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ooooh I am now and more than that I’m considering taking sewing lessons so a design-your-own-fabric place would be useful to me. Oh man I’m definitely doing the wrapping paper for this holiday season 

omg look at this this is where all my money is going now

AND YOU CAN DO WALLPAPER I’M SCREAMING LOOK AT THIS

“If you look at say 2000, Portland was one of the most integrated large metropolitan areas in the country, based on income levels. We had a lot less segregation,” he said. “But with the development that we’ve seen in the last decade in Portland, that is not the case any more.” Lehner says economists have found that when people live in an area that’s income-segregated, their ability to climb the income ladder diminishes.

“Brewing Beer with Robots” is a short video about Dirty Robot Brew Works, a San Francisco nanobrewery that employs robots throughout its brewing process. The video is the first episode of Brew Age, a new web series on beer brewing produced by TestTube.

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photo via Dirty Robot Brew Works, video via Brew Age

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HALLOWEEN QUIZ

1.  How can you tell if the unknown party guest is the Devil?
- He has cloven feet
- He turned the television on to MTV (grandma was right!)
- He’s all like “hey baby, I’m burnin’ up here cause you’re so hot and I’m Satan”
- He’s checking out your copy of the Malleus Maleficarum all casual like it’s not weird

2.  Who was Jack the Ripper, really?
- The Earl of Toffee, heir to Her Majesty’s cabbages
- Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the lead pipe
- Moriarty, damn his eyes! He’s the Napoleon of crime!
- El Chupacabra

3.  How can I tell thou art a witch?
- For thou hast cavorted with Satan in a sexy way
- Because I could really use thy farmland if thou happened to be a witch
- For the milk has gone sour and I understand science not
- For thou won’t consent to a simple drowning test, the premise “offends thy good sense”

4.  Before Jack o’ Lanterns, Celtic cultures used:
- The carved heads of your enemies
- Bog sacrifice of your enemies
- Oatmeal in the shape of a face (of your enemies)
- Jack o’ turnips

5.  Which Malevolent Old Woman Spirit from Japan is the scariest?
- Cackling old woman
- Old woman bleeding from the eyes
- Floating head of weeping old woman
- Old woman inquiring about your marital status

6.  What is the only thing that can kill a werewolf?
- Silver bulletin
- Strychnine
- Rock n’ roll
- Pile driver

7.  Should we pick up this spectral hitchhiker?
- Only if he will share his weed
- No way, they’re jerks! You give them a ride and then they vanish without saying thanks
- Only if they’re doing that thing where you stick your leg out
- I don’t trust those spectral hitchhikers, they’re all the same, but I’m not racist or anything

8.  Trick or:
- Treacle
- Train
- Tits
- El Chupacabra

9.  If you say “Bloody Mary” three times, what will you see in the mirror?
- The Virgin Mary (this answer is blasphemous, circle only if you are willing to go to confession immediately)
- “Bawdy Mary?” this spell is broken
- A bartender who heard you the first time
- A scorching hot hag (if you’re into hags)

10. What do the zombies want?
- Brains
- Brians

Please circle your answers in blood (obviously) and submit your papers via séance

I reblogged a link to this quiz I made last year, but deleted it, this is better!  The whole darn thing.

Happy Halloween!

devil dog - Linda Cube Again (PSX - Alfa System - 1997)

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A black guy, a priest and a rabbi get on a plane… [via]

The numbers: Starbucks quarterly revenue rose 13% to $3.8 billion in its fourth fiscal quarter, which ended in September, compared to a year earlier. The US and China/Asia-Pacific regions posted especially strong revenue growth at 8% apiece, while the region including Europe, the Middle East and Africa saw sales rise by 2% from last year, the first increase in over a year. Operating income rose 29% to $668.9 million for the quarter, well above the $519.6 million registered for the same period a year ago. Shares are down slightly in after-market trading.

The takeaway: Apparently, Wall Street is already looking past what Starbucks is doing today. Record revenue, strong same-store sales growth and rapid expansion across the company’s several regions wasn’t enough to impress the markets. After rising slightly on Wednesday, Starbucks shares are down almost 3% in after-market trading. This probably has to do with the company’s outlook for 2014; Starbucks is targeting sales growth of 10% for 2014, but analyst expectations were closer to 12%.

What’s interesting: 2013 has been a great year for Starbucks. In fact, according to the company, this has been the best year in its 42-year history. “Today Starbucks announced incredible fourth quarter results in what has been a truly outstanding year,” CFO Troy Alstead said in a statement. Indeed, the company’s performance over the past four quarters has been very strong. The $3.8 billion in revenue Starbucks posted in both its first and fourth quarter are historical bests, and the company continues to post near-double digit growth in several regions, including North America and China/Asia Pacific.

The global coffee shop king has also promised to expand, and expand it has. So far this year, the company has opened over a thousand stores around the globe. In the fourth quarter alone, Starbucks opened 558 new stores, including its 1,000th store in both China and Japan. But it’s also boosting same stores sales on better store traffic. Further validating Starbucks record year is how well its stock has done: it’s up by a staggering 50% since last year.

