In this hilariously charming video, Kana, the biggest Harry Potter fan in Japan, meets Daniel Radcliffe. How big of a fan is she? Let’s put it this way: I was EXTREMELY SURPRISED that her body didn’t explode with the power of 20 nuclear bombs filled with rainbows, kittens, and tears of pure unadulterated joy. If […]
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The Reversible Zombie Shirt
…or is that a zombie wearing a reversible “pasty white male nipples” shirt? Anyhoo, Capcom will be giving these beauties away to promote their new Resident Evil video game at Comic-Con next week. (Warning: Those in attendance should prepare to be blinded by pale rolls of flesh.) Nipple tips to BuzzFeed!
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Portal Of Fire? Still Burning? Coulton’s Inferno?
Not content with the inherent memetic potential of Jonathan Coulton’s endlessly repeated Portal theme “Still Alive,” or the inherent fun of fire, a team of geeks from MIT have combined the two Internet mainstays. That, easily-impressed Blogtown readers, is a Ruben’s Tube (“standing wave flame tube” if you’re nasty). Similar in effect to the graphical […]
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The Wordiest Word-Nerd-Gasm There Ever Was, Or: What I Want for Christmas
The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary drops this coming fall (just in time for Christmas!), and it’s about the sweetest thing a word-nerd ever did see: Published by the Oxford University Press, it’s been in the works for 44 years, and includes nearly every word in the English vocabulary from medieval times to […]
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Bunny Girl Versus The World
Courtesy Topless Robot — the net’s finest source for horrific Pokemon slash fiction — comes this clip, a fan-crafted vignette designed to ring in the 1984 edition of Japan’s Daicon nerd festival: I’m not an otaku, I don’t get most anime and I can’t even really grasp the idea of sexualizing rabbits. Obviously I’m not […]
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Tyson vs. Snoop … WHO YA GOT?!?
*cue the voice of Michael Buffer* In the red corner … standing six feet, three and one half inches tall … and weighing in at one hundred, seventy five pounds … The Ess-En-Double-Oh-Pee Dee-Oh-Double-Geeeeeeeeeeeeee!! *Crazed applause from the crowd, sound of blunts being smoked and the suffix “izzle” being inappropriately added to nouns, verbs and […]
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WIL WHEATON IS TWITTERING ABOUT PORTLAND. AND CONTINUING TO IGNORE US.
Goddammit, Wil Wheaton. We offered to buy you beer. And here you are, still kicking it in Portland, chilling at Powell’s— —and at Ground Kontrol— —and hanging out with Stephanie Stricklen— —AND EVEN TALKING TO RANDOM PEOPLE ON THE STREET— —and yet, have you contacted the Mercury at all? No, Wil. You haven’t. No call. […]
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Your Weekend Should Be So Good
I’m stopping briefly during a heavy day of interviews to hit you with some weekend event ideas. Solstice Beer Bash at the Raccoon Lodge Sat., 3 – 9 pm, 7424 SW Beaverton Hillsdale: No, honestly, they will be bashing beer. Or at least bashing a bung into a barrel of Cascade Brewing’s Summer Solstice IPA. […]
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WIL WHEATON IS HERE! IN PORTLAND! RIGHT NOW!
Prepare yourselves! Via Wil Wheaton’s Twitter: Okay. So. Let’s recap what we know: 1) Wil Wheaton—beloved author, geek icon, blogger, Gordie Lachance, and Wesley Crusher—is here, in Portland, at this very moment. 2) Wil Wheaton’s character on Leverage has “a lot of shoes.” Wil, the number at the Portland Mercury is 503-294-0840. We are delighted […]
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A Whole Blog Post About Zombies
So… there’s like a zombie scene, right? And I know I should be all, “Zombies are the new pirates, Keep Portland Laaaame,” or whatever, but… I think zombies are funny. I listened to Mail Order Zombie‘s podcast this morning and it doesn’t suck—there’s a solid report on the new zombie trend in YA lit—and Zombie […]
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Twittering Trucks
No good has ever come of me posting about Twitter. And I understand why. Twitter is currently the subject of so much slathering media coverage (yes, I am aware that I’m part of the media) that it’s almost impossible to not be cynical about the precious micro-blogging website. I am normally a highly cynical person. […]