One of the most persistent local myths (besides the old 300 days of sunshine a year one) is that the Central Oregon Cascades have “epic” powder snow conditions every winter. Let’s get real.
Champagne: wallowing in the real stuff
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Photos From Last Night’s Civil War
Our own Anne Pick was one of the few freezing spectator’s at last night’s Oregon Civil War. In the event that you inexplicably use this website for all your college sports news and haven’t heard yet, the Ducks won a hard-fought game 37-33. That’s why in the photo above, Oregon students (and many non-students) charged the field in celbratory revelry. Here’s some more photos from Anne’s bus trip to Eugene.
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Conservative Tax Dogma Takes a Hit
Props to Kari Chisholm of Blue Oregon for making a point that progressives should make a lot more often: Contrary to conservative dogma, money the government takes in from taxes does not vanish from the economy and disappear into some black hole.
“Let’s be absolutely clear about this: Every single dollar that the state ‘sucks out’ of the private economy will be pumped right back into the private economy,” Chisholm writes.
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Old School: taking in the big game at the corner bar
During a recent month-long ESPN sports film festival one of the featured films dealt with Baltimore’s loss of their beloved Colts and how it affected the fan base, especially those in the all-volunteer Colts marching band.In a story of never ending loyalty the Colts band stayed together in spite of the team being hustled off to Indianapolis in the middle of the night by its owners to and the city being left without a pro team for years.
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Forget G.I. Joe, We’re Going Cobra
In the greatest piece of military marketing since the Marine’s coined, “The Few. The Proud.
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Bend’s Own Tree Dwellers Compete in National Music Contest
The Tree Dwellers, a Bend-based band comprised of Mountain View and Bend High students, is one of the eight remaining bands for the Garage Band Playoff, a USAA sponsored contest to find the next great “road song.”
The current round of voting starts today and extends through next week.
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Source Weekly Civil War Twitter Feed Now Live
As I mentioned yesterday, one of our writers, Anne Pick, is on her way to the Civil War game at Autzen Stadium in Eugene and will be Twittering as she goes.
Check out her tweets here at the Source Weekly Twitter page.
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The Civil War: Made in California, Played in Oregon
The impending Civil War has been bringing plenty of national media attention to Oregon over the past few days, mostly from ESPN which is carrying the game tonight at 7 p.m.
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Civil War Tailgating Video
Those who’ve attended either University of Oregon or Oregon State University games know that for some folks, the activity outside the stadium is more important than the game itself. Of course, we’re talking about the age-old activity known as tailgating, during which fans grill up some food, get pumped for the game, but mainly see how much booze they can swill before kickoff.
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Fight On, Brave Platypi!
Oregonians are weird. And the longer I live here (almost 25 years now) the weirder they seem.