Fleet Week

Brandon, our other friend Brandon and I went downtown last night to look at the navy ships, here for the Portland Rose Festival. We all three brought our G9's (or G10) and couldn't have been bigger dorks. After walking from the Morrison Bridge, to the Broadway Bridge, to the Burnside Bridge to get the best angle, I felt like my legs were going to walk off my body.

Attitude

I like this guy's style.

I just finished Kafka on the Shore, by my (current) favorite author, Haruki Murakami, translated from Japanese. His most famous book is the famous Wind up Bird Chronicles.
His writing style is like nothing I have ever read before. Central themes run through a series of mysterious circumstances and are then given meaning. His novels challenge the reader without becoming a chore. The story lines are completely unpredictable, yet still believable. When you finish one of Mr. Murakami's stories you are left feeling like you have had the "most bizarre, vivid dream".

This photo reminds me of Kafka on the Shore because one of the characters is a victim of a war experiment that leaves him mentally handicapped, but with a new ability to speak with cats. The character, living off of government assistance, spends his days as a cat private investigator, seeking for missing or kidnapped cats.

Whenever I see the neighborhood cat in the photo above, I half expect him to ask me what the hell I'm looking at before telling me to piss off!