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And for those of you keeping score, Stumptown is now officially a national chain.
I'm not surprised that many NYers are getting tired of hearing about Portland. I would be too.
Stumptown is really good coffee. Just enjoy it and shut up.
"Most of Portland is filled with people wearing cowboy hats and listening to Toby Keith?" Uh, sure.
Getting sick of the "not diverse" crap. This is the farthest reaches of the West. Unfortunately, we killed the indians, and the latinos started arriving in force only ten years ago.
I think that diversity is nice, and it will develop over time. But when people hark on our lack of it, they frankly strike me as ignorant of what this place is. You moved to/are visiting freaking OREGON people. What did you expect?
Although maybe I'm romanticizing Portland a bit before my imminent arrival back to the motherland.
It was written by a Portlander. Maybe they're not nativist enough for your tastes, they've only been here for four years. But a Portlander none the less.
Also, the the author goes off on some really really stupid anti-consumerist rant and then lays the bomb-shell of the whole thing...
He doesn't like the Stumptown Hairbender blend. Whoop-de-fucking-doo! Hairbender is mediocre.
And the stupid fucking venue for this vapid article? Reading their "about us" paragraph finds this wonderful gem, "With an average age of 39.7 and average income of $130,000, the New York Press captures an intelligent, well-read audience that works hard and has the disposable income to enjoy the city and all it has to offer. "
To steal from BSNYC, this whole thing reeks of meh-pic fail.
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Nobody.
I don't know how he can say "most" of Portland looks like the Marlboro Man. Because that particular stereotype is decidedly the minority in the Portland I drive through on my way to and from my job downtown. What he describes exists almost solely at the aforementioned Duke's on 148th and sometimes the Dixie. That's pretty much it.
And no one's drinking Stumptown because they believe they're drinking the essence of jeggings and iron and wine and poorly grown in neckbeards. They're drinking Stumptown because they think it tastes good.
You're New York. If a bunch of confused, insecure burgeoning coke-heads in scarves and sweaters from Bigfoot-land are dictating your cultural direction, (more like re-feeding your decade old hipster culture back to you) and are using specialty COFFEE as their primary weapon, you deserve to have your status jacked from you. Because your shit is weak.
Regarding city rivalry and homogenization, do people care about this? I mean really. Ever woke up in middle the night during a stress dream and thought "oh God, there are a lot of white people in Portland"???!!!
That's my favorite line LOL.
And hey NYT - head over to Willamsburg and whine.
far too many hipsters either spent their formative years here and feel they're too cool for Portland (moving to Brooklyn!) or they already found NYC too challenging (just moved here from Brooklyn!) or full up of dumbshit tightpants fixxers. "I bet my look ain't played out on the West Coast yet!" (kidding).
There's this perception that Portland is the Big Easy, the safe retreat where the winter won't kill you, the bike lanes will protect you, and there's always someone to flirt with.
It's the temptation-du-jour for young slackers tired of wherever they're at. You'd think hipsters ran this town! One big summer camp retreat for the grass-is-greener social climbers.
Sasquatch is every other weekend and your friends in SF are, like, a half hour's drive away. The rain makes you sad...until you embrace the sadness and it makes your songs / stencils / bike framebuilding really DEEP. Portland, where there's no choice but to GET REAL! Like I said-- hipster summer camp. A cabin in the woods where you become the next Bon Iver.
HAS ANYONE HEARD THE GUY IN THE WINDOWS-DOWN ESCALADE SINGING COUNTRY TUNES.
the writer must have seen that guy.
Of course, now that I finish typing that, I do see a man with a cowboy hat and red kerchief moseying through the library.
And there's nothing ironic about my cowboy hat. Keeps my neck from getting burned while I'm out walking along singing whatever the hell I feel like.
I dont mind the New Yorkers, as long as they assimilate quickly- usually a big bag o' homegrown green does the trick.
What I *do* mind are all of you hipster FUCKS who walk around with a scowl and a frown like the world owes you something more. WTF?!? You are in Oregon. It's summer! It would do you good to smile.
Or go do something dramatic like hang yourself from the Steel Bridge. Get your misery off our streets and entertain the rest of us.
i heard you can hire the puppet guy for parties.
puppet guy + escalade guy + rob walmart + pdxfixed = party time
i wear black on the outside cause black is how i feel on the inside?
my school colors were black and light black?
I saw Bon Iver once. If I had a choice of seeing them again, or having my eyeballs pecked out by rabid pigeons, I'd have to think on it for a while.
get a ride-along interview with windows-down escalade guy. NOW.
But NY is still winning in the Knishes department. Damn you, Portland.
Never heard a better description. No balls in this town.
If you find them, please email me, I haven't dated in a while because the men here are eunuchs. I have bigger balls, and I don't even have any.
That said, I really enjoy Stumptown coffee. And I've never seen anyone wearing a cowboy hat in this town, ironic or no.
I'm from Colorado; this ain't the West, this is the West coast. Big difference.
And yes, Escalade dude is the bestest.
It's turning into a cottage industry, and it sucks. Portland: it ain't the greatest in the world, and we're well aware of that. By the same token, it's not really that bad. And above all else, the things people generally choose to complain about regarding this place are so fucking petty that frankly they are the ones who end up looking like pussies.
Hey; somebody call me 'nativist' and throw in some non sequitur about some band I don't listen to. Thanks.
YES!! I've only seen him twice, the first time was right here by the office. It WAS like seeing a rainbow, an awkward moment though as I was stopped at a light and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Wow. I feel like I just joined a support group. I knew I wasn't alone!
Oh, and I love Stumptown.
The "wuss rock" reference was telling in this regard.
While many of us are blaring shit like Poison Idea and The Wipers out of our trucks or speakered bike trailers shitheads like Epstein are busy shoe gazing and navel picking their way through thinking that they've got this place figured out because they're dialed into whatever generic elevator music they listen to in Brooklyn.
@Mikey Golightly:
The Steel Bridge reference was a gem!
Now you know why Ethan describes portland the way he does...
I swear I've tried taking him to good bars...
Oh, and don't get him started about the 82nd bus line..