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Additional Food Stuffs
This post was originally going to be titled “Notable Openings,” and the first thing on the list was going to be “your mom,” but I decided against that and instead wrote it in the first graph here, as if that might absolve me for saying mean things about your mom—it totally does not. Anyway. Here […]
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Look, There’s a Monkey on Karl Rove’s Head.
I don’t know what the fuck to do with this, but for some reason, I feel like it needs to be seen. Via some press release I just received: Crystal, star of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, makes friends with Karl Rove on Fox and Friends in celebration of the Blu-ray and […]
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Just When I Start Feeling Sorry For Myself Again
So how was your weekend? Mine blew chunks. First, Friday afternoon I come down with some fucking head cold. “IT’S NOT SWINE FLU,” my boyfriend tells me every time I ask, BUT HOW WOULD HE KNOW? He’s not qualified to rule out swine flu. He’s not a doctor, you know, even if he does play […]
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Your New Band Name: RAPTOREX
Scientists have discovered a man-sized fossil of a dinosaur that is essentially a 1/100th scale model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. From the Smithsonian’s website: In this week’s edition of Science, an international team of scientists describes a new, diminutive precursor to the more familiar Cretaceous giants. It was discovered in approximately 130-million-year-old rocks in China. […]
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8 Questions For a Man Hitchhiking Around the World
When a 25 year old French guy dropped the Mercury a line and asked if we’d be interested in talking to him about his hitchhiking tour around the world, I thought he was lying. But Frenchman Jeremy Marie has an elaborate binder of maps and photos of himself on camels and boats and he has […]
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The Worst Thing About the Hospital is this Sign.
In the Providence Medical Center cafe.
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Two More Reasons to Love Rural Oregon
It’s the kind of place where an old couple can run a roadside store called Cooterville. Which itself is the kind of place where creepy ceramic unicorns go to die.
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The Cigarette Peddlers, or Women in Shiny Black Dresses
Our intern Rachael is having quite a tough time this summer, having taken off on a two-week trip around Europe. Because we pay her nothing, we insisted she continue to blog from abroad. Here’s her first post. In Portland, I’m used to being accosted by skinny hipster kids asking for money to save the trees, […]
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Thank You, Mr. Ford.
Today as I was frantically searching for something interesting to post about, I found something even better: Harrison Ford. The above web ad was so compelling, that even though I had no idea what Mr. Ford was supporting, I had to pause… “Wait. Harrison Ford supports it? The Harrison Ford? Then, you’re right, there is […]
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London: Two Amazing Things I Missed
So, I spent last week in London. And apparently I need to keep my eyes out of the gutter and start paying more attention to the world around me because I missed two things that would have been very high on my To Do list. (1) Walk-in cocktail opens in LondonIt’s a bar filled with […]