Bike Nazis in the Oregonian

My "Commuting Etiquette" commentary for Portland's daily newspaper, The Oregonian, about bicyclists vs. car drivers vs. Tri Met buses vs. pedestrians, has fanned the flames of our vicious local transportation war. Join in the fun at a blog near you! I even earned a spot on a muttering right-wing Republican blog, where I'm called a "communist coffee drinking Critical Mass supporter" yet quoted at length. On the brighter side, the piece is also being used in an educational forum as an example of how to write clear, persuasive prose. All this fun for one little rant! It almost makes me want to give up poetry.

Reading at Clackamas College

Writer, performer, editor, and interdisciplinary artist Tiffany Lee Brown will read Tuesday, February 21 at 7:30 pm in the Winklesky Literary Arts Center at Clackamas Community College. She will read from two new works-in-progress and from her ongoing interdisciplinary project about bipolar disorder, CANDY BLUE.

Brown is currently the editor of 2GQ and is editing the spring 2006 issue of Plazm magazine, in collaboration with Jon Raymond. Her writing appears in periodicals including Utne, Bookforum, Tin House, and Venus, and in books and anthologies such as The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (Penguin, 1999), The Clear Cut Future (Clear Cut Press, 2003), Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction (Chiasmus, 2004), and Covert Culture (St. Martin's, 1996). Her performances have been presented at Performance Works NW, the Portland Rose Festival, Enteractive Language Festival, the Dark Arts festival, and Burning Man, among others.


READING URL:
http://depts.clackamas.edu/english/2006/02/tiffany-lee-brown-ccc.html


DIRECTIONS:
Clackamas Community College
19600 South Molalla Avenue, Oregon City
Winklesky Literary Arts Center
Roger Rook Hall, Room 220

Campus Map: http://www.clackamas.edu/maps/campus/

Directions from Central Portlandia:
* Take SE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD / OR-99E S. for 4.7 miles
* Merge onto OR-224 / CLACKAMAS HWY / SE MILWAUKIE EXPY toward CLACKAMAS / ESTACADA. Drive 4.0 miles.
* Merge onto OR-213 S (toward I-205 S / OREGON CITY / OR-224 / ESTACADA.)
Drive 3.4 miles on 213.
* Merge onto OR-213 / CASCADE HWY S via EXIT 10 toward PARK PLACE / MOLALLA. Drive about 4 miles.
* Turn RIGHT onto MOLALLA AVE. Drive .1 miles.
* The road inside the campus curves gently right. At the roundabout, take a right and park in the 2-hour lot.
* Roger Rook Hall is the nearest building, due east.