Movie Review - Feet of Death

I’m a little quirky and perhaps even a little eccentric. So it's no surprise that I am a huge fan of Bigfoot and when I found out the Bigfoot movie “Feet of Death” would be having its premiere theatrical showing at the local Kiggins theater, I knew I had to go.  Plus, the movie was filmed around Mt. Saint Helens, an area that I love.

Based on the trailer, it was obvious the movie would be a low budget campy thriller which, in some way, made it even more attractive to me.The movie didn’t disappoint but I was a little surprised how seldom Bigfoot appeared in the movie and how difficult it was to see him/her/them. One of the highlights of the premiere was Bigfoot physically appeared at the theater giving people an opportunity to snap a selfie with him/her/them. Overall, I would give the movie a thumbs up, but of course, I may be a little biased…

Bigfoot selfie

Carol and Petrina with Bigfoot

Bigfoot outside Kiggins theater

Bigfoot outside Kiggins theater

• Willamette Week article
• Chickflick Films YouTube
• Feet of Death Instagram

Book Review - A Fever in the Heartland

Title - A Fever in the Heartland - The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Author: Timothy Egan

My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: I really enjoyed this book. It's a perfect example of why it is so important to teach history, good and bad, in schools today. I had no idea how powerful KKK was back in the 1920's and how close it came to taking over the country. What's especially frightning is how close the story describes what's going on in America today.

Description (Audible): A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.

Portland - Bridge Stride

According to the Internet, the “Providence Bridge Pedal is a celebration of bridges and bicycling—a non-competitive, community bike ride over Portland’s Willamette River bridges. Beginning in 1996 when 7,500 people biked across the Fremont and Marquam bridges for the first time since they were built three decades earlier, Providence Bridge Pedal has become a signature event on Portland’s summer calendar.”

Today was my 4th time participating in the Providence Bridge Pedal. The first three times, I rode my bike, but this time Carol and I decided to do the Bridge Stride. The Bridge Stride is for pedestrians only and crosses two bridges, the Fremont Bridge and Steel Bridge.

Without a doubt, the highlight of the stride was standing on top of the Fremont bridge drinking free coffee and munching snacks while listening to the sound of Taiko drums.

Curious Cat Trail, Portland, OR

Spent an interesting and somewhat weird Saturday with friends looking for cat statues in downtown Portland, Oregon. Thirty-one cat statues were created by Laika Studios and setup throughout the downtown area in a joint effort to inspire people to visit the downtown area. The cat statues were modeled after the cat in the Oscar-nominated stop motion animated movie “Coraline” that was locally produced by Laika studios in 2009. We managed to find 9 of the 31 statues which, all things considered, seemed pretty good. The “Curious Cat Trail” will end October 13th, 2024 so, I guess there’s still time to find more 😸

Coraline's Curious Cat trail map

Curious Cat #3

Curious Cat #23

Curious Cat #11

Curious Cat #8

Curious Cat #13

Curious Cat #4

Curious Cat #19

Curious Cat #14

Book Review - An Immense World

Title - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Author: Ed Yong

My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍

My Review:

Description (Audible): The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.

In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.