The Unbearable Blackness of Kettles

As a SE Portland resident of nearly two decades, a once-upon-a-time toiler in the bowels of this city’s bookselling business, and former book review publisher, I’m not unfamiliar with the name of David Morrison, who had a shop on SE 37th & Hawthorne Blvd. for some years and was the subject of this week’s Oregonian A&E “Film Freak” feature by Ted Mahar. But I’ve never had any real contact with him.

Morrison admits having “mixed feelings” about Fahrenheit 9/11, because while “there has been no major debunking of his [Moore’s] case,” he thinks Moore’s “antics in front of the camera are often embarassing.”

That’s a fairly reasonable argument, if — in the previous paragraph — Morrison hadn’t described himself in this way (bold emphasis added):

Who: Rare book and manuscript dealer. Also: “I run a fundraising operation for juvenile diabetes, which my 8-year-old daughter has. I’m heavily involved with a research group trying to get the word out that 9/11 was an inside job, and that a real investigation should be conducted into the roles of Bush, Cheney and their crowd. I doubt that they will ever be held accountable, but enormous amounts of material were omitted from the investigation, and it should be made more widely public. Seven of the supposed hijackers have been seen alive since 9/11.