Urban Honking

It is a cold Wednesday night in Portland… Wunderground says it “feels like” 24 °F. I’ve had a headache all afternoon, which I think was triggered by the cold air, but according to the pamphlet from the clinic, I’m not allowed to take any pain medicine for a week before tomorrow afternoon’s appointment. Why exactly? […]

Been a slow season for ADVICE, you people. Don’t you need advice about your New Year’s Resolutions and dumping your crappy boyfriend and stuff? I have it for you. I can tell you exactly what you should do! I ALWAYS KNOW. In terms of resolutions, I’d say it’s pretty indicative of my usual success rate […]

My cool bro being in town and thus easily accessible to me is the great christmas gift of all. He is a delight and a dear, always funny, always amiable, always full of weird thoughts. It is so nice to be around someone who is basically just you, if you were a different person, if […]

Thinking back on a year is hard. You forget when stuff happened. I keep thinking Inglourious Basterds was whatever year I’m currently in, even though it was years ago at this point. I can’t remember if I read House of Leaves this year or last year. It’s a good exercise, to try to sum up […]

Gave my last final today. Now on to the grades! Fs for all! Just kidding. JUST KIDDING. Look at this. Two of my all-time least favorite things TOGETHER AT LAST???? I hope this movie makes negative a trillion dollars and that everyone who worked on it is divorced by their spouses! I hope a flood […]

I decided to get big loud black-rimmed glasses in my ongoing effort to make my tiny face look slightly more normal sized. I have decided the way to minimize my face’s apparently freakish smallness is to have short hair–so you can see as much of my face as possible at all times–and big glasses–thinking, I […]

There’s a fun and engaging lecture happening tomorrow evening at the OMSI Planetarium, by a good friend of mine, Jeff Faulkner. The lecture is part of the Design Speaks series produced by 52 Limited. I should mention that tickets are sold out, but you can add your name to a wait list. Jeff is currently a […]

On the plane to Portland last week with my 9 month old son passed out on me I took full advantage of the six dollar screen rental and was like “I GET TO WATCH A MOVIE! WEE! WHAT SHALL I WATCH?!” And got to the movie pickins and lo the options of unseen films were […]

“What did you think of it?” “Well it started out pretty shitty…and then it got mostly shitty.” This is a James Bond movie about how aging white men no longer feel powerful and important. You see, James Bond is old. How old? I don’t know, maybe 45 or something. His beard is all gray and […]

Mikey Going Down from Marcus Estes on Vimeo. A lecture about the time Mikey Kampmann spent “on the ice”. Credits: Mikey Kampmann as Mikey Kampmann Live Audience: Honey Owens, dalas verdugo, Jonathan LeGare Introduction: K. Mike Merrill Director: Marcus Estes Sound: Andrew Ritchey Titles: Jamie Edwards Music: “Standing on the Other Side” by Interiors