I’m fascinated with this essay from Deborah Copaken Kogan, war photographer, essayist, and bestselling author. After being long-listed for a literary award that’s only for women, she discovers it’s considered “controversial” because we as a society are living in an age of egalitarian harmony and “the past is gone.” In response, Kogan calls up a […]
Jacob Schraer
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BREAKING MAD MEN NEWS
Last week Elizabeth Moss was on Jimmy Kimmel Live to hype Mad Men. Unable to show any clips from the premiere, Kimmel and his team revealed that her first acting gig was in the classic Suburban Commando, where the mighty Hulk Hogan rescued her cat from a tree. In summation, Peggy was in Suburban Commando. […]
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Don’s Inferno: Mad Men Recap
Welcome back! Season 6 of Mad Men started last night, much to the consternation of many people on Twitter. I guess six years of a show is about right for people to tire of it, for them to no longer see its relevancy, to start trotting out their constant objections to it not conforming to […]
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What is Penis Blindness?
According to the January issue of Harper’s, “One third of male Londoners suffer from penis blindness.” WITHOUT USING THE INTERNET, please participate in this impromptu poll. The answer is below the jump. The correct answer is, “The inability to see your own penis over your stomach.” That is, unless you have any better ideas.
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Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Writers
Over at John Scalzi’s blog, the ever insightful author writes an excoriating take down of Random House’s epublishing wing which offers writers a shakedown contract for the ages. Scalzi’s impressions are detailed, but essentially boil down to the following direct quote: THIS IS A HORRIBLE AWFUL TERRIBLE APPALLING DISGUSTING CONTRACT WHICH IS BAD AND NO […]
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Blazers Vs. 76ers – Hot, Live Blog Action
Hello again. Tonight I’ll be bringing you a cutting edge, live recap from the upper 200 level of the Rose Garden where our very own Portland Trail Blazers are taking on the Philadelphia 76ers, a team I know very little about except that over the summer they lost Andre Igoudala and gained Andrew Bynum in […]
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Blazers Vs. Suns – Hot Live Blog Action
Hello Blogtown readers and Blazer fans! Tonight the Blazers take on the Phoenix Suns, 7:00 p.m., here at the Rose Garden. This is not the Phoenix Suns that ran Portland out of the playoffs two and a half years ago on their way to the Western Conference Finals. That championship-worthy team was promptly dismantled after […]
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Violence and Cleavage
The 3rd Floor’s After School Girlfight! Kill! Kill!
The 3rd Floor’s After School Girlfight! Kill! Kill!
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Poetry Powerhouse
Bad Blood Builds an Empire
Portland’s poetic forces collide at the Bad Blood reading series.
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Deeper Into Other Worlds: An Interview With Sammy Harkham
from Poor Sailor The Projects kicks off tonight at Floating World Comics with a book release party for Sammy Harkham’s Everything Together and Jonny Negron’s collection Negron, both published by Picturebox. Negron is a Brooklyn based artist known for bizarre erotic work that is awesome and disturbing. Sammy Harkham is the creator and editor of […]
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The End Of The World!!! (Panel)
This Saturday I started Wordstock off cheerily with a panel on The End Of The World. Three writers met to discuss their novels with an apocalyptic setting and the theme in general. They were: Portland’s own Daniel H. Wilson, a science fiction writer who holds a PhD in robotics. His career started with a small […]
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Wordstock 2012
Hawthorne Books Hawthorne Books, one of Portland’s many local presses, proud publisher of Lidia Yuknavitch, Monica Drake, and others. More photos after the jump. Ooligan Press Ooligan Press, the teaching press run by students of Portland State’s MFA program. Attic Journals Wave Books Wave Books from Seattle, highly recommended poetry press. Bad Blood’s Drew Swenhaugen […]