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Tomorrow: Stormtroopers vs. Klingons Blood Drive.
Two forces that are no strangers to blood—be it the reeking splatters of Jawa innards or the stupid guts of Captain Kirk's stupid kid—are teaming up to do some good. Nice work, Imperial stormtroopers...
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My Favorite Twitter Moment of 2010
Sorry, Willy I'm not saying the fine upstanding journalists of End Hits got incredibly fucked up at this year's Pickathon—I don't remember—but there were some questionable Twitter posts from the...
View ArticleBest Wishes/Sage Advice for Your New Year's Eve Partying
Everyone will be posting that U2 song, that Death Cab song, or that Walkmen song this weekend. Alternately, here's a little wisdom for the ages from Pulp to pop your NYE party balloons: "Can you show...
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What are YOU Doing for New Year's?
Personally, I'm dropping three Oxycontins, snorting five bumps of coke, swilling a gallon of tequila, and spending the remainder of the evening in the back of a Chiers van... but that's just me. WHAT...
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The Year In Cats
This video compilation over at Gawker (shiver) presents, in ninety wonderful seconds, the best cat memes of 2010, including a list of all the links. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Download Episode 25 of the Mercury Music Hour
It's the year's end, and just in time 2010's final episode of Mercury Music Hour. We know, 2010 has been a dud thus far. But it's not too late to completely turn your year around (at the very last...
View ArticleUpdated: New Year's Shooting Blocks off Large Section of Downtown
UPDATE 9:57 PM: Portland police are now saying they have caught the person who allegedly shot the victim outside Club 915 early this morning. From the PPB:31-year-old Kevin Charles Moffett has been...
View ArticleFilm Review: Do it Again
I love the Kinks, but I hated the new Kinks movie, Do it Again. That's because it isn't really about the Kinks, but about Boston Globe writer Geoff Edgers and his "quest" to reunite the band. A little...
View ArticleDig A Pony, Or Maybe Not
2010 saw the closing of Niki’s—the Greek diner that sat on the corner of SE Grand and Morrison for 38 years—but 2011 will witness the space’s rebirth as a new bar, which may or not end up being called...
View ArticleTeam Up: David Lynch and Michael Jackson
Apropos of nothing, here's the short film David Lynch directed to promote Michael Jackson's 1991 album Dangerous. Lynch was coming off of a Cannes win for Wild at Heart, Jackson was heading into his...
View Article30 Years Ago in Police Training Videos
The following police training video from the '80s (and presumably shot in Minnesota?) spotlights the difficulties of encountering dickheads in Corvettes with pocket knives, face stabbings, and...
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Want to Hear the New Decemberists' Album?
The King Is Dead, the new Pendarvis Farms recorded album from the Decemberists, will be out on January 18, but that's a long time to wait. If patience is not your thing, just head on over to NPR Music...
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Robert Liberty Resigning from Metro Council
Metro councilor Rex Burkholder just sent out this surprising tweet: MetroRobert Liberty: Demure, beardedRobert Liberty has been a strong, critical voice against the current Columbia River Crossing...
View ArticleKitchen Cybernetics
Have you heard of the Singularity, popularized by Ray Kurzweil, in which nanotechnology bonds with our biology and we all become transcendant super-beings who never die? It's a dubious possibility,...
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Another Reason for You to Dislike Me: I Didn't Think Toy Story 3 Was All that...
And yet? A crazy number of people (including certain members of the insular mutual masturbation club that is the Mercury film team) loved it, along with Quentin Tarantino who put Toy Story 3 in the...
View ArticleR.I.P. Pete Postlethwaite
Yesterday the British actor Steven Spielberg once called "the best actor in the world," Pete Postlethwaite, passed away from cancer. In honor of his 64 years of life, let's take a moment to remember...
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Episode #26 of the Mercury Music Hour
Episode number 26 of the Mercury Music Hour is on the air, RIGHT NOW! Music from Menomena, Rabbits, Desire, Red Fang, Living Proof, and plenty more. Stream the show online at 947.fm or listen live on...
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Lil Wayne's Teddy Bear Shoes: Adorable Or Annoying?
I can't decide: One thing that might sway you from "adorable" to "annoying": They retail for $328. On the other hand, that's only like a nickel in celebrity money. Product shots are after the jump. [...
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Review: Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture won the Narrative Feature Film Award at South by Southwest, landing the 23-year-old Dunham an HBO pilot executive-produced by Judd Apatow and all the attendant buzz you'd...
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This Weekend Had the Most Insane Series of Crimes
Reports about a tragic death and several insane assaults got buried this weekend between news of two police shootings. The rest of 2010 had the lowest crime rate in 40 years, but I'm going to go ahead...
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