Pretty funny. I forgot about the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow. I saw it at least once.
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I've been doing it wrong!
I don't think they're getting Portland quite right here. It's 90s in some ways but all the insane foodie stuff is really current, or maybe a throwback to the yuppie years with a bit of back to the land stuff of the 70s. Combined in a totally new way. Plus, it rules and the 90s did not rule.
Finally something Sac has over Portland - we're WAY more 90s!
-miller
The entire thing hit very close to home.
-Natalie.
I don't have a ton of good Portland stories, because I never lived there or anything, but one of the best was staying in a house that the people who lived there thought was bugged because of their animal rights activities. We had to go outside and walk around the block to be able to talk about it.
One of the show plots of Portlandia involves an adult hide-and-seek league.
The thing about Portland in the 90s is...
The dream of the 70s was still alive there. But a lotta that stuff was killed and replaced by the dream of the 2000s condo developer. Henry Ford's? Cobblestone Cafe? The original Hung Far Low....all gone now. But if you go out into the 'burbs, it's still there.
captcha: nomment
Serious LOL at adult hide & seek league!
-miller
It's really rad being uber progressive and tolerant when everyone is just like you.
Becky, you're right about the foodie stuff. That wasn't a big part of the scene there in the 90s.
-Jed
I got imbroiled into a hacky sack circle in 1992, the first time I visited Portland's Tom McCall Waterfront Park. I was just walking by and someone kicked the bag my way. I wasn't ready. They said I looked like someone who knew what to do with a hacky sack. (I didn't know whether to take that as a compliment or an insult then.)
These ultra-earnest guys kept me interested in a discussion of local hacky sack legends, one of whom was touted as "The Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan of Hacky Sack". They said he didn't even hafta work because he was so good at hacky sack.
This video made me wonder....does the "Tony Hawk of Hacky Sack" still do footbag all day? And that is how I discovered that today's reigning monarch of hacky sack is a woman from Canada named Caroline Bourgoin. And she's hot stuff! Funny to think how that fateful day in Portland tripped me into something totally unthinkable otherwise.
How does one get paid to hack?
Sponsorships and prize money.
and thus, a dream was born
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