Hey, PDXU fans!  You want to see a couple of photos and hear most of the songs from Tuesday’s show at Lewis & Clark?  Well, get on over to this page: http://morgangrether.info/everything/always/changes/C113!

Tuesday evening, folks—and what’s more rock’n’rollin’ than Tuesdays??—is the debut performance of my new band, the Portland Unconscious.  Or PDX Unconscious for those of you in a hurry.  I’ll try to have recordings and photos for you next week, fingers crossed. 

We’ll be playing from 6ish to 7:30ish at the Lewis & Clark College south campus quad (also called Corbett Circle or some such) for all you new and returning estudiantes. 

I have learned that one of my favorite clients has passed away: http://www.legacy.com/DFW/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStoryPrint&PersonID=115770284.  Her name was Wendy Wilkie and she ran Cuisine for Healing in Texas. 

It was my pleasure to work with her to build and launch the website.  She had such a wonderfully warm personality.

I am pleased to announce the launch of one of my favorite freelance clients, Oregon Community of Tenants.  I redesigned their site and moved them into a content management system.

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Attention all you legions of poetry fans!  Check out ”To Olivia, On Your Fourth Birthday,” which I put online yesterday.  I hope you enjoy it.  It is the latest in the ongoing Olivia and Violet Birthday Poems Project, a big bunch of blank verse.  Feel free to share your thoughts with me about it.

Success!  We have officially launched hillsdalevet.com. It was a rare for-profit client job for me, as I usually do only non-profits, but hey, helping cats and dogs is A-OK with me, you know.

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File under “Things I Like.” My buddy Chris has a new comedy troupe, the Saint Variety Show (at the Saint in New Orleans) and they have made some fun videos.  Check ‘em out. 

Heck, go in person if you’re in New Orleans. I’ll post show info if I can find it round here.

I took these photos in January in Tryon Creek State Park, just feet away from one of my offices. Enjoy:

All images © Morgan Stone Grether 2008.

Peter Korchnak, for whom I worked on DVRC-OR.ORG, had these nice words to say about me recently:

“Morgan is that rare web guy that both knows his stuff and interacts in a professional business manner. He is very responsive to requests for changes or troubleshooting and quick to deliver the desired results. Thanks to Morgan and NetRaising, our agency now has a solid web presence that is appropriate to our mission and goals.”

While we’re at it, Andrew did this one of downtown Portland too… Pretty awesome…

Waterfront Time Lapse Test from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.

Andrew Curtis made this video of the best bridges in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, a town of wonderful bridges.  My home is very close to here and I cross it all the time.

Hawthorne Bridge Time Lapse from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.

Yes, the wonderful www.dvrc-or.org site (designed by Maria Pappas and built by yours truly) was nominated for the prestigious Willamette Valley Development Officers’ Crystal Award in the Outstanding E-Philanthropy category.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is the category did not receive enough nominations and “As a result, they decided not to give an award in this category.” Still, it is a great site with lots of helpful information for people in need.

Stay up date with all the Morgan Stone Grether news! Now you can subscribe to the Morgan Stone Grether News feed at feed://www.morgangrether.info/everything/always/newsfeed and get all the stories posted here sent directly to your RSS reader, blog, Facebook pages, etc. I have placed the subscription link at the top of this page, and I will leave it there from now on.

Don’t know what RSS is?  Why not let the brainiacs at Microsoft explain it to you?

Though she’s not yet arrived… I’m going to be writing a poem for Violet every year, just like I do for Olivia.  Check out ”For Violet, on the Day of Your Birth,” the first for her.

This weekend I was profiled in the fun little website, Portland on Fire.  They describe themselves this way: “Portland On Fire is a daily discovery of PDX people. The site introduces you to a person in the Portland, Oregon (PDX), area every day.” Find my profile here: portlandonfire.com/morganstonegrether/

You may have noticed things are a bit different around here with the millionth change to the look in a year. (The motto is “everything always changes,” after all.) Nearly all of your bookmarks should be intact, and in fact things should be a little easier to find… I hope.  Plus in the next few days I will be rolling out something very exciting… all of my music available for you to listen or even download **free** here (as DRM-free mp3s).  Enjoy!

UPDATE 3/13/08: About half the music is now available as MP3s.

**NEWSFLASH** As of tonight, I am no longer selling my compact discs.  They are so last century.... Yes, I am moving to pure digital, no printed materials. 

You will purchase the music available via iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.  Also, I will no longer be selling t-shirts.  Consolidation.  Can’t put a t-shirt on your iPod, dude.

I have made some upgrades (including adding many more words) into the mighty magic band-naming oracle machine thing.  Go there now and be renamed!

UPDATE 3/7/08: Well, I knocked the whole dang thing offline this week, that was fun.  Yep, but it’s back now.

This week I worked with Cuisine for Healing director Wendy Wilkie to get her site officially launched at www.cuisineforhealing.org.  Over the past couple of months I built the site based off of Maria Pappas‘s design work.  See more of my website work...

Following Stone Grether and the Country Funk All-Stars in 2008 will be a new rock record, Sir Stone.  More details to come soon.

After some highly uninteresting spam on my Drupal system, I have migrated my poetry section over to ExpressionEngine.  Therefore, update your bookmarks to its new location: http://www.morgangrether.info/everything/always/changes/C12/

I attacked a couple of longtime technical SNAFUs on my to-do list this morning, getting the Webwork and Music pages back into XHTML compliance.  In the process I changed their URIs: Webwork is now found here, and Music is now here.  Please update your bookmarks.

After about four and a half months of work, Living Yoga has launched their new site at http://www.living-yoga.org.  I developed the site with point3-design overseeing the design and Leslie Bevan, Living Yoga’s executive director, in charge of the content.  The non-profit organization teaches yoga in places like prisons, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, battered women’s shelters, low-income and homeless resource services…

Find out more at at their own site or NetRaising’s portfolio page for them: http://www.netraising.com/web/client/project/82/

As you may have noticed, there have been some more changes around here.  Inspired by the dvrc-or.org showcase (see Oct 3 news below), I have moved stuff around and cleaned up a little.  The cool songs lists have moved to their own section.  Colors have changed.  The home page is streamlined.

The good folks at ExpressionEngine have selected a site I developed, Domestic Violence Resource Center, as a showcase for sites using their software. 

This is a cool honor!  Read more about the site in a nice little interview here.