Screenshot of town called Scenic Rim that thought scenicrimjobs.com.au was a good URL for an employment website is making the rounds. But the amazing thing is if you look in archive.org, URL dates back in 2020 and appears to have lasted until 2025, when it was redirected to jobsinscenicrim.com.au

Another benefit (?) of watching Eurovision is I had occasion to look at Boy George's Wikipedia page since he inexplicably joined San Marino's singer on stage. Hooo boy has he been up to some stuff before getting sober, including releasing 11 (!) solo records, one of which I remember hearing of.

Watching this year's Eurovision videos (not the live performances) in YouTube guest mode, because I don't want the algorithm getting any weird ideas about the music I actually want to hear the other 51 weeks of the year.

I don't speak Spanish, but does La Mayor imply a female mayor, whereas Le Mayor would imply a male mayor? So this Pratt candidate is a scared Karen lady?

IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE downtown is between 405, burnside, and the willamette POWELL’S IS IN THE PEARL WHICH IS NOT IN DOWNTOWN old town is also not in downtown THE CENTRAL EASTSIDE IS DEFINITELY ALSO NOT IN DOWNTOWN

Today I worked on my art car all day, or as I like to call it, I'm back on my Ship of Thesus bullsh1t.* *all of the plastic grapes and the fabric flowers pretty much have to be replaced annually for wear and tear and the plastic getting something that looks like eczema. I have spared you a pic.

The table next to us in this bar are loudly discussing today's Wordle solution (the word that started with U). It was a word I sorta knew but struggled to define. I had 4 letters (none green) and still couldn't get it until someone told me the first letter.

Conversation prompted by a discussion on Bluesky: Me: "is the plural of Bigfoot Bigfoots, or Bigfeet?" Spouse: believe it or not, I've actually thought about this before. I'm not saying the key to marital harmony is finding a partner whose theoretical grammar rules match yours, but it's nice.

For When It Happens: If you dont know the ancient joke about the musician in Buddy Rich's band who calls Buddy's wife after he dies, Google it. To explain the "who is that" part of the joke, Buddy Rich was a jazz band leader who was well known for being mean and awful to the musicians he hired.

My cat was given this toy that looks like a bird. It flaps and chirps. He is super indifferent to it. I though it would terrify him if past toys of this ilk (floppy fish, scuttling crab) could predict future results.

But is the spider okay?

They finally made the milk from that hotel

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

From the print ed of the April 6 2026 New Yorker. Appears that, like Stephanie Hsu, the fact checker for this article had never seen RHPS, either. (The show's director, also mentioned in the article, -is- named Sam, but still).

What is "a 1964 board game for sale for $1.99 at goodwill"? The one round we idly played shows the challenge: category Elections a:"state with most electoral votes after 1960 census" q: the answer is now number 4 in rank. I'll bet there are questions about Trini Lopez and U Thant in here.

Just got the voters pamphlet looking for the long shot lunatic a la Seattle's infamous Goodspaceguy. Congrats M@rt1n W@rd, even though you only got .67% of the ranked choice vote in the 2024 Portland Mayor race, you're now bringing your insane proposals to the governor's primary. Chef's kiss.

I know train maps are not supposed to be directly representational as far as exact distances and position, but this MAX diagram drives me nuts. The most egregious thing is that the river should run N/S, and the blue line should go east. Unless Gresham moved north of the airport and no one told me.

So here's something insane that I love that someone is doing: As a tribute to legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman we will be showing all of his films back to back over the course of 6 days. Starts 7pm on April 29th. Screenings continue 24/7 through May 4th. All screenings are free.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I know lists like this are click bait, but unless Randy Newman is dead or Canadian, there's no way Lana and Fiona beat him to the "greatest" pantheon at ages 40 and 48. Joni Mitchell is Canadian and that must be why she's missing.

Was just discussing that Oregon currently has a lesbian governor, previous governor was bisexual woman. Both democrats, both disappointing. Honestly the Oregon gov. I associate with meaningful progressive legislation is McCall: bottle bill, public beaches, urban growth boundary. And he was GOP.

Anyone who was at Tina's "let's give money to cheapskate billionaire sports team owners" press event today needs to GO. That's Olivia for sure....

Curious how many wordle streaks got broken today? I was a "phew" solve.

