All posts by Chloe Newsom - Dive Bar Desperado

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This Week Sucks, and I’m So Sorry

Hey. Are you ok? Shitty week, right. To …

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I Sold My Soul and Moved from Portland to Los Angeles

 This is what I look like when I'm moving. Or, drunk. Or both.

I haven’t written anything in a while because I have been moving. And

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Four Ways To Possibly Get Rid of Writer’s Block

OK so let’s just jump right into it, because I’m fucking bored, perpetually heartbroken this week, and just not really into anything. Usually that’s when

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How to Not Murder Yourself in Portland This Winter

Like most people that live in Portland right now, you’re probably thinking something along the lines of “the sky is grey, everything is grey, the choices I make

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Portland, You’re a Dirty Little Slut

Some dude who is probably leaving Portland after a one-year stand.

Portland, my little city of dreams. I love you so much. Everyone claims to love

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Dear Todd Akin: I Don’t Want You to Die but I Wouldn’t Really Care if You Did

"I think the underlying notion that we should be making decisions on behalf of women for their health care decisions, or qualifying forcible rape versus non-forcible rape,

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Skateboards, Pornstars, and Fatherhood (Chris Nieratko’s Life is Better Than Yours)

This was Chris and Chris's Christmas Card one year

I've known Chris Nieratko for like five years now. I first met him when my friend Sarah

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PDeXes and Why There is a Strong Possibility That We Are All Dying Alone*

GRRRR! Let's date!

Portland is not famous for it’s “people who are committed to just sleeping with one dude or chick for a presumably extended period

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Dear Portland – Stop Texting Me to Hangout at 2pm on a Weekday

Disclaimer - this was not a weekday.

So I moved to Portland last summer from San Francisco and, as you can tell from my

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Dirty Bombs, Dinosaurs, and Rockstar Wars – The Life and Times of Trace Crutchfield

If you're like me, and/or any kid that has dabbled in binge-drinking with a hip haircut in the past ten years, you've read or stared at