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Surfing Pop Culture: Reaching for Smart Noir

December 21, 2012 by Rick Bonn 2 Comments

JACK REACHER is the rare film that sharpens your senses. Exiting the theater, you find yourself walking brisker, thinking clearer, and having added energy to re-enter your life. You could call it a Red Bull film. Or a Five Hour Energy movie.

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Feature, Movies, ULE Tagged With: A Few Good Men, Drive, Jack Reacher, Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike, Tom Cruise

Wonder If

December 4, 2012 by Lennard Noller 2 Comments

wonder if
raccoons wander the beach after dusk and leave pawprints in the ebb tide

wonder if
it’s sacred to step through the curled & looping mystic symbols left by children in the sand

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Filed Under: Art, Poetry, ULE Tagged With: gypsy otters, jewish seals, transient ghosts

The Fundamental Constant Root

December 1, 2012 by Rabbi Bob 2 Comments

Way back when I was in high school, while most students went out and played after lunch, I sat in a classroom and did math problems with the Math Team. Yes, geek I was, and still am. Even then, I was gearing up for a life in academia (I now work at Clatsop Community College). Here, for the first time, I am reprinting the beginnings of a major paper that could have gone on to shake the very foundations of mathematics, science and engineering.

Filed Under: Culture, ULE Tagged With: Rabbi Bob's Blog

Open Forum on the Edge

December 1, 2012 by Rabbi Bob Leave a Comment

For the rabbi’s first blog entry on the Edge, we’ll go to the daily paper in the area, and respond to the Open Forum letters to the editor section. I hope to make this a regular feature of this blog, as well as muse about myriad other things that crowd my mind and need to get out. Hope you can join me for the ride…

Filed Under: Culture, Food, Nature, Politics, ULE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Rabbi Bob's Blog

Holiday classic bridges communities

November 28, 2012 by Willa Childress 3 Comments

For years, the Coaster Theatre was perhaps best known for its annual production of some version of Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.” Since the 1970’s, members of the community—from sandwich makers to librarians to students—came together to dress up in top hats and spread some holiday cheer. Those community members who didn’t take part in the show were sure to come and watch. The theatre truly brought the community together. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Song and Dance, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Cannon Beach Coaster Theatre, Scrooge the Musical

Let’s Jump Off the Cliff!

November 26, 2012 by Rabbi Bob 12 Comments

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this fiscal cliff thing since the election. The media has consistently told the story that the cliff would be devastating to the economy, without giving any details. What we really need, though, is a large reduction in defense spending, accompanied by a large increase in taxes, mostly sin taxes, with carbon taxes and tariffs on imports and exports joining in. [Read more]

Filed Under: Politics, ULE

Aaron and Hands

November 25, 2012 by Mariah Lewis 1 Comment

The Earth turns slow sometimes
You can lie on your back in the night
Look at the stars and witness the curve in the sky
Moving fast and slow all at once, ever present and very far away
Time inching, unwilling
Nothing moves quickly here, under it all, the whole of everything above us
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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE

Hankering for Paradise: My Discovery of The Wave Crest Inn

November 23, 2012 by Vicky York 3 Comments

On one of my trips from Portland to Cannon Beach I stayed at the Wave Crest Inn. I drove past it the previous time I was in town and later looked it up on the Internet. From one picture on the scant web site, I knew I wanted to see this place.

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Food, ULE Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Wave Crest Inn

North to Neahseasu

November 18, 2012 by Watt Childress 6 Comments

“The old word is the best,” affirmed Pendragon, in a voice that could have been used to caution visitors about certain secluded coves during the new moon.

A heightened sense of awareness came over me as the talk swirled round the three of us gathered by the Food Mart (which, despite the sign out front, our family insists on calling the “Blue Store”). I felt at one with Nehalem, “place of the people.” [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Feature, ULE Tagged With: Neahkahnie, Neahseasu, Nehalem, Tillamook Head

Richard Brautigan poem

November 14, 2012 by ogre incubus Leave a Comment

There  is  darkness  on  your  lantern and  pumpkins  in  your  wind, and  Oh,  they  clutter  up  your  mind with  their  senseless  bumping while  your  heart  is  like  a  sea  gull frozen  into  a  long  distance  telephone  call. I’d  like  to  take  the  darkness off  your  lantern  and  change  the  pumpkins into  sky  fields  of  ordered  […]

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE, Uncategorized

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  • Watt Childress April 28, 2025 at 11:48 am on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltAlso, you inspired me to insert a sentence crediting Hoyt Axton with the song's genesis. Many thanks!
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  • Jim Stewart April 27, 2025 at 8:26 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltNice! Hoyt Axton wrote the Jeremiah song and sang it with great gusto. Life wanders on and I'm still glad
  • Watt Childress April 26, 2025 at 3:51 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltDuring spring I think of you, and all the May Pole celebrations you've organized over the years. So grateful for
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