Posts from — June 2008
I’m Voting Republican Satire
June 28, 2008 No Comments
Look They’re Just Like Us!
June 24, 2008 2 Comments
Portland Represent!
The LONG list:
A - E
- Obo Addy, worldbeat musician
- Brad Adkins, artist
- Art Alexakis, member of Everclear
- Goli Ameri, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Garner Ted Armstrong, televangelist
- Jean M. Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Thomas J. Autzen, plywood manufacturing innovator, Autzen Stadium benefactor
- Lance Bangs, artist, filmmaker
- James Beard, food expert
- Jona Bechtolt, musician
- Pietro Belluschi, architect
- Brian Michael Bendis, comic book writer
- Simon Benson, philanthropist, logging innovator
- Becca Bernstein, artist
- Mel Blanc, voice actor best known as voice of Bugs Bunny
- Lance Blankenship, retired Major League Baseball player and World Series Champion
- Earl Blumenauer, Democratic U.S. representative
- Chuck Bown and Jim Bown, NASCAR drivers
- Terrell Brandon, NBA all star
- Thom Bray, Riptide actor
- Isaac Brock, co-founder and frontman of Modest Mouse
- Meredith Brooks, singer (Bitch)
- Mel Brown, R&B and jazz drummer
- Carrie Brownstein, musician, guitarist with Sleater-Kinney
- John Callahan, cartoonist
- Clive Charles, soccer coach
- Beverly Cleary, children’s stories author
- Brad Cloepfil, architect
- John H. Couch, sea captain and early merchant who platted the Portland’s NW alphabet district
- Joseph Buford Cox, chainsaw chain inventor
- Tom Cramer, artist
- Larry Crane, publisher of Tape Op
- Ward Cunningham, inventor of wiki
- Chuck Currie, United Church of Christ clergy and long-time homeless advocate
- Michael Curry, costume designer for The Lion King, and designer of the 2002 and 1996 Olympics opening ceremonies
- Farel Dalrymple, comic book artist
- Britt Daniel, musician best known as the lead singer of Spoon
- Valerie Day, member of Nu Shooz
- Walter “Walt” Dawson, political lobbyist
- Paul deLay, blues harmonica player
- Richard Diebenkorn, painter
- Michael Doleac, NBA Miami Heat player
- Abigail Scott Duniway, radical, suffragist, and publisher/editor of Portland newspaper The New Northwest
- Katherine Dunn, author, Geek Love
- Mike Dunleavy, Jr., Jesuit H.S. and NBA Indiana Pacers player
- Dick Egan, baseball player
- Sam Elliott, actor
- Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse
- Marie Equi, physician and anarchist
[edit] F - L
- Harrell Fletcher, artist
- Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal
- Dick Fosbury, high jumper, inventor of the Fosbury Flop
- Boaz Frankel, host and creator of Clips & Quips
- Alex Frost, actor
- C. Gordon Fullerton, astronaut and member of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
- Elizabeth Furse, U.S. Congresswoman
- Clark Gable, film actor, best known for Gone with the Wind
- Robert Lee Ghormley, World War II naval officer
- Rodney Glisan, U.S. Army surgeon on the Oregon frontier
- Jacob Golden, musician
- A.C. Green, former NBA player
- Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, Futurama and Life In Hell
- Sean Healy, artist multimedia
- Sally Haley, artist and painter
- Tonya Harding, controversial figure skater and boxer
- Katie Harman, Miss America 2002
- Joey Harrington, NFL quarterback
- Lou Harrison, composer
- Michael Allen Harrison, musician
- Steve Havelka, creator of Pokey the Penguin
- Ernest Haycox, writer
- Todd Haynes, filmmaker
- Susan Helms, astronaut (actually born in North Carolina, but spent most of her childhood in Portland, and considers it her hometown)
- Joe Hill, radical labor activist
- Stewart Holbrook, author and artist
- Matt Hollywood, musician
- Peter Holmstrom, musician
- Bill Hudson, musician, singer/songwriter, producer
- Brett Hudson, musician, singer/songwriter, producer
- Mark Hudson, musician, singer/songwriter, producer
- William Hurt, Academy Award winning actor
- Peter Jacobsen, golfer
- Gary Jarman, musician, singer/songwriter
- Jeff Jahn, curator, critic and artist
- Chris Johanson, artist
- Fred Jones, former Portland Trail Blazers player, 2004 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Champion
- Miranda July, performance artist, filmmaker
- Louis Kaufman, violinist
- The Kingsmen, musicians, best known for “Louie Louie”
- Ben Hur Lampman, writer, editor at The Oregonian, Oregon poet laureate
- Storm Large, singer, fronts the band Storm and the Balls, contestant on Rock Star: Supernova
- Thomas M. Lauderdale, musician, Pink Martini
- Ursula K. Le Guin, science fiction/fantasy author
- Norman Leyden, arranger, conductor, clarinetist
- Mickey Lolich, major league baseball pitcher
- Courtney Love, actress and musician
[edit] M - S
- Shannon MacMillan, U.S. soccer player
- Stephen Malkmus, band member of Pavement
- Phillip Margolin, writer and lawyer
- Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths and current guitarist for Modest Mouse
- Ana Matronic, singer
- Dallas McKennon, voice actor best known as voices of Gumby, Pokey, Archie Andrews, Tony the Tiger
- Mike and Brian McMenamin, brewpub owners
- Carlton Mellick III, bizarro fiction author
- Colin Meloy, musician, singer/songwriter, leader of The Decemberists
- James Mercer, musician, singer/songwriter, leader of The Shins
- Tiffeny Milbrett, U.S. soccer player
- Don Miller, author
- Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, former MTV VJ 1992-1996
- Cris Moss, curator and artist
- Ona Munson, actress in Gone with the Wind
- Dale Murphy, former Atlanta Braves star
- Scout Niblett, musician
- Michael Paul Oman-Reagan, artist
- Chuck Palahniuk, writer, author of Fight Club, and idiosyncratic guide to Portland, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
- Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
- Johnny Pesky, iconic Boston Red Sox baseball player
- Henry F. Phillips, inventor of the Phillips-head screw
- Roddy Piper, professional wrestler
- Tom Potter, former police chief and current mayor (2005-present)
- Jane Powell, actress/singer
- Ahmad Rashad, former NFL player, television personality
- Johnnie Ray, musician
- John Reed, journalist
- Mel Renfro, defensive back for Dallas Cowboys
- Rozz Rezabek, punk pioneer and vocalist for early Negative Trend and Theatre of Sheep
- Kim Rhodes, actress, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, As the World Turns, Another World
- Raina Rose, folksinger
- Alex Ross, comic book artist
- Mark Rothko, artist
- Greg Rucka, novelist and comic book writer
- Rick Rydell, outdoors writer, novelist, and radio talk show host
- Joe Sacco, graphic novel journalist
- Katee Sackhoff, actress, Battlestar Galactica (2003) and Bionic Woman (2007)
- Curtis Salgado, soul singer
- Rebecca Schaeffer, actress, whose murder in 1989 led to anti-stalking laws
- Randal L. Schwartz, author of Perl programming books and magazine articles, and controversially convicted computer criminal
- Danny Simon, television writer
- Elliott Smith, musician
- Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor
- Harry Everett Smith, archivist, ethnomusicologist
- Tom Spanbauer, author
- Matthew Stadler, author
- William Stafford, poet
- Damon Stoudamire, San Antonio Spurs star
- Salim Stoudamire, Atlanta Hawks NBA player
- Sally Struthers, actress
- Jon Micah Sumrall, lead singer of the Christian rock band Kutless
[edit] T - Z
- Courtney Taylor-Taylor, musician
- Tommy Thayer, musician, guitarist for KISS
- Craig Thompson, graphic novelist
- Kirk Thornton, notable voice actor
- Linus Torvalds, organizer of the Linux operating system kernel
- Michael Totten, writer, foreign correspondent
- Zoe Trope, teenage author
- Corin Tucker, musician, guitarist with Sleater-Kinney
- Gus Van Sant, filmmaker
- Angela Via, singer/songwriter
- Will Vinton, claymation animator
- Lindsay Wagner, actress best known for The Bionic Woman
- Chris Walla, musician, guitarist of Death Cab for Cutie
- Marie Watt, contemporary sculptor
- Janet Weiss, musician, drummer with Sleater-Kinney
- E. Henry Wemme, businessman
- Minor White, influential photographer
- Brad Wilk, Portland-born drummer of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
- Craig L. Williams, Emperor XVI Craig Hollywood of the Imperial Court of New York
- Martin Wong, Portland-born painter
- Anthony Wynn, author
June 24, 2008 No Comments
Transformers- Musician’s Real Names
I found this here
June 24, 2008 No Comments
George Carlin
RIP George. I always liked to pronounce your name whore-hey. I loved your inappropriate behavior. I’ll miss you.
