My best friend and I (straightish/not giving a fuck-ish female and asexual/gay agender) are in a rather codependent relationship. We are roughly equivalent from a psychological perspective, which is a rare find for such fucked up people. The differences that we do have tend to complete each other so that in many situations it is […]
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Halesvilles or Bust
It’s been rumored the city’s elected officials want every neighborhood to host a camp for homeless. In other words there will be an R2D2 right around the corner from you. Hmm, R2D2, that part of downtown is so lovely these days, isn’t it? Well, is this not pushing the problem onto the constituency or what? […]
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Good Morning, News: Beyonce!, Clinton & Sanders’ Sexism Squabble, and… BEYONCE!
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Knock, knock, knockin’ at my door. I can’t take it, no more. No more, no more, no more baby—give me all or nothing at all. LET’S GO TO PRESS. In case you missed in on Friday evening, the DEQ posted a map of the area near SE Powell and 22nd, where levels […]
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Sorry, Seats Taken
Dear anyone who rides public transportation who thinks that your backpack, your feet up on a seat, or a frigan fred meyer tote deserves a seat more than a HUMAN, kindly go love yourself. Not only do these douche canoes use their backpacks to take up a whole seat after some of us, and likely […]
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Good Morning, News!: Super Bowl, Super Flood, and Air Pollution Answers
It’s Saturday, Blogtown. Time for some news. Portland was under a bunch of water 20 years ago today. Here are some photos of it. That makes this weekend’s weather not seem so bad, huh? Here are answers to some questions about the SE Portland air pollution first reported on by the Mercury. Tomorrow’s Super Bowl. […]
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How the Oregon Historical Society Found a Long-Lost Anti-Porn Film
PAGES OF DEATH “In the distant future, lad, computers will exist, and this will be far less humiliating.” Like antiques dealers or cratediggers, what keeps a lot of archivists going is the hope that one day they’ll stumble across something that either the world has never seen or was thought to be lost forever. That’s […]
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A Darn Good Deal, Pardner
Most of us will end our days in complete obscurity. Besides our friends and families mourning our passing, the general public won’t have a clue as to who we were or what we did in this life. Mr. Finnicum, on the other hand, was one lucky sonofabitch. From “growing up on a reservation” to becoming […]
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Messy Neighbors!
We are having a big problem in our neighborhood (Irvington). We purchased this home eight months ago after moving here and just LOVE the area and the neighborhood. However, our new neighbors across the street are renters (don’t ask me how the owners got HOA approval to rent it, it was before I was on […]
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A Weekend of BOWIE!
Fly back to space, Starman Last Friday night I drew a lighting bolt on my face with lipstick, which I ASSUMED was the honorary dress code for the Lovecraft’s David Bowie Dance Party. However, most of the foreheads I saw were pretty blank and devoid of electrostatic discharges. This weekend, if you aren’t already painting […]
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Being Under 30: One Weird Trick for Getting a Subscription to The New Yorker?
Something weird happened when I became a Sunday New York Times home delivery subscriber this fall, and it wasn’t just that a 28-year-old person willingly exchanged perfectly good American dollars for the paper version of print media’s oldest available dinosaur. MB NOT PICTURED: Unbridled joy. It was this: Suddenly, I was in demand. High-brow print […]
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It’s Happening This Weekend!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 DANCE—In a town that has really good queer dance nights, Yes, Please! at Holocene is a standout. Armed with room-shaking DJs such as Vera Rubin, Laura Lynn, and DJ Sappho spinning the hottest garage, disco, and house, tonight will also feature the wondrous drag fabulousness of DieAna Dae. As the title clearly […]
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Don’t Miss PowerPoint Improv Show Speechless—Tonight!
Looking for a fun time tonight? May I then suggest SPEECHLESS, which is a super popular show down in San Francisco and is making it’s way up to Portland for the first time ever TONIGHT. Here’s how it works: Comedians, actors, and funny people walk on stage and give PowerPoint presentations—to a series of slides […]