...Portlandia...

Fuck.
I feel is always a good way to start writing; if you type it enough eventually something will Come.

A N Y W A Y

Before I proceed with this post, I need to clarify I'm not from Portland, nor did I ever plan to move to this location for its "Keep Portland Weird" culture or whatever. I just ended up here. My roommate and I simply ran out of gas on our way to somewhere else, and instead of pouring another load of money into the 13mpg tank Jeep...we thought Portland would do.

So above is a music video premiere. A little sneak peek into a morning nightmare...IFC is starting this new mini-series called Portlandia.
I got the text as I woke admittedly late morning advising me to take a view at what the world was about to see of where I live...a giant clusterfuck of over glamourized-hipster hysteria.
One minute in or so, my roommate woke from the sound to watch our shame on sing-a-long display. By the end of the video my head was buried in my hands, him with his fist in the air (very theatrical) both screaming in angst as if to defend our very existence here "We didn't know!" "We just didn't know!"
 And now at work, or on facebook I notice people I talk to, even get along with alluding to this mini-series as if it's a good thing. They're legitimately proud of it...
"this will really put us on the map" "yeah, but now people will wanna move here!" "there's now a show about weird where I live is:-)"
And when I relay these observations to my few friends, or my roommate, we seem to think the same thing...and maybe its the wrong conclusion we've come to, but I feel it's pretty fucking obvious this is one of those moments, Portlandians, where they're not laughing with us...they are most definitely laughing at us.
 
 Writing (ranting)this now, I look back on the first night pulling into the city where I now reside...I should have known. The first people I remember seeing outside were some indie-thin hipster shit cool type kids drinking their Pabst, smoking outside, and probably discussing their buddies' band playing the next night...yeah, maybe I didn't know, but I should have. I should have.