I’ve lived a pretty charmed life. The worst thing that’s ever happened to me was the time I sneezed while eating oatmeal. *Shudder* But over the holidays I learned what true pain is because I dropped my brand new smart phone and watched the life wink out of it. Forever. My last phone survived a […]
Alex Falcone
Alex is a moderately attractive comedian and Internet celebrity. He writes about philosophy, robots, travel, and himself.
Posted inThe Year in Review
Things Not Invited Back to 2015
ARTWORK BY DAVID PEREZCASSAR LAST YEAR SUCKED for a lot of people. I enjoyed it because life is a kick-ass, toe-tapping good time in every way for me—but I feel you if you had a bad year. I can’t fix it, but maybe together we can work toward a better oh-15 by banning some of […]
Posted inGeneral
Things Not Invited Back in 2015
A Year of Terrible Things That Can Go Away Now, Thankyouverymuch
2014: the year in terrible things that can go away now, thankyouverymuch.
Posted inVideo Games
Look But Don’t Megatouch
Maybe I haven’t been spent enough time in classless bars, but I was only recently exposed to MegaTouch Live machines. How did nobody tell me about this low-point in human culture? Megatouch is an arcade-like game cabinet for sad, lonely men who don’t have iPhones. The machines offer a bizarre mix of smart phone game […]
Posted inBooks
Interview with Patrick Rothfuss from Late Night Action
If you like Patrick Rothfuss I think you’ll really enjoy this interview I did with him at last month’s Late Night Action. He’s funny, charming, and humble to the point where I’m concerned he doesn’t quite know how good of a writer he actually is. And don’t forget this month’s episode is Thursday night at […]
Posted inMusic
Join Me In Donating To a Hopeless Indiegogo Campaign For The Wrong Reasons
The real Alex Falcone. I want you to donate money right now to a classic rock band it Italy who doesn’t have a lead singer. Okay, I mostly want you to do it because the keyboardist is also named Alex Falcone and he has crazy hair. Maybe you don’t feel much empathy for your doppelnämer, […]
Posted inArtsy
Win Tickets to Late Night Action at the Portland Art Museum
This week we have a very special episode of Late Night Action w/ Alex Falcone at the Portland Art Museum. Yes, for some strange reason the esteemed institution that is the Portland Art Museum made a huge mistake and allowed our comedy miscreants to run amok in their nice museum THIS THURSDAY at 8pm at […]
Posted inEvents
Thing You Can’t Do In December: Learn How To Survive “The Killshot”
Sure, you’d love to go to the Convention Center to attend Major Ed Dames’ seminar “Surviving The Killshot” for a measly $299/person—but YOU CAN’T because it’s sold out. That’s too bad. Now you’re going to get killshotted. Major Ed Dames is a former intelligence officer who claims he was trained by the military to be […]
Posted inPodcast
Serial Pessimist
Allow me to spoil the ending to the insanely popular podcast Serial: you’re going to be disappointed. There’s just no way the very long episode of This American Life is going to have a satisfying ending. Sure, it’s fun listening to Sarah Koenig run around trying to understand why teenagers and police officers behave the […]
Posted inCrime
One Millionaire’s Brave Stance Against Lunch Thieves
I have a new favorite columnist in Portland. His name is B. Scott Taylor and he’s a GoLocalPDX MINDSETTER™ (I checked. Semi-legitimate news source GoLocalPDX actually spent the time and money to trademark the hilariously dorky title MINDSETTER™). According to his bio on every column he publishes, Taylor is an “Internet millionaire” and “disruptive force”. […]
Posted inComedy
Win Tickets to Patrick Rothfuss on Late Night Action
Coming up on Monday 10/27 at 8pm, it’s an absolutely huge episode of Late Night Action at Mississippi Studios. We’ve got author of The Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss live and in the flesh. If that wasn’t enough, we’ll be joined by KGW newscaster and super cool dude Reggie Aqui, co-founder of Lez Standup Kirsten Kuppenbender, […]
Posted inTech
New Spammer Trick: Implanting False Memories
Every once in a while it’s good to skim through your spam folder to see if you’re missing anything important and to learn what new techniques spammers have developed. It was during one of these routine checks that I discovered my favorite spam tactic I’ve ever seen. It’s the Eternal Sunshine trick, where the email […]