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Yawwwwwn … OK, time for more coffee. But first! A few interesting things crossed my Safari tabs this morning as a result of the usual roundup of blogs (apologies to those via whom I found these sites but then didn’t credit – I lost track of my tabs. Bad Molly, no cookie! Except for the cookies sitting at our reception area and calling my name, anyway): Continue reading
Maybe it’s a little American-centric of me, but I wish, oh, I wish that when they announce the Booker Prize longlist, they’d, say, tell me which books are published in the U.S., so I don’t have to go hunting through the interwebs to try to find them. How many of these have YOU heard of? And no, having heard of the McEwan doesn’t count. You ought to have heard of that one. Continue reading
Beam development, the Portland firm that has proposed a local-focused historic restoration of the Center Court and Washburne buildings in downtown Eugene has won kudos for a similar project in its home town. As part of its “Best of Portland” issue, the alternative newspaper Willamette Week praised Beam principal Bradley Malsin’s Central Eastside project as “the epicenter of Portland’s radiant future” with the “creative class.” Here’s WW: Continue reading
Y’know, I thought I wasn’t getting enough LOLcats via my daily dose of I Can Has Cheezburger. But then I Googled “lolcats.” Sure, there’s LOLcats.com, but … I’ve seen a lot of those, and it’s a somewhat unwieldy page. Continue reading
Do you like books? How about movies? Magic? Neil Gaiman? Yes? If not, what’s your problem? If so, well, go see Stardust. Obviously I’ll elaborate about this in review form soon, but for now, I simply gush. I came up northwards last night for a screening in Tigard (Tigard! When was the last time you had a good reason to go to Tigard?), at which I met up with a Portland-based movie-critic friend, gleefully sat in the media personnel section of the theater, missed my friend Lolly winning a book and giggled ferociously at the best parts of the movie. If only I could do that every week. Continue reading
First I got the new issue of Rolling Stone, which features Guns ‘N’ Roses on the cover. Then I got a press release announcing the Black Crowes’ upcoming show at the Cuthbert. Sorry, but did I miss something? Did I wake up in 1990? Should my jeans be tighter and stretchier and my hair a couple feet longer? (The shirt, it will remain black and plain. Some things never change.) Continue reading
From a fresh-from-the-inbox press release: Continue reading
If you don’t read BoingBoing on a daily basis, you’re missing out on all the best internet smartness and randomness. Politics, net stuff, geek stuff, LOLcats (love!), sarcasm, phallic street poles … and wicked awesome shirts: Continue reading
• Confession: I’ve never read Beowulf. However, the trailer — stellar cast aside — doesn’t exactly make me seventeen kinds of excited for the movie. Note to Zemeckis: That Polar Express-style animation? It still looks stupid, even when you’re doing strange things to an ancient classic instead of ruining a classic children’s book. Continue reading
That title is a shout-out to anyone who ever watched MTV’s sadly long-long The State. Except it was $500 worth o’ puddin’. This is $50 worth o’ cheese. Oregon cheese. Cheese that I will happily devour after it serves its intended purpose. Which is not “for rolling in.” I miss good television. Soon we will have cable, and I will have more to talk about. When’s the Eco-Challenge on, again? Continue reading