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Things to Document about Portland(ia)

ChuckChuck
edited January 2011
Hi friends,

I am starting a job next week where I am responsible for creating a stream of text and visual Internet content to coincide with the launch of a certain comedy television show spoofing our fair city. Among my assignments are to feature interesting, weird, semi-notable and illustrious things/people in Portland. It is my intention to make this project much more interesting than it sounds!

Obviously I have a lot of material already, but if anyone has any requests, suggestions, or leads for things they'd like to see featured, LEMME KNOW. Links! Friends! Hilarious Portland-related eBay finds! Playlists! "What's the Deal"-style observations!

Please, no food carts.

(Except Lucy's Original)

Love,
Claire
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  • MatthewMatthew
    Is it this thing?

  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    I think that's the thing!

    I love Maria Dixon in that video! (She's the clown)

    Friend Katy D. has a brief appearance in an episode of that show!

    Claire, I seriously think you should go to the weird 24 Hour Church of Elvis computer in the wall thing and have an interaction with it and blog that.
  • lolololo
    edited January 2011
    Also a Teri and Larry performance at The Spare Room.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenashleyculwell/5344942149/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenashleyculwell/5345505146/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenashleyculwell/5344893269/in/photostream/
  • MarcusMarcus
    Worker owned collectives. A friend of mine worked at the Red & Black for a summer and she said company meetings were held weekly and involved literally every single full or part-time employee, and that each person was allowed say in the structure and content of these meetings. Factions formed between the "front" and "kitchen;" arguments over who was to order more cup holders took on Camp David Accord-dimensions. And should a dishwasher pipe up and question the ethics of wasteful cup holder consumption, a whole new rules of order motion was made to ponder the concern.

    Also, the management at Free Geek. Unix Bears with absolutely unpredictable hobbies, interest in the politics of Polygamy, and a certain amount of real-deal Wiccan underpinnings to board and senior staff meetings.
  • MarcusMarcus
    image

    +

    image

    = UNIX BEAR
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Teri and Larry is a tight call.
  • freddyfreddy
    Tallbike clown artists

    http://bikeportland.org/2007/07/26/a-final-last-thursday-for-the-clown-house-4585
    http://www.shmanarchy.blogspot.com/
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    edited January 2011
    Courtney Taylor-Taylor
    Art Alexakis and the suckiness of Everclear
    "expose yourself to art" Bud Clark style
    $3 tacos served by white people at Por Que No
    BURNSIDE SKATEPARK SCHRALPFEST
    Shanghai Tunnels
    "That guy from the Shins who started a Mexican food cart when James Mercer kicked everyone out of the band"
    Young Americans Challenging High Technology
    The guy "Elvis" who is involved with the 24hr church of elvis
    How nerdy people get about coffee
    The ghost of John McLoughlin
    La Luna
    Linus Torvalds
    Mt Tabor is an extinct volcano!
    Sam Adams' ex chief of staff and now director of the Department of Transportation, Tom Miller, is a SKATEBOARDING LAWYER - http://skateandannoy.com/2011/01/tom-miller-to-become-head-of-portland-transportation/

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited January 2011
    TRE ARROW LIVING ON THE LEDGE OF THE COUNTY BUILDING DOWNTOWN

    THAT TIME THEY BRIEFLY LET THE HOMELESS PEOPLE BUILD THE ACTUAL TOWN, WHAT WAS THE TOWN CALLED???

    POLICE SHOOTINGS OF UNARMED BLACK PEOPLE

    THAT TIME IT RAINED SO MUCH BILL CLINTON DECLARED A NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND THE MOUNTAINSIDE BEHIND THE BURLINGAME FRED MEYER FELL DOWN

    THE TIME STEVE SAW THE BALD EAGLE DROP THE STILL-ALIVE GIANT TROUT ONTO THE GOLF COURSE

    REGGAE PARADE BACK TO RIP CITY AFTER REGGAE MOTH LAND BRIDGE PERFORMANCE

    THE TIME I SOLD CELL PHONES AT A CIRCUIT CITY
  • lolololo
    Dignity Village!
    http://www.dignityvillage.org/indexold.html

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    YES!
  • LelandLeland
    The Lloyd Center Ice Skating Scene.

    O! The humanity!
  • LelandLeland
    Rob Walmart.
  • LelandLeland
    The Neo-Cassette movement. (Gnar tapes)
  • LelandLeland
    edited January 2011
    The NEW SEASONS super market chain: the hip music track, all those shoppers with 'sincere beards'.

