Life of Bryan

I dragged a friend to the Les Savy Fav show and I don’t think they knew what they were getting into.

Decided I’m abandoning my affiliation with the Democratic Party and will become an independent (small “i”) voter. Between sidelining Bernie in 2016 and now attempting to block 3rd party access to state ballots, this system needs to be systematically demolished and rebuilt.

Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the plant’s unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.

Excerpt from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

Our back patio is usually chaos. Zoey doesn’t seem to mind. She says she could do without the heat, though.

Summers in Portland have felt more like Redding every year. We now have 3 official seasons: rain, smoke, and scorching hot.

Countdown to camp. For all the money we’re spending on this, we could’ve stayed at a pretty nice hotel with a pool. 🏕️

It’s going to be around 100° the next four days. We walked around the neighborhood on the early side and stopped to listen to the bullfrogs at the wetlands. The creeping thistle looked neat. The bees looked happy.

I worked as a cook at P.F. Chang’s in college. Whenever someone finds out about this, about half the time they say “I love their chicken lettuce wraps!”

Then I break the news to them that it’s just ground up and fried chicken fat and skin, the stuff that normally gets thrown away.