A thanks, a tip of the hat and a salute all go out to M.E. Russell for linking to "Welcome to Blog" in the web edition of last week's "Culture Pulp." In the endnotes, there's a link to "Pizza Pete and the Restaurant of Doom," an article I wrote on the late-great Organ Grinder pizza parlor last year.

If you've never seen "Culture Pulp," now is as good a time as any. Russell works as a film critic at the Oregonian and pens a comic strip that covers events and odd spots around Portland. It's the first thing I look for when I pick up a copy of the A&E.

But, really, M.E., where's a strip for the Avalon? That place could use some love.