Unhoused folks and "crime" aren't destroying our small businesses, runaway landlord greed is. If a James Beard winner w/ a line out the door can't survive, who can? We need a vacancy tax on commercial property. @councilorepg.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social

For the late crowd: PDX house boat for sale, $99K. "Previous owner walked away" www.estately.com/listings/inf...

Portland tonight! “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “White Christmas”... www.kigginstheatre.com/now-playing “In the Mood for Love”, “All the Marbles”! hollywoodtheatre.org/show/all-the... “The Mastermind”! tomorrowtheater.org Graphic novel opera “Everest”! www.orartswatch.org/at-the-top-o...

Late night rant was about [REDACTED]. Late night stream is "Jungle Law" aka "Street Law" (1995), which may be one of the worst Canadian-American martial arts law dramas ever? www.rifftrax.com/street-law

OK Portland let's see... "Twin Peaks" with Ray Wise! cstpdx.com/event/twin-p... "The Brood" (1979)! hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-bro... "Lethal Weapon", "Christmas Evil"! www.academytheaterpdx.com/movies/20069... "Santa with Muscles"!!! tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/santa-...

David Walliams dropped by publisher over alleged inappropriate behaviour

Paying For It, based on Chester Brown's graphic novel, Comes to Theaters January 30 #movies #comics

Portland! Film! "The Secret Agent"! www.cinema21.com Anime "Jujutsu Keisen"! www.fandango.com/jujutsu-kais... Japanese comedy "Merry Christmas"? www.thecinemagictheater.com/cinema-city Ooh, "Back Beat" with special guest Sheryl Lee! $25 but dang. cstpdx.com/event/backbe...

Nation Just Kinda Assumed Pacific Northwest Always Lived in Giant Puddle Like That: tinyurl.com/bdh393s4

Remember, last minute shoppers, the best gift is art, and the best PNW artists are at Buy Olympia dot Com* buyolympia.com/Item/nathan-... * = not a paid ad, I just dig their scene

Rejoice Sparks fans, "Rollercoaster" coming to 4K from Kino Lorber in 2026: www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37606

Late night stream is "Kin-Dza-Dza" (1986), which we nicknamed "Elaine May's Mad Max" and "Tarkovsky meets Doug Adams".

Portland tonight: Latvian madness "Cat's Mill" (1993)! cstpdx.com/event/the-ca... "Battle Royale"? tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/battle... We found the Santa clones! Can YOU. www.oregonlive.com/living/2025/... "Magic Christmas Tree" 9:15pm FREE. www.thejoycinema.com/index.html

I learned in a Guardian article that a moment in movie history occurred at the Portland airport, involving Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson and the casting for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

You can sing "Eyes Wide Shut with layered butter" to the tune of "What's Yr Take on Cassavettes"

Sorry, algorithm addicts, but nothing compares to randomly turning on community radio and hearing the "Geek Love" author reading JRR Tolkien's "The Father Christmas Letters". kboo.fm/media/130845...

Josh O'Connor, whose career is now exploding, is a delight to watch in no small part because he is in fact a time-traveling 1975-era Jonathan Richman. #ProveMeWrong

Tatas for Tots tonight, Portland. albertarosetheatre.com/event/tatas-... Also: Austen's 250th! www.livemusicproject.org/events/16645... Drag bingo! www.etix.com/ticket/p/983... "They Live"! cstpdx.com/event/they-l... "Back to the Future II"! tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/back-t...

Huh. Ian Kennedy Martin wrote Mitchell. He basically cut-n-pasted the "Buzz off, kid!" scene from a script he wrote for The Sweeney. Having seen the #MST3K version of Mitchell a million times, seeing this scene in a British context with two different actors feels like a fever dream.

One of those days where you're already sad and scared then you read that Don Knotts, Darren McGavin, and Dennis Weaver all died within hours of each other so you lift weights while rage-watching David Carradine movies. www.rifftrax.com/project-elim...

Happy birthday, #PhilipKDick— superfriends with #UrsulaKLeGuin, another universal gift:

I've seen a few people mention it -- in addition to his tremendous run of feature films and his starring role in one of the most popular & acclaimed sitcoms of all time, Rob Reiner also got 6 episodes of one of the most strange & ambitious projects to ever air on CBS primetime, Morton & Hayes...

King County, WA levee is failing; 46,000 must evacuate; pets welcome at Evergreen State Fairgrounds; Auburn, Renton, Monroe, Kent, Tukwila residents, leave NOW. kcemergency.com/2025/12/15/g...

