Source Weekly, Author at The Source - Bend, Oregon

Boy! Potheads Are Sensitive!

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011April 6, 2023

I Love Television™ reader Karly from Oregon writes: “Your 'Ten MORE Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus' [March 2] was so hateful. Are you so poor a writer that you must resort to gross-out ass humour? Sad. And us medical marijuana users couldn't care less what you think of pot smoking. Again, an awful lot of hate. Over 25 percent of human genes are the same as those of a banana. Get over yourself!”
Dear Karly, thanks for writing! Allow me to respond: (1) I did not know that about bananas! That's an interesting – if not exactly surprising – thing for a pothead to say. (2) I never “resort” to “gross-out ass humour.” As regular readers know, “gross-out ass” is my preferred method of “humour” – mixing it up occasionally with “depraved prostate humour,” “sickening vagina humour,” and “grody pee-hole humour.” (3) “Humour” is actually spelled “humor” unless you're a pothead from 18th-century England.

Food & Drink

Irish Whiskey a Go-Go

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011March 25, 2023

There will no doubt be a disagreement this week about what the better man drinks, Jameson or Bushmills. It's a timeless argument that merits some attention in honor of St. Patrick's Day. To wit, it is rare that a Jameson drinker will toss back a Bushmills and I have never seen a Bushmills connoisseur toast with a Jameson. Grey Goose drinkers will drink Ketel One, and Crown Royal drinkers will drink Pendleton, but the Irish whiskey drinker always stays true to his brand.

Food & Drink

The Big Get Bigger

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011January 4, 2023

It's official. Deschutes Brewery is ready to launch its first major expansion in more than a decade, adding two new buildings and five fermentation tanks that will boost Bend's flagship brewery by 105,000 barrels per year.

Music

Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011November 6, 2023

When Dylan Carlson released Earth's first full-length, Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version in 1993, he and Dave Harwell took Sabbath riffs and deconstructed them into an unforgiving dragging force. This album would go on to spawn a legion of metal subgenres, most notably, drone metal.
After two decades, Earth 2 still inspires sludge metal minions and is beaming with a newfound hipster approval rating. If you're an original fan of Earth, I apologize. Even as a music obsessive, I struggle to make it through all three songs and 70 plus minutes of Earth 2. I can appreciate the originality, but the sub-tonal quality is too much for my head. I find myself gravitating toward Earth's most recent, non-metal affairs where Carlson's affinity for jazz, minimalist sound sculptures and slow Ennio Morricone compositions shine out.

Music

This Week Out of Town: Girl Talk, Warpaint, Good Charlotte and Lucy Wainwright Roche

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011March 28, 2023

portland
Thursday 17
Girl Talk
If you're getting bored of staying at home and watching your roommate play around with his laptop, perhaps it's time to check out Girl Talk, (aka Greg Gillis) who plays around with his laptop professionally, for crowds of people. Specializing in electronic mixing and mashup remixes, Girl Talk turns out a truly creative twist on your get-moving, dance-club favorites, intermixing Fabulous lyrics with Peter Gabriel melodies and twisting together Black Sabbath and Ludacris, just to name a few of his musical pairings. 8pm, Roseland Theater.

Culture

St.Patrick’s Day(s) Picks

Plan ahead for your St. Patrick’s Day in Bend, Oregon.

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011April 11, 2025

Green Card Party
thursday 17
Head down to Amalia's for a free “green card” (yeah, we get the joke… it's a Mexican restaurant) that gives you the right to purchase beers for a mere dollar and receive other food discounts. The party features a performance at 7pm by local funny man Jim Mortenson, the winner of 2010's Central Oregon's Last Comic Standing. 7pm, Amalia's, 915 NW Wall St.

Opinion

Whisnant and Conger Pander to the Tea Partiers

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011July 18, 2025

Like a drunk going back to the bottle, Republicans can't seem to stop themselves from returning to the same “family values” issues the party has been obsessed with at least since the reign of President Bush the Elder.
In Washington, with the economy still slumping, the Middle East exploding and other urgent problems waiting to be tackled, Republicans in Congress are focused on stuff like defunding Planned Parenthood, kvetching about the repeal of the military's ridiculous Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, and talking about impeaching President Obama for not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act.

Opinion

Gimme Snow Shelter

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011January 28, 2024

Editor's note: This letter comes in response to a recent Guest Commentary, Dog Owners Deserve Equal Opportunities, 2-23, from DogPAC's Kreg Lindberg.

Nice letter. I share your desire to create a dog-friendly snow-play area larger than what exists at Wanoga. It's a shame that it's temporary and can't be expanded. You don't say why that is and who told you that. It's hard to believe, given that so much land exists that already allows dogs.
You refer to the only logical choice for a groomed track for dog-lovers as the Nordeen Plateau. Yes, it's surrounded by the Tangent Loop, but it's heavily used by cross country skiers on single track and snowshoers (on their own separate loop system), with both sharing the Nordeen Shelter. Did you forget that? How to plan to address that major conflict? You don't say that either. Do you plan to groom the existing trail system? Are you going to create an entirely new trail for dogs only?

Opinion

We're Already Too Many for this Earth

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011May 25, 2024

While I appreciate Emilie Marlinghaus's excellent letter in defense of Planned Parenthood, unfortunately she is mistaken when she says, “we are rapidly exceeding Earth's carrying capacity.” Reputable scientists have suggested that earth's carrying capacity for humans that will allow all the other animals and plants a healthy existence, instead of going extinct, is about 2 billion. We therefore already have over three times as many humans on this planet as this planet can sustain. We can see this in the depletion of our resources such as oil, the emptying of the ocean's fisheries, the disappearance of our forests, the desertification of our croplands, and of course global warming.

Opinion

Humpy Is Just a Hater

Source WeeklyMarch 16, 2011January 20, 2024

Editor's note: The following letter was submitted to Wm. Steven Humphrey, the Portland-based author of the syndicated column, I Luv Television. To read Mr. Humphrey's reply, turn to his column on page 22, which he has dedicated to Ms. Drake-Lusby.
Dear Steve,
Perhaps if more people called you “Dear” you wouldn’t be so angry…do you need a hug? Your “Ten MORE Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus” was so hateful; now who is the ‘douche-thermos’? Also, are you so poor a writer that you must resort to gross out ass humour? Sad.

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