New York Times, lay off Portland, Oregon

[swag]

NYT articles mentioning Portland, Oregon, sorted by date.

Pick on Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chapel Hill, Athens, New Orleans, Pensacola, Austin, Tucson, Madison, Minneapolis, Boulder, Lincoln. Leave this town the fuck alone for a change. You're on us every fucking day in every fucking section of your goddamned paper!

Your constant fawning is completely over the top. The resulting influx is getting to be a bit more than a bit much. The Mash Tun on Alberta is now a tourist destination where loud mouthed assholes reset the jukebox repeatedly until it plays that Fugazi shit they want to cellphone back to Brooklyn to fry a premature patina onto their own hipster dipshit credentials. They even eat the avocado on their BLATO sandwiches.

The fucking Shins live around the corner, Scout Niblett blasts down the street in her car wearing her helmet, Todd Haynes is mildewing out there in my back yard, him and 30 Dylans. Those LA bitches next door never shut up and throw parties until all hours. Their dogs and boyfriends bark incessantly.

New York Times, you are turning Portland into the next fucked out, fried out has-been was-a-place. There is a massive Gap going in on Mississippi Ave., that's what I hear, and I blame you, New York Times.

New York Times, discover El Paso, Sheboygan, Pensacola, Fairbanks. Give Portland, Oregon a fucking break.

[eeyore]

1. Amen! Shout it out loud my mysanthropic brother!

Hard to say, but I think we may be beyond the point of no return. I do enjoy calls from my friends in other cities these days, though, especially those from Seattle.

I long for the days when we were famous for Tonya Harding, Bob Packwood, the Bogwan Rajneesh, and Monica Lewinsky! It's all gone to hell since Les Schwab died and Tom Peterson gave up his empire to that harlot Gloria!

[swag]

11. I think you're right. May soon be time to cash out of Albertastan

and head for the hills.

Which place is your establishment over on Russell, by the way?

[eeyore]

18. Secret Society Ballroom & Recording Studio

Same building as Toro Bravo, right next door to Wonder - it's the old Disjecta building. PM me if you ever want to come check out the studio. I know you dig that sort of thing. We sent cables from the studio to the ballroom - now we can get those huge Bonham drum sounds. Pretty damn cool. I'm still jonesing to do a choir of some sort, and hopefully some strings at some point too.

Don't get me wrong. I love this fucking place, and couldn't dream of being anywhere else. I've tried to leave three times, and quickly returned to the womb each time. Where else could someone like me pull it together to renovate a 1907 lodge hall without major corporate backing? You can still live the dream here - I'm proof of that (so far).

[swag]

20. Wow, what a great setup.

Nice work. Would love to see it some time. Maybe next year, after all this holiday shit is behind us.

[Sugar Smack]

2. Pick on Chapel Hill, but do it just once.

:-) Please.

[swag]

12. Nobody's gonna fuck up your cool scene, baby.

[bridgit]

3. Portland is cool if you don't mind missing the exchange and keep ending up in *Washington St!!*

Sheesh! but the mark of a GREAT city is, as we all know: are there any good XXX shops, cause they're like Starbucks in Gresham :thumbsup:

fuck NYC Go Portland!!

[swag]

13. See, that's what I'm talking about.

Even the sex industry has been swept off of Sandy Blvd and out to the 'burbs.

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. A Gap on Mississippi..

Yikes.. I miss my ghetto house on N. Greeley. Then Adidas came along and fucked up the neighborhood. Well, as long as the NightHawk is still on Interstate I can't bitch very much.

[swag]

14. Mmm.

Liver and onions.

[Arugula Latte]

5. We get it, Grey Lady. You like us. You really like us!

Now, stop slobbering all over us so damn much. We're already soggy out here.

P.S. Johnny Marr spends time here. Johnny Frickin' Legendary Smiths Guitarist Marr ... :wow:

[swag]

15. Yeah, and I still can't get over Dave Allen from Gang of Four

spinning records in local bars.

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. Here's how you kill the buzz: Send a style writer out there

She'll have a heart attack and die right on the corner of 4th and Burnside when she sees how you folks dress. Sorry, but Portlanders are the biggest crowd of fashion disasters I've ever seen.

[Arugula Latte]

7. What, you don't like fleece?

;)

[SeussTree]

8. True, but you try dressing

for cold, rainy weather/riding your bike/work meetings with organic cotton made in the USA union nonsweatshop appropriately dorky vegan clothes that you found at Goodwill. It ain't easy!

[LisaM]

23. You must never have been to Seattle

My favorite fashion statement are the little old ladies who pop flowered umbrellas when it snows. It doesn't get much worse than that.

[MissB]

26. Oh so true.

Not a whit of fashion sense in most of the city.

Hell, that probably includes me. :rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

27. Never been to Austin, I see.

:D

[Dervill Crow]

55. I resemble that remark.

Just because my friends and I ignored the fashionistas during those decades wherein jeans had tapered legs. . . .

:hippie:

edit: for the grammar Nazis who lurk among us

[Fenris]

9. This is the greatest post in the history of DU.

We need to get together and go blow up the malls.

There's a bit of rebellion going on here. It's boiling over. Last week someone spray-painted "NO MORE CONDOS" on the side of some built-on-the-cheap, overpriced yuppie dwelling in Ballard. Persons involved deserve a medal. Developers have turned Ballard into a gentrified shithole.

[swag]

10. Alas, poor Ballard.

Soon she won't even have a firehouse to call her own.

[LisaM]

24. Why don't you head over to Northgate?

They've turned the Mall into a combination of an outlet mall and University Village. It's HORRIBLE.

[Parche]

16. NY Times

Tell them they can have David Reinhard........then we will talk...:hi:

[swag]

17. Wow, David Reinhard and David Brooks on the same OpEd page.

The very thought makes my flesh crawl.

Happy sunny day to you!

[tigereye]

19. rave on hon!

:bounce:



Although I think My Own Private Idaho did some of that about 15 years ago, didn't it?

[swag]

21. And maybe Gus did it before that with "Drugstore Cowboy."

Maybe he can stem the tide with "Paranoid Park," though I haven't seen much filming on that over at Paranoid Park.

[northzax]

28. Aw, are the sad tfbs crying because people found them?

As far as i can tell, the only thing that is better in stumptown now from 20 years ago is the food. The foodie scene is good, the music is about equal, and the people fucking suck. Oh, i will give you the expansion of MAX. You are doing the same whining that was done 15 years ago when 23rd street was edgy, before the Immediate Care Center, Escape, and all the others were chased off (what the hell is three monkeys, anyway? Seriously). You want good? Try a Portland without Starbucks, when coffee people was your only option. Hell, even music millenium is gone.

[eeyore]

30. Music Millennium isn't completely gone, just from 23rd

I'll give you that 23rd sucks now. I spoke with Terry about the closure of that store, and there really was no reason for him to stay there. People who shop on that street no longer buy cds in a volume that justifies the rent. I also spoke with Phil from Escape From NY, and he seems completely committed to keeping that street real. His place has not changed in 20+ years. It's brilliant.

As far as people from Portland sucking, well you can kindly fuck right off. Just stay away if you don't like it. It may be suffering an invasion from other less hospitable places right now, but the people here are by and large the best collection of nutjobs I've ever enjoyed the company of.

[northzax]

31. Well, since i grew up there

I guess i wouldn't know anything about it. this is no different from tom mccall's don't californicate oregon campaign, sorry, but anyone who complains about outsiders coming in and ruining everything is, frankly, a xenophobic jerk. Most of those people that make portland weird aren't natives, either.

[swag]

33. Music Millennium still exists on East Burnside, and fucked itself on 23rd.

Coffee People's grinds (Black Tiger, indeed. Could the Faces of Meth be far behind?) were far too caffeinated (and Stumptown Roasters' local ascent over Coffee People AND Starbucks is quite welcome).

Expansion of MAX is kind of awful, given the better, faster, and more frequent service on the bus lines, and the destruction of the downtown bus malls. Leave well enough the fuck alone.

As for your evaluations, do you get off of NW 23rd much?

