Graphic designer Christophe Gowans has an awesome project up on Flickr in which he reimagines records as book covers. This one’s my fave… Nobody fucks with Prince Rogers Nelson. These will soon be available as a postcard set. Another good one after the jump. Via.
Jacob Schraer
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Stumptown Q&A: Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown first gained notoriety in the early 2000’s for his autobiographical comics Clumsy and Unlikely. Tender and honest, these comics told the story of Brown’s troubled, early relationships. Jeffrey Brown is appearing at the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend with his new project, Incredible Change Bots. Have you spent much time in our town […]
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Bad Blood Hosts Joe Wenderoth Tonight!
Did you read Letters to Wendy’s? A cult classic of the early century, Letter’s to Wendy’s is framed as a series of customer comment cards written to the fast food giant. They start mundane and earnest, but quickly spiral into the absurd, hostile, and bizarrely sexual fantasies of the disturbed patron. Read as a novel, […]
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Smalldoggies Reading: Fresh New Location, Same Usual Awesomeness
The Smalldoggies reading series has changed venues to The Globe on Belmont. It’s taking place tonight with musical guest Rob Gray playing at 7:30, followed by three readings. The Globe Poet Derrick Brown comes from Long Beach but travels extensively. Writer Frances Dinger is visiting from Seattle, and Rob Noble is a local and writes […]
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Disaster Porn
Jim Shepard’s Intense, Overwhelming You Think That’s Bad
Jim Shepard’s writing is so good it borders on gaudy.
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The First Rule Of Book Club
A cool event at the Bagdad theater on Monday, The First Rule of Book Club meets first at the Backstage Bar off Hawthorne to discuss a book, then moves to the Bagdad Theater to watch the film adaptation. So it’s a book club and a film club. (Which is cool cause like every book ever […]
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From Here To Eternity Gets The Anti-Huck Finn Treatment
Here’s a refreshing example of literary heirs doing right by their forbears. The estate of James Jones, author of the World War II classic From Here to Eternity (and buddy of Kurt Vonnegut) is making available a digital version of the novel that restores some cussing and some gay sex that was censored from the […]
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Sister Spit Encore Tonight At Lewis & Clark
If you weren’t able to catch the Sister Spit tour on Tuesday there’s another performance tonight at Lewis & Clark college. It takes place in Evans Auditorium at 7 p.m. and it’s FREE. People you might have heard of include Michelle Tea and Kirk Read. Myriam Gurba, whose chapbook Wish You Were Me was just […]
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Portland Author Kevin Sampsell…Covered?
Local author/publisher Kevin Sampsell was surprised to discover the other day that a chapter of his memoir had been adapted into a song by Illinois songwriter Paul Kotheimer. Wondering aloud about royalties and trademarks, I asked Kevin how he felt about the homage.Mercury: One word, synergy. Writing. Publishing. Retail. And now, music. Do you plan […]
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Hitler Sci-Fi Contest!
Check out this crazy book! Below the jump are two covers for the same book (there’s even more crazy ones out there, but these are the covers I have). Make up a plot for this book, Hitler and His Magic Unicorn Cycle The Iron Dream, post it in the comments, and the best one gets […]
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Will the Future Kill the Comedy of Today?
In an essay at Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz wonders if future generations will be able to appreciate The Simpsons after his son asks him, “Dad, why is that funny?” Trying to explain one innocuous joke means referencing dozens of fated cultural touchstones. He concludes: They referred to things that were current or that felt that […]
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Give Me Mad Men Or…No I Just Want Mad Men
We (or, I) might have to wait an extra few months, or maybe even until 2012, before the fifth season of Mad Men starts. According to the New York Times, which I plan on linking to with a holy fury before their pay wall goes up, negotiations between AMC and Lionsgate over pay for the […]