Logger, Hippie, Biker. VFW. Fourth Generation Oregon.
Single Parent, Proud Grand-Parent, Master of Science, Gnostic.
As products of mid-fifties promiscuous pregnancies and sixties serial southern California divorce, I am of a Unique Generation. Our parents didn’t do us any favors, there’s no crystal spoon stickin’ out our ass.
I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I’m in the fucking drawer. And could, quite frankly, give a rat’s ass what anyone thinks.
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery.”
The High Desert is my Home, I’ll never be “Homeless”.
‘Yer either wit us, er you’re agin’ us.
Whose side are you on?
thomastenbears@gmail.com
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April 30, 2007 at 9:30 am
Alexander
Nice blog. Keep up the good work in the awakening of the masses.
January 4, 2008 at 4:49 pm
GRUMPY OLD MAN
Hey man,
Just ran into your place and found a like soul. Not surprising in fact seeing as how I’m from Oregon too. But many, many years removed. Actually I was born in Washington but moved to Oregon when I was 15, (Gresham. sorry.) But I worked for PINCO (Pacific Inland Navigation.) for quite a long time so Eastern Oregon is no stranger. The skipper on the tug I sailed in was from The Dalles. But I left the States when Nixon got elected, in fact the day before he was inagurated and have only been back twice. Once when my dad drowned down at Astoria and a second time with a bunch of drunken buddies from Danmark where I lived at the time who just had to come over and see where I grew up.
So keep it up man. Anybody who quotes Hunter is OK in my book.
GOM
February 28, 2008 at 11:54 pm
bibomedia
:)
March 23, 2008 at 10:57 am
Mitwhit Skookum Lamotay
Ten Bears,
Great blog! And it was great speaking with you at the Anti-war protest in Portland, Oregon on March 15th. Please check out my group’s website at http://www.cascadiacommons.org and come to our next meeting, which is at Madison’s Grill, 1109 SE Madison Ave., 7 PM, Tuesday, March 25th.
June 10, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Aron
Been checking in on your blog for the last week or so. Good stuff and I can’t say I’ve seen anything on here that I really disagree with. I want to pick up on one of your themes; I don’t understand when all the country boys turned into tag-a-long pussies. Seems to me that the ‘Western’ man was all about thinking for yourself and doing what was right. The new ‘Western’ man is a republican that speaks in talking points and blindly follows the leader? Oh, and while I’m on this rant, fuck speculators too!
June 10, 2008 at 6:24 pm
homelessonthehighdesert
That’s my point – nobody thinks for themselves anymore. It ain’t me ‘n my homies that have turned pussy, it’s the rest of the “country” all around us. Don’t know “when” it happened. but I’m prety sure it has to do with TV.
July 9, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Dan Reed Miller
Came across your blog the other day. I like it alot, you do a great job of ferreting out and bringing us the pieces that speak to where we are at in this moment. Which is a very scary place indeed. But for all that it is massively and unprecedentedly bad, we are also witness to a giddy lot of creative response and returning to reality. The way I see it is this. All the lurking, bad, only slightly submerged fears many of us have had for the last few decades are now rearing up into ugly broad-daylight manifestation. But the hopeful ideas and quasi-utopian notions, long practiced and kept alive by a critical minority, are also now coming into a much wider recognition and fruition. They really are. I personally know SO MANY people who are doing SO MANY great things. This wasn’t true for me 10 years ago. The magnitude of the challenge evokes the magnitude of the response. True enough that it will take economic collapse to wake up the majority. Hard though it will be for many of us, this impending Great Depression really will be the soil of the new post-empire post-republic.
August 13, 2009 at 6:28 am
Melissa
Hey there,
I tried to leave a comment on today’s post, but the button doesn’t take me to a comment field, so I’ll leave it here.
I had to laugh as I read your post as RABBITS circling Israel. Quite a visual. The rabbis video is pretty funny too.
October 5, 2009 at 3:19 pm
pete
I’m glad to see Brazil imposing the same restrictions on U.S. citizens as we “impose” on Brazilians. Personally, if the Olympics were held at Powell Butte I wouldn’t bother to go.