How funny. We watched Portlandia last night just as a palette cleanser after a show about a serial killer. It still fun and great quirky show. To portray it as a hell hole is still a stretch. My husband said they should reboot to show but let’s let it sit where it landed. The fact that they’re still keeping it weird there is good enough for me.
One thing I loved about Portlandia is it was created by liberals who were willing to laugh at the excesses of liberals. When the last time you saw a conservative comedy that poked fun at the excesses of the Right? An inability to laugh at or be critical of your own side is a hallmark of a mentally broken movement.
Ridicule is the way to go—Trump desperately wants to incite violence knowing the feds can easily stomp down rioters, but an obvious campaign of mockery just exposes the whole charade. It only makes Trump and his thugs looks sillier and more impotent. And the more impotent they look, the more normal people join the opposition.
Love the "good trouble" the protesters are getting into. The inflatable costumes are genius. And of course, Faux News and the rest of the rightwing media human centipede need to run file footage of that one fire in 2020 because it helps keep the unreconstructed frothing. When you run on sadopopulism, the unreconstructed want to see some Democratic skulls cracked and if there's no modern footage to justify it old footage will.
Keep showing the world how pathetic trump,ICE, puppy-killer Noem, and the rest of the maladministration are, Portland! Love and solidarity from Upstate SC.
"Artisanal light bulb store?" Why yes we do - it's on Mississippi in North Portland. The thing "visitors" to Portland REALLY need to grasp, is Portlandia was more documentary travelogue than "satire". That "women's bookstore" existed on Hawthorne Blvd and Dick's Meats - a restaurant where portraits of "Famous Dicks" (men named "Richard") hung on the wall and the menu described the origins of the "meat offerings" on the menu actually existed on Belmont in Southeast.
Even today, driving instructions from my old house in Southeast to my new house in St. Johns include..."Take Cesar Chavez Avenue north...to Rosa Parks Blvd west..."
Still keeping it weird here in Portland!
How funny. We watched Portlandia last night just as a palette cleanser after a show about a serial killer. It still fun and great quirky show. To portray it as a hell hole is still a stretch. My husband said they should reboot to show but let’s let it sit where it landed. The fact that they’re still keeping it weird there is good enough for me.
One thing I loved about Portlandia is it was created by liberals who were willing to laugh at the excesses of liberals. When the last time you saw a conservative comedy that poked fun at the excesses of the Right? An inability to laugh at or be critical of your own side is a hallmark of a mentally broken movement.
Ridicule is the way to go—Trump desperately wants to incite violence knowing the feds can easily stomp down rioters, but an obvious campaign of mockery just exposes the whole charade. It only makes Trump and his thugs looks sillier and more impotent. And the more impotent they look, the more normal people join the opposition.
This is fascinating, I never heard of Portlandia.
Love the "good trouble" the protesters are getting into. The inflatable costumes are genius. And of course, Faux News and the rest of the rightwing media human centipede need to run file footage of that one fire in 2020 because it helps keep the unreconstructed frothing. When you run on sadopopulism, the unreconstructed want to see some Democratic skulls cracked and if there's no modern footage to justify it old footage will.
You are in for a treat if you can find some Portlandia re-runs.
Keep showing the world how pathetic trump,ICE, puppy-killer Noem, and the rest of the maladministration are, Portland! Love and solidarity from Upstate SC.
"Artisanal light bulb store?" Why yes we do - it's on Mississippi in North Portland. The thing "visitors" to Portland REALLY need to grasp, is Portlandia was more documentary travelogue than "satire". That "women's bookstore" existed on Hawthorne Blvd and Dick's Meats - a restaurant where portraits of "Famous Dicks" (men named "Richard") hung on the wall and the menu described the origins of the "meat offerings" on the menu actually existed on Belmont in Southeast.
Even today, driving instructions from my old house in Southeast to my new house in St. Johns include..."Take Cesar Chavez Avenue north...to Rosa Parks Blvd west..."
https://sunlanlighting.com/
"Put a bird on it."
The feminist bookstore is commemorated on it's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Other_Words_Feminist_Community_Center
Are you saying Portland doesn't have an artisanal light bulb store?
We visited Portland in like 2005, fantastic city. Stay strong, love from SoCal!