The important thing is that people are again talking about Sondheim's 1990 musical "Assassins", which was a flop at first, but won 5 Tonys when revived 14 years later. I was lucky enough to see a local production of it in Seattle sometime in the 2010s.

I love it when my news app is very slow to reload/ update....

Today in NOPE NOPE NOPE "A speaker has just come on in the WHCA dinner that they will have an announcement shortly and suggest that the dinner will continue after that."

Went to the Portland Art museum today for free* for the first time since the renovations that connect the wings (without using a passage that resembles an airport concourse). My favorite piece was a sculpture that looks like a giant quilt block, but when you look close, its made of circuit boards.

I switched my carrier to Mr. T-Mobile. Now I get unlimited pity.

Happy Eartha Day, everyone!

TIL that Gary Numan is a few weeks older than Gary Oldman.

Catching up on the new season of Hacks and ngl I had no idea who Jesse McCartney is. Somehow missed out on this dude. He must never have played the Peach Pit.

"Which of these seems sticky, and which seems sticky with slightly different properties?"

I watched the Judee Sill documentary because of a review by @kcfennessy.bsky.social, and now when I see people who look like Judee Sill, like this Karaoke singer, I wonder if they know they look like her.

This thrift store mannequin is still haunting me weeks after first seeing it.

Harold the Lloyd (dress like 1920s college man, hang precariously from exterior signage if clock unavailable)

GenX demands that one of the replacement buildings be named the Lloyd Dobbler Center, where you won't need to buy, sell, or process anything. Bonus points if someone opens a kickboxing studio there.

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

A 38 year old pdx blueskyer says she doesn't think she personally knows any Gen Xers, and it got me thinking that we have 4 GenX supreme ct justices (Gorsuch was b. 1967) but we may never have a GenX president (Obama b 1961 just missed it). Even if Kamala won, 1964 misses the trad. 1965 cut-off.

FINALLY. What a difference 5 days makes. My cherry blossom tree has finally decided to join the party. Picture on the right is what it looked like on April 5th, left photo is April 10th. Everywhere else in Portland has had blooms for like 4 to 6 weeks.

Am told the jerk cockatoo that terrorizes dogs is likely an AI video. I removed the repost. I wanted to believe.

I cannot find my P-touch labelmaker anywhere in the house. O Brother, where art thou?

Update on our developmentally delayed cherry blossom tree: beginning to bud, but not at full flower. Other trees in the area are not only done blooming, they are beginning to drop their flowers on the ground. What is up with my tree?!

Good to see this being studied in horses, but as we know from comics and cartoons, goats enjoy eating anything, including old boots, tin cans and the britches of country bumpkins.

Dear neighbor shooting off fireworks at 1:43am after a day of health rumors: don't do me like that.

Whee, just did our fed and state taxes AND remembered to claim the $70 Portland arts tax under "other local taxes paid" on our Oregon State return. It increased our refund by a whole $6. #StickingItToTheMan

Just watched Richard Linklater's "Blue Moon". If Ethan Hawke had been up against anyone other than Michael B. Jordan's stellar performance in Sinners, Best Actor would have been his. Great work, great film. When an actor plays a non-heroic schlubby drunk and still shows his humanity you know its👍.

Hackers is playing on the TV in this tavern and I think you should know a young Wendell Pierce (aka Bunk Moreland from the Wire) is in it as a Secret Service agent. So far he is the only cast member whose hairstyle has not aged horribly since 1995 (looking at you, F. stevens and M. lillard).

My Gateway redevelopment plan: ice rink (only thing people miss about Lloyd ctr)& indoor pickleball on bottom, housing on top. Alternative plan: mixed use retail, medical/wellness offices, and preschool for all spaces with housing on top. Indoor recreational sports complex w/transit seems win/win.

Someone went into our garbage can and removed the bag, dumping the bagged garbage back into the can. It doesn't look like they snooped too much, since we'd just put a day's worth of scoopings from two cat litter boxes loose in the bag, plus CPAP tubing that legit looks like medical waste. Enjoy!🤣

Overheard in the library workroom: "We should just make those shelves into all-staff picks so we don't have turf wars over who gets to use them for displays. That's T-U-R-F, not T-E-R-F, judging by the look on your face I feel I should immediately clarify."

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.