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The Intrepid

Coffeehouse Conundrums: A One-Act Play

Setting: A trendy urban coffeehouse, all exposed brick and Edison bulbs. The air hums with the clatter of espresso machines and the weight of unspoken social codes. A chalkboard menu looms, prices just high enough to signal exclusivity. A corner table sits slightly apart, offering a view of the entire

A Platform for the Party of the Politically Exiled

Democracy for People Who Shop at Bi-Mart Article 1: Safe Communities & Accountable Justice Every Oregonian deserves to feel safe at home, work, and school. We’re committed to practical solutions that protect communities while ensuring justice is fair and accountable. * Swift and Fair Prosecution: Prioritize prosecuting repeat offenders, especially

Päiväkahvit and the Patience of Time

The word "outtakes" poisons the well before we even begin listening. It suggests material that wasn't quite good enough, the songs that didn't make the cut—creative leftovers relegated to the margins. But Sontag Shogun and Lau Nau's Päiväkahvit demands we abandon

Unflattening the Plate

Mexican Food, Market Contradictions, and the Sacred Labor of Memory Mexican food in the United States has never been just one thing. It is pre-Columbian agriculture, colonial rupture, Catholic ritual, borderland invention, migrant labor, corporate abstraction. It is memory folded into masa, and it is melted cheese on a combo

A Redacted Document: Field Entry

FIELD ENTRY [UNCATALOGUED] PORTLAND (PDX), Zone 4 Date Unknown (device time drifted; not recalibrated) I arrived late into Portland. Rain again—like the city was exhaling something it couldn't name. I hadn’t meant to stop here. The flight was rerouted. Or maybe I was. I no longer

A Ledgered Meal: Paqui, Portland

We’ve lived in the neighborhood nearly a decade and have seen this corner go through many identities—brewpubs, fusion experiments—but Paqui feels like a genuine arrival. It’s not trying to dazzle with reinvention or nostalgia. Instead, it offers something more rare: memory rendered with clarity and care.

A Redacted Document: Shutdown Directive

COLLECTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN DIRECTIVE — AUTOPHAGIC PROTOCOL CLASSIFICATION: OMEGA-BLACK — EXISTENTIAL CONTAINMENT Document ID: CRMA/EMERGENCY/SHUTDOWN-001 Date: Cycle 2396.2 Authorization: Supreme Directorate Emergency Powers Act Triggering Event: CASCADE EMPATHIC BREACH - CRITICAL MASS ACHIEVED IMMEDIATE EXECUTIVE ORDER ALL CULTIVATION OPERATIONS SUSPENDED ALL PARADISE ENVIRONMENTS SEALED ALL PERSONNEL

Mutual Aid, the 2025 Remastered Edition

So, I’m in City Lights, that San Francisco shrine to beatnik rebellion, now a hipster book shop for bourgeois radicals cosplaying dissent. There’s Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), a 2020 call-to-arms, sitting on the “Praxis” shelf like a $14.95

Oregon's Transportation Crisis

A Case Study in Supermajority Governance Challenges Executive Summary Oregon's 2025 transportation funding crisis offers insights into the governance dynamics that can emerge when a single party holds overwhelming legislative control. Despite holding supermajorities in both chambers and receiving years of advance warning about a structural funding shortfall,

Mojo within the Limit

Five Modes of Constraint in the Age of Abundant Music I. Introduction: The Age of the Skip In the algorithmic present, music lives or dies in six seconds. On TikTok, that window is the difference between obscurity and virality. On Spotify, it’s the length of a skip-rate metric. Hooks