    Bishop's barber shop where they offer you beer (at noon).
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    the insane alcohol laws, like how if you're buying a bottle of wine and you SAY HI TO SOMEONE WALKING BY who isn't 21, you can't buy the wine

    Last time I was there I was doing this, and said hi to my brother who was four people behind me in line, and then the harried Whole Foods lady was like "I'll need to see your ID too sir," and we were like "whaaaa??" Then she told us this law. So extreme!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    not pumping your own gas
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    proliferation of thai restaurants with pun titles
  • lolololo
    Re: Cool Breeze:

    They're great to see at Clyde's Steakhouse, FYI. Check em out there.
  • distant_shoedistant_shoe
    harsh, maybe too off color, possibly very funny:

    find and interview "black people"
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    HOOPSTERS
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    edited January 2011
    Portland Tub & Tan:

    image

    Tattoo lotto games:

    image

    "Portland's tradition of doing the New Years Eve countdown 10 minutes after midnight, no matter what bar you go to, srsly, wtf?"
  • LelandLeland
    edited January 2011
    My note was kind of like Frogtor's, but I felt weird and deleted it. Mainly, cause I named a place where I had seen actual black people having fun.

    I kinda think they would rather be 'left alone'. So anyway, I deleted it.

    But, yeah...
  • joeyjoey
    edited January 2011
    We watched this show on hulu over cereal this morning. It's pretty funny. Also crazy and exciting to unexpectedly see people we know on TV. What?
    Ashby is a highlight as a mourner. Perfect role.
  • ChuckChuck
    I have seen all the episodes now, and I can honestly tell you that it is a pretty all-around hilarious show.
  • ChuckChuck
    P.S. THANKS GUYS, this is helpful! You can follow my DATA STREAM here if you want:

    http://www.facebook.com/portlandia

    (If you "Like" and "Comment" it makes me look good to the moneybags)
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    TOO BAD I QUIT FACEBOOK

    DAMN IT TO HELL
  • ChuckChuck
    IT'S A LIVIN'!
  • kowalabearhugskowalabearhugs
    My neighbor's name is Josh, but you can call him Nag Champa.
  • DeathDeath
    What about this mythological "bad part of Portland" I keep hearing about? Is it the parts that are like the good parts of Chicago? Is it just this thing people say exists every so often but haven't really seen like new Salinger novels or free lunch?
  • freddyfreddy
    That time when the Red & Black kicked out a cop

    Also, a potluck where every dish has some elaborate tag on it and most attendees have such differing food restrictions that they can only eat the thing they brought. Like, one person is gluten free, another vegan, another allergic to soy, another dairy free (and try your best to find the dish that works for all those people - I have tried and it's pretty close to impossible), another macrobiotic, another doing some weird cleanse, and naturally everyone is avoiding white flour and sugar.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I used to go to lesbian potlucks with katy and sometimes all the food would be shaped like breasts

    "That time when the Red & Black kicked out a cop"

    GREAT CALL
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    "What about this mythological "bad part of Portland" I keep hearing about?"

    Felony Flats
  • ChuckChuck
    This job is a real hot potato. Actual message I just received on Facebook:

    Just FTR, glib use of the term "cheap rent" in a city still plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation (10%), doesn't exactly resonate as fun, cool or funny.
    How anyone who claims to have been born here, as the rent & unemployment rates quadrupled, can be so daft in the face of such figures is out-of-touch at best and an apparently insensitive, classist jerk at worst.
    If you were indeed actually born here, it must have been in the West Hills. A demographic certain to be left of of Portlandia's kick list.
    I for one, can't wait till this smug little show is relegated to the obscurity it so desperately deserves.

    But good luck with the rest of your career. Hope you can afford to sleep in till 11 for a while longer.

    I gotta get back to work. But just for fun, cuz my rent is so cheap, I only work for the PBR's.

    Jasin
  • ChuckChuck
    The man who wrote me this message is from Troutdale.
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Jasin has a great argument which really boils down to
    "fun should not be had if hardship exists in the world."

    Thorough outlook!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Just FTR I want to punch Jasin.

    I think his argument might acutally boil down further to "fun should not be had if I, Jasin, am not totally happy."
  • DeathDeath
    edited January 2011
    This is one of the logical fallacies. You should figure out which one and send him an email back pointing that out.

    This always works really well in arguments I have found. <--not really
  • MatthewMatthew
    FTR
  • lolololo
    Just FTR, Cool Breeze is playing at The Spare Room tonight.
  • LelandLeland
    shhhhh.....

    BTW, fun ain't funny.
  • MarcusMarcus
    Cat piercings
    Saying that we have the most of something, "per-capita"
  • LelandLeland
    Coolest Mayor on Earth.
  • LelandLeland
    Seem to be headed to Clyde's Steakhouse.... just sayin'
  • OKAYOKAY
    Claire,

    I just want to let you know that I am very pleased with your performance thus far. Keep up the good work!

    SS
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Just FTR, in God's America where I live "Jason" is spelled "Jason."

    Just BTW



  • lml__0_0__lmllml__0_0__lml
    edited December 2011
    tacos
  • LelandLeland
    Clyde's Steakhouse! Whoah! Knights in black velvet golf pro deluxe!
  • freddyfreddy
    Stolen food cart!!!

    http://www.foodcartsportland.com/2011/01/17/stolen-food-cart/
  • 12341234
    From that "article":

    I wonder if any restaurants have ever had their entire building stolen at 12:30am.

    Uh, I can answer that for you. No.
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