I really can't stand that guy on all those Verizon Wireless commercials who keeps going "Can you hear me now? Good!" We get it, already. Plus, I hate how a big corporation is trying to dress up their little spokesperson as this sort of hipster. I'll take Catherine Zeta-Jones anytime, as cell phone company pitch people go.
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More writing from Brian Libby
- Award-winning Portland firm Linden, Brown’s buildings balance bold sculptural forms and an open-minded, inclusive process (Portland Tribune, May 2023)
- Restaurants, clinics, bridges — and awards: Portland's Fieldwork Design and Architecture reminds us experience isn't everything (Portland Tribune, July 2023)
- Cut My Timber and the ups and downs of market transformation (Portland Tribune, July 2023)
- New PDX terminal is already the landmark Portland needs (Portland Tribune, August 2023)
- Jumping Into ADUs: Webster Wilson designs small homes with often soaring presence (Portland Tribune, September 2023)
- The Tomorrow Theater, and a neighborhood today (Portland Tribune, October 2023)
- Before & After: This Reinvented Monterey Bungalow Shows That Sometimes, Smaller Is Better (Dwell, June 2023)
- Budget Breakdown: Two Retired Teachers Build Oregon’s First All-CLT House for $591K (Dwell, June 2023)
- Budget Breakdown: They DIYed a $212K ADU—and Loved It So Much That They Moved Right In (Dwell, July 2023)
- This L.A. Home Hides a Second Story Beneath Its Steeply Pitched Roof (Dwell, August 2023)
- The Coolest Indoor Tree House Is Tucked Away in This Stately Tudor (Dwell, September 2023)
- A California Retreat Has Walls Made Out of the Beach (Dwell, September 2023)
- Before & After: They Loved Their Cozy Cottage, So They a Built an Annex to Match (Dwell, November 2023)
- He Only Built One Home—So They Gave It a Singular Renovation (Dwell, November 2023)
- Near Joshua Tree, a Sublime Desert Home Embraces Shadows and Sunlight (Dwell, November 2023)
- Before & After: A Couple Fix Up an Heirloom Cottage in the Town Where They First Met (Dwell, April 2023)
- What Does It Take to #VanLife as a Family? (Dwell, May 2023)
- A Floating Living Room Sets a Family’s Lake Michigan Cottage Apart From the Rest (Dwell, May 2023)
- Thomas Hacker's tree of influence (Portland Tribune, May 2023)
- Urban forestry's moment (Portland Tribune, April 2023)
- Slabtown and the medium-density model (Portland Tribune, March 2023)
- The Japanese Garden's Circle of Art (Oregon ArtsWatch, January 2023)
- Purposely taking the alley way (Portland Tribune, February 2023)
- Mourning one lost landmark, rejoicing in another (Portland Tribune, January 2023)
- The Not-So-Distant Shore (Portland Tribune, December 2022)
- Mississippi and the state of the in-person office (Portland Tribune, November 2022)
- After Two Moves and a Year in Pieces, the Renovated Avalon House Represents a Childhood Memory Brought Back to Life (Retrofit, January 2023)
- Budget Breakdown: A Woodworker Couple Make $10K Go the Distance Renovating a 2006 Camper (Dwell, February 2023)
- Budget Breakdown: An Indiana Couple Hand-Build the Farmhouse of Their Dreams for $166K (Dwell, March 2023)
- Trees: A Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change (Elemental Green, March 2023)
- This Overhauled Airstream Feels Less Like a Trailer and More Like a House (Dwell, December 2022)
- Sky Hopinka: poet of Indigenous cinema (Oregon ArtsWatch, November 2022)
- Mario Ciampi’s Former Berkeley Art Museum Is Reborn as a Life-sciences Incubator (Retrofit, November 2022)
- A New Book Explores the Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock (Metropolis, November 2022)
- Reviving the tale of a musical 'Lost Angel' (Oregon ArtsWatch, November 2022)
- Budget Breakdown: An Architect DIYs a Luminous Work Shed for $10K (Dwell, November 2022)
- 100 Runs, A Pedestal and Transformation (Drain, October 2022)
- Budget Breakdown: An Architect Builds an Experimental Garden Studio for Less Than £5K (Dwell, October 2022)
- Before & After: An Architect Levels Up His Tiny Seattle Cottage With a Soaring Skylight (Dwell, October 2022)
- Keller Auditorium: Renovate or Replace? (Oregon ArtsWatch, September 2022)
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He drives me insane, too. I grit my teeth every time I see him... But I have to say, I prefer him over Carrot Top. Now HE's annoying.
Posted by: Rebecca | December 03, 2003 at 08:57 PM