Part of Mayor Adams’ “Green Jobs for Everyone!” economic plan is to attract a major sportswear retailer to Portland within five years. Via Twitter, Adams mentioned this afternoon that he’s got his eyes set on a this Chinese company: I don’t know anything about this Li Ning Company Limited but I deeply crave the skills […]
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Spielen Sie Baseball? Leverage is Casting for Extras (Again).
Leverage is filming in Portland for two more episodes in season two. This time, in addition to regular people, they’re looking for… baseball players and Germans? From Casting Director Danny Stolz: In addition to all general types of real people, we are also looking specifically to find male baseball players 18-30 yrs old, baseball coaches […]
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Thanks for Your Help!
As Sarah reported, Lee Perlman will not be prosecuted by the district attorney’s office, and so has respectfully declined your donations to help with his bail/legal bills. Generous Mercury readers raised $396 (which would have been matched dollar for dollar by the Mercury), and that money is being returned to the donors as we speak. […]
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The Duffy Lucas Interview
Once, he was a kid dancing to Sussudio. Today, if it’s possible, he’s even more incredible than that. I first saw the Duffy Lucas tapes last week, a grainy Youtube that originally aired in 1986. Yesterday, Lucas and I connected via Facebook, and this evening, he gave me the interview you’ve been waiting for. Since […]
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In Which Duffy Lucas Communicates With Me
Last Monday, I introduced you to Duffy Lucas. Some readers familiar with the Google suggested I contact Lucas via Facebook. Having heard nothing back, I assumed Lucas was none too pleased to be reminded of his former glory—presumably he is now washed-up, a has-been, I thought. I was wrong. My effing Spam filter appears to […]
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Making Money Off Michael: Too Soon?
Now ordinarily I’d say that it’s WAY too soon to make money off the death of Michael Jackson… but c’mon, you guys! Have you checked out this amazing “Thriller” lithograph from the highly regarded and esteemed “American Historical Society”? And how Michael is pictured “wearing a white suit that’s as pure as his heart”? I […]
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Your HUMP! Submission and You
Have you started on your submission for HUMP! yet? NO?!? And you have no idea what I’m talking about?? Let’s remedy that.As you may have read last week in an article penned by Dan Savage, HUMP! is the northwest’s premiere and funnest amateur porn contest. Started in Seattle by our sister paper The Stranger, HUMP! […]
Posted inMovies & TV
QUICK SOMEONE GIVE ME $50,000 ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah—the goddamn Ectomobile is on eBay.* I must own it. I have dreamt of driving this car for 23 years. Via Laughing Squid. Also, thanks to Will “The Intern” Radik for alerting me to this situation, which obviously is of the utmost importance. Will, once I own the ECTO-1, you shall be the first person […]
Posted inPolitics
We Have Half An Economic Development Strategy!
As Mayor Sam Adams has been pointing out frequently over recent weeks, Portland hasn’t had an economic development strategy in a decade. But it does, now! (Sort of…) Last year, 39,550 people moved to the Greater Portland area. At the same time, the Greater Portland area lost 38,510 jobs. We’re expecting unemployment as high as […]
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Kentucky Fried Chicken
Corey Feldman has won the weird contest. But consider a culture that produces a eulogy like this:
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Are You “Hip and Fashionable”?
So that Leverage show that shoots here? They need extras—specifically, “hip and fashionable men and women to be fashion show attendees, fashion designers, buyers, magazine editors, etc.” They’re also looking for “runway models” between 18-30 years old who “NEED TO KNOW HOW TO WALK THE RUNWAY.” (Christ, I get it, stop shouting at me. That’s […]
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The Art of Dine and Dash
Sunday evening, Arcata California. My wife Kitty and I are in Mazzotti’s Italian Restaurant on the main square, and we want nothing more than enormous plates of carbohydrates, which the menu promises in spades. As we consider which monstrous dish of starch to order, we are both struck by the conversation at the table beside […]