Letters Jan 27, 2011 at 4:00 am

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Carrie and Fred are laughing all right...laughing all the way to the bank.....the money bank.
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Are there like, ANY people of color on this dumb show at all?
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I haven't seen any "people of color" yet, although several of the tattooed people were pretty colorful, and one "person of short stature", or, er, "vertically challenged" or "small person" or...oh dang, forgot the correct PC term for today. Personally, I thought it was hilarious, but then, I'm not cool enough to be part of the "creative class." Just another dork with a 9 to 5 job who doesn't appreciate organic soy milk-fed free range awesomeness.
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@ Aunti.......................because you generally are though. Or you are like Humphrey, who has his head to far up his psuedo artsy ass to get WHY it's funny to satarize those like him. And Damos A(sshat) brings up "people of color" for absolutely no reason. Again. Genius there are not a whole lot of "people of color" in hipster neighbohoods like"NoPo". They were all driven out of there when it er... was "improved"(gentrified so 4 eyed hipster whitebread assclowns like those satarized in the show could move in there and call it NoPo) starting about 1o years ago.............you mean you did'nt know?. Are'nt you from Atlanta or something? Either way, Jesus you are fucking tool.
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"It was obviously [drawn] by a 20-year-old." That's what I think every time I see one of those koi fish on someone. Remember when tattoos gave people the impression that you were tough?
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What a talented reviewer! I believe that his job is to take what he's given and "analyze" it so that the rest of us, who don't have too think to seriously about the show (like BearBear above suggests), can fully "grok" its purpose and it's legs/t.v. staying power.And that allows us, the viewing public, to just sit back and enjoy it at whatever lighter or serious levels appeal to us. This reviewer is doing the heavy lifting for us, and for that, we owe him some gratitude. p.s. although I'm part of the "disenfranchised creative class" types he mentions, I've laughed the hardest in a room full of similarly laughing disenfranchised while watching Portlandia...I love laughing at myself and my friends! See, Portlanida serves a very important function: it holds up a mirror to folks like me, who, in order to create effectively, NEED to laugh at ourselves! And ultimately, doing so improves one's art, life passion and human existence.
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@ showspotter,

Aproximately 36% of this city's population is either Black, Chicano, Asian, MiddleEastern, or Native aboriginal. Not to mention thousands of ethnic European immigrants. Yet, apparently NONE of them recieve even "token" representation on this show, supposedly "all about Portland". I don't see how pointing that out makes me that rude thing you called me.
If Portlandia is meant to appeal to folks like YOU, then i think i see where the problem is.
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showstopper made me laugh. thanks showstopper.
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I'm sorry, poodlewriter, but you lost me when you used the word "grok." 1977 called and it wants its irony back. Good Lord.

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