Portland Stadium Madness

With all of the brouhaha over whether or not the city should give the Lents district a stadium or its urban renewal funding, even the homeless are getting in on the act.  I witnessed the following fantastic idea on a sign from a roadside panhandler on this morning’s commute:

Add comment May 29th, 2009

Zombie Walk 2008

The 2008 Portland Zombie Walk. Will it get in the Guinness Book? Will it help the Oregon Food Bank?

Who knows, but it was pretty fun. More here.

2 comments October 27th, 2008

Benefits

Artists whose name turn up in a pitchforkmedia.com search for “Obama benefit”: Arcade Fire, Barbara Streisand, Andrew Bird, Billy Joel, The Breeders, Bruce Springsteen, Bright Eyes, Cool Kids, The Decemberists, Dianogah, Furnaces, Jay-Z, Jeff Tweedy, Les Savy Fav, Low, M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, National, Shudder To Think, Superchunk, Tapes ‘n Tapes

Artists whose name turn up in a pitchforkmedia.com search for “McCain benefit”, or just “McCain”: None.  Apparently McCain’s daughter blogs about music, though.

Add comment October 7th, 2008

The far come close took by the littl come big

• For the first time, a significant evolution has been caught in the act in a lab setting: an E. Coli bacteria acquired the ability to metabolise citrate, something it normall can’t do.
• The New Journal of Physics reports a new “meta-material made up of array of small cylinders” can create a substance that is essentially impervious to sound, with lots of potential applications. Noiseless courdoroy!
• Great news from the upcoming iPhone/iTouch app store: a new version of iTunes and free software will allow remote control of iTunes from anywhere in the house (presumably anywhere on the network). This is a feature I’m definitely going to use a lot.
• Hall & Oates reunited for a show in L.A.
• The last period on earth with so few sunspots resulted in a little ice age in the late 17th century, and some geophysicists think that within 500 years the Earth’s magnetic field may be gone entirely– or at least enough to severely screw things up– but don’t panic! It may be that our universe was just a “bubble pinched off from a previously existing universe.”

2 comments June 27th, 2008

And You Thought They Weren’t Scripted Responses

Democratic presidential debate canceled over strike

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A televised debate set for next month among the Democratic presidential candidates will be canceled to avoid a potential conflict with striking Hollywood screenwriters, a source close to organizers said on Wednesday.

2 comments December 11th, 2007