Living in New Orleans and having just thrown away several empty bottles of O’Douls reminds me of one of my favorite “Stuff White People Like” posts: If you are in a situation where a white person produces an empty bottle, watch their actions. They will first say “where’s the recycling?” If you say
Big news today. The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released around 92,000 classified reports from Afghanistan that detail hundreds of civilian deaths, every logged IED (improvised explosive device) incident over five years, and growing suspicions among NATO for
John was a big flirt and a funny, wicked talented artist. RIP, Big Guy. Share This
$100 Milagros Gift Certificate Raffle! Come in anytime between now and Friday, August 6 and enter your name in our drawing for a $100 Milagros Gift Certificate! We’ll pick a winner during the Big Latch On! event at Milagros. The fine print? None. Entries are FREE, no purchase is necessary, you may enter once a day, an
The weekend's other new wide release, 20th Century Fox's family comedy "Ramona and Beezus," took in $8 million to finish at No. 6.
Season 4 of AMC’s hit show Mad Men starts tonight, Sunday July 25th. The party will be hosted by Portland’s own @PeggyOlson (@CarriBugbee). Details below. What: Mad Men season premiere party: 60’s era theme, specialty cocktails, free h’ordeuvres, jazz music, prizes and show viewing. When: Sunday July 25t
You may have heard that Li'l Johnny bought himself a brand-new $7 million luxury yacht (he's such a Man of the People). You may have heard that he docked it in Rhode Island in order to avoid forking over another...
After the economic crisis, the economy in Germany is recovering faster than expected. Especially in the automotive and aerospace sectors engineers are sought urgently. Many jobs are vacant in the engineering sector and the pay is very good because of this. If you are searching for a job working in this field in [...]
A man also known for his writing, music and filmmaking, Callahan will be remembered for his drawings that frequently stepped beyond the boundaries of political correctness.
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Chicago, as it happens, is one of the main centers in North America for the bush-meat trade, which conservationists such as Crawford Allan, who heads up the N.A. unit of the TRAFFIC group, claims exerts a major conservation impact on...
Gay People Welcome -- Gay Marriages, Not So Much.....Just like Carly Simon, it just goes to show that you can't keep a closeted homosexual meth user down.
Playwright Eugenia Woods presents an interactive performance piece about our relationships with food, part of her research for an in-progress work called "Famished."
If you are Mad Men fan, this picture probably looks a bit funny now. They’ve come a long way since that first season. Tonight is the premiere of Season 4 and Portland’s Cari Bugbee/Cari Bella/@PeggyOlson is throwing a big Party at the Gypsy Lounge. You don’t have to wear 60s attire to go to the [...]
Let's inaugurate my new unit of measurement, the Sellwood (1 Sellwood = $200 million), by using it to measure our region's three most significant proposed transportation projects: the Columbia River Crossing, the Milwaukie Light Rail, and the Sellwood Bridge replacement...
The crowd of some 6,000 sci-fi and comic book fans greeted him with a sustained standing ovation unmatched by any other during this year's event.
I was working out the math in some upcoming posts about transportation, in which I intend to tackle the Columbia River Crossing, the expansion of light rail, the gas tax, and ODOT, and struggling with how to compare costs and...
I have a tendency to get caught up in the stressors of day-to-day life and can let myself get close to the edge. But the one idea that backs me up from the slippery precipice is the notion that I am my own boss. This is true with my blog, my family and my household [...]
Sure, it's clunky and declasse, but dubbing can be useful to expose children to classics.
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5 days until the 2010 PDX Pop Now! Festival kicks off. Until then, take a moment to get a little better acquainted with
We need your opinion… We’re ready for your harsh critique! It’s no secret that is Portland one the most bike friendly cities in the world (#2 according to bicycling.com). So I guess it should be no surprise that someone came up to us at a...
My first DNF. (Did Not Finish.) We camped the night before the race. This was a big deal for me. I do not camp. Sweetie was a start/finish area aid station volunteer and they threw in a free campsite. And the nearest motels were at least a half hour away. And the race started at [...]
