Ben Greenman, a very smart, witty, great guy and editor of the New Yorker appears in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Chicago very soon. (Schedule is below). Q: WHAT ARE PARIS HILTON, OPRAH, JESSE JAMES, AND OTHER TOP CELEBS DOING IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE? A: BEN GREENMAN PUT ‘EM THERE This summer, the Brooklyn author and …
Things are tough all over. Even legendary recordist Steve Albini, the famed audio technician behind classic releases from Nirvana, Liz Phair, Bush, Bedhead, Built to Spill, Bottomless Pit, Cheap Trick and dozens of others is having trouble paying the mortgage on Electrical Audio, his impeccably designed analog studio. Tim Midgett, guitarist, bassist and songwriter for …
Thanks to Colette Moran for the link. The improvised comic prose is East Portland’s alone (Colette would never jest about energy drinks.): . “In Archie, Obama v. Palin – PATRICK GAVIN | POLITICO CLICK Obama is dubbed “The Chicago Kid” while Palin gets named “The Thrilla from Wasilla” on the new Archie covers.” Complete story …
The Gift-Giving Season is upon us, and here’s a classic stockingstuffer. Thanks to Kristen Anderson for this Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gifting suggestion… ‘The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids’ “The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids,” published by Really Big Coloring Books of St. Louis, purports to be a “teaching and learning tool.” But many of the …
Probably one of the last songs Doug Fieger recorded. Fab pop song, and teaming up with Jeffrey Foskett is always a good move for anybody. – Bill Larson and Rich Horton .
. . Johnny Depp has been forever typecast as Hunter S. Thompson. Even when, as here in new film, The Tourist, he sweetly coos tender Euro intrigues with Angelina Jolie, you can still hear echoes of the crazed voice of Thompson ranting across Las Vegas: . . The Tourist TrailerUploaded by teasertrailer. – Classic TV …
Sad to say it kids, but I think Improv Everywhere went to the beach to jump the shark:
This clip is interesting. I’m waiting for the day I get my ape servant, fully trained of course, and the device to put material in my mind (memories, knowledge) that turns me into an expert on a subject. He was right on about computers and the ability to communicate with others anywhere. Too bad telecommuniting …
. “Jim, are you kidding or what? First of all, let’s start by you accepting the fact that you were the original director of PIRANHA 2 and you were fired. Shame on you for thinking that genre movies and the real maestros like Roger Corman and his collaborators are any less auteur or impactful in …
It is hard to explain how deeply God can get his hooks into a Christian. Believe me there are times I’d rather not attend the “fancy sewing circle” which some people believe church to be. Why is God a self absorbed deity? At least the God as he is potrayed in the Bible? Is it …
This just in from Gordon Jack Schultz: “I truly thought I’d become jaded, that nothing could surprise me. I owe a debt to Fox News and its doting parent for arousing in me true astonishment at how stupid Fox News thinks Americans are. I had really thought there was a limit to hypocrisy. Thanks, Fox, …
This I Believe” can often be a pulpit. Ustinov does not treat it as such. There is no proselytizing, no extolling, or drama; there is only a simple laundry list of his beliefs. Out of the secular comes spirituality, out of the irreverent comes faith. Some of the smartest people I know never went to …
So right-wing “Christians” are claiming that if American Muslims pray near the site of the World Trade Center Massacre radical Muslims around the world will cry “Victory over America.” I’m astonished at the sheer stupidity of people who call themselves “Christian” who think there is a monolithic Islam, that all Muslims march in lockstop–secretly or …
The folk band British Sea Power composed a soundtrack for the 1934 British film Man of Aran and performed it live during a showing of the film at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2008. Thankfully, the band recorded the composition in its entirety. This clip captures what became an exquisite mashup. – Mitch Hurst, Author …
From: John Ambrosavage To: East Portland Blog Subject: Bellhop at the Hilton Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:43:54 -0700 I sent this to the Mayor of Southern West Seattle – but I forgot to send it to you – I think – and I know how you love the 70’s – a friend of mine …
I’m tired of reading articles, mostly by secular press, about how bad and corrupt Christians are. The focus needs to be on Christ. If I have chosen to follow Christ, what does it matter to me if the whole world thinks I’m a hypocrite or my brothers and sisters are? Sure, it does to some …
This just in from the Mayor of Southern West Seattle: “I saw an episode of a series I had almost forgotten about, “Run For Your Life” – remember or ever see it? Ben Gazzara as a hip swingin’ lawyer… with only a year or so to live – wanders the country solving problems, smoking cigs …
Ten years is not long enough. The Cross is for the long view, the lifelong view. Ten years is just a beginning. Anne Rice– said to have quit Christianity after only a decade– should consider patience, take some time and find a better situation before declaring an end to the search. Disillusionment with people and …
Hostess Ho Hos are still out there. If there’s one product name that could have been pushed to obscurity by the rise of the hip hop nation, it’s this one. But no, the “tubular snack” persists, as “elegantly enrobed in delectable confectionary coating” as ever. And then there’s the Ding Dong. (With Ashton Kutcher pranking …
Is it a cop, or a male stripper dressed as a cop? If it’s the latter, when’s he gonna take it off? The action takes place in beautiful downtown Malmö.
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Brian Salisbury at Hollywood.com tries and fails to answer that very question, saying in part: “For all my (admittedly limited) fluency in critical analysis, I am stymied. I honestly don’t know if I think Jolie has real chops as an actress or if her eyes manage to trap me in some kind of sex trance …
Crime author James Lee Burke has a new Robicheaux novel out called, The Glass Rainbow. Here’s an interview with Mr. Burke, call him Jim, about the book at Blogcritics.org. A review from Oregonlive.com. A review from the Seattle P-I. A review from Detnews.com. Blog review from Tricia Weight. A review from Bookhound. A review from …
Frank Schaefer, author of “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back” has a great piece about the “counterintuitive contradictions” of the tea partiers bringing down their movement: Thank God For Sarah Palin’s Picks! (Good …
University of Washington Alum Amanda Knox declares her innocence in an interview from prison with an Italian magazine: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I have discovered a tersely excellent blog, Hands On, “Life and art in all their moving parts,” which is written by David Handelman, a journalistic veteran, an inked up old soldier, a printmag workhorse which rocks in it’s quality and rolls in industry access. Hands On is NOT about music, but Handelman did write for …