Paul Fussell was a great writer and scholar and, in the three years before his death yesterday, an Oregonian.

Obituaries are beginning to appear around the world, but the best honor one could pay to the man is to read his writing. Fussell stripped war of heroism and romance. His voice was steady, clear and honest and on basically every subject, worth hearing.

In the excerpt below, from a 1982 essay on his experiences during the American invasion of Vichy France in World War II, Fussell explains how he came to his subject:

Everyone knows that a night relief is among the most difficult of infantry maneuvers. But we didn’t know it, and in our innocence we expected it to go according to plan. We and the company we were replacing were cleverly and severely shelled; it was as if the Germans a few hundred feet away could see us in the dark and through the thick pine growth. When the shelling finally stopped, at about midnight, we realized that although near the place we were supposed to be, until daylight we were hopelessly lost.

The order came down to stop where we were, lie down among the trees, and get some sleep. We would finish the relief at first light. Scattered over several hundred yards, the 250 of us in F Company lay down in a darkness so thick we could see nothing at all. Despite the terror of our first shelling (and several people had been hit), we slept as soundly as babes.

At dawn I awoke, and what I saw all around were numerous objects I’d miraculously not tripped over in the dark. These objects were dozens of dead German boys in greenish-gray uniforms, killed a day or two before by the company we were relieving. If darkness had hidden them from us, dawn disclosed them with open eyes and greenish-white faces like marble, still clutching their rifles and machine pistols in their seventeen-year-old hands, fixed where they had fallen. (For the first time I understood the German phrase for the war dead: die Gefallenen.)

Michelangelo could have made something beautiful out of these forms, in the Dying Gaul tradition, and I was startled to find that at first, in a way I couldn’t understand, they struck me as beautiful. But after a moment no feeling but shock and horror.

My adolescent illusions, largely intact to that moment, fell away all at once, and I suddenly knew I was not and never would be in a world that was reasonable or just. The scene was less apocalyptic than shabbily ironic: it sorted so ill with modern popular assumptions about the idea of progress and attendant improvements in public health, social welfare, and social justice.

To transform guiltless boys into cold marble after passing them through unbearable fear and humiliation and pain and contempt seemed to do them an interesting injustice.

I decided to ponder these things.

The scene at the farmers market starts long before the crowds show up.

On a sunny Wednesday morning, vendors at the Shemanski Park farmers market are setting up during the hour before opening, deftly arranging their fruits and vegetables into artistic displays and chatting among themselves.

