Yeah, absolutely. But I don't have one.
― Clay, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Neither do I, so I have to enjoy others'.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Both Seattle and Portland have awesome dogs and cats. Portland is more of a DAWG city though, whereas Seattle is more for the nano-dogs on the fluorescent leash.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
The streets are lined with cats, at least on the east side.
Lined, not paved.
Jergins correct about decline.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm guessing that Portland will be a bigger economy and more expensive city than Seattle by 2010.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
which is both good and bad for Portland. Despite the shitty election results here, Seattle has a momentum, but Portland has a warp speed momentum right now.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Well it has catching up to do.
The election results here were terrific, but it was just for measures.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link
no way rents can rise that fast in 3 years
― jergïns, Thursday, 8 November 2007 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Enh, I voted for measure 50, just for a way to get funding thanks to our trashed revenue system.
― kingfish, Thursday, 8 November 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm somewhat fine with preventative smoking taxes, but this was not that. This was a regressive tax, with an unfair burden placed on poor people, who are seriously exactly the people who should not be responsible for paying for this.
Nevertheless there is a certain pragmatism behind the measure which I can't entirely reject. It would not have been the end of the world if it had passed, and I was on the fence about it for a while.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 November 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Wonder how many legislators really do use the "well, it's not the end of the world..." metric? Seems like a lot.
― Kerm, Thursday, 8 November 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I am so fucking relieved measure 49 passed, my faith in my state has been renewed. Good job, Portland voting bloc!
Wasn't so much in favor of 50 cause it gave all the goodies to private insurance companies exclusively, according to my nurse friends who were against it. I am all for a smoking tax though.
― sleeve, Thursday, 8 November 2007 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, Dear New York Times: Shut up about us already.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Amen.
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i still haven't finished my application for OHSU what the fuck was i thinking
― gbx, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Casuistry OTM.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
But but but they say all these nice things about your restaurants and how everyone should go there and...oh.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned OTM.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link
People! Arrghhhh! New people everywhere! Arrghhhh! {weeps quietly and rips his remaining hair out in double handfuls}
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
time to figure out which city will be the New Portland
― milo z, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Cleveland. Oh, please God, let it be Cleveland. Make it soon.
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
only if Kucinich leaves Congress and runs for mayor again
― milo z, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Cleveland
pats in the flats, now that's class.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I really, really, REALLY like Portland a lot. I spent a couple days there last month, will spend a couple there again after Thanksgiving. I kind of hope that my wife's job will get us transferred there in a couple of years. But I'm pretty sure it will be too late for buying a house post-NY-times influx.
Pittsburgh as the new Portland, maybe? I've never been there but it's been kind of fascinating to me lately.
― joygoat, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Portland, ME is the new Portland
― gershy, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
A couple of years just might be a great time to buy although I'm thinking the best time might be next year. It's hard right now, because mortgage requirements are tightening up and sellers are still hanging on the notion that they can ask inflated prices. That balloon is starting to deflate: I was looking at housing comps in my area and all of the houses (South Tabor for the natives) sold for $5k -$10k less than the asking price. But don't get too hopeful: Factors such as the region's Urban Growth Boundary (especially in light of the passage of M49) and the fact that really Portland as a whole is still cheap in comparison to Seattle or San Francisco will only slow the price drops that other regions are seeing right now. Portland as a region in terms of real estate values is essentially a lagging indicator as to the health of real estate across the nation.
Having said that, there are still underpriced neighborhoods in town. It's just harder to find them.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost haha. Due to the nature of my job, I just may find myself in Portland, ME someday!
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i moved from portland oregon to portland maine once
― jergïns, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
try explaining that to acquaintances
there's one important factor in all this portland talk that we've all left out: GLASS CANDY
― jergïns, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Because Dandy Warhols will always be hated more in PDX than Glass Candy.
And don't get me started on Pink Martini.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link
PM dude's boyfriend is a nice and talented guy. The WWeek wrote a profile about him that was basically "PM dude sure knows how to pick 'em!" Which seemed, you know, massively insulting, that at the end of the day he was still PM dude's boyfriend.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link
...still *just* PM dude's boyfriend.
Well you're not helping, you haven't said what he's talented at!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I am moving to Portland , Maine
― gershy, Thursday, 8 November 2007 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Nor have I mentioned his name. I am actually blanking on PM dude's name, but his boyfriend is Ph!l!p I0sca, who does textile design and artsy things like that. He did the textiles for the newly remodeled hotel on Stark (is that the Ace?).
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 November 2007 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
And Aimless has been in the same room as him!
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 November 2007 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link
one freezing day in portland i cried on the bank of the brown willamette river, then i ate a muffin and fixed up my mascara and got on with it.
― estela, Thursday, 8 November 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
And then J0hn D. wrote a song about it.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 November 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Not just dogs, but pugs pervade in portland. This makes me happy.
― kingfish, Thursday, 8 November 2007 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha, on Monday (right after real estate feature) the lead national page had a "Portland bike culture" story.
One of Pink Martini was the subject on a bareass-on-a-bridge photo in Butt.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 November 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Another fun thing about portland, which i probably have mentioned a few times: pinball is still viable here.
<3 <3
DETAILS. Also: I may move there next week, strictly on the basis of this fact. I know that there's a cool retro arcade?
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.groundkontrol.com/
― kingfish, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, I saw (or was forwarded by my expat ex in Brooklyn) the bike article. Also there was a recent article about one of our renegade restauranteurs.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Your search - "pugs pervade" - did not match any documents.
Suggestions: Make sure all words are spelled correctly. Try different keywords. Try more general keywords.
This clinches your reputation as a phrasemaker par excellence. Or else someone with many words on small scraps of paper stuffed into their head, which fall out into random patterns.
― Aimless, Friday, 9 November 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
you're right, i ought to get that domain registered.
― kingfish, Friday, 9 November 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
what would you do on a free winter weekend day based downtown without car?
― gabbneb, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Powell's.
― Jaq, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Finnegan's/Portland Central Library/the Virginia Cafe/Ground Kontrol/Reading Frenzy
― kingfish, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Scope the PSU chicks.
― Clay, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link