January 29th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Massive Nights
It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these things – I promise, we’re trying to get our shit together – but since we’ll be out doing some fairly cool stuff this weekend, we thought we’d gently, ever so carefully, DEMAND YOU BUY US SHOTS MOTHERFUCKERS.
January 28th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis
Hey guys, did you hear the one about the Kansas man who set himself on fire and tried to walk into a locked fur store downtown yesterday? Well, so did folks from his neck of the woods, and they decided to tell the local paper what they thought about it.
January 27th, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Features, Recession/Economics
If you hadn’t guessed, I drive a tow truck, which gives me ample time to stew in the cab of my truck, read Beckett, plot revolution, and interact with the town folk. You ask, a tow truck, really? Well what else is a double B.A. good for.
January 27th, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Features, Recession/Economics, Sporting Life
So the Great Bowling Recession, a think piece project Rubiked from the jungle of my mind, has been officially kicked off as a quasi revolutionary experiment. One that will leave the bourgeoisie and the political elite of D.C. quivering in fear as they huddle en masse from the thunderous din of Zeus. By Jove that’s right, we will [...]
January 26th, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Recession/Economics, Sporting Life
As we dig our heels in… Oh, screw our heels – it’s a trench that has been dug. And to label this Part I of The Bowling Recession may mislead people into believing that the fun has just begun. However, you would have to existed in a vacuum for the last two years to not [...]
January 26th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features
Hey, did anyone listen to KUFO yesterday at 8:35 a.m.? No? Well, blogger and former 94.7 DJ Tara Dublin was on, and lord almighty, was she pissed off about the state of local radio! Then she said some deal about podcasts, and everyone threw a fit. What’s up with that? Let’s ask her!
January 26th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Art/Culture, Features
Here it comes kiddies. Valentines day. I know what you’re thinking. Oh shit Tyler, I don’t know what to do to make this holiday mean something. I’m here to tell you, don’t worry… ol T-Money is here to pull you through.
January 26th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Art/Culture, Music/Bands/Clubs
Jesus I wish I had some money. Three hundred dollars can buy you three days of really solid music. I’m not talking like one Elton John ticket, I’m talking a line up of, what I can tell, twenty plus bands I have wanted to see since 2008. I know it’s not Portland news, but it [...]
January 26th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Sex/Strippers, Sporting Life
Hey folks! It’s election day, so we’ve just been doing the usual, preparing for class war to break out, etc. But now look at what we have to deal with: It’s the Portland Trail Blazers’ nearly-crippled center, Greg Oden, taking sexytime cellphone photos of himself in the mirror, as is all athletes’ wont. If you’re [...]
January 25th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis
Hey, here’s some news: Matt Davis from the Merc just issued an important BREAKING NEWS ALERT, reporting that city council candidate Jesse Cornett is well on his way to the 1,000 signatures needed to get public funding in the upcoming council election. Hey wait a minute: That’s the guy we like, right? Well aren’t we [...]