BOOKS—Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, reigning head bitch in charge of experimental fiction, was so intimidatingly rad as to draw comparisons to Marlene Dietrich and Virginia Woolf. In the US, her brilliance is just now catching on, thanks in part to new translations from Katrina Dodson. Tonight, Dodson’s joined by Portland’s own Lidia Yuknavitch to discuss […]
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The Hotel Albion and Workmen Temple Might Avoid Demolition
Two historic downtown Portland buildings got a temporary reprieve from the wrecking ball. The Hotel Albion and the United Order of Workmen Temple—both of which are 100-plus years old—in November were removed from the city’s Historic Resource Inventory (HRI) at the property owner’s request, leaving them vulnerable to possible demolition. Restore Oregon, a nonprofit focused […]
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“We All Make Choices In Life”: Federal and County Authorities Just Gave Their First Briefing Since the Harney County Shootout
Being held in Multnomah County: Seven of eight people arrested yesterday Federal authorities aren’t offering many details on a traffic stop Tuesday that resulted in the death of one of the armed militants who’d occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge over the last three weeks, and the arrest of five more. In the first official […]
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Another Sexless Marriage Question
Please don’t roll your eyes and forward this to your not-again folder. I really want to get your advice. Married over fifteen years, professional businessman in forties, very healthy, still fancy my wife. But it’s always been a relationship where I had to initiate any intimacy. But here’s the challenge: her health has deteriorated somewhat […]
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Apologize. Period.
My guy and I went to a neighborhood pub Friday for happy hour. We each enjoyed some NW beer, some pizza, and salad. He even bought me a rose that afternoon, which was a sweet gesture and walking down the street with it earlier that afternoon made me feel like I was in some romantic […]
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Vaya con Dios
You came over and I insisted that we watch Point Break. This movie speaks to me in ways you will apparently never understand; you hated it. I couldn’t fathom why anyone would hate such a masterpiece and that’s when I knew it would never work out between us. I was born in 1992, one year […]
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Patriots, My Ass
The right-wing is crazy, we all know this to be true. In fact, more than domestic terrorists, the biggest threat to our national security is fundamental right-wing white males: Domestic terrorists. Under the guise of “patriotism,” these white males are nothing more than simpleminded terrorists. Funny thing is, radical Muslims and these so-called “patriots” have […]
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Judgey
You-Guy Ferrari looking Gresham dude at NE Broadway 7-11.Him-Handicapped, mentally. Me-judgemental jerk.Scenario- Handicapped fellow was trying to buy something from you and the total was adding up to more than he had. You told him,” the total is 5.46, you’ve only got 4.50″. The gentleman behind the counter was having a hard time mathematically and […]
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My Spot
I’ve fucking had it with you nimby quim licks who leave your trash totes & bins in the street in front of your house to claim your parking spot. You sly little fucks that weasel home and double park, then move your bins back off the street and then park? Fuck! Oh but I’m the […]
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Good Morning, News: Malheur Militants Arrested (Spokesman Dead), and Trump Chickens Out BAWK! BAWK! BAWK!
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I am thinking it’s a sign, that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images, and when we kiss they’re perfectly aligned. LET’S GO TO PRESS. At long last federal officers have arrested some of the members of the Burns occupation (AKA the Yahoo Militia). Yesterday afternoon, the Feds pulled over a […]
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Harney County: One Dead, Ammon Bundy and Five Others In Custody
Oregon protest leader Ammon Bundy and others arrested; 1 killed, FBI and state police say https://t.co/rZLzoUMcEk pic.twitter.com/l2cr68fiJA— CNN (@CNN) January 27, 2016 UPDATE, 7 pm: Just before 4:30 this afternoon, FBI agents and Oregon State Police arrested Ammon Bundy, ringleader of the weeks-long standoff at a Harney County wildlife refuge, along with his brother and […]
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Someone Shot Out a Trucker’s Tire on I-205 Last Night
ODOT Near the scene of the crime Hopefully this isn’t a new thing. Portland police are reporting a gunman in a “newer black SUV with tinted windows” pulled up alongside a semi truck on southbound I-205 near Division early this morning, and shot one of its tires out. That’s it, really. Cops have no idea […]