There’s a great little unsigned editorial in today’s Oregonian replicated on the newspaper’s blog with Bob Caldwell’s byline, that you might have an opinion about. It’s focused, using the somewhat desperate example of Wayne’s World, on “Generation Y-Bother Getting My Own Place.” But rather than focusing on what Caldwell describes as a “striking new social […]
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The Complete Calvin & Hobbes
These are the first two strips ever of Calvin and Hobbes, the daily comic strip adventures of an imaginative boy and his stuffed tiger. I fear Calvin is nowadays better known for the unauthorized window stickers that depict him nastily pissing on various things, but the actual comic strip, by Bill Watterson, was sweet, thoughtful, […]
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A Video Tribute to Playgirl
As you may have sadly heard, Playgirl — that glossy monthly testimonial to the male member and ass-crack — is no more. To help us get through this national period of mourning, the gals over at Best Week Ever have put together this moving video tribute to Playgirl, hairy thighs, and the aforementioned ass crack. […]
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John Edwards Mistress/Love Child Scandal
Back in December, yours truly was somewhat overcome with rumors of John Edwards’ infidelity as reported by the National Enquirer. At the time, there was much “tosh, tosh”-ing from the skeptics in the peanut gallery. Now, it turns out, the whole thing may have been very very true. And more importantly, I may have been […]
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Breaking News! Or Not.
Hey Oregonian! This isn’t breaking news. This is news you read on Blogtown yesterday. About an incident that happened last week. Sort of reminds me of the time we reported that the Cesar Chavez rename was back in play–it was in our paper on June 26–and you gave it lots of play (and added practically […]
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I’m Reading American Gun Culture Report
Ever since I went shooting with Portland’s Pink Pistols, I’ve been receiving lots of gun literature through the post. Such as… American Gun Culture Report is edited and published by Ross Eliot, who as far as I can tell, has spent a lot of time on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska, and likes guns. […]
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Bike-on-Motorist Fight!!! Dramatic Recreation!!!
So Brian Barker from KATU was out in the parking lot at lunchtime, “dramatically recreating” Sunday night’s bike-on-motorist assault that’s making the news. Needless to say our mature Mercury staffers decided to help with the efficiency of this process, using an air horn. But then, we realized, KATU doesn’t know shit about dramatically recreating events. […]
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Congratulations Music Spectator!
After that slow-moving trainwreck that was the Portland Music Awards, it was decided that we should probably cease making fun of Craig Marquardo and his narcissistic voyage into insanity (and bad musical choices), Music Spectator magazine (“The Magazine for the Portland Music Scene”). Now that the magazine has returned from its extended hiatus, Marquardo is […]
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Mark Twain Was Rad, Claymation Was Creepy
Mark Twain appears on the cover of this week’s Time, and there are some good pieces in which Twain is likened as a precursor to today’s funnyman-as-political-commentator (see: Stewart, Colbert, Maher, et al). Perhaps most interestingly, Roy Blount Jr. talks at length about Twain’s essay, “The United States of Lyncherdom,” which I haven’t read, but […]
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Blazer Blog Wars
For a paper whose recent restructuring promised a more web-friendly presence (and a weekly print addition, sorta like us but we have the better escort ads), it’s odd that Portland Tribune sports reporter (and excellent Blazers writer) Kerry Eggers would drop these bat-shit crazy illogical comments about blogs in a recent interview: I don’t like […]
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Doug Peterson Live On Lars Larson
Right now. Talking about his store eviction. If you’re into that.
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Bikini Clad Cambridge Student in Jelly Wrestling Attack!
The weeks between June 19th and September 5th are known, in my home country, as “silly season.” Because everyone is on vacation, and the news slows to a trickle. Not unlike here in Portland, frankly. Still, it’s reassuring to know that the Daily Mail can turn a Jelly Wrestling Attack into a 1400 word news […]