Tag: Portland
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One Man’s Odyssey For A Cheap Haircut
Driving through Southeast Portland last week, an almost ineffable feeling hit me. It was initially a slight irritation, growing more persistent as the minutes crawled on. Annoyance soon gave way to quiet desperation. Eventually, I could ignore it no longer. Okay, I know this lead-up might be giving some of you false hope that I’m describing the…
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In Which I Write About 18 TV Shows That I Don’t Watch
I live in Portland. It’s a city of iconoclasts — many of them filthy and unshaven, but that’s neither here nor there. One of the traditional American institutions we Portlandians love to rebel against is watching television. We can say “I don’t even own a TV” at parties and somehow not come off as douchey. Personally, I think it’s…
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Hardy? Hardly.
Summer in Portland, Oregon is generally a glorious time. From June to August, the rainfall is negligible at best (we often see about a half inch of rain in July compared to around 7 in December). The sunshine is the decadent reward for enduring week upon week of grayness and drizzle. Even still, the worst…
Geoff Wondering 