A CAT/NOT A CAT IS RETIRING FROM BLOGTOWN.

Remember when blogtown was fun? I do. This was a frivolous place where we could have fairly intelligent discussions about the issue of the day while simultaneously celebrating cat friday/caturday and trolling Matt into various nervous breakdowns while he was changing his medications and calling everyone racist. It was fun!

Alas, the whole fucking Sam debacle brought in some sort of ideologue brigade that wanted nothing but SRS BSNS, but unfortunately had the debate skills of lesser apes. Sam-gate sort of wrapped up, but these dipshits just found new things to have completely incompetent show-downs about. It's fucking boring, and I'm fucking bored.

I know that Rom and jake and all the other half-wits will count this as a win, to which I say "good on you". You've made blogtown insufferably stupid, well done. I'm out.

Kiala, graham, Alison, other decent people: It's been fun, and I'll miss you guys.
Mercury arts interns: by and large you all suck. Up your game.
Matt: You're a talentless hack, but you knew that. Good luck with the mental health issues.

KTHXBAI.

That's an interesting point, NOT A CAT.

I, for one, will miss this place. One man's blight is another man's playground. Hopefully, though, it can be everyone's playground if University of Portland, the railroads, Swan Island businesses, and the City of Portland support the North Portland Greenway project (http://npgreenway.blogspot.com). Biking or walking all the way into the city from St. Johns without encountering any cars? Talk about the greater good...I'd trade one of my favorite hangouts for that!

Still, I idealistically wonder, isn't there any way they can save the building as a sanctioned graffiti spot?

I hope they salvage those gigantic beams from the second photo. They're probably worth a fortune to somebody (unless they're all lead contaminated).

Is there a specific date for the scheduled demolition?

with this and the CRC looming im running out of body parts to chain to my favorite old places.

I predict They will bulldoze it and then nothing will happen with the space for a decade as the it's-not-just-good-it's-great depression sets in.

time to start looking at empty lofts in the Perl to practice in/on.

this place was ruined by the people in these videos. the wearhouse was cool before you guys started coming. now its ruined and soon to be gone forever. good going hipsters!

Correction: the bicycle chariot wars were only held at Pirate Town twice (2007 and 2008).

Also, unfortunately, when I tried to screen the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari there during a midnight ride, the battery failed after about ten minutes. But it was awesome while it lasted!

And so it enters the graveyard of memory, along with the pirate ship, the house of sound, and the graffiti laundromat on N Williams. Sigh.

thanks, Nickey. I'll change the chariot wars description.

"No one but the skaters cares about this place"? That's a pretty oblivious and kind of annoying statement. The narrator must just have not noticed the hoards of photography students, dog walkers, joggers, ROTC students, indy film producers, and man vs nature walkers enjoying the place. Not as flashy, I guess. Anyway, a lot of people other than those on wheels will miss the Triangle park site. With any luck, UP will keep it open to the public and some portion will be part of the North Portland Greenway trail. Everything was still up day before yesterday.

We burned thirty Christmas trees in a giant pyre there one night in early February with a few friends. I loved that site since the day I found it on google maps a couple of years ago. Best tag palace this side of the Rockies, really high quality work guy's! I'm a 52 year old punk that will feel this loss, until you scope the next one. There's always a next one.

There is always a next one. Yep.

I work for Portland photographer Bruce Forster; he went out to Pirate Town several times during the last few months of its existence (it is indeed reduced to rubble now), and got some great shots that really capture the artistry of the graffiti. I posted some to my blog: (http://viewfinders-photography.blogspot.co…) The AIA Gallery on 11th/Flanders is going to host the photos, and some of the actual wall pieces, during September. Maybe it can serve as final farewell?