of Africa: Keeping it bright and light at Spice Box

When living in London, I entered restaurants on the famed Indian cuisine mecca, Brick Lane, with the general expectation of leaving uncomfortably full.

Source WeeklyMay 26, 2010June 5, 2023

When living in London, I entered restaurants on the famed Indian cuisine mecca, Brick Lane, with the general expectation of leaving uncomfortably full. Between the creamy dishes and the various accompaniments, this was almost a guarantee.
The Spice Box, a new “home-style Indian cooking” restaurant in Bend, defies this expectation. Lighter, modern takes of classic Indian dishes are served in well-balanced portions from this small, brightly lit eatery on Century Drive. “This is Indian food from a healthy perspective,” says owner and chef Mrinal Patel-Warburton. “The foods you see in traditional Indian restaurants are what we'd see at weddings and social gatherings. The food at Spice Box is what you'd find on a table in an Indian home.”

Food & Drink

India by Way of Africa: Keeping it bright and light at Spice Box

When living in London, I entered restaurants on the famed Indian cuisine mecca, Brick Lane, with the general expectation of leaving uncomfortably full.

Source WeeklyMay 26, 2010May 2, 2024

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