Thanks for this.

Because New York City and Eastern Oregon are the only two possible options available.

Well of course he failed. He forgot to shout, "That's my purse! I don't know you!"

I was going to correct you and say that Salem is the second-largest city, but apparently it's changed once again.

Eugene is its own little world. Most of my friends who live in Eugene rarely venture up into Portland, since it's 2 hours away. I also remember having difficulty trying to catch a Blazers game down in…

Yeah a college town with a ton of transplants is really indicative of the rest of the state.

And holy fuck do we hate Raymond Felton. Him "healthy" was one of worst injuries the Blazers ever suffered.

Or whatever the male version of "sploosh" is...which is probably still "sploosh."

Probably the best bitter love song ever written. Goddamn do I love The Replacements, and yes I'm excited to hear about the "reunion."

I'm not going to argue the rest of this, but calling '96 Payton as "past-his-prime" is pretty laughable.

"welcomes a lot of people to an old stone building where a couple of hundred Texans died a couple of hundred years ago"

Or, more accurately, the plural form "cognoscenti."

Easily one of the best albums of the '00s. "This Heart's On Fire" is pretty great for running because it has a driving beat and ramps up over the course of the song, something which you could say for "Shine A Light" as well. But if you happen to time the climax of "I'll Believe in Anything" with a particularly great…

When I was a kid, one of the local TV stations rewrote this song to use as their jingle when they'd do their station ID. It took me years before I found out the real song—in fact, it was only about two months ago that I caught it on classic rock radio and stuck around for the DJ to give me the name.

I went on a road trip a few years back with a friend from Oregon to Oklahoma, and I made a point to stop in one of those Waffle Houses in Amarillo because my Oregonian friend had never been to one. I had assumed that once we reached Texas we were in Waffle House territory, but seeing this map I realize we merely…

My exact reaction as well.

Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed it.

Oh, what luck!

Perfect.

I don't know if I've ever seen a more pointless clarification. There's a giant goddamn banner hanging behind his head, and of course that's going to be the take-away from the speech. And to chalk it up to it merely succumbing to the power of images is dumb as well, considering what other purpose was there for W to…

I saw the headline, and I totally thought it was going to be this: