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The poll is still open, here. Don't forget, accurate answers will definitely give us an accurate view of what the entire population of Portland really feels.
I'm sure that's how it works.
Oh Wait, the makers of his poll actually say
Polls can be fun little snapshots of what people are thinking at any given moment, but—scientifically speaking—they are absolute garbage most of the time. Never believe the results of any poll commissioned by a lobbying group or political action committee
Oh well.
#pdx#portland#oregon#ppb#Portland Mercury#Oregonian newspaper#what was that about statistics and lies?
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Burger Week! and snack socks
If you're in Portland, Oregon it's your lucky week, if you like burgers that is. There are tons of tasty-looking options, most available in vegan versions as well, and all for only $8 per burger. Here's the guide to all of the participating restaurants, and their offerings.
And in honor of Burger Week, we're putting our yummy Stance Neen Crew socks on sale! Bon appetit!
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My latest column for the Portland Mercury came out yesterday. It's not too bad for being by me, who are dumb.
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Today, on March 12th, 1977 - Queen Story!
Queen perform at the Paramount, Portland, USA, during 'A Day At The Races' Tour
#portland#1977#a day at the races tour#a day at the races album#usa#freddie mercury#queen band#london#zanzibar#legend#queen#brian may#john deacon#freddiebulsara#roger taylor
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Sports Astrology Predictions! Check us out every day for 1-2 sports astrology predictions. When it comes to sports people use many different methods to determine the winner. At Martian Astrology, a team of astrologers utilize the stars to determine the outcome of which team will win. Analyzing a chart through different methods can simply show us who will win, and sometimes the score depending…
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#Astrology#Bohemians#DC#Diamond#Diamondbacks#Dublin#Florida#Ireland#Jupiter#Kansas#Kansas city#Kansas City Royals#Leo#mars#Mercury#MLB#MLS#Nationals#Portland#Portland Thorns#Predictions#San Diego#San Diego Padres#San Francisco#San Francisco Giants#Spirits#Sports#Tampa#Tampa rays#Taurus
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Pluralistic is four
I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW in SALT LAKE CITY (Feb 21, Weller Book Works) and then SAN DIEGO (Feb 22, Mysterious Galaxy). After that, it's LA, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and more!
Four years ago, I started pluralistic.net, my post-Boing Boing, solo blog project: an ad-free, tracker-free site that anyone can republish, commercially or noncommercially. It's been a wild four years, featuring over 1,150 editions, many consisting of multiple articles:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/pluralist-19-feb-2020/
As a project, Pluralistic has been a roaring success. I've published multiple, significant "breakout" articles that popularized obscure, important, highly technical ideas, most notably "adversarial interoperability":
http://pluralistic.net/tag/adversarial-interoperability
"End-to-end" as a remedy for multiple internet ripoffs, including as a superior alternative to link-taxes as a means of saving the news industry from Big Tech predation:
https://pluralistic.net/tag/e2e/
and, of course, "enshittification":
https://pluralistic.net/tag/enshittification/
These are emblematic of the sorts of ideas that I've spent the past 20+ years trying to popularize in tech-policy debates dominated by technologically illiterate policy ideas ("abolish Section 230!") and politically illiterate technical ideas (so many to choose from, but let's just say "cryptocurrency"). They require that the reader come along for a lot of cross-disciplinary analysis that often gets deep into the weeds. These are some of the hardest ideas to convey, but nuanced proposals and critiques that work on both political and technical axes are the best hope we have of successfully weathering the polycrisis.
Blogging has always been a part of this project. For nearly 20 years, I posted nearly every day on Boing Boing – 53,906 posts in all! – taking note of everything that seemed important. Keeping a "writer's notebook" in public imposes an unbeatable rigor, since you can't slack off and leave notes so brief and cryptic that they neither lodge in your subconscious nor form a record clear enough to refer to in future. By contrast, keeping public notes produces both a subconscious, supersaturated solution of fragmentary ideas that rattle around, periodically cohering into nucleii that crystallize into full-blown ideas for stories, novels, essays, speeches and nonfiction books. What's more, those ripened ideas are supported by a searchable database of everything I've thought about the subject, often annotated by readers and other writers who've commented on the posts. I call this "The Memex Method":
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/
Pluralistic marks a new phase in my deployment of the Memex Method. With 50K+ notes in a database, I've gradually turned Pluralistic into a forum for far more synthetic, longer-form work that pulls on threads from decades of research into nothing in particular and everything that seemed important.
