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Gene Machine

@pdxgene.bsky.social

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · Jan 13

Oh hi folks! I’ve landed here, because apparently all the other places are terrible now. Let’s hope this one isn’t!

I’m a PDX-based musician and product manager, and mostly interested in music, technology, and saving the world from itself.

Music stuff is at gene.is

Nice to meet you all!

Gene (Machine) Ehrbar - Gene Ehrbar: Portland-based singer/songwriter, guitarist, producer, bandleader

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · Jun 25

A great history piece on our beloved @oregoncountryfair.bsky.social from @opb.org and Oregon Art Beat: www.pbs.org/video/the-co...

Oregon Experience | The Complex History of the Oregon Country Fair

A deep look at the longest-running arts and craft fairs in the United States

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yes! This whole show/album from Montreaux is essential listening.

Les, Eddie, and Leroy Vinnegar, who we used to go see late in his life play with a jazz trio on the 40th floor of the us bank tower in portland late 90s/early 00s.

Upright bass and oxygen tank. Legend.

Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · Jun 9

RIP Sly 😢

Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 29

Fullers coffee shop pumping the velvet underground on a misty morning is peak Old Portland. Here for it.

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 29

Mist with a side of Intense Petrichor this morning… #pdxtst

Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 28

L: no one on my team laughed at my Wu-tang joke…

W: teenage friend of family said my joke/observation about aging Democrats was “so real”.

So I’m batting .500 I guess?

Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 25

Pitching in for democracy with @headcountorg.bsky.social at Outlaw Music Fest. HBD Bob Dylan!

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · May 19

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
May 19,1948

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER

! NANCY WOKE UP STARTLED

I HAD A DREAM THAT
I WAS DREAMING THAT
I WAS DREAMING THAT
I WAS DREAMING
THAT I WAS
DREAMING

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 19

Elliott Smith weather for this Monday morning #pdxtst

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𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖎𝖓 @skoisirius.bsky.social · May 19

GO WITH YOURSELF

youtube.com/shorts/CEYd2...

Fiona Apple - Go with your self 😉🥰 #myoozikarchive #fionaapple #myoozikarchiveshort

YouTube video by ThumbMark

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Phish.Net @phish.net · May 16

forum.phish.net/forum/permal... TLDR: Until 9am et tomorrow, your $10 donation to the @dividedskyfnd.bsky.social thru raceroster.com/events/2025/... will also become a $10 donation each to @mbird.org and @waterwheelfoundation.org

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 16

You mean… *actual* sexual chocolate?

a man in a suit is singing into a microphone while standing on a stage with a band behind him .

Alt: The band “sexual chocolate” from the film “coming to America”

media.tenor.com

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 15

I have the gym for that. They remind me. Daily.

Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 15

Also, I’m pretty sure this was the first version of the tune “stolen moments” that I heard. The original (which is *very* different) knocked me for a loop when I eventually did hear it.

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 15

Amazing album. I still have that CD… somewhere…

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Gene Machine @pdxgene.bsky.social · May 14

So Phil Knight isn't interested in buying the @trailblazers.bsky.social.

How about we follow the Packers' lead and somehow get the team to be owned by the people of Portland? B corp? Somehing like that? Could be the most Portland thing ever...