It's become a fairly literal flash at this point. Homeboy didn't make it a week

You could do a decent undecided voter 2016 if you had a leftover man in the iron mask costume for some reason. It's a little unrealistic outside of that

It's not like they were made to order. They fucked up a Waldo costume and made the best of it, to the tune of dozens of dollars

Oh god those are bad. All wearing a scarf in a sweaty ninety degree because it's a color, all going out in loafers, all wildly aggressive toward the one visibly straight guy that got dragged to the male strip club because it's his girlfriend's job's Christmas party. I have no personal experience with this type of…

Real fat gay dudes tend to be kind of all-bets off, sartorially speaking. I'm a work boots and carhartts and band shirt everyday every-situation kind of dresser, and some of the bigger gay fellas I know manage to dress worse than me somehow. Socks and sandals and cargo shorts when it's raining, novelty shirt ordered…

It wasn't even that intelligent a question! "How are you going to make sure I have a job in dirty energy while making clean energy a thing?" It's kind of an impossible request. I'd love to see comprehensive job training program for people displaced by a very serious attempt to get better energy sources working, but…

It ties into a weird theory I've got. So we had a brief '70s thing (New Beetle etc) in the late '90s, loved the '80s through the early 2000s, we were doing a throwback nineties thing not long after that (and still sort of are depending where you live), then we have Bojack Horseman doing a throwback episode to the…

Whoah you mean to tell me that the guy that looks like reddit personified has some dumb shit to say? Well I never

If you read that line and it sounded a very certain way in your head, hit me up in Portland and I'll get you baked

Article missed out on a couple weird ones, if you want to bring up Coup. A now-popular post-rock band called Explosions In The Sky debuted an album with the predictably post-rock-y title of "Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever" on the worst possible day of that year. On…

I hear tell, and I don't know if this is true, that Pig Destroyer initially wanted way artier, somewhat abstract covers, while the people in charge decided to go with a much more aggressive marketing strategy. I'd love to live in the world where that happened instead of the covers for, say, Terrifyer or Prowler in…

He is my best friend

I just finally had that "a-HA" moment with dark souls, which I've been bouncing off of for a good couple years at this point. A good friend of mine who has great taste has been yelling at me about how good dark souls is for about as long as I've known him, so I've been taking begrudging cracks at it for ages, and it…

I'm just comically excited for Dishonored 2. Went the preorder route too, which I don't do too often. The first one is one of those games I yell about and buy copies of for people on my phone at the bar. I'm thinking go for a mostly-but-not-obsessively nonlethal Corvo run and then go through a second time with…

I really walked in expecting to hate it, and initially I did, but it's not how it feels at first. If you enjoy absurdism and tight writing, it's a deep and rich vein that you'll find nearly as quotable as a peep show or a simpsons or something on that rare level. Not trying to tell you what's for you, of course, but…

Trading some black lung runoff for a dime as a cure-all, etc

If you never come to Portland, you will never, ever understand how extremely the case that already is. The most notable cross street is on third, home of two massive dance clubs and at least one good-sized homeless outreach center. Our most successful and sustainable tent city is on the other side of the southwest…

There should be a service where you pay to ask a local how streets are pronounced. I guess there is and it's just you giving a cabbie or concierge if you're a dick-swinger five bucks for a couple minutes of his time, but a lot of people aren't clever enough to do that on their own.

I've been here about the same, and its turned around heavily for me. At first I was all "hahaha, cooch." Then I spent three years working on and around that street downtown and it became the most direct example of a shibboleth I can think of. You say cooch, you're at least moderately familiar with your…

You are sincerely missing out