We ran a rundown of the three films showing at the Hollywood as part of their Italian Western series, but tonight’s your last chance to catch the series’ first film, Death Rides a Horse, on the big screen. It stars Lee Van Cleef, who is immensely cool, and Ken the Doll John Phillip Law, who […]
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SL Letter of the Day: Mashup!
I am a long time listener/reader, and a huge fan. I recently listened to the podcast in which you talked with Rebecca Drysdale about her song for the It Gets Better Project. That song IS perfect! I wondered if you would be interested in checking out my friend Nick Bombicino’s “mondaymashups” in which he combines […]
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A Two-Minute Tour of Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS-Fighting Bad-Assery
Posted this morning by the American Foundation for AIDS Research. What an amazing woman. Thanks for the heads-up, Towleroad.
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From Oregon, with Love: Japan Benefit Announced
Just got an email from Stephen Marc Beaudoin—who helped organized last year’s very successful Haiti benefit show—about a just-announced benefit for Mercy Corps’ Japan Relief fund. Details: FROM OREGON, WITH LOVEA benefit concert for the Mercy Corps Oregon Japan Relief Fund 100% of monies raised benefit Japan earthquake/tsunami disaster relief efforts FeaturingThomas Lauderdale, pianoHolcombe Waller, […]
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I Don’t Know How Some of These Homemade Sex Machines Are Supposed to Work
Here’s the video for “Elektrotechnique” by Dutch electronic/hiphop group De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig. (What? That’s their name! They’re Dutch.) Artists/directors Lernert & Sander created this extraordinary video of homemade sex devices, which are like Rube Goldberg meets Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” but, you know, SEXY. My favorite is the leaf-blower/chair device that spins out of control. […]
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Ponies! (Okay, fine… Mini Horses!)
Practically every day the KATU parking lot (across the street from our offices) is a veritable wonderland of weird stuff. Will it be the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile? Or an Outback Steakhouse cook off? WHO KNOWS?? Happily today was the perfect day for something to appear that would momentarily take my mind off the troubles of […]
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Getting Married? Don’t Buy Her This Ring.
It’s funny right now, sure… until later when she decides to use it on you. Buy it here, hat tips to here.
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Gold Star: The Mercury‘s Web Comment of the Week!
It’s going to a thread this week, from It Gets Better: The Book. (Go read it, it’s too long to quote.) Gold Stars to Fruit Cup, Cat & Beard, Kiala, Amazonfemme, TSW, The Darkness, ROM, and everybody except Commenty Colin, because he has won too many CoTWs and is temporarily ineligible. Good job, gang! (Also […]
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How Not to Hit on Your Crush from the Bus
Transit reporter Portland Afoot posted a link to this excellent Craigslist missed connection: You were the beautiful raven haired woman in black, with a blue wool hat. I wasbthe guy who looked away when our eyes met. Uncomfortable with the fact that I am using the bus. But its only temporary while I serve my […]
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I, Anonymous: The Day After Valentine’s
Fresh from the I, Anonymous mailbag (and the perfect antidote for all that lovey-doveyness from yesterday): “IT’S COOL… PEOPLE CHEAT HERE.” This anonymous goes out to the slut who latched on my back like a monkey for the year I’ve been here. Currently I’m sitting at work painfully listening to 107.5 and all the horrible […]
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The Saddest Valentine?
This just came in: To the Lucky SOB that shares my name- A woman wrote you a valentine in the last issue of the Mercury and it sounded a lot like a message that would have been written by a woman I have been interested in for quite some time. She did not write the […]