not actual “red cricket” Holy shit! The weather is so delectable today, I can barely stand it. In fact, I feel so good about this particularly stunning atmospheric change that I am going to give you, Blogtownies, a summer cocktail recipe that I created just a few weeks ago. Its working title is “red cricket,” […]
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The Shatman Strikes Again.
As has been documented elsewhere, The Shatman has a new book out. But to hell with that–I can guarantee you that this video is a billion times better than that book. OR ANY BOOK. It consists of the following parts: The Shatman’s cover of Pulp’s “Common People,” footage from the legitimately awesome television program Star […]
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Pride Weekend with Unicorn Planet
Pride officially kicks off today (get the full skinny with our official guide to Pride), and in honor of Pride Weekend, I’m going to be posting all six webisodes of Unicorn Planet, two for each day. I realize that they were posted to YouTube in, like, 2007, which makes them ancient relics of the internets, […]
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Your Sweet Saturday
Have you noticed the surge in cross town donut traffic these days? First, Voodoo parades to a new store on the east side and tomorrow Staccato Gelato plans a five mile bike romp to new digs in Westmoreland. The fun begins at 10:30 am with a donut fuel up at the NE 28th Staccato Gelato […]
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Muchas Graci… Gag! Cough!
I don’t go to the ‘Couv very often, but I might start knowing that Muchas Gracias is serving heart valve carne asada in their burritos! Muchas Gracias – A surprise in every tortilla! It seems a Vancouver Wash. man was eating a burrito at “his favorite favorite restaurant,” (he even has a Muchas Gracias bumper […]
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PDX Ripped: Yacht
Jona and Claire, aka, Yacht played an amazingly energetic set in front of 1500 screaming high school kids at a benefit for Music In Portland Public Schools on May 30th 2008 at the Crystal Ballroom. Here’s the video Dave Allen shot… Yacht live at The Crystal Ballroom May 30 2008 from Dave Allen on Vimeo. […]
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Kroger Talks Legal Action Against Credit Cards
Democratic (and bizarrely, it seems, Republican, too) Attorney general candidate John Kroger wants to put together a multi-state lawsuit against banks across the country to force them to stop cheating hard-working families out of debt through unscrupulous practices, he said last night. Kroger, a charismatic Lewis & Clark professor who has prosecuted Enron and mafia […]
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Good Morning, News!!
1.FLOODS!!! Downtown Cedar Rapids looks a lot like it’s been engulfed by a Quake Lake in China. 2.THIS BUD’S FOR EU!!! The Belgians, famous for fries covered in cheese, pedophilia and beer that makes you fart, want to buy Budweiser, prompting political nationalist outrage. Let’s hope they spare O’Douls for us true patriots. 3.TERMINATING OUR […]
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Downtown Retailer: “Brooks Brothers’ Complaints Forced Me Out.”
This week, in gentrification: BROOKS BROTHERS: Too chi-chi to have people buying cigarettes opposite? Downtown retailer Doug Peterson has owned his store on SW 10th and Morrison for 23 years. “I’m a downtown booster, I always have been,” he says. “I opened that store when the MAX was under construction and there were jackhammers all […]
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Kick Off Pedalpalooza with the Mercury
In case you haven’t heard, today is the first day of Pedalpalooza, one of the many events occurring this summer to end in the unfortunately anachronistic suffix, –palooza. Join your fellow bike hipsters and lycra clad commuters tonight at Jamison Square (NW 10th and Johnson) at 6:15 for the Kick-Off Parade. If you want to […]
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Hey Fatty, Wanna Go to the Movies?
Hey, let’s go see the Hulk! Yeah, I’ll even buy you some popcorn! What, you want a large? Hmmm, I wonder how many calories a large popcorn has, anyway. Oh wait, lemme look it up on my iphone (bleep blurp click slide shmear)… Say, here it is on a Yahoo Health “experts” webpage called Eat […]