Hey, San Fransisco-based writer Tony Dushane just put out a neat little novel about growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk is the story of Gabe, a young Witness who struggles to make his own budding sexuality fit with the doctrines of the Church. Gabe and his friends Peter and […]
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Meet the J-Dubs
In Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
A teenage Jehovah’s Witness’ secrets are revealed in Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk.
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Cruisin’ with Amy Roloff
The other day I got an email opportunity to talk to Amy Roloff, one of the stars of TLC’s documentary show Little People, Big World. In case you haven’t seen it, the show focuses on the Roloff family, who, among other things, run a pumpkin farm outside of Hillsboro. Also, Amy, her husband Matt, and […]
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Dear John: You’re Boring
A Hallmark Channel Unoriginal
A Hallmark Channel unoriginal.
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Calvin & Hobbes’ Bill Watterson: Still Alive
J.D. Salinger may be dead, but similarly revered, similarly reclusive author Bill Watterson is not. The Cleveland Plain Dealer got an interview (via email, of course) with the Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist—the first he’s granted in over 20 years—in connection with an upcoming book about the strip. “Leave me alone!” Nothing that revelatory here, but […]
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Call Your Little Sister 30 Years Ago: ABBAWORLD’s Open!
The British love Abba. From what I can tell, they never stopped loving Abba. They love Abba so much that Mamma Mia! beat out Titanic as the UK’s highest grossing film ever. They love Abba so much that Matt Davis has a serpentine tattoo of an angelic Agnetha Fältskog wrapped round his right thigh. Take […]
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Ap-hockey-lypse Now Redux
Hey, remember this? Time to re-up, motherfuckers! The polar bear is back and he’s sending a flaming hockey puck up your poophole! Fuck you, Earth! Long live hockey! You’re welcome.
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Whiskey Walled Wonders
Where to Drink When You Want to Drink Whiskey
Places that will fill you with whiskey, food, music, and—oh, yes—love.
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Cinematic Angel Roundup
Humans and angels have a long and storied history together. It is a proven fact that messengers from God used to hang out on Earth all the time, usually to inform people of impending births or to strut their pretty selves around Sodom and Gomorrah just asking to be sodomized. And that’s not all! Many […]
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Me & Mario Lopez
When the opportunity arose out of nowhere to interview Mario Lopez I jumped on it. Lopez had flown into Portland to shoot scenes for his job as host of Extra, though why either of us would want to talk to the another was left unclear. He is constantly working, but didn’t seem to be pushing […]
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How to Be Pretentious and Self-Involved
How to Be Inappropriate Falls Short of a Very Low Bar
Daniel Nesterís How to Be Inappropriate falls short of a very low bar.
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Here’s Your Chance, Portland’s “Bad Girls!”
If you’ve been trolling the Craigslist want-ads daily like me, looking for bread crusts to dip in your water, you also saw this: Oxygen’s hit show “The Bad Girls Club” is casting in Portland! “The Bad Girls Club brings seven self-proclaimed ‘bad girls’ together in a beautiful mansion. Will living together help them move forward […]