Portland Local Media Roundup: Streets of Rage!
I’m in Ur Councilz, Renamin’ Ur Avez
Matt Davis reported this morning on the Portland Mercury’s Blogtown, (somewhat caustically) the unanimous decision of city council to rename 39th Ave. to Ceasar Chavez Blvd. He even used the word, “fucking!” Ooooh. I’m gonna tell!
The KATU readers are once again bubbling right out of the cauldron. (Reading KATU commenters is becoming one of my favorite pasttimes.) Cries for recalling EVERYONE run rampant. One commenter boldly remarks, “City councel members – you are a disgrace to your city and your state.”
“pdxranger1″ said “I thought the illegal day labor site was a symbol recognizing latinos for their contributions? This is absurd, I cannot wait unit Mr. Adams is recalled, then we can focus on booting out the other losers in office,” proving once again that the Adams recall circus, which officially registered with the city yesterday, is spurred on by forward-thinking, non-bigots.
KATU is running this poll as well:
ghostly "Viewers' Voice" graphic haunts poll with improper size, format
No! I don’t agree at all! You should fire them! All of them. FIRE ALL YOUR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS! Wait. What were we talking about?
@PDXPipeline Swallowed by Enigmatic Internet Phenomenon
PDXPipeline, which provides event and nightlife information to thousands of Portlanders daily, suffered an unexpected suspension of their main twitter account, as well as a couple of satellite accounts, including @PDXJobs. The outcry from locals on twitter was immediate and loud. (fancy that) Even several members of the OurPDX community took a break from participation in massive comment-thread flame-war planning to set up a complaint ticket with twitter’s support dept.
Twitter reinstated the account within a day and apologized saying that the PDXPipelne accounts were somehow caught up in a “spam cloud!”
expert artists conception of a twitter spam cloud
OLCC To Oregon: You Kids Get Off My Blog!
The OLCC continues their quest to use current technology in outdated ways. It’s cute in a way, like your 84 year-old grandfather trying to work an iPhone. “Where’s the goddamn on button on this dadgum thing!?” Their latest post, which features a stylish double headline, exhorts proudly the virtue of their revolutionary and effective stale, impotent new campaign, redolent of out-of-touch PSA’s throughout the ages.
OLCC clearly wasting tax dollars on having designers who can do this kind of sleek, sexy formatting
They know you have questions. And they have answers!
“WHAT’S SHOULDER TAPPING? Teens asking adults to buy them alcohol. Also known as “Hey, Mister.”
“Yeah. Gee whiz, mister. It’d be real swell if you could get a couple of 40oz. PBR’s for me and Jimmy here. They’d be great with Mrs. Caruther’s homemade apple pie!”
Catvatars, Please.
Join the Catvatar movement. Bringing cats and humans together all over twitter!
We’re all in the second story of a burning building. Might as well have fun!
Twitter Revamps Web 2.0 with Revolutionary New Site Look
These guys offer you an alternative for when Twitter is down.
This Cocoa Tea has Kick to It!
Some of the pinnacle members of the gay podcast community got into a heated political debate on twitter today. Not that it matters that they’re gay, I just enjoy writing “pinnacle members of the gay podcast community.”
Meanwhile, some people, like tomh, were still using twitter as God intended.
Koyaanisqatsi
For some weird reason, that could only be explained by the mysterious pulsing of my subconscious, while chugging down $1 pbr at The Lex, a film that I saw last year popped into my head.
Koyaanisqatsi is, mostly, a collection of time lapsed images put to frenetic music. The word, coming to us from the Hopi language, means “life out of balance” or “a state of life that calls for another way of living.” The film shows us how much our world is really some kind of fucked up factory. We’re all hot dogs, dude.
As unsettling as it is, and as difficult and anxiety inducing it was to sit through, it remains one of the most profound viewing experiences of my entire life.
I twittered to see who else had seen the film and I got a couple responses:
I also got a message from Orinz about it, but he DM’d me so I’m not going to put a screen shot here, but he put forth a film called Baraka as having the same concept but expressing it better. I’ll have to check it out
My ex, Nikol Hasler, also sent word that she’d seen the film and loved it, but I suspect her love for it has less to do with the actual film than the fact that the score composer just happens to be a cousin of this guy.
In any case. Watch it. Just try drinking chamomile instead of coffee beforehand.
