Urban Honking

REALLY coming around on Tasty; at first I thought the single suffered for the album, but now I’ve realized it’s the other way around: “Milkshake” is not that strong a track, a good little mantra with a beat made better on garage mixes (check for DJ Zinc’s), but essentially meatless. Raphael Saadiq slays on Glow, […]

Kollaboration is a Pasadena-based Talent Show geared specifically towards promoting new Korean American talent. Dave Elsewhere is the crazy-legged winner from two years ago. His style is a strange parfait of formal bboy robot breaks, nods to Charlie Chaplin/Buster Keaton, and Bob Fosse-esque pirouettes.

They had the primitive technologist convention, microPALOOZA, atGround Kontrol, a “retrocade” populated by Centipede and Dig Dug and BurgerTime and varying degrees of Commodore, on display, some for sale ($1499 for a game using vector graphics). Under-21s in nu Pac Man tee-shirts, enraptured by (Italo) disco versions of Inspector Gadget theme song on modified C64s […]

“Booyah,” as the aforementioned Science Party Ditcher/Good Friend Jay Winebrenner would say. Ladies und Gentlemen, the Mitochondria Guy. His 1997 findings have “had a major impact on the field of ischemia-reperfusion research.”

My good friend Jay Winebrenner works at a froufy bar in NW Portland, where lots of rich people go, and they serve non-vegetarian items such as octopus. As a result, he meets lots of people I would never have occassion to, such as the man who sold him a mint condition baby-blue Mercedes for $300 […]

From Andrew Miller, homie in the KC: ON the cover, a sleigh and the word “you” Inside, “sleigh me” and an inscription: “Julianne, May your holidays reign (like blood from a lacerated sky), and may you fly free in 2004, like a rabid angel of death. xoxo Andrew”

Homeboy P-Disco and I are obsessed with New Jack Swing and will, in fact, start DJing it the second we can find Toni Tony Tone vinyl. As such, the best $8.50 I spent yesterday was not for tickets to the Blazers-Spurs game (where shots materialized and then vaporized and, despite a couple good [pointless] plays, […]

Portland Oregon’s Voodoo Doughnut, home of the Tang doughnut, the caffeine doughnut, and the world-famously disgusting Robitussin doughnut (until the FDA smackdown), has created a new doughnut called “Maple Blazer Bluntz.” It is a doughnut shaped like a blunt, rolled in cinnamon, with one end dipped in maple with a red-sprinkled ember. On game days, […]

Whoa, mami. It has come to my attention, both in person and via this MTPPS weblog, that certain competitors and audience members of the Portland All-Area Laptop Battle 2003 are dissatisfied with some of the judges’ choices. While I will never rat out my fellow judges, nor will I divulge my votal leanings lest the […]

TONITE! Portland All-Area Laptop Battle Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, Portland, OR, 9 pm WHO IS THE BEST LIVE IMPROVISING LAPTOP PERSON IN PORTLAND? Competitors include Strategy, Glomm, CNS Engineering, Y.A.c.H.T., [[VVRRSSIONN]], Brian Foote, Deceptikon, Dizzystarhouse, EIGHT MORE! (two women!) All- and Semi-Star Judges panel: David “Brokenwindow/Solenoid” Chandler, E*Rock, Steven “OPB” Cantor, Kris “I won the […]