Pluralistic is also an experiment in retaining control over my destiny – but not my work. Rather than hitching my ability to reach an audience through a platform that can be enshittified at the whim of a mercurial, infantile billionaire or their venal, callous shareholders, Pluralistic is published web-first, on a site I control, and then syndicated to every platform that matters to me. It's a process called POSSE (Post Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere):
https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two-decades/#hfbd
I want to spread the ideas I fight for, so I post them everywhere, and license them Creative Commons Attribution-Only, encouraging others to repost them. Lots of small sites do this, but so do large ones. Notably, Wired picked up my first breakout piece on enshittification and republished it under the CC terms:
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
This was a really interesting process. On the one hand, I didn't get paid for this feature, which did really well for Wired. On the other hand, nearly 30 years of writing for Wired makes me doubtful that I could have gotten this piece out in the form it emerged, without substantially toning down (or, if you prefer, neutering) the rhetoric that made that piece more persuasive. A commissioning editor from one of the largest newspapers in the world got in touch with me after it came out and said they wished they'd published it – but also that they knew they couldn't possibly have done so. By publishing the story first on my blog, proving its audience, and establishing its canonical form, I was able to get it amplified by a service with a much bigger platform than me, without having to compromise on the form.
That republication gave me the much-maligned "exposure" – but it also carried the message to places it wouldn't have reached on its own. I don't write – have never written – solely as an income source. As both an artist and an activist, connecting with audiences has always been co-equal in my mind with earning my living. That's why I don't do a lot of film-writing: it pays well, but most of it never sees the light of day. It's also why I stopped writing for ad agencies: it paid well, but it didn't matter to me or my audience. To mangle Dr Johnson: "No man but a blockhead ever wrote solely for money."
The open nature of this blog, with its many open syndication channels, creates multidirectional pathways for evaluating and refining my attempts at making my ideas understood and my art land. My posts often circle back to points I made earlier, incorporating useful feedback from readers and colleagues, sure, but also anticipating and rebutting those areas where critics have convinced others in various forums. Vanity searching is unjustly maligned: I learn a ton about how to make by work better by lurking in Reddit comments, Hacker News, Twitter, Slashdot, Metafilter and other forums. I also take a sneaky pleasure in knowing that the persistent trolls who reliably pop up to grind their weird axes about me (sometimes referencing blog posts I made decades ago) have taught me how to neutralize them in advance, and it's delightful to see them try their same old lines, only to have other commentators point out that my latest piece makes it absolutely undeniable how wrong they are. Living well is the best revenge, indeed.
Four years. I've been writing Pluralistic for four years. During that time, I've published eight books – and beyond any doubt, Pluralistic helped me get those books into readers' hands. But far more importantly, during that time, I've written nine books – and contracted for a tenth – as the Memex Method paid off again and again.
I don't know how long I'll do Pluralistic for, but I don't foresee stopping any time soon. What's more, no matter what happens to Pluralistic, I can't ever see giving up on the Memex Method, keeping notes in public and making them work for me.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#synthesis
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McDonald's Restaurants by Magnitude of Mountain Backdrop / Rut
by u/Gigitoe
Eating a Big Mac® while gazing at Big Mountains is an experience that millions of Americans can relate to. But little do we ask ourselves, which McDonald's restaurants have the biggest, baddest mountain backdrop?
So I set out to answer this question, using rut, a topographic metric that does particularly well at identifying cities with badass mountain backdrops. (For more info, check out this Mercury News article by John Metcalfe, or my research paper)
Roughly speaking, this is how rut works:
The higher the mountains rise above a restaurant, the more impressive they appear, and the greater the rut.
The more steeply the mountains rise above a restaurant, the more impressive they appear, and the greater the rut.
