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Food

Taking Pictures of Food

I’ve lived in Oregon for nearly eight years. Besides my Keens, my Decemberists shirts, and my reusable bags, the most Portland thing about me is that I take pictures of my food.

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Open Thread

Open Thread, Holiday Weekend Style

Happy Friday to us all! Many of you are celebrating spring holidays this week and weekend, so whether you’re traveling or just sticking home I hope it’s a good one.

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Open Thread

Persephone Lounge is as Open as This Thread

It’s the weekend (weekend!) so what better excuse do you need to sip a drink or two in the Persephone Lounge?

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Open Thread

Open Thread: Hedge Maze Edition

It’s time to get lost in the conversational hedge maze that IS a Persephone open thread, team. I hope everyone’s having a good week. And if you’re not: hey, it’s more than halfway over.

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The Daily Goodie

TGD: Sick of Winter Edition

Yes, I know, we’re all upset that we got some warm weather for about 5 minutes and then it snowed. This is why I hate spring.

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Lunchtime Poll

LTP: Environmental Guilt Edition

OK, it’s confession time. I’m going to work under the assumption that we all care about protecting the environment and generally do what we can to minimize our impact. But will also assume that we all have a couple things that we continue to do even though we know they’re “bad” for our poor planet.

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The Daily Goodie

TDG: Disney-fied Edition

So, even though it makes me a bad nerd, I have to admit that I had no idea what Sucker-Punch was when I first started seeing the trailer. I honestly thought it was an SNL skit or something. But no! Real movie.

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Photography

Goodnight Persephoneers!

Our friend Hello Kitty recommended that we call ourselves Persephoneers, and I like it.   This photo really doesn’t need much of a caption, but I thought you all might want to see it.

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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll 1/25

Today’s poll is about clothing items you can’t quit. I’m not talking about the things that sit in your closet that you can’t bring yourself to throw or give away. I’m talking about the things you wear regularly despite the fact that you know they look terrible. I have this horrible pair of clog-like shoes that […]

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The Daily Goodie

Daily Goodie: Holiday Papercraft

Good morning! So glad to see on this Tuesday morning.  I was going to try to snap a picture of the eclipse, but it is snowing like bananas here and the sky wasn’t clear enough to see anything.  Boo!  NASA should have some great pics up today, as well as the rest of the web, […]