RANKIN/BASS! While the production company Rankin/Bass produced their best known animated work Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in the Sixties, it was the Seventies that saw some of their more bizarre Holiday specials. I’m particularly fond of The Year Without a Santa Claus. In my opinion The Year (as it’s known in Rankin/Bass fan communities) […]
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A Very Seventies Christmas: Part III
There is one food that sums up a ’70’s Christmas more than any other: Fondue! I have come to understand that a certain class of people in the Seventies subsisted on nothing more than melted Gruyere cheese and cubed bread. Granted, this belief stems from reading Playboy Holiday Anniversary Issues from the 1970’s, but still… […]
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TriMet is Free on New Years Eve
via Hey drunkards! Good news! TriMet is offering free bus and MAX service beginning at 8 pm on New Years Eve. The MAX is also running more frequently than usual, with Blue, Yellow and Green line train running every half hour until 3 AM. Awesome. This is also almost your last chance to ride buses […]
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A Very Seventies Christmas: Part I
Maybe it’s because I was born the ‘70’s. Maybe it’s because I’ve been consuming waaaaaay too much Welcome Back Kotter on the Hulu. Whatever the reason, it has become my opinion that the 1970’s reek of Christmas more than any other decade. Upon further reflection, I believe I must draw some sort of sick correlation […]
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Raise a Toast to St. Joe Strummer
In honor of the anniversary of Joe Strummer’s passing—it should have been you, John Lydon—the Slingshot Lounge (5532 SE Center) will be pouring free PBR and spinning nothing but Clash songs tomorrow from 7-10 pm (or until the beer runs out). They better include some of his underappreciated work with the Mescaleros as well. LISTEN: […]
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Put Christ Back Into Christmas… By Killing Santa
Often around this time of year I ask myself, “Why isn’t Christmas about Jesus wielding a double barrel shotgun?” Honestly, that would be more interesting than the star and the shepherds and the BLAH BLAH BLAH zzzzzzzzzz. Apparently Ron Lake of Nipomo, CA, agrees with me. I mean, what’s more compelling than the thought of […]
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Another Reason Not to Reproduce
It’s only a matter of time until your children embarrass you by wandering around the neighborhood drinking beer (in the morning!) while cross dressing and stealing the neighbors’ Christmas presents. And then they become teenagers. Laugh? Cry? You decide. Either way I like the sinister editing in this piece. Nice job, News Channel 9. And […]
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Geek Trivia: Tonight at Vendetta!
Says Things From Another World marketing director Andrew McIntire: We had a great turn out on the 1st, and everyone had an awesome time. The questions, as one might surmise, focus on comics, music, science fiction, television, and all things geeky. No sports and current events here—unless you consider LARPing a sport. 🙂 The prizes […]
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You Know How They Say The Average Woman Eats Seven Pounds of Lipstick in Their Lifetime?
This is a commercial for natural cosmetics or mineral makeup or something, and it’s pretty gross. Don’t miss the regurgitative splat at the end. Via.
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House Spirits: Bazaar, Whiskey, Experience.
This is one to be excited about, folks. Tomorrow, House Spirits is finally releasing the whiskey. But not just a single whiskey. Nope. They are releasing three whiskeys. The first two beauties have been aged in New American Oak for around 2 1/2 years. One is a limited apothecary run of cask strength malt whiskey […]
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Presenting the “Hood Thong”
There’s nothing to really to say about this other than “look,” “insert Lady Gaga joke here,” and “nice clump-of-yarn pasties.”: If you think you’ve found the perfect Christmas gift (I can think of at least three people off the top of my head who would love one of these), beware: We have not gone into […]
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The Greatest Christmas Decoration
A friend just forwarded me this photo and caption of the greatest Christmas decoration ever. It’s unclear who originated the email, and to whom credit is due. But it’s pretty awesome. “Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take […]