Putting a traditional spin on your same-sex marriage.
Posted inQueer
I Do, and You Can Too: The Right Way to Get Married
Putting a Traditional Spin on Your Same-Sex Marriage
Alex Falcone
Alex is a moderately attractive comedian and Internet celebrity. He writes about philosophy, robots, travel, and himself.
Posted inComedy
You Should Watch the Portland’s Funniest Person Contest at Helium
Most comedians dread this time of year because it offers yet another opportunity to feel bad about yourself and your career, but I think it’s great. I really love the annual Helium contest and I think you will too if you go watch some shows. I see lots of local comics every day, but I […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Cartopia, Fear of Change, and the Need to Get More Awesome
Photo: Shanti Braford (Flickr) The cart pod on SE 12th and Hawthorne is going to become something else. Pretty much everybody on Facebook and Twitter is pissed (to my surprise, Google+ seems to have largely missed this story). Are we throwing away everything that made this city great? Are we gentrifying ourselves to death? Are […]
Posted inNews
Five Stories You May Have Missed This Week
Flickr: islandgyrl Duck: Not To Be Fucked With Welcome to another weekly wrap-up of local news stories that slipped through the cracks. As usual (this is only the 2nd in this series, so I’m using “usual” liberally) it’s mostly animal and food stories. Let’s start with something a little sad. A rancher killed a GIGANTIC […]
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Six Great Stories You May Have Missed Last Week
My writing staff and I have combed through hundreds of news stories preparing for this week’s Mercury-sponsored Late Night Action. We can’t fit all of them into the monologue, so here are our favorite 6 stories that you may have missed (with jokes!). The Portland Police announced plans to carry out a sting on dogs […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Heaven Is For Profit
HEAVEN IS FOR REAL A movie about a four-year-old’s particularly vivid dream. Heaven is for Real is the latest in a series of low-budget religious movies put out by Hollywood to capture the elusive “movies are too risqué for me” dollar. The movie adapts a 2010 book by Pastor Todd Burpo (whose name they really […]
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What Should I Ask Bill Oakley (The Simpsons, Portlandia) and Steve Gaynor (Bioshock, Gone Home)?
This Saturday night, on my monthly live talk show Late Night with Alex Falcone (ever heard of it?), I’m interviewing two incredibly talented dudes. Bill Oakley, who is a former show runner for The Simpsons and an executive producer of Portlandia, and Steve Gaynor, a video game designer who worked on Bioshock 2 and Gone […]
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9 Things God’s Not Dead Gets Wrong About The Way The World Works
The comically awful movie God’s Not Dead isn’t going to persuade anybody with its arguments; even a child could see how badly formulated they are. But in addition to being inept at philosophy, the astute observer will also notice that the filmmakers are so out of touch with the world, they might have been raised […]
Posted inBooks
No Such Thing As Bad Publicity
You may not have noticed, but I rarely use my blogging power here on Blogtown for good. I pretty much just make fun of stupid things. It’s mostly because I’m a terrible person but there’s also a momentum to it. I review bad things, therefore people suggest bad things for me to review. If there […]
Posted inTV
I Really Want To Hate Neil DeGrasse Tyson, But It’s Not Working
Neil Degrasse Tyson is too prevalent, too universally liked, too smiley. He must be destroyed. I’m not proud of it, but that is how I think, the Law of Contrary Public Opinion. I just got this overwhelming sense that somebody was She’s All Thating him. Somebody made a bet that they could make a goofy […]
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Alex Falcone and Bri Pruett’s Rider
Since Bri and became famous for our Mercury-sponsored talk show Late Night Action, we’ve been a bit more demanding with venues. While we normally try to keep this a secret, our rider was recently published on Wikileaks so we decided to get ahead of the story. Here is what we demand at any show. Not […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
“The Blue Man Has No Ego,” and Other Wisdom of the Blue Man Group
The Blue Man Group is coming through Portland this weekend for five performances, March 7-9. Since interviewing a Blue Man is a weird thing to do on a Tuesday afternoon, the Mercury sent me. I sat down with Russell Rinker, a trained Shakespearean actor and former lumberjack who’s been with the company for over 7 […]