"This is our time down here!"

I'm off for the weekend with Ben and the parental units to Astoria, Oregon, home of the Goonies and Kindergarten Cop. This Saturday is the three year anniversary of my little brother, Nolan's death. We usually take off somewhere every year at this time for a family getaway. The weekend will be filled with arcade tournaments, excessive Goonie lines, Fort George beer and stories of Nolan's culinary feats in the realm of sushi. I doubt this is a traditional way to pay tribute to a loved one... but it most certainly is the Reardon way.

you could have told me

I know I've been gone for a while and I know for all intents and purposes I've been living under a rock, but you guys could have told me they made Q&A into a movie.

I read Vikas Swarup's Q&A by recommendation of Maddy while I was in India. Buying this book used and tattered from a old book vendor in a crowded Indian alleyway was the perfect set up for this story. It's about a young boy from the slums of Mumbai; an unlikely winner of a billion rupees on a Indian game show. The book is essentially a collection of short stories that all weave around the circumstances of the boy's newly found fortune. Quite clever. I loved it. In fact, I made Ben read it as soon as he got to Kolkata. And he loved. I think you'll love it too.

And now, unbeknownst to me sooner, it's a new movie called 'Slumdog Millionaire,' directed by Danny Boyle. And! MIA is on the soundtrack.

Watch the trailer, read the book, go see the movie.

tape, just brown packing tape

I haven't been this eager to share an artist in quite some time. This is exciting.

Mark Khaisman's art consist simply of brown packing tape layered on plexiglas and then back lit for an oh-so-just-right amber glow. I really do adore art that makes effective something as generic as packing tape.

the mural and the train and the portland

there is a mural in seattle on capitol hill next to the value village. it is new (well, new to me) and it is so very spectacular. everyone should go take their picture in front of it.


after annie and i went to see the mural, i walked to the train station to go back to portland.