Portland Local Media Roundup!
Hello, cupcakes! Here are some very special things that happened in the Portland media last week.
Gay Rage is Cute
Portland blogger Byron Beck was “enraged” on the Cort and Fatboy show Thurs, July 2. Cort suggested that the homophobic recall clowns might actually have a small chance and caused Beck to fly into an alternately cute and ugly bout of stormy, gay fire. Byron delivered Cort a blow, of fury, calling him “Lars Larson,” and saying “You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about-” Poor Fatboy could barely get a word in edgewise, until he jumped in to end it all, when Beck snarkily said he’d have better things to do than listen to the podcast version. Ouch, Byron!
Things eventually calmed down, with Beck explaining that the mere mention of the chance of success gives the recall nudge (we like to call it a nudge) plausibility. And that Cort “ran with it like a little wild pony.” Aww.
Jasun Wurster was nowhere in site to give out his phone #, as he usually does when anyone in Portland says the word, “recall”. We hope he’s okay.
Podcaster Hates Matt Davis and His Attention Grabs, Podcasts About Them
Ironically-named, fledgling podcast Portland Sucks (13:30) took a little trip to The Portland Mercury’s Blogtown on Friday. Robert Wagner, described by the show intro as the “sultan of scandalous sarcasm”, loves MLS, and hates Matt Davis! Davis drew Wagner’s ire with his Blogtown post, “Rape Allegations: Another Side Effect of Big Soccer?” causing Wagner to bring out the big guns in his description of Davis as a “weasely, inept piece of dog poo.” Scorcher!
Wagner suggested that Davis is just trying to get attention with erroneous, bad headlines, while devoting 8 minutes of a 30 minute podcast to Matt Davis. He then went on to talk about how tired he is of Beau Breedlove getting media attention. Clearly, he is the Imam of Irony.
Local Ad Firm Pisses Off Cyclists to Show They’re Awesome, BikePortland.org Implodes
Portland big marketing delivered a blow to, well, Portland last week. Webtrends did up the side of a max train with the question “Should cyclists pay a road tax?” in order to start a dialogue whip the Portland cycling community into a rabid frenzy/ self-promote. Meanwhile, cyclists declared a cease fire in the raging Bike vs. Car War so they could sit on their computers, making angry comments on BikePortland.org, where Jonathan Maus’s editorial on the subject has 139 comments, as of this posting.
Meanwhile, Webtrends had this to say, “Neener, neener, neener! We’re fuuuuckin’ awwwsome!” Okay. Maybe they didn’t say exactly that, but I’ll bet that’s what they were thinking. (Please don’t sue us.)
