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Awesome Cover Art: Alain Delorme's "Totem"
No surprise, I love the art on the Merc cover this week, one of a series of manufactured photos from French artist Alain Delorme's series Totems. Here's a couple other excellent images from the...
View ArticleState's Ex-Safety Chief Makes Dishonor Roll of 2010's Worst Bosses
EBossWatch, a group that every year comes up with a list of the 100 worst bosses, slotted a somewhat familiar name down at No. 99 in this year's iteration. That would be John Minnis, the ex-Portland...
View ArticleThis Lady Has More Mouth than My Ex-Wife
This is one of those instances where I think it's perfectly fine to watch the following video, calmly close your laptop, fling it out the window, and declare, "I FUCKING QUIT. NOT JUST MY JOB... I'M...
View ArticleOfficers Identified in 2010's Sixth Police Shooting
The Portland Police Bureau this afternoon identified eight Central Precinct officers involved in the shooting Monday of Marcus Lagozzino, a mentally ill man wielding a machete outside his parents'...
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Parenting Tip of the Day!
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Is the Streetcar Bad for Bikes?
Been there, done that.The painful rule of thumb is this: Everyone who rides a bike in Portland will crash once on the streetcar tracks. Just once, but always once. After that, you approach the tracks...
View ArticleMan in a Blizzard
Here's the short film shot by Jamie Stuart over Sunday night's blizzard in New York that's been making the rounds on the internet, thanks to Roger Ebert's laudatory appraisal:This film deserves to win...
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Re: Patton Oswalt-Inspired Nerd Rage
I've been thinking about Patton Oswalt's essay in Wired about the death of "geek culture" for a couple of days now—trying to separate what Oswalt actually said from the fleet of straw men that...
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Miles Kurosky Stops For a Drink at the Daytrotter Trough
Local musician Miles Kurosky—also known as the songwriting chops behind defunct indie rock beloveds Beulah—swung by The Horseshack for a succinct-but-enjoyable session with the dudes from Rock Island....
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Grand Jury Clears Police Officers in Southeast Portland Shooting
The hallway outside Ferguson's apartment, the day after his shooting.A grand jury today found no criminal wrongdoing in the December 17 police shooting of Darryel Dwayne Ferguson, a Southeast Portland...
View ArticleBrandon Roy Out Indefinitely
In an update from my previous post, Blazers GM Rich Cho has informed the O's Jason Quick that Brandon Roy will be out for an unspecified "extended period" of time. [ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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Brides Against Breast Cancer
Avoid an overblown wedding-induced case of the MeMeMes if you're planning on getting hitched in the new year. The annual Brides Against Breast Cancer event is right around the corner, where designers,...
View ArticleDog Fighting Equals Execution...
Well, I'm sure you already knew Fox News should be obliterated from the face of the earth, but just in case you forgot for a moment, I'm here to remind you. Supposedly if you participate in...
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Blazers vs. Jazz - Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers break out the fine dinnerware and welcome the Utah Jazz. As you probably already heard on this very blog, Brandon Roy is not playing tonight. Or...
View ArticlePolice: Middle Schooler Fondled!
First, the headline: Greensburg Middle Schooler Fondled Girl, 12 Yikes, that sounds terrible, doesn't it? People shouldn't run around fondling 12-year-old girls, for crying out loud, and I sure hope...
View ArticleHow Would Gays & Lesbians from the 1950s Celebrate New Years? LIKE THIS!
The narrator in this scare documentary from the 1950s is totally shit-talking the gays getting down in this Parisian homo club—but goddamn it, if it were around today, I WOULD BE SO THERE. [ Subscribe...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Soldiering On
So I have been dating a girl for the past five months and things became pretty serious pretty fast. She is 29-years-old with a professional career, and I am a 22-year-old graduating from college in...
View ArticleThe Fuckiest Things of 2010: The "Make Things Happen!" Guy
And here we are! It's the final installment of the fuckiest retrospective ever, "The Fuckiest Things of 2010!" And while we may be tempted to go ahead and preemptively write off 2011 as "fucky" as...
View ArticleIt Is Not Almost Two Thousand and Eleven
It's twenty-eleven, you guys, and Jack Stuef explains why. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleGood Morning, News!
Sorry for the late start, but I had to beat the lines at the liquor store, right? HERE'S THE NEWS! CRAP! Apparently while I was at the liquor store, people around the world already started celebrating...
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