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Biding His Primetime: Robert Pattinson Attains Peak Weird Guy Form
“What would have happened if I wasn’t here?” Robert Pattinson asks this question throughout Primetime. In the role of Chris Hansen—the indeterminately telegenic host of once-popular hidden camera show To Catch A Predator—Pattinson practically turns the question into a mantra.…
POP QUIZ PDX: It’s a SCANDAL! 😲
CALLING ALL BRAINIACS! It’s time to put that brainy-brain to the test with this edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we’ll see how much YOU know about the latest local political scandals—because as you know, Portland has nothing better to do…
Good Morning, News: Portland Mayor Breaks Tie Vote for Zenith, Introducing Our Citywide Dolly Parton Day, and Other Such Glitter That Is Gold
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Romancing Portland Taught Me How to Embrace Writing Smut
I’m reading smut at lunch. Facing a cement wall in the parking lot, I comb an explicit love scene between bites of cottage cheese. Within the pages, Hades and Persephone are in his sex dungeon doing something I’d usually open an incognito tab for. He flips her this way. He flips…
Lunch Time!?!?
[Got an anonymous confession or rant you just have to share with the world? Submit it to I, Anonymous HERE!—eds] Who in the fuck shows up to work and the very first thing they do is feed their face on company time? Like full on sit, phone scrolling, and chowing down.Might as well…
What Does This All Mean In The End?
[Got an anonymous confession or rant you just have to share with the world? Submit it to I, Anonymous HERE!—eds] What I see, what I touch, what I do every week is not normal for most of you. I have been around more death than anyone I know or meet. I am a healthcare worker, a […]
Do What You Love Instead of Chasing Approval
[Got an anonymous confession or rant you just have to share with the world? Submit it to I, Anonymous HERE!—eds] I love trying to be better and loving myself. It can be hard to do in this world where the norm is shitty judgement, but fuck those people! Being alive is dynamic and…
Dear Anti-Green Voter
[Got an anonymous confession or rant you just have to share with the world? Submit it to I, Anonymous HERE!—eds] You think a few percentage points for the third-party candidate will sink your candidate’s big election? Maybe it’s the *other* candidate polling level with yours.…
Good Morning, News: Portland Police Chief Faces Elections Complaints, Trump’s Disastrous (and Scary) UN General Conference Speech, and a Big Contribution to the University of Nike
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SAVAGE LOVE: The Backlog
I’ve wavered on sending this but I need advice. There’s this woman I’ve known most of my life. We are very close and we have as close to an open book friendship as I can think of. We’ve shared everything. I now realize that I have romantic feelings for her that I never acted on.…
Portland Fire Recap: Three Losses in a Row and a Plea to the Fans
Like the rest of the WNBA, the Portland Fire had a two-week break while Team USA won a gold medal at the FIBA World Cup. Or, at least, about half of the Fire had a break, since six players departed to play in the international tournament (Carla Leite helped France win the silver…
THE TRASH REPORT: Babymen vs Babies of Women
Hellooooo, Trash Pandas! Welcome back to the Trash Report. I am Elinor Jones, thriving once again now that it’s officially fall. My forearms are sick of being exposed to fresh air and I’m ready to get my shit bundled all the way up. Shorter days mean longer nights, which means…