Oh! And I finished the "Kill or Be Quilt" trade I picked up after giving up finding the individual issues 'round town. :( SUCH fun, good characters, so British n' twee. If you like "Knives Out" and "Steven Universe"... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

... Had no idea there *were* 343 Mastodon users

UHF (1989) Se7en (1995) 🔉

*whispering* Just as I wonder when the edible will kick in, there is a hovering NFL jersey just out of right eye sight line... *still whispering* I am trying not to freak out while Googling the silver & black color / No. 10 combo... The Raiders?!? I'm going to bed.

Rob Reiner was so charmed by Brownsville, Oregon he changed the location of "Stand by Me" from Maine to the Beaver State. Brownsville so loved being part of this coming of age classic, they host an annual blueberry pie-eating contest. RIP. www.hereisoregon.com/experiences/...

3:30 pm, PDX: "Belladonna of Sadness" tomorrowtheater.org/movies/bella... 4 pm "2046" hollywoodtheatre.org/show/2046/ "Dust Bunny" www.laurelhursttheater.com FREE salsa lessons www.albertaabbey.org#calendar-e37... Donna Jones Xmas Big Band selling out fast! the1905.turntabletickets.com/guests

Oh! And I shared "Touch of Evil" (1958) & "Little Caesar" (1931) with a noir scifi fan, jokingly pointing out when Coppola, Scorsese, or de Palma riffed a shot. They sat there after, happy-sad, said, like "So the great '80s Boy Movies are just... copying?" 😬

Just realized there will be "And on the anniversary of the school shooting, it happened again" horror films someday...

Late night library disc (the library loves you!) is "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" (2016). I. Am. In. LOVE

Wiped from "Kevin McDonald, Superstar", Portland peeps, but if ye seek movie mirth today... Holiday Horror shorts... cstpdx.com/event/holida... David Bowie & John Waters gay af classics... www.academytheaterpdx.com "Elf", "Muppet Christmas", and "Annie"! www.kigginstheatre.com/now-playing

Greatest Christmas card every made!

There was a honeybee stuck to a window screen when I woke up and, just as I was making piece with its sad, wintery death and how to dispose of it, the sun hit it, it sort of reanimated (??) and... flew away. 😭

Shout out to fellow cine-nerds who ran to their bookcase when the Flophouse rattled off film books last week, muttering "Got it... got it... need it..." www.flophousepodcast.com/2025/12/epis...

Who owns this ornament? @audacityofdespair.bsky.social

Tonight, Portland: The Jury Experience! www.albertaabbey.org "The Holdovers", "Krampus"... www.thecinemagictheater.com "Merry Christmas, Mr Roberts", "Female Trouble"! www.academytheaterpdx.com Kevin McDonald's musical "Superstar" followed by RPM podcast recording! cstpdx.com/event/kevin-...

This week I saw the German for "sketchbook" and the German for "plunder economy" and I'm sorry they win. We shall now all open our Skizzenbucher and draw the Decline of Rome Raubwirtschaft moments

Last night's "Live Wire" recording was a winter depression-fighting delight (John HodgMAN reading "Moby Dick"! Pastor Billy yelling at us to stop shopping!) but zero days since I found out Oregon has mariachi band programs in its schools?? 😍 www.orartswatch.org/mariachi-tra...

Cuz the bag limit is two a day, come on, guys

No, you're wrong, the biggest story is that it's 59F in Portland. In December. People were walking around in shorts at 10 pm.

"Beat It, Rufus is Noah Van Sciver’s element: an acerbic, unflinching, and humane portrait of a man left behind by time." Noah Van Sciver's character comedy about an aging rock-god-in-his-own-mind forced to face the music made The Beat's Best Comics of 2025 list! https://ow.ly/jqQG50XHBEf

Public domain film remix contest! blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

I wanted to give @mkupperman.bsky.social a Christmas present so I promoted his new zine project over on Pop Heist. It’s been a big year for me, buying two Michael Kupperman originals and both these zines. Favorite working artist by far. popheist.com/michael-kupp...

Disney signs deal with Tijuana Bibles. They're finally getting a piece of that Eeyore on Minnie action!

Did you enjoy your sausage?

TMI working class indie poppers Art Brut announced their first US tour in years www.brooklynvegan.com/art-brut-pla... Aaaaaaand they're skipping right over Portland 😄

Also "would not have broken dick"

And don't forget to vote by December 14th for 5 classical pieces to play NYE. Mix it up. They HATE playing the same old Strauss. www.allclassical.org/classical-co... Wild card suggestion? Mark Mothersbaugh's OST for "Cocaine Bear". Angular, hopped up, and *chef's kiss* youtu.be/mw6FDRwbR3A?...