How's That Hatey-Crazy Thing Working Out Fer Ya?
Not so good: Of course, it's still very, very early. And with nearly two years until Election Day 2012, anything could happen. But in hypothetical matchups with President Obama, Palin consistently...
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Your Daily Blazer: The Humble Villain
Getty Images How the hell did Brandon Roy go from superstar to liability in the course of a few short months? The man saddled with the responsibility to carry this franchise from Jail Blazers to model...
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Don't Miss the Axe Cop Signing!
AXE COP IS THE MOST FUN COMIC EVER!!!!! Written by six-year-old Malachai and drawn by his brother Ethan Nicolle, 30, this comic is delight incarnate. It's also violent, hysterical, inventive, clever,...
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Fatal Officer-Involved-Shooting in East Portland (Updated)
Update 2 pm—Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch offers some perspective on the latest shooting. He notes that in 2010—with five officer-involved shootings, four of them fatal—we wound up with "as many...
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Dead Memories Portland
About a year ago, local actor/comedian Kevin Michael Moore was having a hard time finding a photo of the Hawthorne record store Bird's Suite Records, where he worked in the 1990s. In hopes of tracking...
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A Gift From Grand Hallway
Today, we have been granted a whole album's worth of bedroom demos and covers, both released and unreleased, from Seattle's esteemed chamber pop outfit, Grand Hallway (who are another one of those...
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Yuletide Dining (And/Or Video Poker)
Silly me. I spent the early morning searching through press releases and restaurant web sites for places that are open on Christmas day. Turns out Portland Monthly's Eat Beat has already compiled a...
View ArticleVigil Planned for Woman Killed in SW Barbur Crash
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance and the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition just announced that they'll be holding a memorial next Monday, December 20th, for 26-year-old Angela Burke, who was run over...
View ArticlePortlandia Commenters: WHO IS MOST RIGHTEST?
This morning, Ezra posted an extended clip from the upcoming Portlandia sketch sitcom created by SNL's Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein—and the response was... well... MIXED. In...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Typhoon, Agalloch, John Grant, and more
PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT, CORIN TUCKER BAND, TYPHOON, THE GOLDEN BEARS, THE PHAME ACADEMY CHOIR (Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) The Portland Cello Project by themselves are pretty great, but when...
View ArticleWhat She Said
Furry Girl (link NSFW): When lefties fanatically spearhead every rape/abuse allegation leveled by anyone, they are creating an environment that enables and even encourages false accusations from angry...
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Download Episode 23 of the Mercury Music Hour
Ahhhh! There's nothing as refreshing as a tall, cool glass of freshly squeezed Mercury Music Hour. You can drink the Mercury Music Hour weekly at noon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on 910 AM, on HD...
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Captain Beefheart, R.I.P.
Sad news, Don Van Vliet of Captain Beefheart passed away today at the age of 69. That's Van Vliet on the cover of the band's ironic Trout Mask Replica, in a photograph that my father took. Growing up,...
View ArticleWill Katie Couric Call It "Kinsexting?"
I'm shocked it took this long: Someone has figured out a way to turn Kinect into a porn delivery service: (Via Geekologie.) [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleToday in "I Want That App"
Holy fuck.Via Sullivan. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Questions & Answers with St Jack
I'm one of those annoying picky eaters (I'm like a vegan, except I eat seafood, and I'll eat eggs if they're from chickens raised by my friends, and while I don't eat dairy, I'll eat butter every once...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Agrees: Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat
There was a lot of stuff on last night's Colbert Report worth noting here, some of it directly in my wheelhouse. I mean, come on! There was an interview with Stephen's old friend Amy Sedaris where...
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Publication Fair — This Sunday!
A perfect place to stop this weekend for holiday shopping that supports your local publishers, writers, artists, collectives, galleries, bookshops, etc. would be the Publication Fair. Come and see...
View ArticleHurdler to Hurdles: "Fuck YOU."
Laugh all you want... I got to where I am today by doing the exact same thing. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Man Shot By Police Wielded Fake Gun
UPDATE 4:57 PM — Court records show that Ferguson was a registered sex offender, having been convicted of rape in 1988. The files say he was routinely taking meds for depression and anxiety, including...
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