Thursday, May 24: Tragedy, Stoneburner, Spectral Tombs
I reviewed Tragedy’s towering new LP for this week’s paper, and you can read my glowing praise here. Short version: Darker Days Ahead is Tragedy’s best album yet, a dynamic and harrowing collection of top-notch contemporary crust. It’s really exciting to see a band stick around long enough to summon something so grand and expansive. This show is going to be packed; if you don’t get there early, you’re not getting in.
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Friday, May 25: The Estranged, Vanna Inget, Sundaze, Futility, DJ Unruly
There are bigger and more epoch-defining bands playing the Know this week, but it is Vanna Inget I’m most excited about seeing. This Swedish quartet’s straightforward melodic punk rock veers into saccharine pop-punk when it’s not flirting with classic UK sounds, and it’s all so incredibly polished and perfectly integrated that it makes me a little bit mad. I’m thinking this is what would happen to Arctic Flowers after a dose of happy pills. Consider this my Pick of the Week.
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Saturday, May 26: Effluxus, Bloodkrow Butcher, Silencer, DJ Skell
Bloodkrow Butcher and Effluxus both traffic in by-the-book D-beat that doesn’t add much to the inexplicably teeming realm of the punk world still smitten with Discharge, but both bands are very good at what they do, even if I’m not too keen on the splinter of punk they can’t seem to pluck from their heads.
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Sunday, May 27: Youthbitch, Cafeteria Dance Fever, The Shivas
The Know’s Memorial Week marathon catches its breath at the midpoint by taking a break from the crusty stuff and handing the stage over to some rather less pissed and considerably more hummable local garage rock. The stench of rotting Amebix patches will linger into Sunday evening, but by the time Youthbitch tears through a few of its swaggering pop-punk songs, plans for smashing the state will give way to thoughts of broken hearts.
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Monday, May 28: Weekend Nachos, Transient, Raw Nerves, Sidetracked
Do Portland crowds ever “go off”? Because I don’t see a lot of “going off” at shows. Which is weird, really, but refreshing too, because there’s little worse than a bunch of dudes “going off” when I’m trying to enjoy myself. The thrown elbows and sloppy karate kicks that define a session of “going off” have no place in the semi-adult world I try to live in, but I will make a rare allowance for this show, because Weekend Nachos is from Illinois, where I’m pretty sure there is a law against NOT “going off” when there is powerviolence in the vicinity, and Weekend Nachos is pretty damn good at the fast and tight and mean kind of hardcore that defined my teens, and yeah, I might “go off” with y’all if you’re game.
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Tuesday, May 29: Antisect, Deathcharge, Vicious Pleasures
Crass and Subhumans were pretty much it for me in terms of classic anarcho punk when I was a lad spun on spiky things, so I didn’t delve into Antisect’s gnarled noise until fairly recently, when a late night that ended with a Crass tattoo on my ankle led me to do some panicked research of the “money where your mouth is” variety. Which means I haven’t been anticipating this Antisect reunion for more than a few months, while some have waited a lifetime to see this legend in the flesh. Whatever your level of investment in this slice of punk history, the mere fact of Antisect’s presence in such a humble venue should be enough to get your body into what will surely be a very long queue on Alberta.
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Wednesday, May 30: Unnatural Helpers, Divers, Sick Secrets, Tensions, DJ Ken Dirtnap
I’ve probably written more about Divers than any other Portland punk band in the past couple months. Its “Glass Chimes” single has been a constant companion this year, a much-needed reminder that punk rock is still capable of stirring up complex feelings in this husk of a man. It makes me want to cry; it makes me want to start a band; it makes me want to make out in the rain with someone pretty and kind; it makes me want to live the right way, whatever and wherever that right way might be.
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In another sign of the difficult financial realities for print newspapers, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a sister paper of The Oregonian, will publish a hard-copy edition only three days a week starting this fall, the paper announced. 

The paper will publish Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, while beefing up online coverage the other four days of the week. In announcing the changes, the paper cited "revolutionary upheaval in the newspaper industry." The newspaper made the announcement after the New York Times broke the story Wednesday night.

The Times-Picayune won a couple of Pulitzer prizes in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. The Oregonian and the New Orleans daily are owned by the Newhouse family's Advance Publications. Those two papers—along with the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger—are the company's flagship papers. 

Updated at 12:34 pm

A media-industry blog, Poynter.org reports that three Advance papers in Alabama will also move to a three-days per week production schedule.

WW has just learned we left a couple quite a few clues out of this week's Jonesin'.

We'd like to say this puzzle is specifically for experts, and you should view this error as a challenge. But that seems unfair to the non-experts. 

Here are the missing Across is the full list of clues:

Across

1 ___ nectar

6 Give the cold shoulder

10 Old El ___ (salsa brand)

14 Tennis champ Rafael

15 Petty of "Tank Girl"

16 "Like ___ not!"

