Cliff Gardner

Sooo....haven't updated in 5 months, but I'm still here. A few key updates: --Finished my first year of grad school with one more to...

I'm working out now, and it's awesome--I'm feeling better every day. However, what's fun about my gym is that it's conne...

It's been too long, internet. My last update was almost four months ago. Seriously, how is that even possible? Anyway, here's what...

Yesterday evening I went to library in search of some books for a paper I'm writing on the Rhetorical lives of Tiberious and Caius Gracc...

My greatest political hero, the man I admire most in history, is Andrei Sakharov . If you don't know who he is, Sakharov was a hero of ...

It's a series of difficult but do-able goals. I like my friends and what I'm doing, teaching in particular. Hope all is well with ...

Jessica and I are in Long Beach and everything's awesome. Don't worry, our new city is not on fire. In fact, when I mentioned that...

Me: You know what tomorrow is? Jessica: Umm...packing? Me: No--it's the weekly "time to get hammered and watch 'more to love...

Jessica and I bought a car today--a 2009 Hyundai Elantra ! Talk about making real-life, adult decisions! We checked our budget (about a do...

Sorry I haven't updated in a while--I've been busy working and lining up stuff for Long Beach. Jessica and I are moving down there ...

During the three months of pre -service training in Ukraine, my training cluster had several visits from the medical office to give us inocu...

A few weeks ago I was at a restaurant and needed to pee. It had been a while and I had had several beverages, so I was ready to have one of...

Jessica hadn't ever been to Seattle, so last weekend we decided to go visit our Peace Corps friends Katie and Kelly, who are universally...

I got up at 7:00 this morning to watch the Scripps National Spelling Bee Semi-Finals. This is my favorite time of year, I love this stuff. ...

Nothing bothers me more than bike riders who roll around Portland with a huge sense of entitlement. We’ ve gone out of our way to make PDX...

If you don't know, I'm the funniest Twitter person alive. Check me out at www.twitter.com/notalentclown , you'll be glad you di...

I'm writing this from beautiful Southern California, where it's 70 all year and no one cares about anything. That's not true, i...

My friends over at the321podcast were discussing the neo - Nazi twin band Prussian Blue and how their music is, you know, genocidal, but h...

In the fall of 2005 I applied to 18 law schools. 18! Of those, I was accepted by exactly three of them, and received virtually no financia...

Two days ago, the Portland Trailblazers clinched their first playoff birth since 2003, when Scottie Pippen was on the team. For a Blazerma...