Cort and Fatboy Return Tomorrow
Yes!
In case you’re in Portland and you’ve been living under a rock, or in case you’re not in Portland, Cort and Fatboy, radio personalities and podcasters, were fired from the Portland Station KUFO a couple weeks ago. The new ownership is deciding to go with a more “masculine” (read: moronic) image.
But I always listened to Cort and Fatboy on their podcast, and, starting tomorrow, I can continue to listen, because they’ve managed to pull it together and they’re going to start putting out shows again. I can’t wait to hear it!
Even if you don’t live in Portland, check out the show, they’re funny and sharp as tacks. TACKS. Ow!
UPDATE: Looks like the site is live and has the RSS feed with the old episodes on the main page now. Check it out: cortandfatboy.com
PDX Media Round-up! Popples! Vaginas!
Our Popples Must Be Local and Sustainable – Sam Adams appeared today on KBOO show Locus Focus to talk about issues of local, sustainable food production. However, because we’re 12, we thought the most important part of the entire program happened when he made a flub and said, “Popples.” when attempting to say that “things’ll be popping up.” (He was talking about local farms, you perv.)
Does the Mayor of Portland have a secret thing for 80’s plush toys that can hide in their back-mounted pouches?
local, sustainable food that Mayor Sam Adams has no interest in
Melissa Lion Wants Your Vagina To Smell Good – Also talking about local and sustainable food today is Melissa Lion. It’s right here on Recovering Californian! You’d better get those vaginas all smelling nice before you head out to BackFencePDX this Wednesday. If you’re wearing nylon panties, she can smell you from a mile away.
I’ve got a much shorter version of this hygienic primer for males. I call it, Wash Yo’ Dick and the entire content of the guide is right there in the title.
I <3 The Free Box
In case you missed it yesterday, I recently had a chance to interview the guys behind the Portland-based web series, The Free Box. It’s a comedy about roommates living in Portland, but that description doesn’t really do it justice. I also gave my take on the web (fiction) shows going on in town right now. If you’re interested, check it out on The Portland Mercury’s Blogtown. And here, for your convenience, is the first episode of the Free Box.
Portland Media Roundup! Furbles! Surgery Money!
it’s been a little while, my cupcakes, but now we’re off (er, on) again!
Maybe, Just One More Post – The Portland Mercury Arts Editor, Alison Hallett seems to be developing an unhealthy fascination with local KJ and vocalist Brian Perez. After her second post in two weeks about him, Brian contacted her on Facebook to ask for money. He needs 2k by tomorrow to pay back his dealer fix a torn ACL that he damaged during patriotic July 4th stage antics. (Way to go, Steven Tyler.)
I’ve talked to Brian a few times (he likes hanging out at Chopsticks), and he seems like a pretty good guy, even though he’s a competitor for karaoke regulars on my Tuesday and he eats babies.
Brian Perez. No, wait. Sorry. That's a critter.
Critters! Furbles! – This Wednesday at CoHo Productions’ theatre, in NW Portland. Freelance writer Kiala Kazabee, jewelry artist Scott McCarty and I will watch Critters for It’s a Terrible Movie. And we’ll make fun of flying furballs eating dumb yokels and it’ll be cool and you can yell too and bring beer. This is gonna be a fun one.
Amy Troy Whut?
Congratulations to KGW’s Amy Troy who won an eating contest today to benefit the arts and athletic education. [ Oregon Media Central ]
I clicked on Amy’s bio link to learn more about her. Due to some kind of formatting mistake, I was greeted by something similar to the phrase Vonnegut uses to describe the American National Anthem, “gibberish sprinkled with question marks.” Anyone else get that?
(Breakfast of Champions. Multnomah Co. Library offers a downloadable audio version you can “check out”.)
Congratulations, Amy!
Mojitos?
Here’s a photo from Sam Adams’ website. He’s with the new City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade (what a name!) The willingness to put a photo like this on his own website? Just another reason why Sam is an awesome mayor.
MOJITOS!!!
Captions? Mine is MOJITOS!!!
Tara Dublin and the Future of Local Radio
Today is a beautiful day for a walk. I just went down to the local currency exchange, up in Hollywood, to cash some checks. While soaking up the sun and shade, I listened to the PDXSucks podcast episode from this morning, featuring guest Tara Dublin.
I never listened to Tara when she was a host on KNRK 94/7, and I scarcely knew who she was until a few weeks ago. After reading some of her writing, and hearing her talk on Wagner’s morning show, it’s quite clear that whoever is behind KNRK is indeed clueless and he should be kicking himself in the head right about now. Tara is talented, magnetic, and smart, and a local radio station replaced her with automated music. (Something we all have in our pockets already, right?)
