Courtesy KATU “THAR SHE BLOWS!!” In one of the most hilariously weird examples of Oregon history, on November 12, 1970, officials decided to use a half-ton of dynamite to dispose of a dead whale (which apparently really stank) that had washed ashore on the Oregon coast in Florence. Turns out that a half-ton was overdoing […]
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AP Stylebook Loses the Respect of the World—OKAY??
First of all, who died and made AP Stylebook the grand arbiter of how to spell shit? THIS TWEET MADE ME FURIOUS!!! AP Style tip: OK, OK’d, OK’ing, OKs. Don’t use okay. OK?— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) October 20, 2015 Second of all, I’ve spelled “OKAY” as “OKAY” my entire life (because that’s the way you […]
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The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o’ the Day!
And now some advice from the I, Anonymous Blog on the topic of “How to Drive a Car.” Pay attention. Yes, you should be riding a bike. But you aren’t! Let me help you with a couple of Portland pitfalls, now that the weather is changing and falling back will send us all into darkness.1. […]
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Reports of Gun-Toting Man/Men Send Two Portland Schools into Lockdown
Portland Public Schools Grant High School Two NE Portland schools went into brief lockdown this afternoon, when an area business reported seeing two young men with guns walking toward Grant High School. Portland police, in a fresh news release, say officers responding to the area couldn’t locate the suspects and have no idea if the […]
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The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o’ the Day!
Apparently there is a very thin line between “quaint” and “annoying as fuck.” This person knows the difference. I know you think you’re being quaint by carting your big ass red wagon to the grocery store, but you’re just being annoying. “We’re so Portland!” you must think as you drag that thing around the store, […]
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Portland’s Top Park Ranger Is On Leave—But His Private Company Is Still Patrolling a City Park
Finetooth/ CC by SA Holladay Park The city’s placed its top park ranger on leave, amid concern from the City Auditor’s Office that his private security firm was being paid to patrol a city park. As first reported by the Mercury, Ranger Supervisor Hasan Artharee owns Safeguard Security Inc, which was awarded a contract to […]
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A Rogue Cabbie Hired By Uber This Year Creepily Kissed A Passenger’s Hand in 2013
Jen Wang A year and a half before he found easy employment as an Uber driver, a rogue Portland taxi driver was the subject of a troubling complaint. According to records obtained by the Mercury, a woman wrote to city officials in September 2013 that Kundin Nadew picked her and some friends up outside of […]
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The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o’ the Day!
Sounds like there’s some good perving going on in the seedier parts of Portland in the post Thong in the Sun on the I, Anonymous blog. There’s a certain strip club in a “rougher” part of Portland near some pretty busy streets. It’s a place where a stripper/dancer can lay out in the sun in […]
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A Driver Attempted to Navigate the Broadway Bridge Bike/Ped Path This Morning
and my roommate snapped this photo on her commute. How on earth do you manage to drive your car on B-way Bridge path? pic.twitter.com/mXAdA2lYEx— Aaron Brown (@ambrown) August 10, 2015 The Broadways Bridge is supposed to be open to only people on bikes or on foot for the next week, and this city’s driver’s just […]
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Portland’s Worst Person: One-Percent Millennial
Illustration: Andrea Tsurumi [Editor’s Note: A couple of months ago we asked readers to (anonymously!) send in a 500-word essay on why they think they’re the “Worst Person in Portland” with the winner receiving a $300 grand prize. What we got was an outpouring of self-loathing, passive aggressiveness, and misguided narcissism… in other words, so […]
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Car2Go Yanking Service from East Portland and St. Johns
Sorry, St. Johns and points east of 60th/62nd. You don’t make the Car2Go cut. Citing a lack of demand, the useful and maddening car service announced today it’ll no longer allow users to park or pick up a ride in huge swaths of outer Portland beginning on August 24. The company’s new “home range” (the […]
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Portland’s Worst People: I, Landlord
Illustration: Andrea Tsurumi [Editor’s Note: A couple of months ago we asked readers to (anonymously!) send in a 500-word essay on why they think they’re the “Worst Person in Portland” with the winner receiving a $300 grand prize. What we got was an outpouring of self-loathing, passive aggressiveness, and misguided narcissism… in other words, so […]