I can’t figure out if the New York headline writer did this just to fuck with our ever-eager desire to see Portland mentioned on the national stage in glowing terms. But. This week’s profile of Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson seems ball-licky in the extreme. Take this, for example: Within six years, Sorenson had five Stumptowns in […]
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Feed Your Head with MODELFEED
Again I find myself wishing there was an “Inspiration” category for the blog, because today I was alerted to MODELFEED (tag line: “not made up”). It’s basically just like Blogtown except if it were written by beautiful barely legal globetrotting models, and instead of tags like “News” there were tags like “Confessions.” The pictures are […]
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Oregonian Executive Editor Peter Bhatia on “The Death of Newspapers.”
Bhatia was talking about the future of newspapers at City Club today: “Newspapers will get smaller in size,” said Bhatia. “They will be more local, analytical, and focused in content. I think you’ll see the further migration of breaking news to the web. We’ll move away from traditional sectioning and our long established model of […]
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“It Ain’t Easy, Brother.”
The newest issue of Rolling Stone contains a remarkable article about the downfall of Terry Bollea, better known as pro wrestler Hulk Hogan. “Hulk at Twilight,” by Erik Hedegaard, doesn’t pull any punches as it examines the 55-year-old Hogan at this stage in his life: “My tailbone is bent from landing on my ass, 400 […]
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“I Never Chose To Do Anything I Didn’t Want To Do”
Wow. Today was the first morning I actually stopped what I was doing, sat down and listened with full attention to the discussion on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud. This morning’s show featured two sex workers — a female prostitute and a male stripper — just talking frankly about their jobs. It was really […]
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Good Morning Death of Print!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WHEW!(Oh my dear God it’s not funny and the world is going to heck in a handbasket and my morning oatmeal tastes like ashes and somebody hold me please.) Anyway, watch this funny video while the paradigm shifts.
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Jefferson Smith Sings
House Representative Jefferson Smith (D-Portland) sang his heart out on KPOJ’s morning show this morning. SMITH: “It was this big…” This past Monday the 13th, Smith promised to sing the Schoolhouse Rock song “I’m Just a Bill” if five people signed up to citizen lobby down in Salem. The response was extremely strong, so Smith […]
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War & Media Talk Tonight
One of the world’s greatest journalists is speaking tonight in Portland for free. Philip Knightley was an investigative journalist in England during the 1950s and 60s before becoming one of the main western correspondents inside the Soviet Union. Knightley’s personal website describes him in somewhat lofty tones as a “distinguished journalist” but that’s okay because […]
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The Streamys: The Most Adorable Awards Show Ever
Felicia Day or as she is known around the Merc offices “Mrs. Henriksen” I spent Saturday night watching the First Annual Streamy Awards and, yes okay yes, tweeting about it. Shut up. Until a better platform for my thoughts about cats, yoga, and diet soda ramps up, I’m sticking with it. Deal, okay? The Streamys, […]
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Metro Buys Fen. Fen is Not Bog. Or Stadium.
Metro regional council president David Bragdon wrote me an email yesterday, which I’m posting now for your interest slash amusement slash information. Dear Mr Davis As the hardest-working British journalist in Portland you are probably the only one who knows what a fen is. I imagine when you are not on the phone talking with […]
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Saving Newspapers: The Musical!
I’m a wee bit obsessed with The Rock Cookie Bottom’s Jonathan Mann. Mann writes a song a day and if you email him with a topic request, he might write a song for you! I am totally going to ask him to write a song about himself because I’m all meta and shit like that. […]
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Cuts at the NYT
The cuts just keep on coming! From the NYT: Facing a steep drop in revenue, The New York Times Company plans to cut the pay of most employees by 5 percent for nine months, in return for 10 days’ leave, and will lay off 100 people and make other budget cuts, executives said on Thursday.