I hope everyone playing the Mercury-fluoride-whine drinking game just took a big swig of their favorite libation. (If you're at work, well, that's no excuse.)
I second the opinion expressed in the asterisk. If the Mercury hasn't done so already, I think the hippy-dippy, pseudo-science, new-age quackery of Portland deserves a feature article examining it and debunking how many of it's tenants said article could accommodate.
I see a frustrating, if not bemusing, parallel of this pseudo-science left to the anti-science right. Also, can we please address the astrology problem? That is all and I relinquish my soapbox now.
So are they planning to switch to all first run movies or will they still be doing cheap ($3-4) second run movies? Showing The Hunger Games and the new ticket prices makes me think the former :(
Man, I had completely forgotten about that movie. Sad to see it return to my head.
Someone I was dating at the time wanted to watch it. After it was done she wanted to hear what I thought about it "on an intellectual level" and discuss some of the ideas it presented. I told her I thought it was the film equivalent of having to watch a bunch of college freshmen on a dorm room floor get off on listening to themselves discuss something I have no interest in.
A huge argument ensued over my lack of wanting to have a deeper discussion about anything. Maybe we could have met in the middle and I counter that we read the Apache Web Server source code and discover the exciting things we find in there. (really, some of the comments in it are funny).
Anyways, on a positive note, I look forward to being able to buy a beer in under 35 minutes.
Allison, Allison, Allison...You're the Arts Editor for the Merc. As such I'll assume that you've been to at least a handful of McMenamins properties. You should know better than to think that they are capable of running anything that qualifies as the best in Portland.
Is there even a copy of "What the Bleep" in a resolution higher than 480p? It'd be a shame to debut a 4k projector on a 50ft wide screen w/ a 7.1 surround setup by essentially streaming Netflix onto it.
Parentheses much? (Just kidding)(not really). A half inch of dust? What, from St Helen's. You believed him enough to report that (or did you know how ridiculous that sounds [and were trying to make a funny])? Pretty sweet use of italics too (never seen that technique [work] before).
I see a frustrating, if not bemusing, parallel of this pseudo-science left to the anti-science right. Also, can we please address the astrology problem? That is all and I relinquish my soapbox now.
Someone I was dating at the time wanted to watch it. After it was done she wanted to hear what I thought about it "on an intellectual level" and discuss some of the ideas it presented. I told her I thought it was the film equivalent of having to watch a bunch of college freshmen on a dorm room floor get off on listening to themselves discuss something I have no interest in.
A huge argument ensued over my lack of wanting to have a deeper discussion about anything. Maybe we could have met in the middle and I counter that we read the Apache Web Server source code and discover the exciting things we find in there. (really, some of the comments in it are funny).
Anyways, on a positive note, I look forward to being able to buy a beer in under 35 minutes.