2012 conventions 2012 election 2013 session 2013 special election arts arts and culture author ballot measures basketball bomb books boy scouts budget bullying business charlie hales children clackamas climate change coal college courts crime culture culture club democrats drugs economy education environment family film fluoride food gay rights guns handguns health health care health insurance high school history housing immigration international internet kitzhaber law legislature lgbt literary arts living marijuana marriage media medicine mental health military minor parties mohamed mohamud movies music native americans news newspaper obama olympics oregon our town parenting pers photography police politcs politics port portland portland business journal president prevention public safety religion republicans rnc romney rural salem sam adams sandy hook schools science shooting sports suicide supreme court taxes technology television terrorism theater third parties transportation union university of oregon washington wildfire women

This fall, PETA gets an extra $100, and OPB gets zip. See you in the Spring. Maybe.

posted 2 years, 8 months ago
view in context

In 1999, I inadvertantly started a meme. I took an old catholic school joke, and made it a fake ad for the first issue of my magazine, BarFly. It was a picture of a kitten, with the tag lines "Stop the slaughter!" and "Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten."

The first thing that happened was that somebody here in Portland made stickers of the ad, but they misspelled 'masterbate' [sic], so I was totally embarrassed to be associated with it. Then, I started getting different iterations of it, from all over the world. I think someone in Japan actually made some money off of it. Of course, I never did. 

A couple of years ago, some guy from a meme-pedia contacted me to confirm that I was the progenitor of it, and it was a proud moment for me. 

You're welcome, world!

--Jen Lane

BarFly

www.barflypdx.com

posted 3 years, 2 months ago
view in context