…really needs to watch about 30 seconds of this motherfucker.
Sean Nelson
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The Thermals Disband
The Thermals, 2002-2018. Westin Glass, Kathy Foster, Hutch Harris JASON QUIGLEY One of the great Portland bands of this (or indeed any other) century has called it good. Pitchfork reported today that the smart, funny, killer melodic punk trio the Thermals are disbanding. The group issued this statement: “We are officially disbanding. After 16 years […]
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New Roseanne: Neither Savior Nor Sacrilege, but Very Funny Once the Gunk Burns Off
A whole lotta Rosie. I admit, I may have been the tiniest bit overeager, but still… After all the preliminary hype about Roseanne (if not Roseanne) being pro-Trump, it appears the subject was mostly enlisted in service of a feud subplot—and one really good joke—between Roseanne and her sister Jackie. The idea of the beloved […]
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Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal Continues to Fuck Up
Jesse Hughes: So far right you can’t even see his right hand. HARMONY GERBER/SHUTTERSTOCK It’s worth remembering the moment when Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal—the band that was on stage when the shots rang out at Bataclan in Paris in 2015—deserved and received the world’s sincere sympathy. It’s also worth remembering the moment, […]
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Stephen Sondheim Is 88 Years Old Today
Another satisfied customer Happy birthday to the man who is both almost certainly the greatest living, and maybe even greatest ever, writer of lyrics for musical theater, and who is responsible for writing my least favorite song of all time. From Lin-Manuel Miranda’s profile of Sondheim for the NY Times Style Magazine last year: “It’s […]
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We Now Return You to the Age of Facebook Anxiety, Already in Progress
Revelations about FB’s “surveillance machine” intensify users’ long-held misgivings. But will we quit?
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Quincy Jones Tweets Conditional Apology for His ‘Wordvomit’ Interview
Quincy Jones appears to wanna stop startin’ somethin’ Brian Ach/Getty Images Fifteen days ago, Vulture published an interview with Quincy Jones in which the record producer/arranger/music legend made several extraordinary claims. He dragged his most fruitful musical collaborator Michael Jackson as a semi-plagiarist, said the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix were poor musicians, made a veiled […]
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Help the Hoople: Two Nights of Celebrating Scott McCaughey’s Recovery in Portland
Ladies, gentlemen, and others, Mr. Scott McCaughey Regrets? I’ve had a few. But at this moment, the most piercing one is that I didn’t get down to Portland for either night of the Help the Hoople shows dedicated to raising funds and spirits to aid in the mighty Scott McCaughey’s recovery. (Help the Hoople, as […]
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Bannon Denies Reports that He Intends to Eat Shit in Hell After Leaving Breitbart
Stephen K. Bannon. The K stands for “contemptuous of humankind.” WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES “That’s just what my enemies want me to do,” said the recently disgraced, thoroughly discredited political strategist and image manipulator who bent the laws of reason, truth, and quantum physics to get Donald Trump elected to the presidency because he (Steve Bannon) […]
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Top 20 Podcasts of 2017
From Crimetown to S-Town (with two conflicts of interest in between), the shows we chose for our private radios.
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Congratulations on Your Enormous Goddamn Tax Cut, Wyatt Ingraham Koch!
“Be authentic, be real, be yourself, be confident, and always be a gentleman, but still have that tenacity that no one can take away from you.” This man, nephew of the Koch brothers, and therefore son of the other Koch brother, has a company that makes fashion shirts for men. (He is also apparently suing […]