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“Transgender Funnyman” Ian Harvie on Amazon’s Golden Globe winner “Transparent”

Note [January 12, 2015]: Since publishing this interview last week, Transparent won a Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy. Star Jeffrey Tambor also won a Golden Globe for his performance in the show. For those unfamiliar with the award, it’s like a mashup of the Oscars and the Emmys, only the awards show portion is […]

Giving up the drink or: why I had to give up on booze

I have written about my relationship with addiction in the past, but that was about pills and not the drink. I really—really—love booze. Having perhaps loved it too much for about a decade or so, we are going to be taking a break. Similar to relationships I have had in the past, where the love—unbeknownst […]

Let’s make Portland [Nerd] famous.

Long story short: Let’s get Marc Maron’s and the Nerdist’s live shows to come to Portland. A couple weeks ago I posted an excerpt from Nerdist’s interview with Anna Kendrick where Kendrick discussed her upbringing in Portland and some folks were upset with what was perceived as a lack of enthusiasm for our town. While […]

Anna Kendrick discusses her Portland upbringing [and probably Videoport] on Nerdist

Everyone was crapping their pants about Portland’s appearance on Forbes’s annoyingly titled “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods” list last week, but I was more excited to hear that Famous Portlander / big time actress Anna Kendrick briefly discussed her time growing up in Maine’s largest city during her appearance on Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist podcast. Kendrick has […]