Here is one of my favs of yours..
Actually this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That’s all, a little place for my stuff. That’s all I want, that’s all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody’s got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that’s your stuff, that’ll be his stuff over there. That’s all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That’s all your house is: a place to keep your stuff. If you didn’t have so much stuff, you wouldn’t need a house. You could just walk around all the time.
A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. You can see that when you’re taking off in an airplane. You look down, you see everybody’s got a little pile of stuff. All the little piles of stuff. And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up. Wouldn’t want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff. They always take the good stuff. They never bother with that crap you’re saving. All they want is the shiny stuff. That’s what your house is, a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get…more stuff!
Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house. Why? No room for your stuff anymore. Did you ever notice when you go to somebody else’s house, you never quite feel a hundred percent at home? You know why? No room for your stuff. Somebody else’s stuff is all over the goddamn place! And if you stay overnight, unexpectedly, they give you a little bedroom to sleep in. Bedroom they haven’t used in about eleven years. Someone died in it, eleven years ago. And they haven’t moved any of his stuff! Right next to the bed there’s usually a dresser or a bureau of some kind, and there’s NO ROOM for your stuff on it. Somebody else’s shit is on the dresser.
Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff? God! And you say, “Get that shit offa there and let me put my stuff down!”
Sometimes you leave your house to go on vacation. And you gotta take some of your stuff with you. Gotta take about two big suitcases full of stuff, when you go on vacation. You gotta take a smaller version of your house. It’s the second version of your stuff. And you’re gonna fly all the way to Honolulu. Gonna go across the continent, across half an ocean to Honolulu. You get down to the hotel room in Honolulu and you open up your suitcase and you put away all your stuff. “Here’s a place here, put a little bit of stuff there, put some stuff here, put some stuff–you put your stuff there, I’ll put some stuff–here’s another place for stuff, look at this, I’ll put some stuff here…” And even though you’re far away from home, you start to get used to it, you start to feel okay, because after all, you do have some of your stuff with you. That’s when your friend calls up from Maui, and says, “Hey, why don’tchya come over to Maui for the weekend and spend a couple of nights over here.”
Oh, no! Now what do I pack? Right, you’ve gotta pack an even SMALLER version of your stuff. The third version of your house. Just enough stuff to take to Maui for a coupla days. You get over to Maui–I mean you’re really getting extended now, when you think about it. You got stuff ALL the way back on the mainland, you got stuff on another island, you got stuff on this island. I mean, supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain. You get over to your friend’s house on Maui and he gives you a little place to sleep, a little bed right next to his windowsill or something. You put some of your stuff up there. You put your stuff up there. You got your Visine, you got your nail clippers, and you put everything up. It takes about an hour and a half, but after a while you finally feel okay, say, “All right, I got my nail clippers, I must be okay.” That’s when your friend says, “Aaaaay, I think tonight we’ll go over the other side of the island, visit a pal of mine and maybe stay over.”
Aww, no. NOW what do you pack? Right–you gotta pack an even SMALLER version of your stuff. The fourth version of your house. Only the stuff you know you’re gonna need. Money, keys, comb, wallet, lighter, hanky, pen, smokes, rubber and change. Well, only the stuff you HOPE you’re gonna need.
June 23, 2008 No Comments


