Thought Distillery

Today as I strolled through the grocery isles I couldn’t help but get pummeled right and left with all the whiz-bang new products proclaiming their “low-carb” healthfulness. Yeah its annoying, but I’m used to walking by whatever happens to be the latest fad anyway. However, as I turned down the candy isle to scope out [...]

Tonight I may have witnesssed the birth of a new genre of music. Start with a string bass and mandolin duo. Get them started playing some lightning fast bluegrass music - pretty traditional stuff, but when you add Larry the speed rapper into the equation you suddenly have something very new and eclectic. Larry is [...]

Here is a shameless plug for my friend Bob’s weblog. Urban Locust is described as “A blog devoted to life, film, art, culture, and public transportation in Los Angeles”
Keep up the interesting observations in LA, Bob. I much prefer to experience L.A. through your eyes rather than mine! (You would think I was a self [...]

Last night I read a book entitled Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth From the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat. Though the information was really nothing I had not read before, seeing everything organized together provided a very clear framework. Suddenly, like when observing a Monet painting, everything came into focus - except this picture was [...]

As an exercise in observation, stillness and patience I am pondering the idea of perching myself on a bench in downtown Corvallis for a period of 24 hours…

Now you can contact the author of Thought Distillery (me) directly. Simply click on the Contact link just below the calendar on the main page to email me messages of love, hate, insight, foresight or even complete confusion. Heck, you can even send your thoughts anonymously if you fear my retaliation, though I’m hardly a [...]

Well, this is sortof old news but I’m still excited that the northwest is just chock full of alpaca! There are small herds scattered about and even just across town at the OSU animal yards. Of course all my excitement is somewhat dulled upon hearing rumor that certain close friends back in Bloomington Indiana have [...]

Well, what can I say that the newly released BlabberScott ver1.0 cannot? How about this: I’ve got lots and lots of other facial expressions from my grueling self-photoshoot. So beware of more pointless (and perhaps somewhat vain?) creations in the future!