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Here is the 2011 Sasquatch! Lineup
This just in, straight from the ape-creature's mouth, it's the lineup for the 2011 Sasquatch! festival: Foo Fighters | Death Cab for Cutie | Modest Mouse | Wilco | Flaming Lips (Performing The Soft...
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Notes From My One-Man Super Bowl Party
I ate it all. Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers, winners of Super Bowl whatever, the pre-eminent festival of gluttonous consumption. Actually it was a great game. But I'm not here to Monday...
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Paging Federation X
Monday marks the final date of Federation X's brief tour along the easter seaboard. It was their first shows in some time, save for a one-off in the band's former stomping ground of Bellington, WA....
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Good Morning, News!
Good morning, Beez-townzies! Let's go to press: As Andrew noted last night in his very Socialist leaning post, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl—while the Black...
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Photos from A Novel Romance
First things first, which the women of the English Dept. clearly understand, and so greeted their guests at the door of the Ace Hotel Cleaners with a mimosa apiece yesterday. (Hey, it was noon on a...
View ArticleUK Court "Bans" Man With Low IQ From Having Sex
This seems nuts: A man with an IQ of 48 has been ordered to stop having sex by a High Court judge. Known only as Alan, the 41-year-old was in a relationship with a man he lived with and said he wanted...
View ArticleShad - "Keep Shining" Video
Shad has been killing it as of late, delivering the excellent Tsol (Us) last year and now the Canadian emcee has wrapped up shooting this video for his woman-positive (gasp!) jam, "Keep Shining." It's...
View ArticleBe-Bop Bamboozled
To take the edge off the horrible disappointment of yesterday's halftime show featuring the truly awful Black Eyed Peas, please enjoy the pinnacle of Super Bowl halftime extravaganza-tude, from 1989....
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Justin Bieber's Here... You Can Die Now, Ozzy.
Did you catch that almost indecipherable blink-and-you'd-miss-it Justin Bieber commercial during yesterday's Super Bowl? I HATED IT, YO! Mostly because they were trying to cram WAY too much into a 30...
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Perfect Pickle
So I guess there's no point in keeping up the charade any longer. The only reason I took this Mercury gig was that I knew it would be a stepping stone to a technical-advisory job on some kind of...
View ArticleSL Letter of the Day: Let Me Dilate That For You
My roommate agreed to disagree with me that about the composition of a cervix. He thinks it is a bone. I think it cannot be a bone, because it changes shape throughout the different times of a woman's...
View ArticleYour Subliminal Guide to the Super Bowl Commercials
Dear fans of subliminal advertising!I have a piece up today over at MSNBC.com which serves as a handy guide for all the Super Bowl commercials that used subliminal advertising to SCREW WITH YOUR MIND....
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Green Lantern Halloween Costumes Will Make You Long for the Sweet Release of...
Hey, it's Leprechaun Andy Rooney!Remember when Watchmen was about to come out, and they thought people would actually go and see it, and so, naturally, they also thought people would want to dress up...
View ArticleGroupon's Superbowl Ad
Groupon's blog has an explanation of their controversial, Christopher Guest-directed Superbowl spot: The gist of the concept is this: When groups of people act together to do something, it’s usually...
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Brian Jacques Dies at 71
BBC Growing up, Brian Jacques' Redwall series (featuring armed mice and other animals) was a staple on my bookshelf. It was also the first time I was introduced to the concept of killing off main...
View ArticleThese Super Bowl Movie Ads are Epilepsy-tastic!
Sick of all this inane Oscar buzz and hoity-toity arthouse crap? Holy shit, have I got an antidote for you. As per usual, studios showcased their upcoming summer blockbusters during yesterday's Super...
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Bishops To Celebrate 10 Years by Giving You a Free Haircut
Sigh... remember back when Bishops Barbershop was just a wee operation, churning out rocker hairdos and free PBRs in its lone SE Hawthorne location? Well times have changed, Bishops has expanded like...
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Workers Picket City Shelter for Youth and Sex Trafficking Victims
There's some labor unrest over at Janus Youth, the social services provider that secured a $285,000 city contract to provide shelter space for sex trafficked teens. This morning, workers and members...
View ArticlePortlandia Recap: Theater of the Annoying
Okay, who watched Portlandia on Friday night? If you answered "yes," then I have a second question for you: WAS THAT LIKE THE WORST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN OR WHAT?? (Okay, maybe not the worst......
View ArticleJane McGonigal Tonight at OMSI Science Pub
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cJane McGonigalwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive Games developer Jane McGonigal will be in...
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