• Well, that was quick: GOP releases their first sleaze ad against Barack Obama, accusing him of being a Muslim that can’t be trusted. • Gas prices are expected to stay above the $4 mark well into next year. Did we mention it’s our “Bike Issue” this week? • One bicyclist was killed and another […]
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On the Record with the Racial Profiling Retreat
Having involved the Mercury‘s lawyers to get access to the mayor’s racial profiling committee retreat at the Double Tree hotel today and tomorrow, damn right I was planning to get my money’s worth by LIVE BLOGGING (TM) it. The problem is, I swear, that doing so would be like live blogging paint dry. So I […]
Posted inPortland
Record Breaking Busses
Last week Amy said she felt crammed on the bus to work and today yes! TriMet reveals it’s true – the busses and Max have been packed with record-breaking ridership this past month. Portlanders took 8.9 million bus and light rail rides in May, which is a 4.4% increase over last may. This is good […]
Posted inBooks
Shatner & Sedaris
I promise this is the last Star Trek-related post I’m ever going to do on Blogtown, but Erik has been dropping hints (read: alternately throwing tantrums and trying to bribe me with Kit Kat bars) for weeks now that he wants to review William Shatner’s new autobiography. This great, great post on Papercuts kind of […]
Posted inEthics
Tuesday Poll: Shia LaBeouf vs. John Cusack
Don’t ask me how I got on the subject, but I’ve been asking everyone in the office today the following question: Who would you rather make out with: Shia LaBeouf or a Say Anything/ Better Off Dead era John Cusack? Now, to me, the two are practically interchangeable. Both are good actors and exude a […]
Posted inPolitics
MTV Cribs With New Commissioner Nick Fish…
Amy’s out of town this week, so it took me precisely 28 hours to decide to muscle in on her city-hall patch and get down there. Actually, I sort of had to go down there, because for all my big talk about “offending your sources,” it was sort of necessary to smoke the peace pipe […]
Posted inElection 2008
Public Cash Re-Hash
Last night the Citizen Campaign Commission, the city’s volunteer group tasked with overseeing and analyzing public financing, held its exit interviews for the three ex-candidates who received public money in the City Council race. The candidates (John Branam, Jim Middaugh and Jeff Bissonette) candidly dished the dirt about the processes’s strengths and shortcomings. But first! […]
Posted inPodcast
New Episode of Your Radio Sucks
Welcome to the 25th episode of Your Radio Sucks! Since your radio’s not getting any better–at least not until the new MetroEast station begins broadcasting–we’re still your source for the most exciting new music. For our silver anniversary, your host Ned Lannamann plays a set of all-local, all-Portland music, with songs by Derby, Blue Giant, […]
Posted inPod 'N' Vod
Your Radio Sucks: Episode 25
Welcome to the 25th episode of Your Radio Sucks! Since your radio’s not getting any better–at least not until the new MetroEast station begins broadcasting–we’re still your source for the most exciting new music. For our silver anniversary, your host Ned Lannamann plays a set of all-local, all-Portland music, with songs by Derby, Blue Giant, […]
Posted inDrunk
The Booze Cure
Like a disturbingly large number of people I know, I am getting over a head cold. It is, after all, JUNE, so that makes perfect sense. (It is supposed to start warming up again later this week, fingers crossed, and hey! only 11 days until summer officially begins(?).) I’ve always been a fan of the […]
Posted inTV
Reporter Gets Bug in Mouth; Needs to Wash Mouth Out with Soap
Here’s another great TV news blooper clip featuring a reporter who gets a bug in his mouth, and then kills it… with an absolutely filthy string of NSFW expletives! Headphones on for this one! BTW! I know you guys over at KATU have a library filled with hilarious and hopefully embarrassing bloopers. Send ’em over, […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Please Explain the Name of this Restaurant to Me
Spotted at 32nd and Hawthorne, in the old house that once was Chef Tucker’s Patisserie, and before that, Calendula: Belly Timber “Belly Timber“? What kind of name for a restaurant is that? Is that a term loggers use for food? Someone enlighten me. I’m not from Oregon. Is it actually a common, everyday phrase that […]