I’m pretty damn conscientious about only using my phone with a hands-free device when driving, and have been since before it became law. Having driven stick-shift for years, I’m used to holding the wheel with one hand, but I’ve read the studies, and there’s no question regarding the safety hazards. That said, I’m a little […]
PANIC!
Posted inPANIC!
Just Theoretically Speaking, Does North Korea Have a Missile That Can Hit Portland?
Yes it does. (Theoretically speaking.)
Posted inBooks
NaNoWriMo Is Slowly Killing Me
This is my first year doing National Novel Writing Month, and IT IS SLOWLY KILLING ME. What’s keeping me going, though, are pieces about it from writers I like. Like this blog post from Patrick Rothfuss, who responds to a fan noting that “I could see how your style wouldn’t really lend itself to being […]
Posted inPortland
Fuuuuck!!! A GIANT CLOWN ON INLINE SKAAAAATES!!!
Okay, so this video says it was originally uploaded back in 2009—which is a goddamn good thing, because if this were a recent video? All you would see is my empty office chair spinning while I got the FAWK out of town! Anyway, apparently there was this GIANT CLOWN who used to love racing around […]
Posted inConflict of Interest
Taking The Next Step (Backwards)
I was first hired by the Mercury in 1912 as a delivery boy. Us Newsies always got a thrill from delivering the paper each and every week, especially ‘ol One Leggy Petey here. That kid loved it when Dan Savage would write about “pegging.” I’m taking the next step in my career after four 11 […]
Posted inAstronomy
Well, That’s Comforting
image from NASA The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) We’re fucked. A decommissioned NASA satellite is plummeting towards the Earth’s surface as we speak, but it seems that it’s not entering the atmosphere exactly when the rocket scientists thought it would. From the Washington Post: Thursday night, the space agency said that the 35-foot-long satellite […]
Posted inFashion
It’s Beginning to Sound A Lot Like Christmas: First Bean Spilled on the Downtown Holiday Pop-Ups
I know, it is way too early to be talking about cold times and holiday parties, but this little rumor just came across my desk: The flagship location of the annual downtown pop-up shop program (you can read some of my coverage of past years here and here) has been accidentally announced. If all goes […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Contagion: Oh God Oh God Oh God
CONTAGION Christ, Gwyneth, COVER YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH As I believe was made abundantly clear in my panicked review, Contagion kind of scared the bejeesus out of me, because (A) it’s a really effective thriller about how quickly a powerful disease could kick-start an apocalypse, and (B) I’m ALREADY paranoid about germs, so, I was already […]
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Nerdlebrities Weigh in on the Star Wars Blu-rays
As suspected, that Yoda change wasn’t all—after a few days of panicked rumor-swapping in the dweebier corners of the internet, Lucasfilm finally admitted to the New York Times that, in the upcoming Blu-ray version of Return of the Jedi‘s climactic scene, the formerly silent Darth Vader now cries “NOOOOOOOOOOO!” in much the same goofy-ass, repeatedly […]
Posted inMusic
Mötley Crüe: Unforgivable
It’s forgivable to not be aware that Mötley Crüe is playing a show in the Portland area tonight. It’s forgivable not knowing that it’s at the Sleep Country Amphitheater, in Clark County, Washington, which seems too embarrassed to even mention the show on its website. It’s forgivable to have no clue that the shamefully grotesque […]
