Christen McCurdy
@christenmccurdy.bsky.social
Editor, reporter, cat fancier, plant parent, enthusiast. Current: interim assistant arts & culture editor, Willamette Week. Past: Oregon Business, UPI, The Skanner, The Lund Report. christenmccurdy.net, christenmccurdy at gmail.
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every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different
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Would read a smart post about how a lot of our special feelings for Rob Reiner, if you are of a certain age, have to do with growing up in the cable movie era.
December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Would read a smart post about how a lot of our special feelings for Rob Reiner, if you are of a certain age, have to do with growing up in the cable movie era.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
excited to check my email tomorrow
In an essay for “The New Yorker,” the humorist argues that Portland‘s drug problem is out of control, or that our dogs are, or that dogs in general are. Or something.
Dog Bites Man, But the Dog Was in Portland, and the Man Was David Sedaris, Who Is Making It Everyone’s Problem
Christen McCurdy
www.wweek.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
excited to check my email tomorrow
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i mean this with my whole entire heart: fuck off to hell 2025
Rob Reiner, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me' and 'When Harry Met Sally' after starring in the trailblazing sitcom 'All in the Family,' died Sunday along with his wife, Michele, in their Brentwood home. bit.ly/48UWXSi
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
i mean this with my whole entire heart: fuck off to hell 2025
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I’ve gotten a few replies like this today and I just want to point out
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
Tragically, Israel has done its best to ruin these Jewish symbols for everyone and brought danger to all Jews by constantly conflating the IDF’s barbarism with the Jewish people. That is unforgivable.
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I’ve gotten a few replies like this today and I just want to point out
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
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I truly believe people want this
This creates an opening for journalists
Create a news service that guarantees every fact checked by a human and hopefully people will value & pay for it
Create a news service that guarantees every fact checked by a human and hopefully people will value & pay for it
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I truly believe people want this
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What if we kissed at the old Sun-Times building in the stained glass windows of First United Methodist?
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
What if we kissed at the old Sun-Times building in the stained glass windows of First United Methodist?
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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My politics are becoming increasingly "we live in a society"
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My politics are becoming increasingly "we live in a society"
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i made a photo zine of people standing in front of glenn danzig’s house that has outsold this book
American Canto sold 1165 physical copies in its first week, per bookscan.
December 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
i made a photo zine of people standing in front of glenn danzig’s house that has outsold this book
RETVRN (to Central Perk)
why the fuck does every coffee shop feel like an airport lounge. metal on white on blonde wood. I want the maximalist old couches vibe of the '90s. I am becoming a coffee shop reactionary
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
RETVRN (to Central Perk)
I want to write a proper essay about this sometime, but: last I gave myself a quiltmaking class that started with upcycling a quilt my grandma made me into a pillow and ended with me making a T-shirt quilt. In between I repaired or finished three different quilts my mother or grandmother had made.
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I want to write a proper essay about this sometime, but: last I gave myself a quiltmaking class that started with upcycling a quilt my grandma made me into a pillow and ended with me making a T-shirt quilt. In between I repaired or finished three different quilts my mother or grandmother had made.
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we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
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My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
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An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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“We would never complain that we’ve had too many hit records. That would be ridiculous.”
Air Supply to Celebrate 50 years of Pop Malleability at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Nathan Carson
www.wweek.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“We would never complain that we’ve had too many hit records. That would be ridiculous.”
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“Honestly, no one really knew what ‘storytelling’ was when we started...People thought it was for kids.”
Portland’s Live Storytelling Scene—For Pros and Amateurs Alike—Is in Full Bloom
Brianna Wheeler
www.wweek.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Honestly, no one really knew what ‘storytelling’ was when we started...People thought it was for kids.”
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It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".