Year: 2008

MusicfestNW Thursday: MY EARS, MY EARS

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Honestly? I didn’t think my first night at MusicfestNW would involve staying out until after one in the morning, allowing my ears to be totally fucking battered, but lo, it did, and it was a little bit awesome. I did stay at Holocene all night, true, but I knew Calendar Editor Chuck Adams was out and about — I’m sure he’ll check in later about Battles and M. Ward — and, well, see, it’s more fun to have someone to talk shit with at shows, and the only other person I knew who’d be out last night was at Holocene. Continue reading →

Things What Are Nifty

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I have a tendency to avoid blogging things if I think everyone’s already seen them. Sometimes I’m totally wrong, like with that damn fonts video I sent to Chuck a month or so ago. It was only kinda funny then, and now that it’s making the rounds, it’s getting annoying. But these two things are still cool! I swear! 1. Yeltsin video for “We Will Become a Factory” Continue reading →

“I think it’s really sexy when he kicks Satan’s ass!”

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I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head for THREE DAYS. It’s from Hamlet 2, which opens tomorrow and promises to be hilarious, at least for certain folks. (No one else in the theater for Tropic Thunder on Monday laughed during this preview, but then, a considerable portion of that audience though the very funniest thing in Tropic was Jack Black’s elaborate description of the sex act he’d perform for the person who untied him from a tree, so … take that for whatever you think it’s worth.) Continue reading →

PETA Loves PRI

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Pizza Research Institute now has another award to hang next to their handful of Best of Eugene certificates: The delicious pies and slices have led the tiny, tempting-smelling joint to be selected as one of the country’s Top 10 Vegan-Friendly Pizzerias. They’re sitting nicely in the middle of the pack at number five; the press release from PETA says: Continue reading →

Whoops.

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It’s a bad sign when I haven’t got a single post in the recent blog posts column. I’ve got no excuse, really, except that I got blogged out — in the reading sense — during Comic-Con (which I really do prefer calling Nerd Prom). News! Trailers that stayed up for less than 24 hours! (Why is Emma Frost in Wolverine: Origins? Do I care? I love Emma Frost.) Twitter updates from attending friends! Emailing other friends to beg them to nab stuff for me! ACK! Continue reading →

Driver Cited After Cyclist Injured

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Another bicyclist has been struck by a car, this time he survived. According to a police press release, Thea Peck, 36, was cited by police Monday, July 21 after she struck cyclist Daniel Rasmussen, 22, in a crosswalk near the 30th Ave. Albertsons, sending the biker to the hospital. EPD ticketed Peck for allegedly committing the violations of “Careless Driving” and “Passing a Stopped Vehicle at a Crosswalk.” Here’s the EPD description of the 10:42 am accident: Continue reading →

Two Thumbs Down

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Oh, Disney. Via The Chicago Tribune: Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert and columnist Richard Roeper are cutting ties with the TV franchise that Disney-ABC Domestic Television has syndicated nationally for 22 years. Continue reading →