Dec 28, 2016
What a year. ____ #longx4 #pnwonderland
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What a year. ____ #longx4 #pnwonderland
Dear Santa, A couple commitment-free days to put a dent in my Neal Stephenson book would bring us* some Christmas cheer, and if you wanna knock off a couple Luke Cage episodes with me in between deliveries December 24th, ten bucks and you can watch with. Also, bring your own cookies. Love, Joseph "Grinch" Long ____ *me ____ #dearsanta #nealstephenson #44books #longx4 #selfportrait #christmas2016
In which five of my favourite activities are on display. Frohes Weihnachtsfest! ____ #longx4 #christmas2016 #vinyl #selfportrait
When you can combine one of the greatest shows on earth (the annual Portland Tuba Christmas Fest, duh) with some of the greatest people on earth (pictured), then it's definitely an extrasuperspecial Christmasy day of celebration. Also, our son spotted both Bernie Sanders AND Matt Damon's brother in the crowd. He was positively certain on both counts. __ Pic: a kind woman named Alex - thanks! ____ #tubachristmas #portland #longx4 #mattdamonsbrother #ormaybenot (at Pioneer Place)
When reindeer games turn deadly. ____ #pnwonderland #longx4 #christmas2016 #rudolphtherednosedreindeer #dadsofinstagram #mtnorway
It's amazing how refreshing a quick family power nap can leave you feeling. ____ #longx4 #christmas2016 #redbull #powernaps #pnwonderland
DUDE VS ELF. I wouldn't say The Big Lebowski is a staple on our household family Christmas cinema schedule, but watching distant cousin Elf, in installments this week, has brought me to a realization that they share something in common: these are possibly the ONLY TWO FLAWLESSLY STRUCTURED FILMS IN HISTORY. Forget Chinatown. They cannot be cut down by a single scene, there are no throwaway lines, scenes, shots, or cutaways. I'm not saying either Elf or Lebowski is my favourite film, or the best film ever (though they are wonderful); I am simply saying they are subatomic-good. They cannot be split.* One film a massive cult classic, the other a massive mass classic; both stripped down, no fat examples of films that demand and reward repeated viewings (or, just LISTEN to them all the way through sometime). There are three films that I would love to see a sequel to, but I hope I never have to, because they ended just where they were meant to end. Except I wouldn't mind seeing Buddy and The Dude share some screen time in a holiday spinoff... I would also highly recommend Christmas in Connecticut, the 1945 Barbara Stanwyck classic. She does not appear in either Elf or The Big Lebowski, and in fact, I would not call these three films highly similar. Feliz navidad. ____ *physicists, fact-check me** **privately*** ***or just ignore any trivial physics misstatements; those laws of the physical universe are really more suggested guidelines, I think. . #christmas2016 #longx4 #pnwonderland #biglebowski #elf #joesacco #44books
FAVES. (in which I ponder some favourite things while hunting and illegally going back for seconds on free hot chocolate) Adventure minus maps She & Him's silver bells and ten-minute power naps Calder, Norm Rockwell; Pacific swell, Carol of the Bell, the dad William Tell, evergreen smell. Those with spark and song Wild spirit King Kong The invention of quests Rachmaninov, reading without rests These peeps surrounding, def some of my bests. ____ #christmas2016 #washougal #44washougalcamas #hunting #vegetarians #pnwonderland #longx4