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Help!

Posted by Ken Campbell September 3, 2012 1 Comment 1106 views

It seems that Academy Award winner Russell Crowe needed a little help getting back to the dock the other night. He and a friend had gone for a paddle off Long Island and “… ran out of day,” as the actor put it. They hailed a passing Coast Guard boat and got a lift back […]

Turning words into music

Posted by Ken Campbell September 2, 2012 2 Comments 1041 views

All this week, for an hour or so each evening, I’ve been watching Planet Earth, the ground-breaking BBC documentary series that came out a few years back and completely reset the bar for documentaries of any persuasion. The lush visuals and the filming techniques are utterly beyond compare and I am, within seconds of turning […]

To the market

Posted by Ken Campbell September 1, 2012 0 Comment 1161 views

It’s 6:00am and I’m going to be heading out the door soon to go set up a booth at the Proctor Farmer’s Market in Tacoma. It’s a Surfrider event, and I’m thinking we’ll be trying to get the word out about plastics pollution, ban-the-bag initiatives and generally spreading some aloha. “Showing the flag,” is what […]

Blue

Posted by Ken Campbell August 31, 2012 0 Comment 1279 views

I’m not sure that we’ll be able to see it around here, but there’s a blue moon rising tonight. After a month of truly excellent weather and mostly clear skies, the clouds are back and the sky looks like clam chowder. I’m hoping it’s a passing thing, that we’ll get an Indian summer in September […]

Coming soon…

Posted by Ken Campbell August 30, 2012 3 Comments 1483 views

The premiere of the film Ikkatsu: The Roadless Coast, has been set for November 14th at 7:00pm at the Grand Theatre in Tacoma. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $9.00 at the door. This exciting documentary details the Ikkatsu Expedition that traveled the Olympic coast this summer, surveying remote beaches and documenting incoming debris from the […]

Underworld

Posted by Ken Campbell August 28, 2012 0 Comment 1238 views

“I’M GOING TO TAKE A DUMP!” The woman’s yell reverberates around the campsite loop. I assume she is bellowing at her kids in the site across from ours – the chubby girl in the MMA t-shirt and the boy with the bag of Fritos – but her volume control is stuck on 11 and her […]

RIP Neil Armstrong

Posted by Ken Campbell August 26, 2012 1 Comment 1240 views

The first solo flight across the Atlantic happened in 1927. Charles Lindbergh was the pilot who made the trip, from Long Island to a little field outside of Paris, and when he landed, over 100,000 people were there to greet him. Nobody remembers the second person who did it. We do remember the third solo […]

Rant

Posted by Ken Campbell August 24, 2012 0 Comment 1280 views

“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” John Ruskin Because I have a retail shop, and because the items I sell are a mixture of new and used, I am […]

Still waters

Posted by Ken Campbell August 23, 2012 0 Comment 1209 views

The water outside my window has been calm lately, more than I can remember for this long. It’s hard to imagine that this is the same Tacoma Narrows that roils with current and rolls with huge wind waves during winter storms. During those times of tempest, the white bubbles trail off the tops of the […]

Underground

Posted by Ken Campbell August 22, 2012 0 Comment 1185 views

I think Micah and I will be heading down to the Ape Caves this coming weekend. One last summer foray before school starts, before the shortest season begins to shut down. It has been a long time since I was last there and the boy has never been…