Snowmageddon: A Reaction
I've been getting all of my weather news via Twitter, like this reaction video from the One True b!X that really drives home the severity of the situation: Plus I have learned that the Green Dragon...
View ArticleLiving By Instinct
After watching days of hysterical ARCTIC BLAST!!! news coverage, I've had a kind of epiphany (huh, that's appropriate for the holiday season.) From here on out, I refuse to watch anymore news coverage...
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Arctageddon, The T-Shirt
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Look, All I'm Saying Is That It's Not Totally Impossible, Is All.
The initiation of a Snowball Earth event would involve some initial cooling mechanism, followed by runaway cooling due to increasing ice accumulation. The initial cooling could be facilitated by an...
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This Weekend in PDX
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DIE, OLD MAN WINTER! JUST FUCKING DIE!
While KATU (studio location: NE 21st and Sandy) has been frantically, giddily engaging in nonstop reporting on SNOWPOCALYPSE!!—indeed, they've been breathlessly, repetitively announcing...
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Do You Have a Frozen Baby?
Because if you do, you might want to walk back over to my house and pick up your damn stroller. This frozen block of stroller has been abandoned out in front of my house since Saturday, and I'm a...
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Got Plans on Christmas Eve? Cancel 'Em!
Last Sunday's screening of Silent Night, Deadly Night was canceled thanks to the stupid weather—but never fear, Xmas horror fans. From the Grindhouse Film Fest: Rescheduled for Christmas Eve! On...
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This is Funny
While I'm not going to justify the actions of the rapscallion who wrote scatological words on various snow covered cars on NE 28th—between Burnside and Stark—that doesn't mean I didn't think it was...
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Don't Screw Around With Liquid Nitrogen!
How many times do I have to tell you kids!? It looks like German chef Heston Blumenthal blew off both of his hands while "trying to empty a canister of liquid nitrogen." The use of liquid nitrogen is...
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NE Building Collapses, as Predicted By the Mayans
Could a repeat of last year's snowpocalypse be right around the corner? The streets may be drivable, but that hasn't stopped the cold from leaving a trail of destruction, this time right down the...
View ArticleThis Is My Favorite Song About Snow.
Cadallaca, "Winter Storm '98." It's a song about Oregon and snow. I was 16 in 1998 and that might've been the year my dad took me to a parking lot to teach me how to snow-drive. Last winter I had to...
View ArticleMetrodome Roof Collapses
As Steve mentioned in GMN, the Minneapolis Metrodome roof collapsed under all that snow... and now there's video! Via JMG. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleMan in a Blizzard
Here's the short film shot by Jamie Stuart over Sunday night's blizzard in New York that's been making the rounds on the internet, thanks to Roger Ebert's laudatory appraisal:This film deserves to win...
View ArticleSNOWPOCALYPSE IS COMING!!
Today may be all warm and in the 40s, but tomorrow.... tomorrow meteorologists are already describing as a frighteningly vague "major event." Snow! beginning in the afternoon.Freezing Rain! continuing...
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Bearded While Biking
Look what fugliness Etsy hath wrought this time: However, if you are a woman, or just a man who chooses to avoid the oft-lampooned condition of actually having a beard, this would be a super handy...
View ArticleCastle Grayskull... on Ice!
You've been bombarded by snow for weeks on end. Trash is buried and rotting outside your apartment. So, what's a bored New York artist to do? Why, make Castle Grayskull, of course. And it comes with...
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SNOW DAY! Open Thread!
How am I supposed to bike to work now?!This is the place to talk about the weather. Topics include: • Why does Portland cancel school for, like, a quarter inch of snow but not super heavy rain?•...
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Forty-Six Seconds From the New The Thing
I love the hell out of John Carpenter's The Thing, which means I can't help but be curious about its prequel/reboot, which is also, rather creatively, titled The Thing. The Thing (Again!) was supposed...
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It's Beginning to Sound A Lot Like Christmas: First Bean Spilled on the...
I know, it is way too early to be talking about cold times and holiday parties, but this little rumor just came across my desk: The flagship location of the annual downtown pop-up shop program (you...
View ArticleWhen Snow Cones Attack!
Oh, Jack Frost, you're no Frosty. You're better! [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleCan Portland Expect a "Snowlamity"* Tomorrow?
* I'm tired of the words "snowpocalypse" and "snowmageddon." Can you think of a new term for people freaking out over a small amount of snow, and put it in the comments? Thanks. AHHHHH!! SNOWLAMITY!...
View Article"Let's Laugh at Seattle!": With Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass!
Want to watch Seattle drivers panic and slide all over the road while driving in two inches of snow? No? Okay... how about we add a jaunty soundtrack from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass? OH, I AM...
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