Just an FYI that I am going to be traveling to Portland, Ore., for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies‘ annual convention today. So, too, will be blogmaster John. In other words, this puppy’s gonna be without a baby-sitter for a good chunk of the day.
We’ll check in with updates from Portland and the convention as much as we can in between all the various activities. In the meantime, don’t get too hot!
This article appears in Jun 7-13, 2007.

GASP! Are you telling me Nintzel won’t be able to blog every five minutes?! Now he will be forced to fling himself into the throngs of “the field!”
Cool, now I can use the salty palaver of a sailor and nobody will stop me!
You two wanna go, then go!
I won’t take the mickey (?) on this one, but I do wish I was going with. AAN seems like good stuff. Best of luck with the trip.
Which is not to say you needn’t come back.
Easy, kids. We’re still keeping our eye on things during layovers and whatnot. And, hey, Kelli: Look to Nintzel’s blogging fervor as an inspiration, not something to criticize. *Ahem.*
Oh Jimmy, right you are. I just joke because I can’t live up to the excitment he brings to the blog. Safe travels kiddo.
Yeah, Kelli!
And before you all criticize me for spelling “excitement” wrong, I would like to alert everyone that I was typing quickly and in my haste, did not check. So I beat you all, I admit to my mistake.
alway some dit dam Kelli
Regarding roadtripping, I might just make the drive up to the Phoenix SPJ’s get-together this weekend if my schedule works out. If so, be afraid… be very afraid. (Not sure of what, but I just wanted to write that.)
For more info on that SPJ chapter, see http://www.spj.org/arizona/
With the editor away at the Moose Lodge or something, with Duke LaCrosse team finally packed away (we hope) Paris incorporating all available information, and in light of Burns’ well done and surprising piece,
“Ties That Bind:
Taking care of elderly parents isn’t a job for the weak” at:
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:97259
This might be a good enough time to tell you of the you are becoming over at:
“The Way We Age Now”
by Atul Gawande
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/30/070430fa_fact_gawande?printable=true
which tells how you are already wrecking your unborn.
RE: Moose Lodge – I was going to make comment on the Red Green Show, but those fictional Canucks hail from the Possum Lodge.
Nonetheless: Quando omni flunkus moritati
Maybe it’s true….about a good life that is, floss!