YOURE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET, especially if youre not really very weird at all?
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Delightfully geeky actress Felicia Day's new memoir is called You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), so we thought it would be weird. Turns out? Not so much. Though Day presents her childhood as being weird, I guess she was just homeschooled and had a lot of cool opportunities? Plus this: "At times, it's hard to read all of these humblebrags," writes Suzette Smith in her review of You're Never Weird. "And it's difficult not to cringe when Day attempts to sum up her fairly privileged childhood with the socially tone-deaf 'Boy, do I have some excuses!'" My reaction to this is FELICIA NO. Luckily, Suzette's take is more measured.

Ampersand Gallery is home to one of Portland's most wonderful collections of art books, and their latest show, The River Keeps Talking, is worthy of it. The water-focused group exhibition features super-bright geometric abstraction from 87-year-old (!) Ellen McFadden, Clayton Cotterell's subtly messed-with photographs, and Matthew F Fisher's "freaky seaside motel-esque near-neons."

"[I]n the decades following the birth of the recording industry, it was up to savvy engineers and scholars traveling the world to capture vernacular music on shellac 78s for mass consumption. Cultural historian Michael Denning's latest book, Noise Uprising, takes us back to the beginnings of this practice," writes Robert Ham in his review of Denning's book, which takes a look at the pre-digital era, when world music arose out of travelers carrying passports and making field recordings.