Urban Honking

Grazie Fluxblog for the heads-up on Loretta Lynn vs. Jack White vs. “Portland, Oregon” sloe gin fizz/heartbreak epic waltzage. ‘Tis beautiful, captures the old-timey booziness that kept PDX in biz til the straightedge takeover of ’97. Can’t listen to it the same, tho, after hearing Amy Phillips’ EMP paper “White Blood Sells,” on the White […]

Discussed hardline politics at length with Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane this morning, and while he’s not the source of this website, it is somewhat appropriate: John Kerry is a douchebag, but I’m voting for him anyway. Dot com. In other news, my mom, aka my personal case study/barometer of midwest conservative politics, has expressed voter apathy […]

My Saturday plans did not include facing down five squad cars, heavy with cops in the exoskeletons of riot gear. There was no reason for 2:1 officer-protester ratio. The Police Accountability March was peaceful; its leaders shouted as much, through megaphones, for an hour beforehand. And yet, there were more officers than teachers in schools. […]

Jason Sery, the Portland cop who shot James Jahar Perez five times in the first 19 seconds of a routine traffic stop, received the Portland Police Officer’s award for Portland’s Top Cop last Saturday. Now, the grand jury has let him walk. The Oregonian reports the officers told Perez he would be shot if he […]

The filing fetish of my mini iPod seats Mirah’s “Exactly Where We’re From” next to Murs’ “Bad Man!” “Exactly Where We’re From” is very Garrison Keillor in its quaint affection for province; I suspect Ms. yom tov Zeitlyn wrote it whilst navigating the Appalachians—the mountains of her birthplace. She’s bird-cooing and whistling, as though the […]

Also, my description of JEssica der STUTGART makes her sound like she has become Mother Teresa, or Juan Diego, but she has not. INdeed given over to god, (but not building w/the god), she is just helping Sasha over there on the goat farm. Both of them will return soon, freshly woven sweaters in hand. […]

Aaron Burgess forwarded this under the header “the most amazing thing i’ve read all year.” Boys wearing girls’ pants as actual trend, lends new meaning to the query “is there any more room for me in those jeans?”

When I was 7, my father took me on his knee and asked me if I would like to live in the mountains, and have a pony, and go skiing every day. I said, “I guess so.” It was lucky that I gave my consent, because as it turns out my parents had just bought […]

Jessica Lucky Genius, who you may know is my best friend (we are like the corsican sisters/ also we both look cute in pirate pants), called from the car on the way to the airport to Germany, where she is doing spoken word in the Bratwurst Emcee Ensemble/ spreading the word of The Christ. She […]

Please scroll below and click on the “WHAT NOW THE VINES” entry comments section, where two C’n’P faves Jay Smooth and Rjyski the Cexual Transcender Kidwell have been giving with the mighty rigor RE: RA the misogynistic rugged man, and whether he deserved ass-kickings, which evolved into metadiscussion on bad -isms in music and mean […]