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Posted inHorrors
You Know Copy Editor Courtney Ferguson is Having a Rough Day When…
… she does this. I’m thinking she may need to take a personal day.
Posted inTech
An Experiment in Text-Free Living.
“Yay! Text party! Hey, lets text that cute Erik guy again! Ha ha LOL Bieber fever!” True, I’m as attached/addicted to/surgically grafted to my iPhone as anybody. Still, that doesn’t keep me from hypocritically going all Andy Rooney-rabid when I’m hanging out with people who can’t be bothered to participate in a conversation because they’re […]
Posted inReligion
Tonight’s Nightmare, Today!
Meet Lil’ Marcie. She wants to be Jesus’ sunbeam! (Meanwhile, I want her to stop staring at me with those dead, horrifying eyes! And stop flapping those lifeless arms! And get out of my brain! FOR THE LOVE OF SWEET FUCKING CHRIST, LIL’ MARCIE!! GET… OUT… OF… MY… BRAIN!!! No thanks, Videogum.
Posted inHorrors
Ostrich vs. Adorable Girl on Pony… ON WHOM DO YOU WAGER??
Welcome to Friday Morning Fights! In this exciting—and disturbing—episode, you must wager on whom will win in the epic battle between an adorable girl on a pony, and an ostrich. (Hint: Always, always, always bet on the ostrich.) WARNING: This video goes from cute to hilarious to horrifying to sad and then back to hilarious […]
Posted inSports
Your Daily (Playoff) Blazer
Ouch. After stealing the first game of their Western Conference playoff series against the heavily favored Phoenix Suns, the Portland Trail Blazers tried to nab another victory on Tuesday night in the US Airways Center. Bad idea. The Suns controlled the entire night, from the opening tip, to the final basket, all the way to […]
Posted inTech
Facebook Privacy Freakout Du Jour
Seriously. Seriously? Facebook (they don’t need my stupid home page link) is fucking dominating on the internets and yet they just gotta keep meddling and pissing off their members? The Electronic Frontier Foundation reported yesterday: Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of […]
Posted inMusic
Celebrate 4/20 with HannaH’s Field!
It’s April 20! That magical day when stoners across the nation celebrate by shifting slightly off of their mom’s couch. Well, we’ve rhapsodized about HannaH’s Field before, the Oregon-Connecticut band who swept the American Marijuana Music Awards with their video for “Puff Puff Give.” Yeah. Remember that? Well, they sent us their new song just […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Grilling for Dinner?
WinCo might have great deals on ground beef, but a recall was announced today in WinCo stores across six states, including Oregon. To review, E. coli “lives in cattle and pig intestinal tracts and is shed in their feces, can cause kidney failure and can even be deadly.” Might want to stick with the shrimp […]
Posted inHorrors
A Few Words About Street of Eames and Terrible Architecture Puns
I scream, you scream, we all scream for the Eameses. The Street of Eames home tour event took place on Saturday, a tour of modern-era homes in the Portland area. It was expensive. I didn’t go. However, a photographic exhibit of the homes on this year’s tour is on display through the end of April […]
Posted inPolitics
The Tax Man Cometh
The RNC wants you to know the truth about this coming tax day. And the truth is that Democrats will hunt you down and take your money and give it to their comrades while you have no job and are sneezing in your wheelchair. They will tax you for breathing—because that’s just the kind of […]