2026-06-08 13:38:51
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Middle Brother:
🎵 Portland
#MiddleBrother
https://middlebrother.bandcamp.com/track/portland
https://open.spotify.com/track/1lv7LOnuJU7925ocRBY126
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Middle Brother:
🎵 Portland
#MiddleBrother
https://middlebrother.bandcamp.com/track/portland
https://open.spotify.com/track/1lv7LOnuJU7925ocRBY126
Fascist Paramilitary Invaders Tackle, Manhandle, and Drag Older Protester As He Tried To Move Out Of The Way (Portland, OR - Date Unknown)
Source:
#ice
recently-surfaced poster for the portland acid test seems to (finally!) pin it as december 29, 1965. https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/music-me…
14yo: "Hey let's go to Portugal to visit [some family friends]."
me: "Portland."
14yo: "Right, Poland. Let's go there.
me: 👀
14yo: "Porto Marinada?"
Janet Mills drops attack ads, but is still 'full steam ahead' in US Senate primary (Randy Billings/The Portland Press Herald)
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/08/janet-mills-drops-attack-ads-but-is-still-full-steam-ahead-in-us-senate-primary/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p128#a260408p128
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Heavenly:
🎵 Portland Town
#Heavenly
https://heavenly.bandcamp.com/track/portland-town-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/76BVdwFhNjo8HJVpKJ8qEp
A NOAA ‘Hurricane Hunter’ crew flew out of Portland International Airport to collect storm data for six weeks.
Scientists say they now have a better picture of how atmospheric rivers work.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/19/pdx-hurrica…
Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds #Oregon
Update (new deadline, keynotes): CFP SUS conference, Nov 12-14, 2026 (Portland, OR)
https://ift.tt/hVRuQX7
updated: Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 2:28amfull name / name of organization: Society for Utopian…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Wild recent find for #MusicWomenWednesday. Catchy, kinda crunchy indie rock maybe a folk/old country feel sometimes- this is Portland, Oregon's RUM RIVER CULT and their debut self titled EP: https://rumrivercult.bandc…
50 years ago today, the grateful dead in portland, with more rearrangements/debuts/revivals. 2nd night of their comeback tour before jumping east. incidentally, the 2 #pdx shows were the only shows of the june tour not sold exclusively by mail order. spring ’76, show #2.
soundboard:
@… I often make the opposite decision you do, but I’m certainly not convinced it’s the right choice…
The hours of my life I’ve spent driving 45 minutes to Portland, because none of the big stores have location in SW Washington, to get something that is in-stock according to the website, only to be told that’s a data entry error and they don’t have it.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills: 'I am still on the ballot' for Senate (Randy Billings/The Portland Press Herald)
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/01/maine-gov-janet-mills-im-still-on-the-ballot-for-senate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p80#a260601p80
50 years ago today, the grateful dead return to the road after a 20-month break, opening their 1st tour since ’74 in portland, oregon. debuts, bustouts, rearrangements, & a new M-E-L-L-O-W vibe.
soundboard: http://archive.org/details/gd1976-06-03.123607.sbd.miller.flac16…
Just cancelled my Ireland trip for this week because it's going to be 50 and pouring rain, and it's not even Christmas. I need sun.
Last minute Amtrak recs? I might Zephyr again? Coast starlight north to somewhere random in NorCal, then Portland, and fly back?
Unfortunately for Graham Platner, he needs women on his side to win (Steve Collins/The Portland Press Herald)
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/01/unfortunately-for-graham-platner-he-needs-women-on-his-side-to-win-steve-collins/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p103#a260601p103
40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in portland, maine, their last show at the cumberland county civic center, probably due to (another) gate-crashing incident. spring ’86, show #8.
soundboard (set 2 only): https://archive.org/details/gd1986-03-28.sbd-set2.brownin…
OK, I'm off to the garage to make Houdini fly traps. Learned via reddit that Nicole Kenney of Portland, Oregon, has been busy testing attractants for several years and THE WINNER IS MALBEC. Brilliant. #MasonBees #BeeHotel #InsectHotel #HoudiniFly #cacoxenus #science #diptera #wine #malbec #drosophilidae #flies #portland
Just cancelled my Ireland trip for this week because it's going to be 50 and pouring rain, and it's not even Christmas. I need sun.
Last minute Amtrak recs? I might Zephyr again? Coast starlight north to somewhere random in NorCal, then Portland, and fly back?
#NoKings in Portland
40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in #maine, their last of 6 visits to the cumberland county civic center in the deadhead stronghold of portland, though garcia returns in ’93. with the only performance of the classic-to-me “revolutionary hamstrung blues” by phil lesh, bobby petersen, & brent mydland, lesh’s only original of the ‘80s. spring ’86, show #7.
soundboard: