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Midnight Movie

Fight! Fight!

Ever miss the good ol’ days when you’d spend Saturday night down at the watering hole, getting hammered and belligerent to the point where you had to clean the floor with everyone in the bar? Okay, me neither. I made it a point to get out before closing time, because that’s when the real action [...]

The Button Man

by Cosmic Charlie

CAUTION: I’m about to press the nostalgia button.
Portlanders ‘of a certain age’ grew up with an early morning institution, The Ramblin Rod Show. Weekday mornings from 7:30-8:30 were set aside for the most important thing in life, cartoons!
This was not just any cartoon show. Rod would have a passel of local kids come into the [...]

01.08.2010 See the rest → 1 comment

Unholy Night

by Cosmic Charlie

It’s been Christmas season for a couple of weeks. Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, we can focus our full attention on the marketing of good cheer to the good ol’ USA.
Man, that sounds curmudgeonly.
I have issues with Christmas. I was raised in a strict religious environment where holidays, birthdays and anything fun [...]

11.27.2009 See the rest →

Midnight at the Oasis

by Cosmic Charlie

Tired of the dreary weather already? Need an excuse for a cheap date? Step right up, have I got a deal for you!
It’s the first Friday of the month, which means it’s time for Cort and Fatboy’s Midnight Movie. November’s selection? The Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona.
This is the first Midnight Movie since the boys moved [...]

11.06.2009 See the rest →

The New KUFO: Cue Tool’s Eulogy…

by Cosmic Charlie

(T)he(y) had a lot to say;
(T)he(y) had a lot of nothing to say,
We’ll miss them.
We’re gonna miss them…

As fans of Portland’s rowdiest rock station know, major shakeups have been happening. KUFO has gutted its on-air staff and brought in “talent” from around the country. I checked it out yesterday, and I’ll get to that in [...]

10.29.2009 See the rest → 9 comments

A long time ago, in a multiplex far away…

by Cosmic Charlie

Attention space cadets!
Been hearing Darth Vader’s deep breathing every time you answer the phone? Get an image of Luke Skywalker every time someone offers to lend you a hand? Then I’ve got the movie for you:
On July 3rd, KUFO’s Cort and Fatboy are bringing Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to the big screen for [...]

06.30.2009 See the rest → 4 comments