Popcorn Shorts
Cool stuff that’s too small for a big article
Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really need a large article to explain them. From the sublime to the ridiculous, check in here for crunchy bits of info you’ll love to munch. By the way, much (but not necessarily all) of our delicious Popcorn comes from articles we’ve posted on our Facebook page. If you’re on Facebook, please stop by and “Like” us and we’ll keep a fairly-constant-but-not-frequent-enough-to-be-annoying stream of these coming to your virtual door!
Radical Voices Fight Fake Patriots and Nazis
It’s said ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’, so here are two videos that show how we handled today’s problems yesterday. One (1969) is from “Dragnet” where Joe Friday is approached by a skeezy dude offering the LAPD support from a ‘militia’ that believes in ‘law and order’. Joe schools the skeeze appropriately. The second (1947) is a film from the US War Department (back when they still called it ‘war’ instead of ‘defense’) where a ‘real American’ on a park bench explains the country would be better off without negroes and people with foreign accents. A Hungarian immigrant again schools the skeeze appropriately. Share with your friends who should know better!
Someone Wants To Steal Your Cat… UPDATED!
Stealing catalytic converters (or ‘cats’ to the cool kids) is big business in Portland and beyond. Thieves love ‘em because they’re easy to steal and worth big money, but if your cat’s stolen you’ll need to immediately replace a very expensive part. Here’s our original article digging deeper into the how, why, and what-to-do about catalytic converter theft, but here’s an update and it’s actually good news! In 2022 Oregon law enforcement broke up TWO major cat theft rings that are responsible for a significant slice of the national cat pie. In Medford, they busted Cedrus King for trafficking over 28,000 stolen cats worth about $7M. In Portland, Brennan Doyle went down for a cat ring stretching from Portland to Long Island. Get updated!
Say Goodbye to Darcelle With Her First Willy Week Writeup from 1975
(from Willamette Week)- “Darcelle XV Showplace [is] the nightclub on Northwest 3rd Avenue that now sits on the National Registry of Historic Places. In 1975, it was a hole-in-the-wall with a $1 cover when reporter Susan Stanley walked in to inquire about neighborhood graffiti. She decided the stage show she found inside was more interesting—and told the story in a fledging Willamette Week, the newspaper where she worked, also in its first year of existence. The headline—“That’s No Lady, That’s Darcelle”—for years decorated the paper placemats of the club…”
The Most Bizarre Conspiracy Theory You Haven’t Heard Of… Yet.
We used to have amazing Art Deco skyscrapers, Beaux-Arts train stations and Second Empire post offices, but now everything is a glass-and-concrete box. Why? If you guessed “architectural styles change over time” you’d be wrong. Take the Red Pill and you’ll know it was because the Empire of Tartaria, which existed up till about 200 years ago, collapsed and left those architectural gems as relics. You scoff? Well of course… WWII was waged to cover it up. If you dig deeper you’ll be ahead of the curve when they start trying to teach it in Alabama public schools, so put on your tinfoil hat and start with these links… Lost Empire of Tartaria, Tartaria : The Hidden Empire, A Photo Journey Of An Empire You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, Thousands Of Conspiracy Theorists Believe Our Entire Architectural History Is A Lie: The Tartarian Mudflood, and Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture. Have fun!
