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 20th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
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 Editor hasn’t been able to put his finger on about the show: It’s a total bitchfest! From the Merc: “Let’s put [...]
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 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 [...]
December 8th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
In many ways, Portland is mild when compared to other major cities. Crime is relatively low – especially violent crime. People are often polite and boring to the point of meekness. No one really says what’s on their minds, if anything at all is in fact on their minds. But the people on the Number Four [...]
December 7th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Art/Culture
You’ve assuredly seen the story making the rounds today about Eugene-area resident Doug Smith legally changing his name to Captain Awesome – a thing that happened last month at some point and made the national news this morning. The former Mr. Smith styled his nickname after some character on a network sitcom. Now his legal [...]
October 11th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
Hey, look dudes: The internet radio deal you maybe listen to now and then has changed its name. PDX.FM is now Cascadia.fm, and it’s, um, just like PDX.FM was, except now it will apparently market itself to Seattle and Vancouver, too. Please make the appropriate amendments to your mental rolodex of things that have “sold [...]
September 29th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Art/Culture, Features
This just in. Lock your windows, board up your chimneys and lock your children in your basement (as if they’re not already there). September is killer bird month in Portland. These flesh eating tiny birds called “swifts” are named after how quickly they can dive bomb your head and pluck out your tender eye balls…at [...]
September 23rd, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Art/Culture
We wish we could be there, but since we can’t we are demanding that all of you go to tonight’s ninth installment of Ignite Portland, the amazing, sort of techie but insanely fun, um, festival of presentations held every so often (six months or so, maybe?) at the Bagdad. The lineup tonight will literally force [...]
September 10th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
It’s kind of old news now, but for the record, the folks behind the Portland stereotype spoof show “Portlandia” say the show won’t make fun of Portlanders. Sure. You bet. Last month or whenever, we predicted that Portlandia would give the rest of the country ample reason to laugh their asses off at Portland and its fine [...]