Oregon Lawmaker Thinks Sending Immigrants To Chinese Jail Might Be Cool

Oregon Lawmaker Thinks Sending Immigrants To Chinese Jail Might Be Cool

We don’t write about politics much – because we don’t care! – but this little item caught our eye: Oregon State Rep. Dennis Richardson has an idea about wha...

Why The Hell Can't Portland's Cyclists Signal Properly?

Why The Hell Can’t Portland’s Cyclists Signal Properly?

Do you see this moron in the photo above? That, in some places, is how you signal a right turn while riding a bicycle. But not in Portland! So why do you assholes insist on doing i...

The Mercury Nails The Feeling Behind Portlandia

The Mercury Nails The Feeling Behind Portlandia

The Mercury, which we love very much and would maybe try to mate with if we were also a newspaper, wrote a little review of Portlandia this week. And they nailed exactly what Your ...

Here Is Your Video Of The Zigzag River Devouring A House

Here Is Your Video Of The Zigzag River Devouring A House

Hi everyone. Your Editor watched a house fall into the river this weekend. Um. Anything new with you? The photo above is of the general area where a house, a half-dozen full-grown ...

Music/Bands/Clubs


The New Decemberists Video Is Great, Unembedable
Jan 18, 2011 | by | 1 Comment | Read →

The new Decemberists album came out today. After listening to it maybe a thousand million times on NPR’s podcast over the past month, I bought it. It’s great, and that&...

Local Band Writes Extremely Local Song, About Sunday Parkways
Jan 3, 2011 | by | No Comments | Read →

Who is this band, the “Supervisor”? They are actually very good, if you like Americana-type jams and such. And they wrote a little ditty about Portland’s summer-l...

We Almost Forgot We Attended ‘Shine A Light’ This Weekend
Oct 19, 2010 | by | No Comments | Read →

Dang, we’re so late on this. But whatevs – we totally attended the Shine A Light music and naked wrestling event at the Portland Art Museum this weekend, and took the c...

Art/Culture


You Nerds Finally Have A Comic Book Club To Attend
Jan 26, 2011 | by | 1 Comment | Read →

You dorks like comic books, yes? Of course you do! And you drunks like beer as well, oui? Oui oui, you say! Well now there is some kind of support group for all of you comic-obsess...

The Mercury Nails The Feeling Behind Portlandia
Jan 20, 2011 | by | No Comments | Read →

The Mercury, which we love very much and would maybe try to mate with if we were also a newspaper, wrote a little review of Portlandia this week. And they nailed exactly what Your ...

Local Internet Radio Show To Go Un-Internet, Un-Local
Jan 12, 2011 | by | No Comments | Read →

Everyone’s favorite internet radio situation, Suck It, was rumored to have some fancy terrestrial radio deal lined up. That didn’t happen, but now local people and Suck...


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Portland Is Shockingly Bad At Drinking
Portland Is Shockingly Bad At Drinking

For those of you who think of Portland as a world-class drinking town, here’s a wake up call: According to a story in internet concern The Daily Beast, Portland is only the 3...

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Food/Drink

New Kid on the Block: Sterling Coffee Roasters
New Kid on the Block: Sterling Coffee Roasters

Yeah yeah yeah. Stumptown, Starbucks, Pete’s. It all tastes like coffee to me. Some strong, some weak, some like cardboard and some like bitter over extracted burnt beans. Bu...

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Sex/Strippers

In Case You Haven’t Seen A Grown Man Without Pants On Today
In Case You Haven't Seen A Grown Man Without Pants On Today

Ha ha, here is a video of Steve Humphrey, the actual editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, running around sans trousers for a Bike Transportation Alliance public safety message...

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Sporting Life

Why The Hell Can’t Portland’s Cyclists Signal Properly?
Why The Hell Can't Portland's Cyclists Signal Properly?

Do you see this moron in the photo above? That, in some places, is how you signal a right turn while riding a bicycle. But not in Portland! So why do you assholes insist on doing i...

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Recession/Economics

Gresham’s New Towing Law Wins
Gresham's New Towing Law Wins

Tow trucks are the ultimate racket. Getting towed is really the only time during the course of human existence when one simple decision – parking in the wrong place, or for t...

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