Neil Gaiman & J.H. WIlliams III deliver an incredible comic with "The Sandman: Overture" #1, combining "brilliant" writing and art for a truly impressive issue.

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Todd Kent’s daughter Katie—who in previous years dressed as the Avengers and every color in the Lantern Corps—turns Halloween into Wholoween by dressing as the Doctor. All eleven of them. That little Nine jacket is… wait for it… fantastic.

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It might be a little awkward for a goalie who plays home games in Dallas to so prominently feature President John F. Kennedy, but that shouldn't take away from this magnificent tribute to the 35th president on the mask of Stars goalie Jack Campbell.

Campbell's a Michigan native who's won gold three times as a goaltender for the United States, and according to the mask designer, Dave Gunnarsson, his original idea was just that he wanted a patriotic design.

Jack #Campbell wanted a very patriotic design, 100% american as he is... We wanted to do a patriotic design in a new way, we started to brainstorm. What can be more american than a President design, and more precise a tribute to the legendary American President John F Kennedy.

It was very exciting to create this design and mix the Dallas Stars theme and colors with a worthy artwork of JFK. In the middle is JFK when he is working in The Oval Office. The closer you come the more details you will discover, it is a like a 2 in 1 design. Among all the details you will also find his most famous quoted speech, and also the USS John F. Kennedy, and for sure the Presidential seal. I just love to create details.

It's a pretty cool mask, and we found out today via the Toronto Star that JFK was a pretty big fan of the U.S. national team.

Christ, who are we sending over there, girls? ... We've got some pretty good hockey players, don't we? I suppose they're all playing with their college teams are they? I'd like to find out ... who sponsors it.

We do have some pretty good hockey players, Mr. President, and now one is wearing your face on his mask.

Ed Bolian is the kind of guy you might meet on an airplane and forget before you picked up your bags – with one exception: he claims he's the fastest man ever to drive across the United States.

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Landfill Dogs is a photo series of shelter dogs by photographer Shannon Johnstone that helps them garner the attention that they need to find permanent homes. Each of the photos showcases the dog’s personality and availability for adoption. According to Ms. Johnstone, the name of the project came about for two reasons.

First, this is where the dogs will end up if they do not find a home. Their bodies will be buried deep in the landfill among our trash. These photographs offer the last opportunity for the dogs to find homes.The second reason for the landfill location is because the county animal shelter falls under the same management as the landfill. This government structure reflects a societal value; homeless cats and dogs are just another waste stream. However, this landscape offers a metaphor of hope. It is a place of trash that has been transformed into a place of beauty. I hope the viewer also sees the beauty in these homeless, unloved creatures.

The good news is that all of the dogs in the original photo gallery have been adopted. Here’s a list of dogs currently available for adoption.

photos by Shannon Johnstone

via PictureCorrect, My Modern Met

• Tonight's Roach Gigz show at Peter's Room at the Roseland has been canceled. No word on why, although it sounds like the show will be rescheduled for a later date. On Saturday, he posted this message to Facebook: "I wanna apologize in advance the North West shows and San Diego show have been postponed. I will keep you updated and def be there ASAP. I wish I could come party with yal but its out of my control."

• Tame Impala were scheduled to play December 4 at the Crystal Ballroom with Vampire Weekend, as part of 94.7's December to Remember series. Due to a "scheduling conflict," the Aussie psych band isn't playing that show anymore, However, the long simmering rumor that they would play this Monday, November 4 instead has been confirmed—one month earlier that the original date. Advance tickets for Monday's show are sold out, although $20 tickets will be available at the door. The Crystal lays it out thusly:

If you have a 12/4 [December 2 Remember] ticket you get in to the 11/4 show for free. Bring that on 11/4, and it will also be good on 12/4 for the Vampire Weekend show.

If you have a 12/4 ticket and want a refund instead, go for it. But note: 12/4 tickets are refundable ONLY until 11/4. After the date you cannot refund your tickets.

If you don't have any of these tickets, and want to go to the 11/4 show, a few $20 tickets will be released close to showtime (we'll have more on this soon, so stay tuned).

Got it? Whew, ok.

• Yesterday, Willamette Week reported that after tomorrow night, all-ages venue Backspace will not host live performances anymore. A just-announced Halloween show, with Hop On Hold Tight and X-Day Band, will be the final show in the Backspace that we have come to know and love (although it's possible a New Year's Eve show may also happen). Backspace is converting back to a straight-up coffee shop for the time being, with future plans undetermined, but they definitely will not include a live music venue. Owner Eric Robison didn't respond to the Mercury's original email inquiries, but he told WW that he's hoping to open a new all-ages venue somewhere in NE Portland next year. Fingers crossed. This follows fundraising efforts to keep Backspace afloat that took place last December. I won't expound here on the continued frustration at the lack of all-ages venues for Portland audiences, although it can't go without mention. Furthermore, here's a very troubling quote from WW's report:

Robison says the last straw was a recently-passed city ordinance requiring small nightclubs in pre-code buildings to add sprinkler systems, though David Gold, an investor in the the Backspace property, says the building's owners chose not to renew Backspace's lease because "music is not compatible with rest of tenants in the building."

