Guess what you’re doing this weekend. Ok, I’ll tell you: You are going to the single greatest event the Mercury has ever sponsored, The Internet Cat Video Fest! Longtime readers know that the Merc has a colorful history with cats (remember Cat Friday? Weirdest meetings ever.), but lately we’ve been relegating them to Courtney’s awesome […]
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A Talking Cat!?!: The Blogtown Review
[Note: Erik is making me do this even though funnier outlets already have. I just want you to know that I know this.] There’s a fine American tradition of talking-cat films, from The Cat from Outer Space to Oliver and Company. But if the incredulity with which the creators of A Talking Cat!?! framed their […]
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The Cross-Dress Your Pet Photo Contest: Best of the Rest
Alright, this is the last installment of the Blogtown acknowledgements of our best contenders in this week’s Pets Issue‘s Cross-Dress Your Pet Photo Contest, in which we tasked readers with sending us their best pics of their pets dressed as a different kind of animal. It’s a real testament to how creative/adorable the submissions were […]
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The Cross-Dress Your Pet Photo Contest Runners Up, Cont’d.
I’m tempted to call everyone who submitted to this week’s Pets Issue photo contest—in which we asked you to submit a photo of your pet dressed as a different kind of animal—a winner, since all your widdle buddies are so dang cute. (But no, seriously if you are in the market for a dog costume, […]
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Don’t Forget! Cross-Dress Your Pet!
Submissions are due TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 by 5 pm! Send your submissions here.
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Don’t Forget! Enter the “Cross-Dress Your Pet” Photo Contest!
Enter here.crossdresspet@portlandmercury.com
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Cougar Town. Seriously, There Might Be a Cougar in Town.
Cougar sighting! Non-figurative cougar sighting near Oregon Health and Science University! The Portland Police Bureau just sent out the following press release (pasted below). Gather your children and pets. UPDATE, 5:40 pm: We love an animal story here at Blogtown, so we hit the phones on this cougar sighting. Our questions: Is the apocryphal cat […]
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So Here’s a Question: WHERE THE FUCK IS ALISON HALLETT’S REVIEW OF A TALKING CAT!?!
HUH. So. It’s been TWENTY-FIVE DAYS since you, the readers of Blogtown, voted by OVERWHELMING MAJORITY to make Alison Hallett watch and review the film A Talking Cat!?! AND YET. Where is her review, you ask? GOOD QUESTION. Has she even seen the movie? BETTER QUESTION. Does her lack of action clearly reflect a strong […]
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Estacada’s Safari Club is Closed
Bad news for the tourism bureau of Estacada: The town’s #1 attraction, the Original Safari Club—a huge haven of cheap drinks, sketchy fried food, and most legendarily, tons of taxidermied large wild game in various states of repair—posted on their Facebook page last night: Facebook I’d be lying if I said I was truly surprised; […]
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Make Alison Hallett Watch and Review A Talking Cat!?!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is it, or is it not Mercury Arts Editor Alison Hallett’s job to BLOG INCESSANTLY ABOUT CATS? However, when I asked her to review the movie A Talking Cat!?!—which is about a talking cat, and may possibly be the worst movie in cinematic history—she flat out refused! Even better, […]
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What I Learned from this Woman Who Eats Cat Hair
Here’s what I learned from this video of a woman who eats cat hair (as featured in the TLC show, My Strange Addiction, returning Feb 13): 1) It’s not Alison Hallett! 2) Cat hair tastes like cotton candy—almost. 3) Her sister Andromeda doesn’t approve of her eating cat hair. And yet, her name is “Andromeda”! […]