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Conflict of Interest
Posted inDrunk
The Old Gold Lets Double Mountain Brewery Have Its Way with Their Tap Handles
Conflict-of-Interest Pony requires us to point out the connection between North Portland watering hole the Old Gold and the Portland Mercury—the bar was built on the burial ground of all our former music editors, or so the legend goes—but Beer-Drinkin’ Burro also insists that we tell you about the awesome thing they’ve got planned for […]
Posted inCops
Ducklings: Friend to Criminals and Scofflaws the World Over
Here’s what our friends at Portland Police Bureau public relations have been whipping up today. I’m not even being judgmental. This pleases me.
Posted inArtsy
Win Tickets to Inspired By!
I’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to tonight’s fundraiser for Action/Adventure Theatre, the fine folks responsible for the popular shows Fall of the Band, Troll 2: The Musical, and Late Night Action with Alex Falcone. Action/Adventure invited local writers like Chelsea Cain, Ian Karmel, and Live Wire’s Courtenay Hameister to create an […]
Posted inBooks
Publishers Weekly: American Savage One of the Best Books of the Summer
Publishers Weekly says American Savage is one of the “Best Summer Books of 2013.” PW also interviewed me this month. An except: Former Arkansas Governor and gay-marriage opponent Mike Huckabee has called you “unnecessarily rude, vile, and angry.” Agree or disagree?I think I’m necessarily rude, vile, and angry. Mike would be too if people were […]
Posted inComic Books
Win a Pair of Tickets to Tomorrow’s Comics Underground
[This blog post brought to you by the Mercury‘s Department of Self Promotion.] Will Eisner, from Last Day in Vietnam Every couple months, Mercury Senior Editor Erik Henriksen and I put on an event called Comics Underground, which combines live performance and comic books and booze and fun. For this month’s show, we’re partnering with […]
Posted inComedy
Alex Falcone vs. Portland’s Manliest Men
Mercury contributor Alex Falcone had a pretty meaty role on the new episode of Portlandia—he plays the pen-spinning editor pitching a story about Portland’s Manliest Man. The amazing thing about this clip—in which Alex plays a character clearly based on Wm. Steven Humphrey, Steve pitches that Manly Man idea like EVERY WEEK—is that last night […]
Posted inConflict of Interest
What Should I Ask Sarah Mirk and Timber Joey?
www.portlandtimbers.com This is the last weekend of my show Late Night Action w/ Alex Falcone for now, and once again I need your help writing my interview questions. On Friday I’m interviewing Timber Joey and Saturday I’m talking to former Mercury newsie Sarah Mirk. Post your questions in the comments and the ones that aren’t […]
Posted inBooks
What Should I Ask a Comic Book Editor and Best Selling Author?
Last week I actually asked Matt Zaffino and Erik Henriksen some questions from you guys during my live talk show Late Night with Alex Falcone, and it went surprisingly well. I mean, I didn’t ask the blowjob questions, but the ones I did ask were great. This week I’m going to give you another chance […]
Posted inEvents
CHAD Chats: It’s Just Like “TED Talks”—Except it’s Kind of the Opposite, and Called “CHAD Chats”
GUYS! I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a very fun project this coming Thursday (Jan 31) at 8:30 pm at the Jack London Bar. It’s called “CHAD Chats”—and if you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s a bonafide hoot! A parody of the parody-ripe TED Talks series, it’s a bunch of power-point lectures […]
Posted inComedy
Conflict of Interest Alert: My Live Talk Show Starts This Weekend
Hey, guys. I just wanted to let you know about this gigantic conflict of interest that we’re going to have starting this weekend. Tonight and tomorrow night at 9pm, my Conan-style talk show called Late Night Action w/ Alex Falcone is returning for its second season at the Action/Adventure Theater (1050 SE Clinton). The Mercury […]
Posted inBooks
So Blurb Me Maybe?
I haaaaaaate writing blurbs for books—I hate being asked to write blurbs—so I’m not asking any writers I know to blurb my new book. (You can preorder that shit now.) I’ve decided to be the change I want to see in the publishing world while we still have a publishing world to change. But when […]