Good morning, Blogtown! Today is April 25, but you’re gonna need more than a light jacket for today’s weather (rain, obviously).
It’s a sad day in Portland. Few were expecting the Blazers to grab a win against the Warriors, but I certainly didn’t expect the abomination that was last night’s game four. If you can handle it, read our recap here!
Check out Portland’s newest apartment to hate: the crazy-expensive Goat Blocks.
As you probably already know thanks to your lucky-as-shit friends’ Instagram posts, Solange hit Portland on Friday as part of the Soul’d Out Festival. Portland didn’t totally embarrass itself in front of the queen of cool.
In Trump news, First lady/daughter Ivanka Trump arrived in Berlin this morning for the W20 Summit, an event dedicated to the advocacy and empowerment of women. Surprise, surprise, it didn’t go great for America’s much maligned faux-feminist. Right off the bat, she was asked what the hell she is doing there, and was booed and hissed at by the audience.
Yesterday Twitter finally noticed a nearly month old blog post by the US State Department that’s essentially an advertisement for Mar-a-Lago, er, the “Winter White House.” After Twitter did what Twitter does, the post was removed.
For the time being, however, we’re still miles ahead of China. The government just banned “names with a strong religious [read: Islamic] flavor” in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province. The list of names was released after the government outlawed burqas and “abnormal beards.”
The former Bachelor known as “Prince Farming,” AKA Chris Soules, was arrested last night after a fatal hit-and-run. A lot of details are still unknown, but we do know he rear-ended a tractor.
For a reason that is unknown to me/most decent humans, Portland is getting a gum wall, a la Seattle (who even had the good sense to take that shit down). Someone decided Portland didn’t have enough trash in its trash collection, (wouldn’t you think our collection’s complete?). If you’re interested in exposing yourself to germs and disease, check out the grand opening. There will be plenty of both.