17 Get a gold nose ring?

19 Firehouse fixture

20 ___-Bilt (power tool brand)

21 Feel sick

22 Electric guitar pioneer

24 Morales of "NYPD Blue"

26 She tells you to wear clean underwear

28 Talks big

29 River that starts in the Swiss Alps

31 Fable ending

33 Peg for Bubba Watson

34 Vending machine drinks

35 ___ Puffs

37 Report from the musical instrument store?

42 Li'l comic strip character

43 Joe amount

45 Had hash browns

48 Immigration island

50 Cornered

51 Scary Bela

53 A, in Austria

55 Sea birds

56 Get someone mad

58 Negative answers

60 Cleopatra's killer

61 Historical novelist ___ Seton

62 Finish up with Tom's wife?

65 Anorak, e.g.

66 Caustic substances

67 "___ Man" (1992 hit by Positive K)

68 Late actress Bancroft

69 Ivy League school with its own golf course

70 Mr. Jeter

Down

1 Crossword solutions

2 "Win Ben Stein's Money," e.g.

3 Capital of South Australia

4 Michael's "Batman" successor

5 Jazz legend Fitzgerald

6 Downhill event

7 Postal creed word

8 River through Russia

9 Attack the attacker

10 Maid of honor at William and Kate's 2011 wedding

11 Words said while raising glasses

12 It's dissolved into a solvent

13 Ultimatum ending

18 Khloe's sister

23 It's just him or her on stage

25 "Dancing With the Stars" judge Carrie Ann ___

27 "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" regular Colin

30 Paul Anka hit subtitled "That Kiss!"

32 Go bad

36 Sky-blue

38 With really long odds

39 Toothpaste variety

40 Smooth player

41 Aptly-named precursor to Wikipedia

44 Jargon with lots of bold claims

45 Andean animal

46 Plus in the dating world

47 "The Sweet Hereafter" director Atom ___

49 Gary who played Lieutenant Dan

52 Egg-shaped

54 Quebec rejection

57 Singer formerly of the group Clannad

59 Make tire marks

63 Tierra ___ Fuego

64 What some golfers use as a scoring goal

 The project: The Chicharones Bring It Back To Warped Tour

Who's behind the project? Longtime WW favorites and the best damn pig-based hip-hop group around, The Chicharones. 

Why do they want your money? The kids have been asked to headline the "Bring It Back" stage on this year's Warped Tour. The whole tour, all summer. But because the bands like Chicharones don't get paid to be on the tour, they need some cash to help get a full band from one end of the U.S. to the next. 

What are they offering in return? Small dollar donors will pick up an advance copy of the group's new album Swine Flew before the release date. Midlevel donors get signed copies of all the Chicharones albums, a t-shirt, and a special video shout out. And for the big ticket donors (we're talking $350 - $3,000), the group with either cover a song of your choosing, give you a signed pig mask worn by DJ Zone, write you an original song, or perform at a house party for you and your posse. 

How much are they asking for? $10,000

Will they be fully funded? With 20 days to go and only $1,100 picked up as of this writing, the odds aren't necessarily looking too hot. But, that's still nearly three more weeks to get the word out and raise the scratch. 

Our final assessment: If you've seen the group perform, you know there is no doubt that the Chicharones can bring it on stage. And goodness knows they have done their time in the hip-hop trenches. This could be a huge break for Sleep, Zone, Josh Martinez, and the whole crew. A captive audience of teens, tweens, and their handlers night after night...not to mention the networking possibilities of getting in good with the rest of the emo/punk/metalcore contingent? That could do wonders for these guys. Do as we likely to do and dig deep to help make this incredible opportunity a reality. 

Speaking of money in politics…

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) is among those speaking on the Senate floor today in favor of a legislative effort to roll back the unlimited corporate donations permitted by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

"The Supreme Court, with #CitizensUnited, attacked the heart of our Constitution," Merkley Tweeted this morning.

You can watch the speechifying live over at C-SPAN 2.

Merkley and Oregon's senior U.S. senator, Ron Wyden, are among 43 co-sponsors of a bill by U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to place additional disclosure requirements on "super PACs," the monster campaign finance committees empowered by the 2010 high court ruling. 

Oregon, which places no limits on campaign financing, was not among 22 states that this week joined a legal fight, led by Montana, to ask the Supreme Court to overturn its decision.