http://www.portlandmercury.com/IAnonymousBlog/archives/2012/04/19/keep-it-ordinary Comments On: Keep it Ordinary by Anonymous en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
If you don't like the friendliness, why don't you be yourself and show it? Or are too scared to be yourself? Fucking poser.
Posted by mj~sks]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:15:02 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Billy Liar]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:52:06 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Blabby]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:23:32 -0700 Portland Mercury
That's not good customer service. That's scripted "friendliness." A simple "How are you?" would be friendly without being intrusive. I mean, what if I have a six pack and some personal lube in my cart?
Posted by Steve R.]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:31:34 -0700 Portland Mercury
Also, I will never understand bitching about good customer service. I really would prefer to have a nice little chat with a cashier than to have them throw my shit at me and scowl.
Posted by ($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(#]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:22:37 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Todd Mecklem]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:54:06 -0700 Portland Mercury
Also, the carnitas at the El Rodeo cart on SW 10th are great.
Posted by dimitrir]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:50:00 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Handsome McHaberdasher]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:23:04 -0700 Portland Mercury
My guessing is all that is discussed here as people following some kind of "lifestyle" or whatever is healthy and very positive, as opposed to other cities where people are encouraged as an example to think homosexuality is a disease or that obsessed pop culture types (nerds, comic readers/writers, movie/books erudites etc) etc are something "out of the ordinary" (the same with lgtb). If it leads people's wills to something good rather than something non-constructive I don't see the problem in it.
Posted by Leaky 2.0 oz]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:07:39 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by geyser]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:10:28 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Geo Liquor]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:57:20 -0700 Portland Mercury But maybe that's just me being my usual Pollyanna-ish and irrepressibly positive self again.
Posted by geyser]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:47:04 -0700 Portland Mercury
http://keepportlandweird.com/html/day.html

Part of what they're selling and branding (much like Nike) is lifestyle. And Portlanders lap that shit up big time. Yes, that's right: come to Portland, where you can buy "weirdness" off the rack, just like some ad man tells you to. Yawn. Quite ordinary, really, in every sense.
Posted by Steve R.]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:31:56 -0700 Portland Mercury My own criticism of the slogan is that it seems a little played out and watered-down into a kind of shallow identity based on complacency and self-satisfaction. I don't think it should be about that. To the Oregonian, one of the things that counts as "weird" in this sense is hybrid car ownership. I don't believe there's anything weird whatsoever about driving a Prius etc. and it's kind of gross to have some sort of supposed "lifestyle" defined by what you buy.
Posted by geyser]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:50:10 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Steve R.]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:21:36 -0700 Portland Mercury Idiotic ranting about "hipsters" seems to be some sort of backlash against all this, with "hipster" potentially meaning anything that doesn't exist in, or goes against the dominant mores of, most of the rest of the country in the world of suburban sprawl and urban spaces even more thoroughly corporatized/sanitized than Portland is. In addition to being vague, such complaints never seem to get beyond "they're annoying" and never offer anything in opposition to what's being complained about. If all the "hipster crap," whatever that may be, disappeared tomorrow, the complainers never offer the slightest notion of what kind of crap should replace it.
Posted by geyser]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:12:25 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by rich bachelor]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:12:25 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by arenit]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:58:15 -0700 Portland Mercury
Stop smoking dope and you might be able to remember things, son...
Posted by Deezus]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:55:53 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by j3rkface]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:08:45 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by wazz]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:23:41 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Portland]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:49:09 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by arenit]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:09:13 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Geo Liquor]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:05:39 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Steve R.]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:03:35 -0700 Portland Mercury