The Mercury loves “love!” That’s why every year we devote pages and pages of our Mercury Valentine Issue (coming Feb 13) to your mushy, romantic reader valentines! And yep—just like every year, it’s absolutely FREE. Here’s how it works: • Click on the READER VALENTINES banner on the front page of portlandmercury.com or Blogtown (or […]
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Send Your Sweetie a FREE Mercury Valentine!
The Mercury loves “love!” That’s why every year we devote pages and pages of our Mercury Valentine Issue (coming Feb 13) to your mushy, romantic reader valentines! And yep—just like every year, it’s absolutely FREE. Here’s how it works: • Click on the READER VALENTINES banner on the front page of portlandmercury.com or Blogtown (or […]
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Send Your Sweetie a FREE Mercury Valentine!
The Mercury loves “love!” That’s why every year we devote pages and pages of our Mercury Valentine Issue (coming Feb 13) to your mushy, romantic reader valentines! And yep—just like every year, it’s absolutely FREE. Here’s how it works: • Click on the READER VALENTINES banner on the front page of portlandmercury.com or Blogtown (or […]
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TACO DELIVERY! TACO DELIVERY!
YOU BEAUTIFUL GENIUSES Taco the Town delivers tacos by bicycle, to your mouth. $2 tacos. $10 minimum, delivered Thurs-Sat 5 pm-10 pm. I feel like I SHOULD make fun of this because bikes but I CAN’T!
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Amy Poehler Gives the Best Advice in the WORLD
Sorry, everybody else in the world who gives advice—BUT IT’S TRUE. Amy Poehler hosts the best Golden Globes and she gives the best advice, just like in this episode of Ask Amy in which she discusses negativity. While she may be addressing this to teenage girls, YOU want and need to hear this. (If nothing […]
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SL Letter of the Day: Love Is…
I’m on hiatus while working on a manuscript for a new book. In the meantime, please enjoy these classic Savage Love letters pulled from previous columns. I will be back when the book is finished. —Dan Originally published January 3, 2008: I realize Savage Love is a sex-advice column (as evidenced by much vulgar language), […]
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The City Hall of Love
Hundreds welcome newly married same-sex couples in Seattle yesterday.
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News Anchors Proposing On-Air: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
Contrary to popular belief, I have nothing against “love”—in fact, I make it all the time! Kaaaaaaaa-ZING-A-LING-A-LING! But seriously. In this video a news anchor lures his girlfriend onto his show under false pretenses and then proposes to her on-air. Think that sounds awkward? OMIGOD, you don’t know the half of it. At the mid-point […]
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And Now, An Adorable Video of Portland’s Baby Elephant
Gahahaha! The Oregon Zoo’s baby elephant is one day old in this video. I also want to note that today I learned the name of the father elephant: TUSKO.
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BABY ELEPHANT!!!!!!!!
Buried deep inside of today’s Good Morning News, Steve mentioned that early this morning the Oregon Zoo’s Rose-Tu gave birth to a healthy female elephant calf. What he should have said was: BABY ELEPHANT!!!!!!!!!! BABY ELEPHANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BABY ELEPHANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then he should have posted THIS picture from the Oregon Zoo’s Twitter account: This is a […]
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Dumb (but ADORABLE) Ways to Die
It’s true—there are sooooo many dumb ways to die. However, who knew that so many of them were so goddamn cute?!? (The best PSA you’ll watch all day.) via
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Congrats to Carrie Brownstein’s Gay Dad!
My mild disdain for Portlandia aside, check out this awesome tweet from Carrie Brownstein! That’s right, Carrie has a gay dad, and thanks to the passage of Washington’s Referendum 74 that finally allows same sex marriage, a “real wedding” is on the way for her pops, which means a very happy family indeed. Congrats Carrie, […]