Tara contends, and I agree, that best thing local radio has to offer these days is local personality. Why would I want to listen to an iPod with no labels, interspersed with commercials, when I have thousands of commercial-free, streaming stations at my disposal? Why would I want to listen to any syndicated personality who lives thousands of miles away when I can pick and choose from any number of thousands of independently produced podcasts, (free to acquire, and commercial free) made by people who are unfettered from conservative, tight-lipped corporate control?
The only local radio station I listen to is KUFO, sometimes, (I’ll usually just check out the podcast.) because of local radio personalities Cort and Fatboy. Seems like Tara really hit the nail on the head here. If I’d fired her, I would be calling her up right about now, begging to have her back on the air. I’d be grovelling on my clueless, old, white guy knees.
Silly People
Pictured here in the cavelike lounge area of the Portland Mercury editorial offices are me, in my intern uniform, and news editor Matt Davis.
Portland Media Lightning Roundup
Randy Leonard’s Blog – gets fun for a post only to go back to being boring, with nothing but links to Oregonian and KATU articles. But, damn. Check out this photo! Still utterly shocked that, after Randy’s big victory for MLS in Portland yesterday, that he doesn’t have a post featuring a huge soccer ball with “KICK ASS!!” written across it, or something like that.
I’m not sure why I expect a city commissioner’s blog to be interesting or entertaining, but come on, this is Randy! He’s the guy who brought us The Great Neon Rose!
Portland On The Road – PDX Freelance writer and event coordinator Melissa Lion is in Chicago for the BlogHer09 Conference.
Silicon Florist has a list of other Portland bloggers also in attendance at BlogHer. OurPDX co-founder and writer Dieselboi is on the road, too. According to his latest post on twitter, he’s in Kansas.
UPDATE!!!!! According to Dieselboi, he just crossed into Missouri!
Dieselboi is documenting his travels here.
The Thawed Auteur – Last week, after watching The Room (one of the greatest funny/bad movies ever made) at the In Your Water Command Center, Simplicity is Clarity writer @jarvitron wrote up this review of the film, in which he posits that auteur Tommy Wiseau is possibly an unfrozen caveman, as an explanation for Tommy’s bizarre, neurotic vision. We have to agree, he does look a bit like Hartman’s Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
"Hello, friend. I am Tommy Wiseau."
Thanks and The Future from 7th Planet Picture Show
December 14, 2009 at 3:42 pm (7th Planet Picture Show, PDX, Portland, my interesting life) (7th Planet Picture Show, commentary, events, film, fun, movies, mst3k, PDX, Portland)
Last night was, in terms of turnout and general fun, the best 7th Planet Picture Show yet. I’m really happy so many people came out to the show and it was great to see new faces! Robert and Cami were a lot of fun (And very patient with my microphone cord tech fail problems early in the show) My roommate and good friend Tim performed a rousing and deep song for us about the meaning of Christmas and generosity. (A cheeseball song called Christmas Shoes that was popular enough for Hallmark to make a movie out of it.) And I got to give away prizes! Andrea (bandgeek.etsy.com) generously provided some buttons and a t-shirt and I raffled them off with a VHS copy of a Mark Hamill movie called Laserhawk that I bought from the Hollywood Theater.
Tuning into PDXSucks this morning, as I am often wont to do during breakfast, I was delighted to hear that Robert will be donating a few mics and cords to 7th Planet Picture Show. It’s an act of generosity, undoubtedly inspired by pity at watching me fumble with the tech last night when a couple of the mic cords turned out to be janky. (Is that how you spell that?) So, thanks a million Robert, that’s really nice of you!
On Friday at Midnight, you can watch 7th Planet Picture Show on 30hourday.org as we attempt to get through A Christmas Without Snow, a movie that would fit perfectly on Lifetime Television, if not for the fact that the characters might just be a little too realistic even for that channel.
On Sunday, Dec. 27th. We’re having a Mark Hamill double feature at Mt. Tabor Theater. We’re going to explore some of Mark’s bearded, post-Star Wars adventures. And we’ll also make lots of references to Star Wars because we know he loves that. Joining me for that show is Sabrina Miller and Doc Normal. The details haven’t all been hammered out yet, but I believe we’ll be starting out an hour earlier than most 7th Planet Picture Shows. (We’ll probably start at 7pm) I’ll have the event up on Facebook and upcoming as soon as I’m sure about that.
The 27th will be the last live show at Tabor for a while as the theater wants to “take a break” from the show. I’ll be shopping for a new venue for live shows over the next couple weeks so we’ll hopefully have a new home by January. The show on the 27th promises to be a hell of a good time, though. Hope to see you there!
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