Every year when June rolls around, the Mercury issues its definitive list of Pedalpalooza rides you can’t miss. And pretty much every year, we urge you to saddle up for the Bowie vs. Prince ride, where rabid partisans dress up like their favorite glittery iconoclast and ride/dance their asses off. Well today, with news of […]
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Beyond Labyrinth: David Bowie on Film
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 film. People are thinking a lot about David Bowie’s music today, and they should—for a guy who left his mark on many aspects of culture, music undoubtedly benefitted the most from Bowie’s vision, experimentation, and passion. But film, too, gained quite a lot […]
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Old Friends, Old Wounds
I am a 21-year-old lesbian. I have a question about a friend of mine. I have this guy friend. We were very close in high school. He was my best friend for a long time and played a big part in me being comfortable coming out to other friends and family. When we were 17 […]
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David Bowie’s Dead, and It Sucks
photo by Sukita I’d already been thinking about David Bowie all weekend. His 25th album, Blackstar, came out on Friday (which was also Bowie’s 69th birthday) and I’ve been listening to it constantly. The general consensus seems to be that it’s one of his best, one of the albums Bowie’s recorded in the past three-and-a-half […]
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Good Morning, News: R.I.P. David Bowie
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I’m not a prophet or a stone-aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on. LET’S GO TO PRESS. It’s the 10th day of the Oregon standoff with those “militia patriot” domestic terrorists, and things just keep getting weirder. More armed “patriots” are coming in to Harney County […]
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Blazers Topple the Thunder 115-110!
The Trail Blazers are missing something. There’s a part of the winning equation that they just can’t figure out. We have the starters and bench players that can put up solid stats in all columns, but for some reason that pesky win column just doesn’t want to grow. Personally, I believe the problem is a […]
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Mr Funky Hands
You (40ish white male in hoodie and jeans) were at the Hawthorne Fred Meyers men’s restroom yesterday around noon. You came out of the stall and left the room without washing your hands. Absolutely disgusting. Please leave the city immediately. That is all.
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One Step Closer?
Examining a sociopath to my own life. 10 signs I found:1. Charming? Can be, I guess. I can be an ass too. 2. Spontaneous/intense? I’m a Virgo, go through mood swings, depression, and OCD. Like to do different things. I won’t do anything I don’t want to do. I never want attention.3. Lack shame/guilt/remorse? I […]
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Locomotion Devotion and Emotion
As the winter wonderland comes to a close, a bright ray of sunshine shoned down upon me. Not from the lord, no, but from the ever-graceining hand of fate. This form of brightness came in the form of a man; a strong, gentle, strong, strange, carrying, kind and sensitive beast of a man. He came […]
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Clearing Some Shit Up
A jury sitting in Pendleton, Oregon found the Hammonds guilty of arson after a two-week trial in June 2012. By LAW, arson on Federal land carries a five-year mandatory minimum sentence. When the Hammonds were originally sentenced, they argued that the five-year mandatory minimum terms were unconstitutional and the trial court agreed and imposed sentences […]
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Social Media is so Fucking Toxic
I’m never going to be on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or any of it ever again. Social media is so fucking toxic. It’s anything but “social.” It’s such a passive form of communication. Social media is full of dumb selfies and embarrassing baby photos and typo-ridden status updates and misinformed opinions. Because of limited […]
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The Rights of the People
Nots from the streets This last week we had a winter storm that made it very difficult on my street parish. It took below freezing weather to see the hart of real city of poverty pimps. It seems that the one lesson that stills needs to be learned is to treat everyone equally ,as human […]