smirk, I had made a conscious decision to leave you alone and to let you mature into a better writer.

BUT WHAT THE FUCK?!? Do not take text mark-up advice from Mr. Matt Davis.

Portland's creative class are a drain on the psyche of this great city. They're like a rabbit population grown out of control. A small number of them are awesome, but without a predator to kill them, they're running rampant and eating all the grass.

The Memorial Coliseum 'saving' in concept is great, but the 'saving' must be REALLY saving it, saving the integrity of our best international style modern building (along with the Commonwealth Building). As opposed to calling it 'saved' and then ruining it later on. This could well still happen and I fear it will. People who understand what makes this building special, and other community members, should be brought on in a transparent public process by the City to help define 'saved' and then help the City bring their beautiful Memorial Coliseum back to being vibrant and beautiful. It's the right thing to do for our veterans, and for our City. .

wow Graham. Got a prejudice for the stinkers? I thought crashing parties was what America was all about.


Tri-met is fitting into this picture now, at least on this blog, in a new awkward way. Wouldn't you say that most Portlanders would vote to have Tri-met still be a part of this picture on redevelopment?

Hi Graham,

I'm so sorry to read that you're not feeling well again. Aren't you taking your prescription? The doctor had hoped you'd be feeling sane again by this time, so it's sad to see you've had one of your psycho flare-ups.

As soon as you want to come off the ledge of that building, we'd be happy to walk you through the real story about the Rose Quarter, Memorial Coliseum, the city's architects, and how this process is actually working.

We're gonna get you a jacket where you can move your arms again real soon.

Until a memorial has names on it of Oregon veterans who died since Korea its pathetic. It's also a smoking section for a filthy building that has long lived its usefulness. How were the 30ish people that rallied to save this jewell of a building. Considering how special its supposed to be I thought it would pull together more than 30 people.

Oh well...I guess the 14 years since this building went vacant haven't been enough time. Fine...lets put another 14 years into redeveloping it.

Brian Libby, you are a douche. My comment had nothing to do with your ugly-ass coloseum or a stupid process that the city is or is not implementing in order to raze a building that has out-lived its usefulness. Nay, instead I was commenting on smirk's skills as a writer.

But really you're a single issue writer with no perspective on anything that isn't in your own field of study. Going through your comment history you've got some really outlandish things you seem to believe, don't know where you get your ideas... but lay off the laudanum.

I think the real problem here is:
"the design of the Rose Quarter projects have been given to large corporations instead of finding local talent to do the job"
How in the frig is a city that supposedly lives by the credo "Buy Local" gonna go for this shit?

Thank you Abusive for bringing the conversation back to the important topic at hand. Brian, you have said a lot of good things but personal attacks take away from that.

FYI, the Buckaroos were a professional hockey team in the old Western Hockey League. The league folded after the 73-74 season, and the Buckaroos played one more season in a different league before folding. The Winter Hawks were the first US team in the (junior, non-pro) Western Canada Hockey League, moving from Edmonton to Portland for the 75-76 season. The WCHL was later renamed the Western Hockey League, just to add to the confusion.

Portland hockey history goes back to the first US team to contend for the Stanley Cup, when the Portland Rosebuds lost the cup to Montreal in 1916.

From what I have read, one of the reasons the MC isn't used as much as the RQ is because Paul Allens group owns both of them and he pays Portland more of a cut for events held in the MC than the RQ. Until this is addressed, he will always have more events in the RQ. He's not stupid, you know. By the way, today is Ducknesday. Where are the duck posts? Man, I love you, Howard. Thank you for your time.

I wonder if it would help save the coliseum if Matt's wife dressed up in a french maid outfit and performed CPR on it?

Yes the MC gives PDX more of a cut than the RG and Allen's group gets to run the Rose Quarter. The main reason it isn't used more is because the concourses are too small, the plumbing is screwed up and it backs up especially when in heavy use (like a concert), the roof leaks, the HVAC needs to be replaced and another myriad of reasons. Also nobody wants to pay $50 to see the fucking Jonas Brothers in a place that smells like a mixture of urine and hockey players. Anyone that knows hockey players knows the special sort of scent they create when they sweat. I don't know how they create that but they do...and its gross.

So, to sum up the 'demonstrators':

"It wasn't one of us that got the job to design the new area. It was someone else. We're going to blame the council for that (even though we know it wasn't their decision). Why aren't they doing what I want them to do, and paying me to help them do it?"

Maybe if they stopped whinging and got on with devising a viable alternative plan for the area (even a bare-bones plan at this stage, to be fleshed out later), they might be worth listening to. But they'd rather leave the whole area in the sorry state it's in at the moment.

So 30 people show up at a rally to save the MC and 300 plus show up at a rally to remodel PGE Park for MLS and move the Beavers to the MC site and which one does the Merc cover?