Here's a tier list that shows the rut of the ruttiest McDonald's restaurant in various cities. The cutoffs are rather arbitrary, so please don't poison me with a Grimace Shake if your city doesn't get the tier you like :)
S tier - rut > 400 m (i'm lovin' it. would visit just for mountain views)
Palm Springs, CA (647 m) | Weed, CA (624 m) | Springville, UT (609 m) | Lone Pine, CA (521 m) | Rancho Cucamonga, CA (503 m) | Kailua Kona, HI (432 m) | Salt Lake City, UT (404 m)
A tier - rut between 200 to 400 m (impressive, but probably wouldn't visit just for mountain views)
Colorado Springs, CO (383 m) | Gatlinburg, TN (273 m) | Tacoma, WA (267 m) | Tucson, AZ (246 m) | Juneau, AK (223 m) | Tucson, AZ (209 m) | Albuquerque, NM (215 m) | Las Vegas, NV (209 m)
B tier - rut between 100 and 200 m (mountains nearby, or distant big mountains, or very distant huge mountains)
Anchorage, AK (192 m) | Seattle, WA (185 m) | Manchester, VT (166 m) | El Paso, TX (160 m) | Los Angeles, CA (153 m) | Portland, OR (144 m) | Denver, CO (126 m) | Boise, ID (106 m)
C tier - rut between 50 and 100 m (big hills nearby, or distant mountains, or very distant big mountains)
Rutland, VT (99 m) | San Diego, CA (84 m) | Asheville, NC (75 m) | Middlesboro, KY (70 m) | Phoenix, AZ (67 m) | Roanoke, VA (46 m)
D tier - rut between 25 and 50 m (hills nearby, or distant big hills, or very distant mountains)
Billings, MT (40 m) | Rapid City, SD (37 m) | Dalton, GA (38 m) | Hot Springs, AR (37 m) | Pittsburgh, PA (33 m) | San Francisco, CA (30 m) | Portsmouth, OH (26 m) | Greenville, SC (26 m) | Huntsville, AL (25 m)
E tier - rut between 10 and 25 m (small hills nearby, or hills in the distance, or very distant big hills)
Syracuse, NY (21 m) | Concord, NH (20 m) | Duluth, MN (20 m) | New Haven, CT (14 m) | Cincinnati, OH (13 m) | Wausau, WI (13 m) | Portland, ME (10 m)
F tier - rut between 0 and 10 m (flatter than a patty)
Nashville, TN (8.5 m) | New York City (4.3 m) | Kansas City (2.8 m) | Miami, FL (1.7 m) | Houston (1.6 m), TX | Chicago, IL (0.6 m)
For more locations, here's a spreadsheet with the rut of every McDonald's on this map.
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Note: a rut of X doesn't mean the surrounding mountains rise a height of X above the restaurant. Instead, a rut of X means that a restaurant's mountain backdrop is as impressive as a restaurant at the base of a vertical cliff of height X. The less steeply the surrounding mountains rise above the restaurant, the lower the rut.
Also note: rut only considers rise above surroundings (relative height differences and angle of elevation). it does not consider absolute elevation, nor the "aesthetics" of a mountain, nor visibility (or lack thereof) due to weather or smog.
Attributions: Gavin Rehkemper (locations), FABDEM (elevation model), Google Earth Engine (calculations), ESRI (basemap), Kai Xu (rut metric and map)
If you like rut, you'll probably like its older brother jut even more. Jut measures how impressive, spectacular, or badass a mountain is—considering both its height above surroundings and steepness. If you want to find the most impressive mountains near you or worldwide, you may find the link above to be useful.
Let us know if you have any questions or comments—I'm happy to address them!
