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 25th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Recession/Economics
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 what to do with undocumented immigrants in Oregon, and he told everybody about it in his latest newsletter. Does he want to send them back to the [...]
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 [...]
September 22nd, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Recession/Economics
It is true blogworld. Patrick Alan Coleman of the Merc’s Blogtown is leaving us next month. This little Portland blogger will sure miss his bantering and misspelled rantings. So for you Patty, we give you the following video as a farewell…
August 25th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Recession/Economics
Two very enterprising young men decided that the best time to shoplift from Fred Meyer was when, like, 50 cops were in the store, helping little kids get ready to go back to school. They just walked in the store, and while the cops were distracted by the children of Portland, they clipped off price [...]
August 20th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Recession/Economics
Well, you have to give credit where credit is due: The feisty anarchist dorks at Red & Black Cafe have taken all of the hate mail they received after refusing to serve coffee to a cop that one time, and turned them into spokecards. And they’re hilarious! The Merc has the photos, but suffice to say [...]
July 12th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Recession/Economics
Gawker pays as much attention to Portland as any media outlet, and the adoration heaped on the city by The New York Times and NPR and every other media outlet for entrenched middle-class white people has not escaped its writers’ attention. In the longing eyes of the rest of the country, Portland is always livability [...]
May 26th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Recession/Economics
Great news everyone, Portland’s favorite vegan joint, Sweetpea Baking Company, is hiring! Hooray jobs, in Portland! You should definitely apply for this gig – it doesn’t matter if you’re gay, straight, white, black, disabled, whatever. But, um, if you enjoy a little cheddar with your black bean burger? Well, apparently the Sweetpea job is not [...]
May 3rd, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Recession/Economics
Hey everyone, how was your May Day? Did you, you know, go rip shit up, in the streets? No? Neither did anyone else apparently, with the city’s two well-attended protests resulting in no violence, no arrests and no real incidents of any kind. Just a bunch of activists marching around, like most any other day [...]
April 28th, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Recession/Economics, Sporting Life
We’ve hit the lanes again, and all seems well in the world. Although we started out a bit rusty everyone picked up where they left off a month ago, somewhere between so-so and damn.