I just interviewed seven members of the 555 bike club, who got into Portland today, after having ridden from Knoxville with the following rules: 1.Bikes need to be pre-1975, 2.Bikes need to be under 500ccs, 3.Bikes need to cost less than $500. Also, it all had to be on back roads. No freeways. The idea […]
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Trailer for Gonzo.
Alex Gibney’s eagerly anticipated doc on Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo, opens in Portland, appropriately enough, on July 4 at Cinema 21. YouTube trailer below; better quality here.
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Naming the New Blog Column
Thanks for all the help coming with names for the reading/drinking blog column. Here are my favorites—pick one! PICK A TITLE FOR THE MERCURY‘S NEWEST BLOG COLUMN
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Hitler was a Burner
Oddly, Burning Man (tickets on sale now!) has already come up twice today, and I haven’t even left the house! The first time was this I, Anonymous decrying the hypocrisy of Burning Man’s carbon footprint and the so-called liberal hippie mentality of the typical burner. And now, it gets worse:
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Good Mid-Morning News!!
Because sometimes, your intern goes to Miami. 1.SPIKE LEE SHOULD SHUT HIS FACE!!! Clint Eastwood takes a swipe at Spike Lee for accusing his film, Flags of The Fathers, of not including black troops. “Has he ever studied history?” Eastwood asks. Bitch-slapping contest! 2.CLIMBING THE NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING!!! French Climber Alain Robert climbed the […]
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PDX Ripped: Mars Volta Interview at Sasquatch
Dave Allen has more Sasquatch footage for you this week! Says Dave, “I ran into Cedric and Omar from The Mars Volta back stage. We caught up about the last time we spent time together in Los Angeles in 2005 doing a remix together of Gang of Four’s ‘To Hell With Poverty’ with Cedric laying […]
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DVD Reviews: Chicks Doing Kung Fu.
The latest releases from the Weinstein Brothers’ Dragon Dynasty DVD label are two classics from the Shaw Brothers vault: 1966’s Come Drink with Me and 1979’s Heroes of the East. Both are classic chopsocky flicks, with a whole lot of fighting, cheesy dialogue, fight scenes crammed full of stock sound effects (“THWAP THWAP THWAP! WHOOSH!”), […]
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The Auschwitz of Water Slides
Oh, suuuurrrre. Everybody loves to talk about how neato awesome Portland is. And I will happily agree… as long as you can point me to the nearest local water slide. OH, THAT’S RIGHT… METRO PORTLAND DOESN’T HAVE ANY WATER SLIDES. (Hey Sam Adams! The green boxes are nice. Where the EFF is my effing WATER […]
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Swing ‘Em Home
“Playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” says George Bush. I DISAGREE. Fortunately a bunch of surly Americans are with me, and have formed the group Swing ‘Em Home, with the sole focus of playing golf as often as it takes to…well…”The bottom line is, we’re not going to stop playing golf […]
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Is Your Butt Satisfied?
I’ve got one question: Why isn’t this South Carolina auto dealership a sponsor for this year’s Pride Parade?
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Kung Fu Panda
Jack Black’s Animated Chop Socky
The latest animated film from DreamWorks, Kung Fu Panda features Jack Black as a paunchy panda who unwittingly becomes the kung fu savior of the world. So it’s kind of like Beverly Hills Ninja, but, um, animated. Kung Fu Panda starts off punchy, with a terrific opening sequence that sets the tone: kung fu slapstick […]
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Expiration Date
The Foot Fist Way Is Funny! For Now.
The Foot Fist Way is consistently funny, and occasionally hilarious, and within three months, you’re going to want to kill anyone who brings it up. That’s just the way it goes with things like these—be they Napoleon Dynamite or Borat or anything with Dave Chappelle. They come out, they’re funny, and then they’re ruined—shattered into […]