This month’s cortandfatboy Midnight Movie is Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 epic Boogie Nights, a film that rattled my 17-year-old brain pretty hard when I first saw it in a Salt Lake City multiplex. Anderson’s still one of my favorite filmmakers, and Boogie Nights—made when he was 26 years old—is still a hell of thing. Last […]
Drugs
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Knight Rider says “Don’t Smoke Dope… It Kills BABIES!!!”
Check out this positively hysteric anti-pot PSA from the ’80s starring an extremely frustrated David Hasselhoff (as Michael Knight from Knight Rider) and KITT—who really needs to have his “CPU” checked out!
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Beaverton Deer Statue Found Slaughtered
Today in confusing news: The 400-pound deer statue that was lifted from the front yard of a Beaverton dental office earlier this month has been found. But not all in one piece. No—the poor bronze deer was chopped into seemingly systematic bits. Why, you ask? Here’s a possible answer: 39-year-old Chad Ferguson was not only […]
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The Last Two Months, Measured in Drugs
Portland Police Bureau Just a few of the pot plants snagged by the police this year. The Portland Police Bureau released the total number of drug seizures in the first two months of 2012 today. The results? — 32 grams of powder cocaine— 30 grams of crack cocaine— 3,356 grams of heroin (7.4 pounds)— 807 […]
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Marijuana Legalization Petition Reaches 50,000 Signatures
So those persistent pro-weed petition-wavers lurking on SE Hawthorne are getting somewhere. This week, the Campaign for Sensible Law Enforcement hit a mile marker in their push to legalize marijuana in the state: Collecting over 50,000 signatures on their petition for an amendment. The constitutional amendment would legalize personal use of marijuana for those 21 […]
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Win Tickets to Driven: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn!
This Thursday, the Northwest Film Center kicks off a series I’m super stoked about: Driven: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn, which boasts every single film made by one of my favorite filmmakers. Starting with Refn’s grimy, bloody Pusher trilogy (Pusher [1996], Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands [2004], and Pusher III: I’m the […]
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The Crucial Snoop Dogg Endorsement Is Finally In
Snoop Dogg has endorsed Ron Paul on his Facebook page. The entirety of his endorsement consists of a pink-tinted photo of Ron Paul with the words “SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY” typed above it. Below the photo, Snoop Dogg explains the logic behind his endorsement: “because i said so.” That settles that, then.
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“The year was 1969, and even the people who made commercials for the International House of Pancakes were on acid.”
So writes Metafilter about this from-the-vaults IHOP commercial (which might make you want to revisit acid, but not revisit IHOP.)
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Are You a Single-Issue, Drug-Policy Voter?
Then the Marijuana Policy Project says in an email blast, “Ron Paul is obviously the best candidate. In fact, his views toward marijuana policy and the drug war are so much better than President Obama’s views that—if you’re a single-issue, drug-policy voter—you’d need to vote for Ron Paul.” Yeah, I’m all for ending the idiotic […]
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PSU’s Electric Avenue Goes Groovy
There’s a new word on the street when it comes to the electric car: Psychedelic. And by “street” I mean “avenue.” And by “avenue,” I mean Portland Statue University’s Electric Avenue—the street near PSU campus designated solely for electric cars to pull in and power up. Turns out that if you drive an electric car, […]
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Former Marijuana User Newt Gingrich Proposed the Death Penalty for Trafficking Marijuana in 1996
Apparently, in 1996, Newt Gingrich proposed the death penalty for people importing drugs into the United States: As Speaker of the House, Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.”…It would have applied to anyone convicted more than once of carrying 100 doses — or about two ounces — or marijuana across the […]
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Onuinu – “Ice Palace” (Video)
Take a minute, or five, and check out the new video for Onuinu’s “Ice Palace.” Acting as the title track, the song comes off the band’s recent-ish release, and director Andrew Sloan spares no expense in adding properly acidic visuals to the sick electro pop beat. Take note: video is NSFW, so best enjoy this […]