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obsessed with this meme that the members of the national made back in like 2003 after a review of the band came out in the portland mercury lmao
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Holidays 10.24
Holidays
American Bar Association Giving Day
Azad Kashmir Day (Pakistan)
Black Thursday Commemoration Day
Brain Cancer Awareness Day (Canada)
Child Care Worker & Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day (Canada)
Day of Special Forces of the Armed Forces (Russia)
Diplomatic Workers’ Day (Kyrgyzstan)
40-Hour Work Week Day
Gormanudr (Old Icelandic)
House of Elrond Day (Lord of the Rings)
International Day of Climate Action
International Day of Libraries
International Diplomats Day
International Gibbon Day
Java Sparrow Day (Japan)
Lego Day
Libraries Day (Spain)
My Best Winter Skin Day
National Crazy Day
National Doctors Day (Indonesia)
National Elizabeth Day
National Forensic Accounting Day
National Kangaroo Awareness Day
National One United Race Day
National Restaurant Workers Day
National Senior UTI Awareness Day
National Temperature Day
Pear Day (French Republic)
PitDark Pitch Day
Programmer’s Day (China)
Read for the Record Day
Recycle Your Mercury Thermostat Day
Rocket Engineer Remembrance Day (Baikonur, Kazakhstan)
A Room of Her Own Day
Standardization and Metrology Employees Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Suez Day (Egypt)
Take Back Your Time Day
Telegram Day
Tony Bennett Day (NYC)
Trade Unions Day (Tajikistan)
United Nations Day
Vote Early Day
World Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (AOM) Day
World Development Information Day (UN)
World Kangaroo Day
World Origami Days begin (until 11.11)
World Polio Day
World River Dolphin Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Feast of Good and Plenty (a.k.a. Good and Plenty Day)
Food Day [ website ]
Hershey’s Chocolate Day
Margarine Day (Japan)
National Bologna Day
National Jamaican Jerk Day
Share a Pop-Tart with Someone You Love Day
World Tripe Day
Independence & Related Days
United Nations (Founded; 1945)
Zambia (from UK, 1964)
4th Thursday in October
Black Thursday [Thursday of Last Full Week]
Plastics Thursday (Canada) [4th Thursday]
Thinking Thursday [4th Thursday of Each Month]
Thirsty Thursday [Every Thursday]
Three for Thursday [Every Thursday]
Thrift Store Thursday [Every Thursday]
Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]
Thuringer Thursday [4th Thursday of Each Month]
Weekly Holidays beginning October 24 (3rd Full Week of October)
Disarmament Week (thru 10.30)
International Dyslexia Association Reading Week (thru 10.26)
International Tree Climbing Week (thru 10.27)
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week (thru 10.31)
World Origami Days (thru 11.11)
Festivals Beginning October 24, 2024
Austin Film Festival (Austin, Texas) [thru 10.31]
Barbados Food & Rum Festival (Warrens, Barbados) [thru 10.27]
Cambridge Film Festival (Cambridge, United Kingdom) [thru 10.31]
Cork Jazz Festival (Cork, Ireland) [thru 10.28]
Food Industry Truck Driving Championship (Orlando, Florida) [thru 10.26]
Harvest on the Harbor (Portland, Maine) [thru 10.26]
Helsinki Book Fair (Helsinki, Finland) [thru 10.27]
Imagine Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [thru 11.3]
Pumpkinpalooza (Starkville, Mississippi)
Tacoma Holiday Food & Gift Festival (Tacoma, Washington) [thru 10.27]
Top Taco (Matairie, Louisiana)
Feast Days
Al Feldstein (Artology)
Ann Cleeves (Writerism)
Anthony Mary Claret (Christian; Saint)
Betty Lou (Muppetism)
Bijaya Dashami [10th Day of Dashain]
Bob Kane (Artology)
Cider Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)
Eberigisil (Evergitus; Christian; Saint)
Eugène Fromentin (Artology)
Feast of the Spirits of the Air (Pagan)
Five Martyrs of Carthage (Felix and Companions; Christian; Saint)
Janis Joplin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Jüri Arrak (Artology)
Konstantin Yuon (Artology)
Lilith’s Day (Ancient Mesopotamian)
Luigi Guanella (Christian; Saint)
Magloire of Dol (Christian; Saint)
Maladay (Discordian)
Marianne North (Artology)
Martin of Vertou (Christian; Saint)
Massimo d'Azeglio (Artology)
New Year’s Day (Jainism)
Proclus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Raphael the Archangel (Catholic Church 1921-1969, local calendars) [Travelers]
Rafael Guízar y Valencia (Christian; Saint)
Senoch (Christian; Saint)
Vico (Positivist; Saint)
Hebrew Calendar Holidays
Shemini Atzeret [22 Tishrei]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [57 of 71]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [49 of 60]
Premieres
The Alamo (Film; 1960)
American Pie, by Don McLean (Album; 1971)