I thought not.

[northzax]

38. Are you a local?

Born and raised? Or an immigrant yourself? Did you grow up in the neighborhood you live in, or did you help chase someone else out by moving in and then complaining about the next wave ruining your paradise?

[swag]

39. Where is your keyboard, nativist?

[northzax]

40. On my phone. Where's yours?

And i am not a nativist, fool, i am distinctly mocking nativists. If you moved somewhere, you don't get to complain about other people moving in, see?

so tell us. What year did you graduate from Grant? That would be the relevant school, would it not?

[swag]

41. I'm here. Are you?

Complain about what you like.

I'll do the same.

[northzax]

42. No, i left

For one thing, i like living in a place where minorities do things besides clean houses, or is there a black or hispanic middle class in portland these days? How many black people are on the city council these days?

and portland has been weird for decades, and issuing the same complaints about outsiders ruining it for just as long. Remember Bud Clark? Now that was weird. I left when i couldn't handle all the newbies complaining about the next wave of newbies ruining it for them.

[swag]

43. Nice move!

Enjoy Idaho Falls.

[northzax]

44. The falls is a nice burg, actually

Thought i don't live there. Always fun to see smalltowners insulting even smaller towns. Thanks for reminding me why i left.

you didn't answer me ever, which neighborhood did you grow up in, again? Elementary school? High school? You know, since you are a local and all.

[swag]

46. Always nice to speak with someone who was here prior to Lewis & Clark

Enjoy voting in your new precinct!

[northzax]

51. And enjoy your next gay marriage

Oh, that's right, that sort of thing is banned in your state constitution, isn't it? Progressive, my ass.

[swag]

52. Well, my county does its best.

The rest of the state will catch up eventually.

How's gay marriage going in your jurisdiction?

[northzax]

53. Actually

We were the first place in the country to establish domestic partnerships (no, it's not Vermont) and while we haven't moved forward, at least we haven't written a ban in stone.

and you should check your numbers, that Ballot measure passed in every county in Oregon, including Multnomah.

[LisaM]

22. As long as the downtown bartenders still know you by name...

You have nothing to worry about.

You may as well move to Seattle. It's all going to hell here anyway. They can't decide if they want to be Vancouver BC or Chicago, as far as I can tell. They're going to knock down the Space Needle to build condos.

[swag]

25. Ha! Well a few downtown bartenders know me, so I guess I'm

safe until they all die off or quit.

I wonder when we're going to hit that Seattle tipping point.

[bettyellen]

29. Actually the Gap is all my fault.

Don't worry so much Boobie, I can get you a discount. Now, have a nice egg cream....relax.

[swag]

34. In my heart, I blame you.

Though my mind knows Miranda July is the true culprit in this tawdry tale.

[bettyellen]

36. i know this poor sweeet soul who dated a man who claimed to start the trucker hat thing

as well as many other, better and important things. but he wanter to vclaim the trucker thing for himself?
anyway, he moved to the pac no west. Suckers!

[swag]

37. As the inventor of Ban Roll-on, Ravioli-Os, and Clackers,

I must confess that I sympathize with your friend's former man.

[bettyellen]

45. she did get an amazing dog named Maggie out of the deal...

and Maggie is from Tennesee. Where the best pets in the world come from.

[swag]

47. So it would seem.

About Tennessee mammals, that is.

Sweetest cats and dogs.

[bettyellen]

48. Sweepea's ears are blushing

looks like i'm embarrassing the little one.

[swag]

49. A real lady, that one.

She can still blush!

[bettyellen]

50. she is a coqutte, that one.

and she always wants what you're having. But you love her anyway.
:shrug:

[Chovexani]

32. Hey, leave Brooklyn alone

We tried to keep the hipsters out, dammit! :cry:

[swag]

35. Block their calls!

[jonnyblitz]

54. all i want to do is come to PDX for a Dec 19th show at the

Roseland Theater then I PROMISE I will LEAVE IMMEDIATELY the following day!! :D

http://www.doubletee.com/#tdw

[swag]

56. Dandies Rule, Okay?

Move on out here!