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WikiLeaks Bailout! British courts order Julian Assange out on $310,000 bail... Michael Moore (that guy!) explains why he ponied up $20K to free Assange. Gay Soccer Fans "Should Refrain." The 2022...
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Tinsel Town
The shopping festivities continue unabated this week, for those of you scrambling to finish shopping for gifts and party clothes. Bubble Boutique's upcoming Tinsel Town fashion show caters to the...
View ArticleA Few More Reasons to Love Australia (Besides the Fact They Don't Give a Shit)
Here is some video of actor Hugh Jackman on the Oprah show zip-lining down from the top of the Sydney Opera House and face-planting into a lighting rig. BUT THAT'S NOT EVEN THE BEST PART! The best...
View ArticleThe Scare-Mongering, Diseased-Anus-Mongering HIV Prevention Ad That's Pissing...
Last night GLAAD and Gay Men's Health Crisis called on the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pull the above ad. From GLAAD and GMHC's joint press release: The PSA, which is...
View ArticleChristmas Music Countdown: Day 8
Here's another Christmas song close to my heart by Harvey Danger. HD put out one pretty great album, one pretty good album, a good EP and a classic record that nobody heard. Do yourself (or me) a...
View ArticleChristmas Music Countdown: Day 8
Here's another Christmas song close to my heart by Harvey Danger. HD put out one pretty great album, one pretty good album, a good EP and a classic record that nobody heard. Do yourself (or me) a...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: An Email Exchange
i am a 21 year old straight male. I jus got out of a one year relationship with a woman who was 19. The sex was always amazing. But during the relationship all we did was fight (she also had an...
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Today in "You Are Old"
Does anybody know who these people are? My friends on the Justin Bieber fansite have been tweeting about it for the past three days, and we're totally stumped! via [ Subscribe to the comments on this...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Alela Diane
ALELA DIANE, DENVER, ALINA HARDIN (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Alela Diane spent her autumn recording a new record with her band Wild Divine, and she returns to her sometimes-hometown...
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Dark, Sexual, Ridiculous Yogi Bear Ephemera
I had the honour and privilege to go to a screening of Yogi Bear 3D this weekend. My review will be in this Thursday's paper but my research on the film has turned up some things I feel obliged to...
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Off the Waffle
Here's a sweet story from Eugene, Oregon. Owen Good - KotakuThe delivery of the game Off The Waffle. From left, Ryan Martin, Richard Hofmeier, Conrad Williams A couple of years ago, two brothers...
View ArticleRequired Viewing: Count Spirochete
"In 1973, the Navy made a 20-minute animated movie warning sailors—in graphic detail—about the dangers of venereal disease," says TPM. "The plot: The annual Communicable Disease of the Year Awards...
View ArticleRango: It's Like High Noon... with Lizards
Guys! I think I'm getting CG fatigue. Time was when an animated feature was a once-a-year thing, and now you can't swing a Shrek without hitting a Megamind, Despicable Me, Toy Story 3, Tangled, etc....
View ArticleLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
What a bunch of decks. FEES PLEASE If I must purchase a permit to prune city-owned trees in the parking strip in front of my home that have buckled the sidewalk... and on top of it pay the city to...
View ArticleCoffee Time
White Material: Picking at the scabs of colonialism. by Alison Hallett ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS of 2010 was Marlene Van Niekerk's Agaat, about the uneasy relationship between an aging white homesteader...
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A Peek at the Slabtown Bender 2011
Each year the Slabtown Bender has grown in size, so it's no surprise year number five will be their biggest yet. The 2011 event will run from February 4-6 and feature the badass slogan of "Three Days...
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This Week's Mercury Music Section
Another week, another Mercury music section to spit-take your coffee at when you read about Jon Bon Jovi being appointed to the White House Council for Community Solutions. Does that mean the position...
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This Week's Mercury Music Section
Another week, another Mercury music section to spit-take your coffee at when you read about Jon Bon Jovi being appointed to the White House Council for Community Solutions. Does that mean the position...
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Plastic bag ban coming next fall? In a pre-legislative session hearing in Salem, grocery lobbyists and environmental groups bless the proposal. Expect a lawsuit and indignation, in any case, from the...
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IDOM Holiday Party Tonight
We really are in the throes of the party season, as I, in the throes of a Mercury staff holiday party hangover can attest, and the party train is not about to stop: Tonight IDOM is showing some love...
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