Shopping Dec 5, 2012 at 4:00 am

The Portland Mercury's Holiday Wish List—of Things You Should Purchase for Us

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I found a jar of sweet potato butter in the free box at work, so I guess that's gonna have to do.
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Goddammit, Denis. Don't buy a house on a busy street and then demand that everyone start slowing down for you. It was busy before you got there! Why did you buy that house, if you wanted to live in a neighborhood? Why does everyone else have to be inconvenienced because you can't plan ahead?

http://consumerist.com/2012/11/15/if-you-b…
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Caveat emptor on that Hitchcock Blu-ray: it had poor quality control (many of the later films are botched, including Marnie, a flat-out masterpiece IMO, which is clouded up with a snowstorm of inconsistent digital noise for most of the film). Read some reviews first before buying this thing is all I'm saying. It may be better to wait for individual releases that are coming later. Informative comments on each disc from the Sight & Sound reviewer are available at enthusiasm.org. The set is also greatly overpriced (SRP $300) compared to the UK version of the set (£79 at Amazon UK) which WILL play on US blu-ray players and contains just one film less (North by Northwest).
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I went into the Sword and Fern today to buy one of the Osei-Duro Bogalon Bags. Apparently I wasn't hip enough to be a customer because the woman who spoke to me LIED about this write up. She told me I must be mistaken, they don't sell these bags and then sent me to a BOGUS ADDRESS ON ANKENY AND 9TH. I was perfectly willing to pay $118 for a gift for my son's signifcant other but I guess my money wasn't good enough because I am over 50!!!

Here it is Molly, I can absolutely guarantee you will do one thing in your life...get older. Hope when you do you are treated with equal coolness contempt!!
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Goddammit, Reymont. My neighbors have been working with PBOT on this for WAAAAY longer than I've been on the block. I bought the house because I'm willing to live with it as is—it's got nice, insulating windows, it's elevated, and it's got a lot of view-screening greenery—but I'd also like to encourage the activism. One, it'd be good for St. Johns as a whole; I'd enthusiastically support slowing Fessenden even if I lived somewhere else. Two, it might also slightly, externally increase my property values.

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