Music contributor – Ryan A. Schowen mixtape

It’s been an age since we’ve done anything with music in the fort. Thank goodness Mr. Schowen descended upon Portland from sunny Alaska recently, and brought in tow his excellent taste in music. Ryan isn’t a new transplant, he’s lived here before, but now he’s here for reals, for keeps, and is enriching our fair city with a nearly finished doctorate in Political Philosophy. I do not know how this man finds some of these... Read More

The sound of Yup’ik

Alright so friend of the Fort Lloyd Eugene Winter IV suggested I add this here – and I have an audio file to accompany this post so let’s roll with it. A couple weeks ago the Oregon Humanities were nice enough to publish a few of my words on their blog about an experience I had listening to an Inuit man speak to me in his native Yup’ik language. I’ll just quote a couple descriptive parts here, and link to the article later... Read More