If you can’t figure out what to do with your evening after this post, you obviously don’t want to do anything.

First! Progressive Happy Hour at the Blitz Bar, NW Couch and 10th, starting 20 minutes ago. Here are some conversation starters, in case you don’t know what to talk about: Novick vs. Merkley and the Iraq war vote, is John Frohnmayer going to run for senate as an independent, what’s Potter going to announce on Monday, and, more importantly, who’s the bigger Rogue, David Wu or Kari Chisholm?

Second! Barack Obama! In town! Tonight! Doors open at 8, event starts at 9, though if you don’t have your tickets already, you might be hosed. Get there early (Oregon Convention Center) to snatch one of those last tickets.

Third! The Bicycle Film Festival kicks off its screenings with three killer programs. At 7 is The Warriors and a series of film shorts, at 9 is Monkey Warfare, an award-winning narrative film that centers around bike-riding activists in Toronto, and at 11 is another program of shorts plus Pedal, a 2001 documentary about the daily lives of New York bike messengers. All at Cinema 21, (616 NW 21st).

That’s one crazy friggin’ evening. You might have to clone yourself to hit all of them, and then spend the rest of the weekend at the Bike Film Fest vegging out on movies.