Friday afternoon wind-down

Okay, you're almost there. Less than two hours of staring intently at the computer screen and moving your mouse hand around, and you're home free. Let us help:

BLOGS: Out in the Portland blogs, Metroblogging is talking about a class-action suit filed here against one of the biggest ticket scalpers, and Lefty Lane slaps KATU for cutting John Edwards out of its presidential poll (thanks, Jack Bog). Elsewhere, we find that Cloverfield gives wives across America a chance to see their pasty, pathetic husbands again, and that Barack Obama is the scourge of old ladies everywhere.

VIDEO: The Everyday Normal Guy raps about...everyday, normal stuff:

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And yes, there's a sequel:

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Our Queer Window guy goes for this Footloose/Brokeback mashup:


How about USELESS TOYS? The Montage-a-Google generator creates a mashup of Google images based on keywords you enter. Here's Ricardo Montalban:
The Human Clock has been around since the Web was a bubble of irrational exuberance, and it's still ticking and expanding.


Finally, if you haven't seen this long-suppressed video elsewhere this week, today's news that the Church of Scientology has plunked down $5.4 mil for a new Portland headquarters means that as a responsible follower of current events you HAVE to watch Scientology's reputed No. 2 man being totally normal and reasonable and not a bit freaky batshit crazy.

Happy weekend, everybody!