Battle of Britain (Film; 1969)
Donald’s Camera (Disney Cartoon; 1941)
Episode 120 or 123 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 120; 1961)
Equus, by Peter Shaffer (Play; 1974)
Fer-de-Lance, by Rex Stout (Novel; 1934) [Nero Wolfe #1]
Gattaca (Film; 1997)
Go Snow, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 7 & 8; 1964)
Hot and Cold Penguin (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1955)
John Wick (Film; 2014)
The Last Hurrah (Film; 1958)
Live at the Apollo, recorded by James Brown (Album; 1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (Film; 1962)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, by Smashing Pumpkins (Album; 1995)
Mellow Yellow, by Donovan (Song; 1966)
Miss Fritter’s Racing School (Pixar Cartoon; 2017)
Moose Gets the Juice or Mourning Becomes Electra-Cuted (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 119; 1961)
Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene (Novel; 1958)
Pancho’s Hideaway (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, by Simon & Garfunkel (Album; 1966)
Shaved Fish, by John Lennon (Album; 1975)
The Silver Spoon, by Clelia D'Onofrio (Cookbook; 1950)
Smooth Criminal, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1988)
Springtime (Ub Iwerks Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1929)
St. Vincent (Film; 2014)
The Super Salesman (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1947)
Taylor Swift, by Taylor Swift (Album; 2006)
The Wiz (Film; 1978)
Wotta Knight (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1947)
Today’s Name Days
Alois, Aloisia, Anton, Armella (Austria)
Antun, Proklo (Croatia)
Nina (Czech Republic)
Proclus (Denmark)
Asmo, Asmus, Ermo, Rasmus (Estonia)
Asmo, Rasmus (Finland)
Florentin (France)
Alois, Aloisia, Anton, Armella, Victoria (Germany)
Sevastiani (Greece)
Salamon (Hungary)
Ponzia (Italy)
Ara, Modrite, Mudrīte, Renāte (Latvia)
Daugailas, Gilbertas, Rapolas, Švitrigailė (Lithuania)
Eilif, Eivor (Norway)
Antoni, Boleczest, Filip, Hortensja, Marcin, Rafaela, Rafał, Salomon (Poland)
Areta (Romania)
Kvetoslava (Slovakia)
Antonio (Spain)
Eilert, Evert (Sweden)
Valentine (Ukraine)
Denver, Rafael, Rafaela, Raphael, Raphaela (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 298 of 2024; 68 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of Week 43 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 26 of 28]
Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 22 (Xin-You)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 22 Tishri 5785
Islamic: 20 Rabi II 1446
J Cal: 28 Orange; Seventhday [28 of 30]
Julian: 11 October 2024
Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter
Positivist: 18 Descartes (11th Month) [Wincklemann / Fréret]
Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 33 of 90)
Week: 3rd Full Week of October
Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 2 of 30)
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Death Valley just recorded the hottest month ever observed on the planet. (Washington Post)
The hottest place on Earth just observed its hottest month.
Death Valley, Calif., registered an average July temperature of 108.5 degrees, the highest monthly value ever recorded among thousands of weather stations around the globe, according to Brian Brettschneider, a climatologist based in Alaska.
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The scorching month in Death Valley came as the planet’s average temperature reached its highest level on two straight days. The Earth has set high temperature records over the past 13 months. Scientists say the warmth is linked to decades of global heating from human emissions of greenhouse gases.
July was also the hottest month on record for dozens of cities in the western United States, including Sacramento, Las Vegas and Portland, Ore.
Death Valley’s high temperatures ranged from 111 to 129 degrees. It reached at least 125 on nine consecutive days from July 4 to 12. At night, the mercury only dipped below 90 twice and remained in the triple digits three times.
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Also, the musical Hair is in town!
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Don't miss Animation Block Party Halloween 2024, the ONLY live animated comedy Halloween extravaganza!! The Animation Block Party film festival returns with a live Halloween party in three major cities on October 31st! The three featured cities are New York, Chicago & Los Angeles. Picture This comedy will showcase their talents in all cities. This showcase event will feature exclusive spooky themed Animation Block shorts to celebrate the Halloween holiday, as well as live animated comedy from Picture This!
