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The Dream of the ’90s Is Alive

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Portland — the place where people are content to be unambitious; an alternative universe, Gore won, the Bush administration never happened; where you can put a bird on something and call it art! No wonder the media love Portland.
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This is apparently the teaser for Portlandia, a series to begin on IFC in January. Jack Bogdanski predicts it will be “hysterically funny, unless you live here, in which case it’s reality.” Too bad the Antiplanner doesn’t get that channel.

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13 Responses to The Dream of the ’90s Is Alive

  1. the highwayman says:
    December 20, 2010 at 3:42 am

    This was the best video out of Portland.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

  2. C. P. Zilliacus says:
    December 20, 2010 at 4:38 am

    Randal, don’t forget that Gore did win the 2000 popular vote for President, and might well have won the Electoral College vote, had it not been for 5 Republican votes on the U.S. Supreme Court.

    I was not in Portland in the 1990’s or prior to that decade (and have visited there exactly once in the first decade of the 21st Century), but it seemed to me that a lot of what is championed there is not 1990’s, but more like early 1970’s, complete with economic stagnation.

    But I love these quotes from the video, “Portland is a city where young people go to retire,” and “it’s almost like cars don’t exist.”

  3. C. P. Zilliacus says:
    December 20, 2010 at 4:43 am

    On a related matter, this recent entry on the NewGeography.com site says:

    Portland, for example, has a thriving social scene and is one of the nation’s leaders in attracting college graduates, but it ranks 40 as the best place for young adults. A high cost of living, stagnant job growth, and a 9.6 percent jobless rate among 18 to 34 year-olds have tarnished Portland’s reputation as the dream city for life after graduation.

  4. Martin says:
    December 20, 2010 at 7:58 am

    If only Mr. Gore could have won his home state of Tennessee. But alas it wasn’t event close. Perhaps they knew him to well.

  5. bennett says:
    December 20, 2010 at 9:17 am

    While the dream of the 90’s may be alive in Portland, the reality of the 90’s is still alive in TX. You know, excess, violent crime, SUV’s used for compensation for genetic shortcomings. The 90’s are alive baby.

  6. Frank says:
    December 20, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Thanks for sharing this hilarious vid!

    ?u©k, I can recognize many of the people from that video and even used to be one (the guy so anti-car that he rode his longboard everywhere).

    These months away from portland living in a real city have bleached away the stain of portland from my underwear.

  7. Frank says:
    December 20, 2010 at 9:41 am

    “Randal, don’t forget that Gore did win the 2000 popular vote for President, and might well have won the Electoral College vote, had it not been for 5 Republican votes on the U.S. Supreme Court.”

    Yet another reason why this branch of government shouldn’t be a branch of government.

  9. C. P. Zilliacus says:
    December 20, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    One other thought – the “Los Angeles” street on which Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are walking during this clip does not look like a street in L.A.

    I have always lived in the East, but over the years have spent a fair amount of time in the Southland, including as recently as earlier this month, so I think I know the “look and feel” of a Los Angeles street.

    Could it be (shudder) that this “L.A.” street scene was actually filmed in Portland?

  10. Borealis says:
    December 20, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    I know some people just love the mythology that the US Supreme Court voted along partisan lines. But, alas, history just isn’t as good a story as mythology.

    In brief, the breakdown of the decisions was:

    * Seven justices (the five Justice majority plus Breyer and Souter) agreed that there was an Equal Protection Clause violation in using different standards of counting in different counties.

    * Five justices agreed that December 12 (the date of the decision) was the deadline Florida had established for recounts (Kennedy, O’Connor, Rehnquist,[26] Scalia and Thomas in support; Breyer,[27] Ginsburg, Souter[28] and Stevens opposed). Justices Breyer and Souter wanted to remand the case to the Florida Supreme Court to permit that court to establish uniform standards of what constituted a legal vote and then manually recount all ballots using those standards.

    * Three justices (Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas) agreed that the Florida Supreme Court had acted contrary to the intent of the Florida legislature. Justices Kennedy and O’Connor did not reach this issue.

  11. JimKarlock says:
    December 20, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Don’t forget that a recount, sponsored by several news medias, found that Bush won by a narrow margin.

    Thanks
    JK

  12. MJ says:
    December 21, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    I may have to get IFC just to see this show. It looks like it would be worth it.

  13. C. P. Zilliacus says:
    December 22, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    MJ, IFC is carried on Verizon’s FIOS service (if you live in any area where FIOS is available).

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