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WHERE TO GET AN EDGE
A SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF WEATHER
by Victoria Stoppiello
Hults
Editorial
Now & Then
We happened upon Chief Stumblefoot, Medicine
Man in the Rastified Church of the Cowboy Buddha,
lunching on the porch at the local grocery, and he
handed us a scrap of paper. The paper said,
’’Coming soon in our Book Review ‘Stealing from
Indians, Inside the Bureau of Indian Affairs an
Expose’ of Corruption, Massive Fraud and Justice
Denied.’ by David L. Henry. Find out why this
book has been kept out of virtually every library' in
the entire United States!” Well, your beloved
reverend knows full well why a book like that would
be kept out of libraries, as well as he knows that ‘‘In
The Spirit of Crazy Horse” by Peter Matthiessen,
Viking, 1981 was kept off bookstore shelve as well
as library shelves and wasn’t released in paperback
form until 1991. Yes, your beloved rev. remembers
marching to B1A headquarters in Seattle in the early
Seventies, yes your cranky old rev. has read a lot of
history of the First People’s treatment by The Great
White Father, and his kind. And since it was
Leonard Peilter’s birthday, we fired up the old Mac,
(that is, by the way, going lickety click these days
thanks to deb from our web wicca (a group of mostly
women who gather to create magic), who built and
maintain our web site at
pcez.com/upperleftedge...visit often, it’s
fun.....)and, getting back to the point, we typed
Stealing from Indians by David L. Henry on Yahoo!,
and found out. Well, one thing we found out is it
isn’t a regular sort of book, probably because paper
costs a lot and binding costs a lot and distribution
cost a lot, as your beloved editor knows only too
well. So, what you have to do is get access to a
computer/modem, type in the title and author on
Yahoo!, like we did, then send $10 in check or
money order (no they aren’t able to do credit cards
either.) to the address, First Nations Promotions
Box, 129, South Pomfret, Vermont 05067, and tell
them if you want to down load in Mac or PC, it
prints out at 190 pages in 9 point type, and you have
the book. Cool,huh?
Mo Stuff,
Bill’s Tavern might be open soon. No, they
haven’t changed the name to William’s. Yes, we are
assured that we can still get a Bud at the bar. And it
looks like music will be a regular feature. No
opening date as we go to press, but next month we’ll
have a reveiw of the new space.
Cannon Beach: Jupiter's Rare and Used Books, Osburn's
Grocery, The Cookie Co., Coffee Cabaña, Bill's Tavern,
Cannon Beach Book Co., Haine's Bakerie, The Bistro,
Midtown Café, Once Upon a Breeze, Copies & Fax,
Heather's.The Homegrown Cafe, Haystack Video, Mariner
Market, Eisspresso Bean, Eicola Squard & Cleanline Surf
Manzanita: Mother's Nature Juice Bar, Bayside Gardens,
Cassandra's, Manzanita News & Espresso, Pacific Coast
Books & Coffee, & Nehalem Bay Video
Nehalem: Mermaid Cafe
Rockaway: Sharkey's
Tillamook: Rainy Day Books
Garibaldi: Garibaldi Books
Bay City: Art Space
Yachats: By-the-Sea Books
Pacific City: The River House, Far Country Books, &
Village Merchants
Oceanside: Ocean Side Espresso
Lincoln City: Trillium Natural Foods, Driftwood Library,
& Lighthouse Brewpub
Depoe Bay: Oregon Books
Newport: Oceana Natural Foods, Café DIVA, Cosmo Café,
Bookmark Café, New|xirt Bay Coffee Co., Cuppatunes, Bay
l^atté. Ocean Pulse Surf Shop, Coastal Coffee Co., Sylvia
Beach Hotel, Green Gables Bookstore/B&B, & Canyon Way
Eugene: Book Mark, Café Navarra, Eugene Public lábrary,
Friendly St. Market, Happy Trails, Keystone Café, Kiva
Foods, Lane C.C., Light For Music, New Frontier Market,
Nineteenth Street Brew Pub, Oasis Market, Perry's, Red Bam
Grocery, Sundance Natural Foods, U of O, & WOW Hall
Corvallis: The Environmental Center,OSU..
Salem: Heliotrojie, Salem Library, & Hie Peace Store
Astoria: KMUN, Columbian Café, The Community Store,
The Wet Dog Cafe, Astoria Coffee Company .Café
Uniontown, & Shark Rock Cafe
Seaside: Buck's Book Bam, Universal Video, & Cafe
Espresso
Portland: Artichoke Music, Laughing Horse Bookstore, Act
III, Barnes & Noble, Belmonts Inn, Bibelot Art Gallery, Bijou
Café, Borders, Bridgeport Brew Pub, Capt'n Beans (two
locations). Center for the Healing Light, Coffee People (three
locations). Common Grounds Coffee, East Avenue Tavern,
Food Front, Goose Hollow Inn, Hot Lips Pizza, Java Bay
Café, Key largo, La Pattisserie, Lewis & Clark College,
Locals Only, Marco's Pizza, Marylhurst College, Mt. Hood
CC, Music Millenium, Nature's (two locations), NW Natural
Gas, OHSU Medical School, Old Wives Tales, Ozone
Records, Papa Haydn, PCC (four locations), PSU (two
locations), Reed College, Third Eye, TransCentral Library, &
YWCA
Cornelius: The Weekend Garden Market
The Dalles: Klindts Bookseller
Hood River: Purple Rocks Art Bar, & Cafe
Ashland: Garo's Java House, The Black Sheep, Blue Mt.
Cafe, & Rogue River Brewery
Cave Junction: Coffe Heaven & Kerby Community Market
(Out of Oregon)
Longview, WA: The Broadway Gallery, & Carat Patch
Long Beach, WA: Pacific Picnics
Naselle, WA: Rainy Day Artisty
Nahcotta, WA: Moby Dick Hotel
Duvall, WA: Duvall Books
Bainbridge Island, WA: Eagle Harbor Book Co.
Seattle, WA: Elliot Bay Book Co., Honey Bear Bakery,
New Orleans Restaurant, Still Life in Fremont, Allegro
Coffeehouse, The Last Exit Coffee House, & Bulldog News
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Bookstore
Denver, Co: Denver Folklore Center
New York, NY: The Strand Book Company
Washington, D.C.: Hotel Tabard Inn
It always rains at the coast. People beiieve that
when they only come on weekends and they
experience storms and rain The last few days have
had squalls and showers, but today, Monday, the dawn
arrives bright and crystal clear 1 tell our house guests:
"Sorry, you have to leave now; we don't let people
from the city know that this happens Monday through
Friday while you're safely tucked away in your jobs."
We came to the coast to live out a fantasy—to
live here through the four seasons, the full cycle, at
least once Twelve years later we're still here —we've
lived in three different communities, but we're still at
the coast, and we ain't leaving!
The first fall, October hit like gangbusters.
Five days of rain, one day of not rain, another five
days of rain, one day of not rain, and another five
days of rain. It wasn't just rain—it was the 30-mile-an-
hour winds, or greater, that drove watery needles into
our faces, grabbed objects from our hands, and threw
the car around on the pavement No mist-laden walks,
no raising of umbrellas. We were getting pounded. I
said to Anthony, "If this keeps up, I don't think I can
make it at the coast." Then the weather relented
Perhaps Mother Nature wanted me here
Anthony, on the other hand, wanted empirical
evidence about weather—what it was really doing—but
on a visceral level He devised a simple code: A child­
like sun, R for rain, PC for cloudy, but no rain. Every
evening he assessed the day's overall condition and put
a symbol on that day's block on a calendar He did
this for years.
From this data, we realized our weather was
psychologically better than Willamette Valley weather.
Our weather is dramatic, not depressing. We're
drenched with 80-plus inches of precipitation, but it
comes in deluges. Then, as the wind turns west it picks
up huge cloud banks, which scud eastward to settle
and stop, not against the Coast Range which they
easily clear, but against the Cascades, w here they stop,
cloaking the "Valley" in overcast for days.
The arbitrariness of the precipitation statistics
luckily scares a lot of people Twice as much moisture
as Portland "must be awful," not realizing Portland's
40-plus descends in drizzle from leaden skies. Ours
comes in buckets with 40-, 50-, 80-mile-an-hour
winds. Trees writhing, then tossed, foam lining the
shores, rivers running their banks, us leaning into the
wind to go about our tasks, in rain jackets, forgoing
the impossible umbrella, laughing in coffee shops
during the first rains of fall. This will clear the beaches
and roads of tourists—a sad event for some, but
welcomed by others.
Spring and fall's unpredictable weather altered
our pace. Work indoors when the wind howls, jet
outside when a lull occurs "In and Out Weather" I've
called it You go out when the weather allows, keeping
an eye to the southwest for an off-shore squall, rain
slanting to ocean, which can arrive in minutes—is it 10
minutes offshore, 20, or 45? Then get back inside,
before the rain hits, back in the car, back to the house,
back to the workplace, drinking tea, doing chores,
enjoying the crash on the windows.
The sweetness and triumph of this pattern is
dependent on controlling your life, controlling your
time. The poor weekenders, surely making more
money in their city jobs, driving newer rust-free cars—
but the toll they pay, the schedule, the five-day week,
the 9 to 5 —it ain't worth it to me when 1 can have this:
a crystal clear morning on a Monday.
The Stormy Weather Festival is coming up in
November with lots of music all over town.
Katherine e-mailed us a huge list with all kinds of
neat information on the performers, and where and
when they would be performing. But due to lack of
space, caused by lack of funds, we can only suggest
that you call the Chamber of Commerce (503)436-
2623 and get a complete run down of what will be
happening November 7th through 9th in Cannon
Beach.
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