For individual show lineups visit the official RSVP links:
NY: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/picture-this-animation-block-party-halloween-2024-tickets-1049744051717?aff=oddtdtcreator
Chicago: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-animation-block-party-halloween-2024-with-picture-this-tickets-1051012836687?aff=oddtdtcreator
LA: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/animation-block-party-halloween-2024-tickets-1039354255557?aff=oddtdtcreator
*lineups subject to change without notice Flier art by Robert Bohn
“What is Picture This!?”
PICTURE THIS! is a new show from Brandie Posey & Sam Varela: two girls who want to push the boundaries of what a comedy show can be. Picture This! is a live comedy show with stand-ups performing while they are drawn live by some of the best animators, cartoonists, and other artists in Hollywood, CA, SF, NYC and Portland. Picture This! has also debuted in Toronto, New Zealand and Australia! The comedians don’t know what the animators are drawing and the animators don’t know how the comedians will react.
It may be weird. It may different. But it will be FUNNY!
“This is a super cool show, I’m proud to be a part of it!“ - Jay Larson
”Brandie Posey & Sam Varela have something very cool going on here…the results are organic, highly entertaining and often times hilarious.” - The Interrobang
“It’s a deceptively simple idea…a good exercise for the performers to keep their improv instincts sharp and it’s good entertainment watching funny people goof off.” - Portland Mercury
“If you like animated comedies, how about animated stand-up comedy?… It’s just like having your portrait drawn at a fair, only instead of mildly insulting caricatures, you get to see one-of-a-kind depictions of what’s going on inside funny people’s heads.” - Vulture
“The amicable marriage of sight, sound and more sight…each [artist and comedian] performing their due diligence to visualize this crazy thing called funny.” - Spinning Platters
“The dynamic between comedian and illustrator can be push and pull, but when it works, they’re ultimately moving in the same direction.” - The Comic’s Comic
“Often, the drawings are just as funny as the standup, enhancing and occasionally stealing the show.. A comedian might have a prepared set that gets thrown totally into a tangent when the illustrator adds their own input or sketches a crude figure that takes the joke to the next level. There’s also a high potential for verbal vs. visual banter.” - LAist
“An inherent irony existed in the disparity between two disciplines identified by the term “comic” - Spinning Platters
“Our animators are joke-tellers, too, they just process the same bits visually versus verbally, it’s always so cool to see your bit from a different angle you hadn’t thought to explore! I always feel like I’m dealing with the most talented heckler in the room on the show – once you surrender yourself to the idea that you’ll never be as dynamic.” - Brandie Posey
“The show is growing fast. Comedians perform while comedy’s best illustrators create masterpieces based on what they’re hearing on stage, live. You get to watch the process and it’s a really fun time.” - The Interrobang, Top Five Shows Out of Towners Need to See
“Stand-up comedy typically hinges on performers maintaining total power and control. Yet these shows put a premium on experimentation and vulnerability, humanizing the comics in the process.” - LA Weekly
#live comedy#live animated comedy#picture this!#ny#la#chicago#live animated comedy show#animation#brooklyn#los angeles#new york#CHI#animation block party#halloween#2024#animation block party halloween 2024#union hall#color club#lyric hyperion#the lyric hyperion#film festival#festival#animation festival#comedy#bryan brinkman#clare o'kane#ian abramson#eunji kim#jamie shriner#d'lo
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But I do have my regular column for the Mercury still on 🔥. Click through! We love clicks. 😘
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Today - November 11th, 1977 - Queen Story!
Queen perform at the Cumberland County Civic Centre, Portland, USA, during 'News Of The World' Tour
👉 This is first show for this tour promoting their new album 'News Of The World'
Photo from this Tour
👉 'News Of The World' Tour:
November 11th - May 13th, 1978
📸 Photographer © NEIL ZLOZOWER
#freddie mercury#queen band#london#zanzibar#legend#queen#brian may#john deacon#freddiebulsara#roger taylor#1978#1977#news of the world album#news of the world tour#portland#usa
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