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I really adore Flavia de Luce.When Miss Flavia bumbles upon a couple with a broken-down van, she quickly inserts herself into the situation to "help" and discovers that the couple are in fact the world famous puppeteer Rupert Porson and his beautiful assistant Nialla. When Rupert and Nialla agree to stay in tiny B
ZOLA JESUS, PETE SWANSON, THE SLAVES, DJ YETI (Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Zola Jesus was birthed in a rural Wisconsin bedroom. Dreamed up by a sullen teenaged Nika Roza Danilova, the name was more a pseudonym than anything formal; just an excuse for the reclusive tee
The Supreme Court just finished their fifth term under Chief Justice John Roberts. What's the verdict? In those five years, the court not only moved to the right but also became the most conservative one in living memory, based on...
The new trailer for Matt Reeves’ Let Me In can be watched below. Opening October 1st, Let Me In tells a terrifying tale about an alienated 12-year old boy named Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting reve
In their discussion at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Sig Hansen and Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand talk about life on the Bering Sea, reality TV, and the future of Captain Phil Harris' Cornelia Marie
Diet pill that works is a hot commodity right now. It is fantastic how associates can’t dodge a straightforward province like information. It’s some intense market. What would happen if you combined both of these powerful conclusions? I did meet with some opposition on this. You must not seek out a largely overl
Pros of Birdhouse – By using a birdhouse you’ll be equipped to transform your entire garden straight into a delightful place and also tranquil asylum needed for birds to be able to reside and create nests inside. You’ll be able to keep the birds cozy and protected during the wintry months and give them a
John Callahan, the hard-hitting Portland-based cartoonist whose edgy work offended some and entertained many others, has
(via awkwardstockphotos) Cheaper than coach….
A few days ago I posted a preview teaser for the upcoming and OH! so awesome film adaptation of Dark Horse's The Goon. And now there's even more Goon goodness which debuted the ot
Real phone conversation from a weird looking dude:Guess what, your test is coming up in 2 days, and it will be 20% of your grade, I guess you're screwed. I am 39 years old, and you're 23. I'm all the way over this side of town, and you want me to head over to your house and help you with your test. Once I
Kyle Munkittrick thinks so. John Hawks isn’t so sure: Of course today this is all just idle talk. Someone who’s talking about other extinct species, I don’t take very seriously. We’re talking about an ancient population of humans here. Not like quaggas; more like Tasmanians — a group of peopl
A friend of ours encounters bloody indifference among the local cops down around Sisters.
Imagine if you will, a child in South Africa plays soccer with her friends for an hour. Then goes home and plugs her LED reading lamp in to the ball so that she can study. Science fiction? Not any more.Meet the sOccket, the soccer ball that converts energy in to
One of the species recorded from the cave in Craters of the Moon National Monument - western long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis)
from corbett report: We know that the banksters have enslaved society in a perpetual cycle of debt servitude...but what is to be done? Join us this week as we delve into history for an example of a people taking the power of money creation into their own hands. download/subscribe the latest corbett report interviews: #1
The NY Times discusses the language of the hit show, Man Men. No show in American television history, it is safe to say, has ever put so much effort into maintaining historically appropriate ways of speaking — and no show has attracted so much scrutiny for its efforts. The three seasons that have been broadcast, [..
"the world won’t say a thing" from the national: The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass not only Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister but also the US administration of Barack Obama. The film was shot, apparently without Mr Netanyahu’s knowledge, nine years ago, when the governm
I voted for the President, and I’ll likely do it again. But while I’ll certainly take the new approach to healthcare over what we had, that doesn’t mean I like it. There’s been some talk on the left that maybe even Hayek (the classic Libertarian) would have supported the current plan. Will Wilkinso
In a town of gifted animators and graphic novelists and even the cartooning Simpsons daddy of ‘em all, Matt Groening, John Callahan has long held a special place: the edgiest of the edgy, the guy from way out there, the quadriplegic artist (we mention this because that fact is so important to the formation of [...]
Join us for a 5% Community Support Day in honor of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association. Whole Foods will donate 5% of all sales to the Pearl District Neighborhood Asso
in the abandoned motel, originally uploaded by bealluc. A race is on I’m on your side And hearing you my engines die I’m in a mood for you For running away Stars come down in you And love, love, love you can’t give it away Inside you the time moves and she don’t fade The [...]