These developments, and the attitude of the property owners, seem to me like they'll cripple any potential downtown Portland has to transform itself into an entertainment hub—live music absolutely must be incorporated into Portland's plans if they want a vital downtown scene (anything resembling Austin, Texas' thriving downtown, for instance). I'm thinking of the countless downtown places you used to be able to go regularly to see live music (Satyricon, Berbati's, Someday Lounge, Ohm, Beauty Bar, Crown Room, Paris Theater, too many others to mention—and now Backspace) and have just made myself depressed. The only silver lining I can think of is the Star Theater reopening in 2011.

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"Substitution by Atletico Goianiense, Michael Jackson replaces John Lennon."

If Brazilians spoke English, that would be a real announcement. Instead, it was in Portuguese and still awesome. That's thanks to the Brazilian Serie B side, which made the all-time great substitution on Wednesday.

Substitution in a match in Brazil: pic.twitter.com/TSltHTfOaZ

— Rafael Hernández (@RafaelH117) October 30, 2013

The club also has Rafael Gladiator and Mahatma Gandhi on their team. There is no word on whether the two clash.

Atletico Goianiense, the greatest team the world has ever seen.

One of the beautiful things about a global music platform like Bandcamp is that you don’t have to submit things to a specific region’s store or be a slave to the locales a store is present in. I was pretty surprised and incredibly glad to come across Breezesquad from Fukuoka, Japan while going through some forums.

The label “bitpop” is actually quite appropriate as City contains all of the catchiness of a top-charting album with all the flourishes I enjoy from the Commodore 64’s sound palette. And yet, the whole time I can’t shake the feeling that this is more than just pop muzik, it’s a grander adventure by the artist down perhaps their own life until this point. I wanted to say “the past” but there is nothing solely “the past” about this musical experience, the bass-heavy breakdown in “Point of Purchase" is clearly from this decade as are many of the electronic beats.

"Boomtown Blues" has so much of what I love about this album in a single track, if you check out only one track, please make it this one.

BUY the whole album

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That’s a big dog, Jeong Woo Jae

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Bad news, guys, a real estate brokerage based in San Mateo, CA (hey, that's where I went to elementary school!) has ranked the top 10 cities in Oregon, and Portland is only #7.

Look, I know they're baiting us, but still:

Where exactly is Bend and why is it sitting atop our list? What is Portland doing at No. 7? And how happy is Happy Valley? Keep reading, because we Sherwood like to tell you. The following paragraphs will explain how we got our list and will focus on the best parts of each city and just what makes them so special.

Sherwood like to tell you. Here's the bullshit reasoning:

A lot of things make a city awesome, but in order to find these best cities in Oregon, we needed a list of measurable criteria across the board. So we came up with these eight:

Amenities
Cost of living (percent above or below state’s average)
Crime rate
Education
Median household income
Home value
Distance to closest 5-star rated hiking
Distance to closest ski resort

We started with a list of the 50 most populous cities in Oregon and ranked them from one to 50 in each of the criteria above, with one being the best. Then, we averaged the numbers for each city, gave them an overall Big Deal Score—the lower the number, the higher the city ranked.

See what they said about Portland after the break. (Trigger warning: The word "hipster" is used twice.)

In recent years, Portland has become everybody’s favorite hipster city, due to shows like “Portlandia” and, well, all the hipsters there. But there is so much more to Portland. For one—did you know that the cost of living in Portland is actually pretty low compared to a lot of other cities in Oregon? And that their home values are 35 percent higher than the Oregon average?

Portland is breathtaking. St. Johns Bridge, the Lan Su Chinese Gardens, the Portland Japanese Gardens, and Pittock Mansion are just a handful of the man-made attractions in the city. And as far as natural beauty goes, there is Forest Park, the Aspen Trailhead trail, Mount Hood for skiing, the Hoyt Arboretum… And the list goes on and on. In fact, the only reason Portland didn’t come in closer to the top seems to be its crime rate– 79 percent higher than the state’s average. But hey, it’s a big city. No hard feelings, Portland.

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The NFL may consider voiding touchdowns as part of taunting violations next season. The league could vote for taunting penalties to negate touchdowns scored to by the violating party, according to NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino (via Pro Football Talk). The subject of negating touchdowns came up while Blandino was speaking on NFL Network on Wednesday afternoon.

The aftermath of the Golden Tate taunting penalty during the Seahawks win over the Rams may cause the league's Competition Committee to discuss changes to the rule, per Blandino. Tate and the Seahawks were penalized 15 yards on the kickoff following the touchdown, but the score still counted. If the committee decides to negate the score, it could possibly lead to major consequences for those who fail to show respect to other players.

The Seahawks won the game in Week 8 against the Rams by a score of 14-9. Had the penalty wiped the score off the board and held the Seahawks to a field goal, it would have likely been a different set of circumstances for the rest of the game.

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