Germy

Late 90's in Portland, where the dream of the 90's persisted in spite of the last and fast sinking sun of that millenium swiftly approaching, was a place where the encroaching and soon to be overwhelming influx of people was still a dull roar. A time where I was a high school graduate and working odd jobs, still skateboarding and engaged in the urban adventures that go along with being a skate rat. One day three friends and I packed into a car just like this Honda Hatchback and headed to Bagby Hotsprings , an hour or two outside of Portland and that is snowed in a good part of the winter. Bagby Hot Springs is a place deep in the woods, located in the Mt Hood Forest  about 70 or so miles southeast of Portland and sits at nearly 3000ft of elevation in the Cascade Mountain Range. Undoubtedly a place of renown to the Native Americans for who knows how long before the immigrants came from the West and by ship to Portland. It is named for Bob Bagby, a prospector and hunter wh...

Still making my way backwards on the CBI blog that is basically all things 1990's skateboarding. Salman Agah was one of my favorites growing up. I, and many of my friends rocked his shoe in all the colors , and I had more than one of his boards when he was on Real, and then The Firm. Interestingly enough, he owns Pizzanista , which is one of my favorite joints in Long Beach, unfortunately they don't deliver to us as we're a bit down the road. Came across a Salman post and it got me thinking about a day from when I was in High School that had a friend of sorts tell me that Salman Agah was in Portland and that he was going to be at his house that night. Well, turns out that night was a meeting for some weird Christian cult like meeting and I went there, and it was weird and my friend wasn't there, but a couple of the other skater kids that I went to school with were there. I knew all of these guys, and we skated together once in a while but they were not in my n...

Hari Seldon is a character in a world which encompasses the known galaxy and beyond and is a mathematician with, in essence, an algorithm that can give insight and predict the future at a grand, macro scale. He sees the fall of the ruling empire at that time followed by a 30,000 year "dark age" where isolation, poverty, death and minority ruling classes subjugate the public at large. He gathers the thinkers of the age: scientists, authors, artists, philosophers, and mathematicians amongst others to a far flung part of the Universe to create an institution which will preserve the comprehensive wealth of knowledge made vulnerable by dissolution of the failing Government. Shenanigans ensue. I remember starting this trilogy; I may have never read the third installation. Isaac Asimov's mind a fascinating place. I minored in creative writing and such an endeavor requires many literature classes, and justifiably so. One of the senior level courses was American l...