Gimli saying "I never thought I'd fight side by side with a Pope" Pope Leo answers "you degenerate polyamorous gender ideologue will burn in hell" Gimli answering "what the fuck!?"
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Finally saw one of those goofy new mail trucks in the wild! I don't usually get starstruck, but...
FYI if this provides some stupid useful color for elections. There is a flower called “annual honesty,” and it is currently in bloom.
This @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social ep starts out with a Q about fake online obituaries that populate wildly after someone dies and by the end we're deep in the forgotten problem of online marketing platforms funding fake news and extremism sites.
A screenshot of political candidates in Clackamas County showing four middle-aged white men with receding hairlines.
Clackamas County really living up to the "they're the same picture" meme on this one.
Sometimes when I think about how professional sports has so much money it can hire PR firms to send me emails about Portland having the "cheapest home watch party snacks in the Northwest division…" I just feel so angry at everyone involved.
Justin Hocking’s first full-length memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, won the 2015 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction, and now his second is in competition for the 2026 prize.
The elk is still facing the wrong way you cowards
We were just talking about how crash is an improvement over "accident" 😂
A headline of "Scooter Rider Deceased After Crash in March in the Kerns Neighborhood" when it's actually because a car hit them while making an illegal U-turn
this image is a riff on the “sickos” meme. In the sickos meme a person with short black hair, wearing a shirt that reads “sickos,” has two hands pressed to a windowpane. They are laughing “YES… HA HA HA… YES!” This is a version with two simple thunderclouds added outside the window.
Me rn
It used to be the Mercury style to use RE for the practice and art of theater and ER for the building but I phased it out in a style guide compromise (shootout) at some point.
Yes, can you figure out why it's a total pain in the ass, or do you want me to go into it?
When you put punctuation at the end of your project name it’s such a punishment for anyone trying to write about it.
You think you have it hard? I know which theaters in town are REs and which are ERs
The Broadway Bridge will finally reopen this weekend—Sunday, April 12. It's been undergoing a deck replacement since October 2025. It just so happens to coincide with the launch of the Mercury's NEW transportation issue.
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A Cannes-winning film about a romance between a human and a possessed vacuum is playing in Portland for one night only.
A Useful Ghost tells the tender story of a wife who returns to haunt her husband as a vacuum cleaner before jumping the shark into an anti-authoritarian queer horror rom-com.
The best longform I've read this year. Feel certain it will become a film one day: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
yeah I just never would have expected where that went. Been talking about how it's structured too.
Barbara Forever puts—according to our critic HR Smith—“the body-ody-ody in body of work.’” Brydie O’Connor’s new doc provides a delightful survey of Barbara Hammer’s experimental films—synthesizing the joy of throwing oneself into strange and improbable art projects with a lot of dyke drama.
In exchange for public funding for the Moda Center, I want at least two strings attached:
1. Guaranteed cheep/free seats for residents (perhaps through the MultCo library card, like cultural passes to the ballet and Japanese Garden)
2. Street pricing on concessions like PDX (bc why is beer $17??)
A rendering from the Willsonville Town Center Plan envisioned boulevard streets, solar panels and new four-story apartment buildings
The 100-acre Town Center has it exists today -- a seat of parking lots surrounded border by Interstate 5.
Empty parking lots stretch for acres near the permanently closed Fry's electronics store
A drive-thru Dutch Bros has been the lone bright spot of development in the town center since 2019.
Wilsonville officials have long dreamt of redeveloping its 70s era "town center" into a mixed-used neighborhood
But nothing's been built there since 2019, except a Dutch Bros.
Still, there's been backlash, and the city is now planning to slash allowable housing by 50% — cutting 2,300 units
It was his music that drew me there, of course, but throughout the concert I was reminded that Springsteen’s values are great.
Bruce Springsteen is out to save America with rock and roll.
On Friday night, in a Moda Center packed with screaming, singing fans, it felt like he might just do it.
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Shirtless man standing in front of gym has been waiting all winter for this
Wish that every mocktail recipe did not being with "1 cup granulated sugar"
A young child wearing a Raggedy Ann shirt uses matches to light the cigarette of county musician Gary Stewart. Stewart has hunched down to the child's level. He's wearing a brown hat and matching coat. The photo appears to be archival.
The social media team was like don't make that the cover it'll get censored, but I want you to know about this photo in Jimmy McDonough's biography of the guy who wrote “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)”
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It's very human to want to give to charity instead of paying enough taxes. Because the charities are going to say thank you and preen your feathers. And the taxes are just what you owe.
