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."
Scan This!
Hello Portland! Did you know that OregonLive has a police scanner on their site? Scanners are a little tough to decipher at first, due to all the codes and shop talk, but you can learn some interesting things if you manage to listen for a while. The fact that this is streaming live on the tubes is pretty damn cool. I wonder if I’ll hear anything about cats in trees or guys discharging firearms into Hawthorne street, in front of Sewickley’s!
Tom Potter and the Adams Recall Can Suck my Missile Pop!
Stephen Marc Beaudoin, bless his razor sharp Facebook watching eyes, just broke a story on Portland Mercury’s Blogtown about Tom Potter and his declaration in support of the Adams Recall Campaign.
Even more important than that is a weird mixup in Facebook that put my avatar from Blogtown into the status update referencing the article.
I guess it must have pulled it from the comments, since I was the first person to comment and there was no photo on the article. It must just grab the first image to appear, which would be, my avatar. Sweet.
