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Comic 7Note the “Binocular Sale” in the background. That was painted on the windows of Bitler Bros. sports shop in Newport for over 20 years. It’s gone now, but it lives on in this comic.

Expedition: Camp Oopy Doopy Redux

Camp Oopy Doopy, Tillamook State Forest 45.638125, -123.552828 Team: VK, JK, CK, KK, JS Expedition Notes: First encounter: impatient red neck in red pickup. Pit stop in Forest Grove for morning BJs. Game “Post Mortem” created and play-tested. Team implements the best tarping that history has ever witnessed! No rain! Three oopy doopies found in the nick of time. World…

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The Fall’s Society recently had the pleasure of visiting the great city of Chicago. Like any polite organization, we visited Mount Carmel Cemetery and the final resting place of Alphonse Capone.

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The services rendered by intoxicating substances in the struggle for happiness and in warding off misery rank so highly as a benefit that both individuals and races have given them an established position within their libido-economy.  It is not merely the immediate gain in pleasure which one owes to them, but also a measure of that independence of the outer world which is so sorely craved.  Men know that with the help they can get from ‘drowning their cares’ they can at any time slip away from the oppression of reality and find a refuge in a world of their own where painful feelings do not enter.

-Freud, Civilization and its Discontents