Ben Coleman

Racks of Inflatable costumes like T-Rex, Sasquatch and Pokemons and such, photo grabbed from the Portland Reddit

outside The Lippman Co. with employees holding up rainbow flag balloons- there's no form more graceful than The Arch, no object more whimsical than The Balloon

for Portlanders marching this Saturday who want the best tactical gear without feeding Amazon, our local party supply house The Lippman Company has plenty of inflatable costumes

There's a kind of peace in that, I've found

I've noticed that too and I think this is one of those things where by the time it gets to us we don't have to worry about it being the cool thing to say anymore.

Did the big Lebowski write this

Would that it were

It was a consensus pick for my family more than once at the video store. There's some magic alchemy in there that made it the ultimate "sure, why not?" for a while

unnamed ttrpg zine project volume one - DEATH MECHANICS tell me about death mechanics for volume one of an as-of-yet-unnamed ttrpg zine project i'm looking for: 250-500 words (feel free to go under but please don't go over) about a single mechanic or syst...

been thinking a lot abt cool ttrpg coverage i can do & facilitate & i think i'm just gonna.... try one.......?

please write ~250-500 words about A SPECIFIC DEATH MECHANIC IN A TTRPG for me to compile into a little webzine! you have until november 13th! that's in a month!

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

“If the car’s gone,”

“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”

“because I love you.”

Happy Columbo’s Day

I mean it's not the *exact* one but it did take a bit of detective work to find the make and model

This reminds me of the time in the early 90s when my parents had to explain that our regular babysitter would be gone for a bit because her protest group had dressed up like Barbara Bush and bike locked themselves to something or other. That's how I learned what "posting bail" meant.

Did I ever tell you I got the clock from his trailer? Well anyway I got the clock from his trailer

I like how he had a little printing press on his car for making fake business cards

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

For the latest on what's happening at Portland's ICE facility follow @kevinhfoster.bsky.social reporting for the Mercury tonight.

It's called delegation

@jeffparker.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DPmki2F...

You can't blame the worm for the fish it catches

Hell half the country can't even say "Oregon" right

In retrospect we should have fled into the streets in terror like when they showed a train on film for the first time

Sorry to say we did that last week and look what happened

He did his best ok

Jack Black, best known as the guy standing slightly behind Denis Leary in Demolition Man

Sadly no, but it may have been lost on another bus

Today in war-torn Portland the bus driver announced that someone lost a bus pass and everyone got up to look for it.

The Men in Black sequels aren't the *worst* movies ever made, but there was a huge opportunity for a franchise that didn't depend on a single star. Leave TLJ alone, introduce a new agent every time, keep the ones that stick, and rotate Smith out if he's bored with the role.

so now that this special place -- where once, together, by the glow of the artificial fire, we beheld the ten thousand Alf hog posts that were all mass deleted while yet unindexed -- is changing for the worse according to most of the people who made it what it was, it seems worth asking:

I genuinely think future historians will describe social media CEOs the way we describe Victorian hatters now

oh sure when women use vocal fry it's so "annoying valley girl" but suddenly when men do it's all "professional jet pilot"