As you know, the Mercury has been publishing free reader valentines in our annual Valentine’s Issue since way back in 2000. And we’ll be doing it again this year, too! See next week’s ish for details. Anyway, it’s a fun idea, which I’m sure is why the Willamette Week is also giving it a shot. […]
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Win Bruce Campbell’s Bike
Today’s your last day to win Bruce Campbell’s low-rider bike from My Name Is Bruce courtesy of Dark Horse Comics. This is where I make an inappropriate joke about sniffing his bike seat (it smells like Old Spice!). It’s easy: sign up for Dark Horse’s newsletter and leave the comment “Happy Holidays Bruce Campbell” over […]
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Obama Administration Tells Rest of World to Stop Gay Discrimination
This is pretty big news: The Obama administration bluntly warned the world against gay and lesbian discrimination Tuesday, declaring the U.S. will use foreign assistance as well as diplomacy to back its insistence that gay rights are fully equal to other basic human rights. Now let’s compare Hillary Clnton’s statement on this… “Gay rights are […]
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SL Letter of the Day: Why Aren’t They Both Named “Dan” Then?
I’m sure you get gushy thank you emails all the time, but holding my infant son, I had to write to you. You saved my marriage and made these two beautiful little boys possible. They are smart, healthy and happy and living with two parents that love them (and each other) very much. Several few […]
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Sam Elliott Hearts Us
Um, guys? It’s only my second day on Twitter and I’ve already won it. I tweeted with Sam Elliott (@thesamelliott, who tweets just like how he speaks) and arranged to have his namesake cocktail at the Old Gold. And it’s all legally binding because it’s on Twitter. Right? I’m a noob, but I think that’s […]
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Gorgeous Portland Time-Lapse Video
I ran into this guy, Lance Page, in the middle of the night at Occupy a few weeks ago. He told me he was working on some project to make a time-lapse video of Portland, I gave him my card and forgot about it and then HOLY SHIT the final product arrived in my inbox. […]
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Blogtown Meetup – Tomorrow!
This is a friendly reminder that tomorrow night is your semi-regular opportunities to meet your Blogtown friends, neighbors, and nemeses. We’re convening at the Old Gold (2105 N Killingsworth) at 5:30 pm; all Blogtown commenters/readers/hangers-on are welcome to join us. I haven’t been to the Old Gold yet and I’m super excited to check it […]
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Video: Glass Candy – “Warm in the Winter”
Another week, another new video from Glass Candy, this time for the aptly titled “Warm in the Winter.” This Super 8 footage, assembled by frequent Glass Candy collaborator Alberto Rossini, was collected from the band’s late-summer 2011 tour of the West Coast (Portland’s in there), and the song is just about as sweet and warm […]
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The World Could Not Be More Beautiful
Former Merc food critic (and current bon vivant) Patrick Alan Coleman just sent me the following video, which is kind of the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen. It’s entitled “BR Handskills 01” (“BR” apparently stands for “Battle Roulette”) and perhaps taken individually, each of the video’s visual elements aren’t all that interesting. BUT PUT […]
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Now You Can Own Tim McGraw
Our new favorite website has some amazing things for sale: Tim McGraw. K.D. Lang. Roseanne Cash. Miley Cyrus! Taylor Swift! Patsy Cline—the second. Aaron Neville! No, these are not the country singers for sale. It’s something even better: Tiny donkeys! From the front page of “Country Music Miniature Donkeys”: Yep, it’s a tiny donkey farm, […]
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Life Imitates (Ridiculous) Art!
Attention, lovers of the original Melrose Place: It is my great honor to inform you (if you don’t know already) that Amanda Woodward and Peter Burns—AKA Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner—are GETTING MARRIED IN REAL LIFE!This is wonderful news for the involved parties, but it rejuvenates my fear that one day Laura Leighton—AKA the woman […]
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In Honor of the Official Release Date of the Final Harry Potter Movie…
Here is one of my favorite things I’ve ever worked on at the Mercury. (Courtney and Erik had a hand in this as well.) It was in the paper the week that book seven came out. It had some legs, too. Hecklers at the Powell’s release party for Deathly Hallows drove by shouting “Snape kills […]