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Owsley Stanley, the Acid King, Passes on

Owsley Stanley, one of the godfathers of LSD, passed away.
Bob Woodward

It’s one of those six degrees of separation things.
Reading the obit of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, I immediately flashed back (bad pun) to the sixties, life in Berkeley, Owsley as the world’s leading manufacturer of LSD and some connection to him I couldn’t quite put my finger on.
Trying to come up the connection, I recalled that without Owsley there would not have been Tom Wolfe’s Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test, Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze,” The Grateful Dead’s “Alice D Millionaire” or the aptly named rock group-Blue Cheer. Owsley was, and remained to his death, a legend in hipster circles. He was also, during my Bay Area years, a wanted man.
Thinking about him as a fugitive, I remembered my connection. I knew a major “chemist” of the era not because of his acid production, but as the inventor of a machine that could blow down into jackets and sleeping bags.

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Geekology: iPad part deux

Portlanders line up for their new iPads.
Bob Woodward

The intended goal of our Portland-area trip this past Friday was to bring two local 12-year old fashionistas face-to-face with the wares at the recently opened outlet for Swedish retailer H & M. That location just happens to be in that most American of American places, The Washington Square Mall in that that oh-so-suburban community known as Beaverton. Just being in Beaverburg makes you think Bend is more than paradise, but that’s another story.
Onward we marched into the disco-pumping sounds that surround every purchase at H and M and other outlets like Aeropostale, Forever 21, Hollister, etc.
As we trolled from one brand location to the next, we kept passing pods of people sitting in camp chairs emblazoned with “Dick’s Sporting Goods” logos all arranged in cordoned off areas. To a person, everyone in each of the three pods we passed were on laptops, smart phones or iPads. Some were on two devices at once, all looked like fresh air wasn’t something they were used to and, to be honest, their average weight-per-stature seemed a bit high.

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“Stuck in the Middle of Bend”: A Song About the REAL Bend, Oregon

This song pretty much sums up life in Bend, Oregon.
The Source Staff

I’m not sure if you had this forwarded to your inbox already, (I’ve got it from a couple different people today) but this is a must listen for all Bend residents new and old.
The song, sung to the tune of Stealer’s Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You,” but the chorus is modified to “Stuck in the Middle of Bend” and the verses lament our high foreclosure rates, our expensive golf courses and all the other great reasons people supposedly moved here.

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Out of Town, Microcosmos, and the Lounge Lizard debut on Tsweekly.com

New content debuts on The Source Weekly website this week.
The Source Staff

We’ll be the first ones to admit when we’re slacking. No Microcosmos online in Beer Town USA? That’s our bad and we’re going to start making up for it. And we’re not stopping with the most fun column to research (when else do you get to drink beer on the job?). Beginning this week all of The Source’s original content debuts on the web. 
In addition to the long-running Microcosmos column, our newest rundown of Bend’s lounge scene hits the paper and the web in the Lounge Lizard. This week, the Lounge Lizard slithered its way down to The Marilyn Room at Kayo’s on Third Street. The lounge, which pays tribute to cultural icon Marilyn Monroe, received high marks in our ranking categories: ambiance, drink strength and Rat Pat Rating.

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Deschutes Brewery Continues Eastward Push: Now in South Dakota

Deschutes Brewery expands distribution to South Dakota.
The Source Staff

Whenever I reconnect with a long-lost friend and tell him where I’m living, he’ll almost certainly respond by saying something along the lines of, “Oh Bend. Yeah, that’s where Deschutes Brewery is, right?”
Well, that phenomenon isn’t going to die out anytime soon, especially with Deschutes announcing today that their push into the Midwest has now expanded sales of Mirror Pond and Black Butte Porter into South Dakota.

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Watch our video for a peek inside the Bend Table Tennis Club

Take a peek inside the Bend Table Tennis Club and learn about their upcoming tournament.
The Source Staff

Here at The Source we know how to use our words.
Every once in awhile we try to use more than just words by bringing a visual component to our stories using video. Last week we brought you video of Bend’s youth billiards league and this week we peek inside the Bend Table Tennis Club at the Boys & Girls Club.

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