It takes a special kind of creep to stand out for sleaziness among NBA owners.

Wow fuck this guy completely. Somehow he’s even worse than expected. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I’m unsettled by the Mayor’s newsletter today re: Moda. Rather than acknowledge that there are very real concerns about how this process has unfolded, he chose instead to cast critique as short-sighted and opportunistic in an effort to deflect from the impressive lack of rigor to date on his part.

See all you sickos at the @hollywoodtheatre.org tonight for Star 80 in 35 as part of Bleak Week… looks like tickets are still available

PSA: Shut the fuck up when you go to see a movie in a theater or stay the fuck home. 🤗

BLUE HERON is now available to rent or buy on most streaming services; my glowing review for one of my favorite movies of both this year and last, for the @portlandmercury.com:

Ah yes, in the spirit of DIY publications and self-stapled, photocopied fan tracts, Pitchfork is giving out Olivia Rodrigo zines for $25 that are reprinting the cover story you can read online which is about having dinner at a nice NYC restaurant with a young woman who was born after 9/11

In theaters today: THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, a sometimes ravishing and mostly dull re-imagining of the titular outlaw. I reviewed for @portlandmercury.com

What if Robin Hood but he's, like, really fucked up. I reviewed THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD for @portlandmercury.com

Antique shopping in Sisters, OR

The City will be hosting “pop-up” engagement events in each district for members of the community to speak directly to City Councilors on the topic of remodeling the Moda Center. I’m disappointed there was less than a week’s notice for this, but I hope you can find the time to show up.

Albums I’ve seen performed in full

I took this survey yesterday and was very frustrated at how hard it was to express how deeply I opposed the city paying for this shit instead of Tom Rich Fuck Dundon, and yet:

Is there anyone on here attempting the @hollywoodtheatre.org 100? Like you are confident you will meet that achievement by year’s end? If so, would you want to talk to me for a potential article in the Mercury?

#LastFourWatched I recommend that every person who claims to love cinema should watch and deeply consider Mark Region’s After Last Season

Had a big weekend recently #LastFourWatched

The only time I ever hear about Marie Glusenkamp Perez it’s always within the context of her being a moronic ghoul who might as well vote Republican

Two of our members — @sinacolad.bsky.social and @chancesp.bsky.social — are AAN Awards finalists for arts criticism! Read their work all year round at @portlandmercury.com and @wweek.com, respectively! aan.org/aan/announci...

it’s just been a long couple weeks at Day Job, so I got a bit weepy at this news. Ecstatic to share the category with fellow finalists @chancesp.bsky.social and Nolan Parker. Big thanks to Suzette for being my ideal editor and for bringing me into the @portlandmercury.com fold in the first place.

EVERYBODY! Stop what you’re doing!!! The Wildwood trailer is out!!! I spent over three years, mostly hand building the Doug firs that make up the eponymous Wildwood. youtu.be/POneS8h1jyU?...

Games criticism owes so much to Garrett Martin. Quietly one of the most influential people in the space, a guy who was happy to publish anyone that had something interesting to say. A shame AV Club is shuttering its games coverage. End of an era, long live Paste Games

Good morning

#LastFourWatched Hotel, plane involved

Blue Heron, a new memory-piece that painfully articulates life-altering grief, opens in Portland this Thursday at Living Room Theaters. Read film critic Dom Sinacola's review ⬇️

Blue Heron is not a reenactment of Sophy Romvari’s childhood. But it tells the tale of a family that resembles her own and that of a director piecing together old camcorder footage, trying to uncover circumstances she was too young to understand at the time. @sinacolad.bsky.social reviews goodly.

Now that it’s finally coming to Portland theaters (er, theater) this week, I reviewed Sophy Romvari’s astounding BLUE HERON for the @portlandmercury.com

From yesterday: New post at the Werner Herzblog, about LESSONS OF DARKNESS and if anything was actually learned: wernerherzblog.substack.com/p/lessons-of...

Artwork by Tony Stella

Portland struggles with class issues in ways that can be hard to explain to people who haven't lived here. Comments like this one, said during the foie gras hearing this week, underscore exactly what I mean.

I personally am more concerned about my public dollars helping pay 45% of Andrew Hoan's $333,000 salary through Clean & Safe. PERSONALLY. (from: www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/03...)

From yesterday: New post at the Werner Herzblog, about LESSONS OF DARKNESS and if anything was actually learned: wernerherzblog.substack.com/p/lessons-of...

I've learned that when an idea pops in my head, it's sometimes more efficient to just draw it than to let it keep needling at me.

Well, well, well if it isn’t Portland Metro Chamber caught red handed with a sloppy attempt at an anti-DSA red scare. Excellent investigative reporting by Alex Baumhardt to track the $ and make sure the culprits were clearly identified. Dirty politics is what we all know to expect from the PMC.

Having talked about the movie last month on @tpnwicmfp.bsky.social, I figured I'd write some about it for the Werner Herzblog: new post on LESSONS OF DARKNESS, its "stylization of horror" and what that could mean for how we "remember" the horror we are currently witnessing:

Last night I sat on a concrete floor for William Basinski

seminal dudes rock text just dropped

Update, everyone: Bonnie Prince Billy met Denis Lavant on the street

so far, 2026 has been a huge year for pedophiles and the business interests that protect them

#LastFourWatched I am Jack’s desperate need for followers to compensate for a lack of validation elsewhere in Jack’s life boxd.it/9sMh

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Last night was lucky to catch the new 4k restoration of FIGHT CLUB on the big screen, followed by a Q&A with Chuck Palahniuk, as part of a @hollywoodtheatre.org fundraising event boxd.it/e5jrTH

"Wow... if it wasn't for this great Mercury article, I wouldn't know that the mayor is full of shit." Catch up on all the great Mercury stories you may have missed this week with our SUNDAY READING LIST!

3 totally terrific indies in theaters this weekend deserve your attention and $$: BLUE HERON by Sophy Romvari (quietly devastating family story), ERUPCJA by Pete Ohs (fascinating Euro hangout film about girls being random), & MILE END KICKS by Chandler Levack (2011 indie sleaze rom-coming-of-age)

I don’t have time to write a full review of MILE END KICKS, but needless to say, for anyone who read Cokemachineglow in 2011, this movie will move and embarrass you in equal measure.

this one comes immediately to mind

For the @portlandmercury.com I reviewed the latest, among latests, from Steven Soderbergh