A 33 1/3 but just about how Steve Inskeep speaks.

I tried to link the video at the correct part, but if it doesn't work: 30 second mark. Incredible interaction m.youtube.com/watch?v=wESh...

In the US you should be able to lay down and sleep wherever you want—completely undisturbed!—as long as you place a big cowboy hat over your eyes in a way that suggests "not now pardner"

Personally, I do not recommend El Topo.

I could tell it came from something I said because no one else in the office uses party as a gerund.

Get someone to love you like Jon Caramanica loves Drake's “Make Them Remember.”

A toast to all my people enjoying this fine sea bean season.

Admire @andrewjank.bsky.social breaking down a very dense series of installations and programming. Oregon Contemporary’s Artists’ Biennial is underway and happening at a number of Portland locations through July 4!

Whoa! Bittersweet news that I got nominated for an AAN award in LGBTQ+ Coverage for the Portland's Finest Drag Artists issue of @wweek.com. I loved that issue and hope they bring it back: aan.org/aan/announci...

Multnomah County Elections texting me about my ballot, like... it's in your inbox bestie

Hell yes @sinacolad.bsky.social excited for you to win this! aan.org/aan/announci...

Whitehouse .gov has too many pop-ups.

Panic opened up more Big Walk preview slots. If you live in Portland (or will be in Portland between May 20-June 14), you can go play the game in their offices. forms.panic.com/big-walk-pre...

What if every vision of the future, seen by a prophet, was actually just a vision of a prestige TV series? How would they know the difference? How could we expect them to know the difference?

New British insults just dropped

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.

Here's a thread of the records released in April that I enjoyed: Bringers of Disease: SULPHUR (Disorder Recordings) bringersofdiseaseoh.bandcamp.com/album/sulphur

503 Day is a totally real holiday (at least since 2025). What started as a joke by City Cast Portland has transformed into a block party celebrating all things Portland. This year's festivities will include Karaoke From Hell, a beer garden, and a variety show.

Love someone the way Van Gogh loved his postman and his postman's beard

They think you're stupid.

On Saturday, Portlanders gathered to say "so long" to TriMet's MAX Type 1 trains which are being retired after 40 years of service and two million miles of travel. Joe Streckert was there and provides a brief history of the train that moved Portlanders for decades.

On Robert Smith's 67th birthday it is only fitting that we admire these automatically generated Google question-things about the respected Cure figurehead

Hey guys check this out

Finally saw one of those goofy new mail trucks in the wild! I don't usually get starstruck, but...

The Lloyd Center will close for good on August 8th www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

FYI if this provides some stupid useful color for elections. There is a flower called “annual honesty,” and it is currently in bloom.

This @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social ep starts out with a Q about fake online obituaries that populate wildly after someone dies and by the end we're deep in the forgotten problem of online marketing platforms funding fake news and extremism sites.

Clackamas County really living up to the "they're the same picture" meme on this one.

Sometimes when I think about how professional sports has so much money it can hire PR firms to send me emails about Portland having the "cheapest home watch party snacks in the Northwest division…" I just feel so angry at everyone involved.

Justin Hocking’s first full-length memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, won the 2015 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction, and now his second is in competition for the 2026 prize.

The elk is still facing the wrong way you cowards

A headline of "Scooter Rider Deceased After Crash in March in the Kerns Neighborhood" when it's actually because a car hit them while making an illegal U-turn

Me rn

When you put punctuation at the end of your project name it’s such a punishment for anyone trying to write about it.

You think you have it hard? I know which theaters in town are REs and which are ERs

The Broadway Bridge will finally reopen this weekend—Sunday, April 12. It's been undergoing a deck replacement since October 2025. It just so happens to coincide with the launch of the Mercury's NEW transportation issue. Read more >> www.portlandmercury.com/good-morning...

A Cannes-winning film about a romance between a human and a possessed vacuum is playing in Portland for one night only. A Useful Ghost tells the tender story of a wife who returns to haunt her husband as a vacuum cleaner before jumping the shark into an anti-authoritarian queer horror rom-com.

The best longform I've read this year. Feel certain it will become a film one day: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Barbara Forever puts—according to our critic HR Smith—“the body-ody-ody in body of work.’” Brydie O’Connor’s new doc provides a delightful survey of Barbara Hammer’s experimental films—synthesizing the joy of throwing oneself into strange and improbable art projects with a lot of dyke drama.

In exchange for public funding for the Moda Center, I want at least two strings attached: 1. Guaranteed cheep/free seats for residents (perhaps through the MultCo library card, like cultural passes to the ballet and Japanese Garden) 2. Street pricing on concessions like PDX (bc why is beer $17??)

Wilsonville officials have long dreamt of redeveloping its 70s era "town center" into a mixed-used neighborhood But nothing's been built there since 2019, except a Dutch Bros. Still, there's been backlash, and the city is now planning to slash allowable housing by 50% — cutting 2,300 units

It was his music that drew me there, of course, but throughout the concert I was reminded that Springsteen’s values are great.

Bruce Springsteen is out to save America with rock and roll. On Friday night, in a Moda Center packed with screaming, singing fans, it felt like he might just do it. www.oregonlive.com/living/2026/...

Shirtless man standing in front of gym has been waiting all winter for this

Wish that every mocktail recipe did not being with "1 cup granulated sugar"

The social media team was like don't make that the cover it'll get censored, but I want you to know about this photo in Jimmy McDonough's biography of the guy who wrote “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” www.portlandmercury.com/books/tktk-4...

It's very human to want to give to charity instead of paying enough taxes. Because the charities are going to say thank you and preen your feathers. And the taxes are just what you owe.

“We are moving toward a system where transparency is just optional" The 10 largest donations to the midterms total $300 million. But who actually provided the money is shrouded in secrecy. by @teddyschleifer.bsky.social and @datab.ae www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Sad local journalism news. Reporting by @vivmccall.bsky.social and @suzettesmith.bsky.social www.thestranger.com/news/portlan...

Though it began locally, Portland Monthly is now a Michigan-owned magazine. PoMo, Seattle Met, and several other publications owned by SagaCity have been sold off in a receivership deal to pay the company’s debts. And, of course, the first move the new owners make is to cut staff.