Portland is definitely in that camp. Stay the fuck out of my city.

That's a nice end to the story. I've never eaten there, some friends of mine tried it and said it wasn't good.

I attended the first screening with the director a couple of years ago! I've also seen it a couple of times since then. I'm a white liberal in Portland, so I have to fulfill monthly OPB quotas or the kulturcommissar comes and takes my ironic mustache away.

You're talking about Lake No-Negro? I used to work in a residential treatment facility on the outskirts of that charming little klavern and we used to have a game. When a person of color's family would come visit we'd wager on whether they'd get pulled over coming, going, or both.

Anywhere outside Portland, really. I played High School baseball and we would travel to a small town called Gladstone in the cascade foothills. That place was filled with pickups with rebel stars n' bars. Our first baseman was Asian and they openly called him Chink and Gook from the stands.

I was recently hanging out with friends in Oakland and a friend of a friend, who is black, asked me if she should move up to Portland because she heard it was the lesbian mothership and wanted in. She was concerned about the overwhelming whiteness of the place and how she would be treated and I had to be honest and…

I'm a lifelong resident, born in a town that had sundown laws on the books until the 60's. We were taught about the exclusionary law in High School, but I'm from Portland.

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

Also Portland's 'foodstands' which a) is just a place where any kind of food is cooked and b) not what Portlanders call 'food carts', or usually, just 'carts'.

It's hardly a Kingdom. More of a principality? A collection of bickering duchies? The introduction of the Citra hop has riven the land in twain, and all over the Willamette valley we watch the lights of peace flicker out, not to be re-lit in our lifetimes. All is chaos as Ninkasi has forsaken the hop and moved to…

Between Dame and the incomparable comic genius (for a professional athlete) of Robin Lopez, the Blazers easily have the strongest twitter game in the NBA.

There's no way Love leaves Cleveland after this year. He'd be crazy to do that. He'd be giving up playing with LeBron in the Leastern Conference, and he'll get his max deal, as I'm 100% sure that closed door meeting before he signed was the Cavs guaranteeing buckets of money forever. Or he could go struggle for the…

I got a 61-70% Jalopscore for my '81 300 TD a.k.a the White Boy Hoopty a.k.a the hipster lowrider. i have no idea if that's too high or too low.

It seems likely there will be a period where the isps act out of butthurt and raise prices, cut back on customer service, and pull out of some markets, but this is only a good thing. The market is ripe for new entrants who will offer more options for service and lower prices.

We love the blazers down here but there's a reason Paul Allen built the rose garden with private money and the timbers have used private money for their renovations of civic stadium. We loooove raising our own taxes for schools and bike lanes but greedy billionaires can fuck the fuck right off. I'll burn my blazers…

It is indeed fantastic, and prompts me to ask, why is there no West Coast beer correspondent round these here parts? I've lived on both sides of the continent and parts between and the beer selection is incomparable out here. Plaid Pantry's have better beer selection in Portland than most fancy grocery stores out east.

TEH AUTHOR MADE A PERSONAL CHOICE NOT TO USE A RACIAL SLUR WHEN REFERRING TO A THING ENTIRELY UNRELATED TO ME. HAL HALP I'M BEING REPRESSED!

This is my favorite thing you write all year. The pathos, the whip-saw between guilt and desire, the bone deep self-loathing of comfortable white liberals. Soooo Good. fuck, I gotta go jerk off.

At least the English are honest and up front about subsidizing their oligarchs. Here we just yell about 'Messicans stealin' jobs so that dimwit car-salesmen who rode a wave of racial resentment to elected office can pass 'tax savings' on to your various Koch monsters or Walton ghouls.

Great point. I enjoy the filler missions because I'm a parent of a young child, and I don't always have 2 hours to spend playing one mission (like choosing mages v. templars). The fact that there will always be something, anything, to do has its appeal. I wish GTA V would have bulked this out. I finished everything…