* I’m tired of the words “snowpocalypse” and “snowmageddon.” Can you think of a new term for people freaking out over a small amount of snow, and put it in the comments? Thanks. AHHHHH!! SNOWLAMITY! (That’s like “snow” + “calamity” = “snowlamity.”) We dodged a snowlamity bullet today—we, being everyone who isn’t dumb enough to […]
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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 […]
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Forty-Six Seconds From the New The Thing
I love the hell out of John Carpenter’s The Thing, which means I can’t help but be curious about its prequel/reboot, which is also, rather creatively, titled The Thing. The Thing (Again!) was supposed to come out last April, but got delayed to October, and now MTV has 46 seconds from it. While it’s always […]
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SNOW DAY! Open Thread!
How am I supposed to bike to work now?! This is the place to talk about the weather. Topics include: • Why does Portland cancel school for, like, a quarter inch of snow but not super heavy rain?• Portlanders don’t know how to handle the snow, dognabit! • Snow is pretty! Send good snow photos […]
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Castle Grayskull… on Ice!
You’ve been bombarded by snow for weeks on end. Trash is buried and rotting outside your apartment. So, what’s a bored New York artist to do? Why, make Castle Grayskull, of course. And it comes with lights and a guard dog! Clearly the best snow castle of the year and decade.
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Bearded While Biking
Look what fugliness Etsy hath wrought this time: However, if you are a woman, or just a man who chooses to avoid the oft-lampooned condition of actually having a beard, this would be a super handy temporary fix to avoid freezing your face off while you attempt to bike commute during the maybe-sorta-maybe-sorta-not-gonna-happen snowy-icy cold […]
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SNOWPOCALYPSE IS COMING!!
Today may be all warm and in the 40s, but tomorrow…. tomorrow meteorologists are already describing as a frighteningly vague “major event.” Snow! beginning in the afternoon.Freezing Rain! continuing until midnight.“Significant amounts of snow, freezing rain, ice, or slush!” destroying your commute. If you have to drive up hills, use chains. If you can, take […]
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Man in a Blizzard
Here’s the short film shot by Jamie Stuart over Sunday night’s blizzard in New York that’s been making the rounds on the internet, thanks to Roger Ebert’s laudatory appraisal: This film deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject.(1) Because of its wonderful quality. (2) Because of its role as homage. It […]
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Metrodome Roof Collapses
As Steve mentioned in GMN, the Minneapolis Metrodome roof collapsed under all that snow… and now there’s video! Via JMG.
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This Is My Favorite Song About Snow.
Cadallaca, “Winter Storm ’98.” It’s a song about Oregon and snow. I was 16 in 1998 and that might’ve been the year my dad took me to a parking lot to teach me how to snow-drive. Last winter I had to abandon my roommate’s car on the side of Burnside, 6 blocks from my house, […]
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NE Building Collapses, as Predicted By the Mayans
Could a repeat of last year’s snowpocalypse be right around the corner? The streets may be drivable, but that hasn’t stopped the cold from leaving a trail of destruction, this time right down the block from the Mercury offices! The O reported that an industrial building collapsed in Northeast Portland, so I walked over to […]