Dinosaur Speak

Friday, September 28, 2018

Happy Weekend!

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What are you doing here reading this crap when you could be here reading the stuff that counts? I'm too tired to have a good weeken...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Circus

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What exactly is the god damn point of the circus in DC? The retrograde swine on the judiciary committee are going to pretend to listen ...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Fatigue

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I feel I may be slowly gaining. For the past two weeks I've been dog-sick, tired, out of it and generally wiped out by something li...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Providence Advantage Plus (my ass)

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I literally had to tell my new doctor, whom I met for the first time this morning, three or four times that the reason I've seen so ma...
Monday, September 17, 2018

The Race

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What a difference a month makes. In early August Seattle rolled into Houston like a team on a mission.  The Mariners were sitting 5 or 6...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Orgiastic Weekend

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Trump is not the problem. Think of him instead as a summons to address the real problem, which in a nation ostensibly of, by, and for the ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Some Like It

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A fast-moving thunder storm just moved through Portland and left a boom behind like none I've ever heard before. Sudden and loud, it ...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Bad Future

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Economic austerity, the mantra and clarified butter of the national Democrats, is the claim that the only legitimate expenditures by the ...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Street of Dreams

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How do the “masters of the universe” – the members of the world’s “unelected dictatorship of money” (Edward S. Herman and D...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Quote of the Day

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"American money has no gender!"--the mad woman of 11th Ave. TS
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Prisoners

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Prisoners, once released, often after decades, commonly suffer from severe mental and physical trauma and other health problems including...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Kickoff

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I probably won't have much to offer through the weekend (Hmm, how unusual) as football gets started in earnest tonight.  Wouldn't...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Neo-Slavery

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In 1911 a congressional special committee convened to investigate the impact of new business practices on the lives of workers. Of partic...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Crunchy

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In the Age of Trump, American politics has come to resemble a drearily formulaic, militantly lowbrow, cutthroat, reality TV show.  As per...
Monday, August 27, 2018

New Book!/Oregon Football Diary

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I've published my football diary, Third and a Mile. You can read all about it at Round Bend Press Books. Just in time for the 2018...
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Terry Simons
Terry Simons is the founder of Round Bend Press Books and Round Bend Press Detritus. He has worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, factory drone, community organizer, journalist, media consultant and freelance writer. He attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University, where he read journalism, politics, literature and history. He is the author most recently of "Third and a Mile," a fan's notes about the University of Oregon's football travails, 2010--2017. RBP books are available from Amazon and Lulu. Write to: roundbendpress@yahoo.com
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