The BEST part about being pregnant—and subsequently having a baby, because that’s how pregnancy usually works—is the unsolicited advice! (Note sarcasm.) Parents may “mean well,” but they also sometimes offer stupid, unhelpful advice, like some kind of fraternity hazing thing. What follows is some actual good advice to counteract all the crap platitudes from baby […]
Kiala Kazebee
Posted inEvents
The Carolyn Show: The Interview
Comics illustrator and pug owner Carolyn Main sat down with me this week to discuss her new web series, her obsession with wizards, the 2010 Stumptown controversy, and plantain chips. You can catch the first episode of The Carolyn Show at 8 pm Friday, May 18 at Cosmic Monkey Comics. I’m told there might be […]
Posted inVideo
In Which I Discuss The Topic of Web Series With My Head On My Desk
So judgy. Geez. I have spent the past four days watching a variety of web series for this post and oh boy…the majority of them are really, really bad. As someone with friends in the web series community, I have a vested interest in this genre. And even though feelings might get hurt, I am […]
Posted inArtsy
Muppets with Human Eyes Are Scaring the Crap Out Of Me
After a very late night of Baby Ketten Karaoke and ill advised tequila shots I feel like shit on a cracker. Is that a term? Well, it is now. My point is, it is impossible to explain how awful I feel with words. Thank goodness there is this tumblr to paint you a picture of […]
Posted inComedy
From Buffy to Broadway
A Slightly Creepy Interview with Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Tom Lenk
A slightly creepy interview with Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Tom Lenk.
Posted inNeighborhoods
News From Above—Or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Burnside
Look! It is Henry’s! Something nefarious could happen here. Gone fetal worrying about the dearth of condo owning gentrification news in the wake of Matt Davis’ vacating Portland? Shaking a fist at the sky and shouting “UNJUST I SAY UNJUST” while popping lorazepams like candy? You are not alone, my friends. I, too, have been […]
Posted inMovies & TV
It’s a Terrible Movie Tonight!
Intern Will Radik™, Locket2you‘s Scott McCarty, and yours truly will be spewing wildly inappropriate “comedy” into microphones during a screening of the 1986 horror film Critters. Last week’s movie Masters of the Universe was wildly successful – TENS of people paid around $5 to listen to KUFO’s Fatboy Roberts, the Merc’s own Erik Henriksen, and […]
Posted inTV
OMG Mad Men Backstage Tour with Rich Sommers!
OMG YOU GUYS. Mad Men Season 3 premieres tonight! I cannot effing wait! Will Joan still be luscious like a juicy booby strawberry? Will Don still be luscious like a chocolate covered leather divan spritzed with Bay Rum? Will Peggy still be kind of weird and creepy??? (YES) All these questions and more will be […]
Posted inCats
“Swoops Followed Him Around the Corner and Hit Him Again. Lesson Learned. “
In a little over a month I’ll be back in our beloved city of Portland, Oregon and far, far away from the hills and burritos and super duper gayness of San Francisco, California. While I will miss these things very, very much I am extremely happy to be coming home. I imagine Odysseus felt exactly […]
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I Love You Jan Michael Vincent MARK SINGER But It Is Time We Moved On
The trailer for ABC’s updated version of V, the classic miniseries about gopher eating aliens, is all over the innarwebs today and although it looks a little SyFy channel-ish I’m still curious about any television series exploring themes such as the survival of the human race, religion, and the coming alien apocalypse. I’m certain if […]
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Oh Dollhouse, We Hardly Knew Ye
Dollhouse: The Funeral Episode *Sob* *Blows nose* *Cradles Helo pillowcase* *Sob* Tonight, dear friends, we see the end times come to Dollhouse. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in this case, are the Fox Executives, Miracle Laurie’s inexplicable lack of vocal inflection, Alan Tudyk’s miscasting (don’t jump down my throat yet, I’ll explain), and a […]