February 2nd, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Recession/Economics
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 too long – can result in a company taking posession of one of your most valuable pieces of property and charging you whatever the [...]
January 26th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Art/Culture
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-obsessed drunks to go to and share your stories of staggering around comic shops, knocking over racks and blurilly flipping [...]
January 24th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Sex/Strippers
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. It’s very funny. And also: Use lights if you ride your bike at night, jerks!
January 21st, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Recession/Economics
This nice blond lady, Molly Karvinen, had to chase down some asshole who grabbed a handful of cash from her tip jar. People are so fucked up. Karvinen works at Twin Perks, where the baristas wear bikinis. It’s probably not, like, the most amazing job of all time. The ladies who work there have to [...]
January 18th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Music/Bands/Clubs
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’s coming from someone who always thought the Decmeberists were more hit-and-miss than I’d care for a band to be. I guess that’s the thing with [...]
January 12th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Art/Culture
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 It hosts Robert Wagner and Sabrina Miller have another, perhaps better gig: A daily, four-hour-long spot on Sirius XM. This means they are officially “big time.” From the [...]
January 11th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Sporting Life
Hello people! Do you like sports? Are you from Oregon? Do you PRETEND you are from Oregon when real Oregonians ask you where you’re from? Great! There’s a football game on tonight, featuring the University of Oregon “Mighty Ducks.” You can watch them in a bar, in public, and cheer for them! AS IF YOU [...]
January 11th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis
It’s nice and sunny out in Portland now, but come Tuesday night, the city will turn into a total shitshow of ice, snow, abandoned cars and ferral children (maybe!). It will be Snowpocalypse 2011 (or, SNO-M-G, if you prefer). Are you panicking yet, you wimps! Think back to December 2009 – the second Snowpocalypse! – [...]
January 7th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Art/Culture
God, everything that has happened since New Year’s Day has been fucking depressing. Cops have shot a bunch of people, then a cop got killed trying to subdue some nutjob, and some other folks died, and a bajillion birds have dropped dead for no fucking reason mid-flight, and and and. It’s been awful! 2011 already [...]
January 6th, 2011 | by Tyler | published in Analysis, Food/Drink
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. But I love coffee, in every sense of the word. I drink americanos, espresso, lattes, cappuccino, the occasional cafe con leche, as drip and french press alike. [...]