For those of you out there in the webbernetz who don’t know, I live in Portland, Oregon. Which is awesome. On Friday a nineteen year old terrorist tried to blow up our Christmas tree with a bomb in a van. Which is not awesome. My reactions to this are a mixed grab bag of emotions [...]

Jennie “don’t change your number” Finch has announced that she will step away from the field of play at the culmination of the current fastpitch season. This will mark the end of an era in which the undisputed face of American softball was both its most dominating force, and most tent pitching asset. In a [...]

Inception Warner Bros. Theaters. Theaters Everywhere. 148 minutes Director Christopher Nolan’s last film outside of his rebooted Batman franchise was 2006’s “The Prestige,” a mystery on the mortal rivalry between two Victorian-era magicians. It opened and closed with the same question: “Are you watching closely?” That question has been the motto of Nolan’s filmmaking career [...]

At 5:30, I have the distinct pleasure of smoking an American Spirit and walking to my apartment instead of cramming into the Taurus for a rage filled drive down the bayshore littered with tourists and their gaping jaws. On a day like today, I like to detour a mile or two and do my best [...]