The rain will never end. I’ve given up. I’ve made my peace with the cruel God who made me replace the sun with a cheap, sad lightbulb that claims to shine in my bedroom with the same light spectrum as that damned foreign star. But as the drizzle continues, I’m remembering that 62 years ago […]
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A Look Back At A Gaming Magazine From 1997
It’s 4:19 AM and I decide to organize my closet. “Dump all this excess crap,” I think to myself. “You’ll be able to find things when necessary,” I imagine. “Did I take a bunch of meth?” I begin to wonder. Moments after I start the task though, it all falls apart. I stumble upon a […]
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Drunk History: Fredrick Douglass
FINALLY! Finally the internets have released the full unabridged version of DRUNK HISTORY: FREDRICK DOUGLASS, which previously could only be seen in teasers. While I love all of Derek Walter’s “Drunk History” series (where ordinary historians recount famous events after getting stinking drunk), this one is my favorite, and stars Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle, Zooey […]
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Now You Can Have That Sensual “No-Bra” Look While Wearing A Bra…
In case you thought backtacular ass-crack patches and vajazzlers were a product of our crap-hoarding modern society, let it be known that they merely carry on a long legacy that marches through history: I hope I’m just not seeing the decimal points there. I mean it IS pretty scandalously sexy but $2000 is a little […]
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Portland Racism: The Tour!
I spent last Friday morning on a charter bus stuffed with city employees, housing advocates and staffers from a diverse array of well-meaning organizations, rolling around the city on a tour of Portland discrimination. The tour is featured in the news section this week, but I wanted to post some photos of the highlights here. […]
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I am in Love With Dr. Marie Equi
Last night while anarchists were breaking Starbucks windows, I was getting cozy with some tater tots and Working Man’s Red beer at the Kennedy School for their monthly history pub. What I learned was astounding. What I learned is that I am totally in love with an anarachist: Dr. Marie Equi, a rabble-rousing queer Portland […]
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Drunk History: Nikola Tesla
If you haven’t seen any of Derek Waters’ “Drunk History” series, shame on you! And shame on ME for not telling you sooner! The concept is simple: Get someone super loaded on booze and have them describe a historical event. Then let comic actors such as John C. Reilly and Crispin Glover do the reenactments! […]
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Howard Zinn Dead at 87
From the AP: Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist “A People’s History of the United States” sold millions of copies to become an alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday. He was 87. Zinn died of a heart attack in […]
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Gettin’ Wuzzy with Symphony of Science.
New Symphony of Science video! As the jumble of tags before this post’s headline (sort of) implies, this one’s genetics-related—and it’s guaranteed to be billions and billions of times more interesting than your high school biology class.
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A Very Seventies Christmas: Part V
Booze! These were the years before the sobering Reagan era and the rise of the Moral Majority in 1979. It was a time that produced a slew of strangely flavored, sickeningly sweet cocktails (some pulled from the obscurity of previous decades), with bawdy names like the Slow Comfortable Screw Against A Wall. It was also […]
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A Very Seventies Christmas: Part IV
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… […]