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B/c I wanted a new Portland/PacNW thread, that's why.

Can anybody suggest a good yoga-for-beginners class around here? I've been told to check it out, so I need a place to look.

Also, if you're around on Sunday, head over to MacTarnahan's in NW for the PugCrawl, since a hundred pugs running about is usually something worth seeing.

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

hey can I be an honorary Eugene member of this thread?

right now I am in Peru but I fly back into PDX on July 3rd.

― sleeve, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes, you may. What's going on in Peru?

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Portland hello from Seattle (sorta). You plan sexy buildings!

http://portlandcitystorage.com/_wsn/page2.html

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=117600

― jergïns, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, and don't forget to drop off your voting ballot tonight by 8

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

"What's going on in Peru?"

my thread about it is here:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=52987

― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm going to be in Portland for a couple of days in August.

What should I see?

― Jill, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

Rose Garden, stuff on the Waterpark, various neighborhood parties

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm going to Portland this weekend. Which record store am I going to? You know, the one that's really awesome.

― Bill in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

get the store map at Powells front desk

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

When in Portland, be sure to meet some of our dogs. We have a boffo assortment of very personable dogs.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

dogs:Portland::cats:Seattle?

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

Aimless, are you from around here?

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh, hey. I just wanted to say that I visited Portland for the first time last Thanksgiving and it was fantastic. My wife still says that she would move there in a heartbeat (which we're not for now...but you never know).

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes. I grew up near SE 26th Ave and Harrison Street. I've lived in or near P-town during all but my misspent college years. But these days I am a long, long way from making the scene. Too old, too married, and too far into the burbs.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ha ha, that means Gresham, right?

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

No. Lake Oswego. (Yeah. I know. But, in my case, knowing only that much is highly misleading.)

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ooo, even better.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

I know someone that lives in portland

― RJG, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bill: Genuinely awesome record (vinyl only) store: Mississippi Records, on Mississippi.

Most extensive selection: Everyday Music, one branch on W. Burnside around NW 13th, another at NE 20th and Sandy.

Best curated selection: Jackpot Records, one branch on W. Burnside around SE 9th, another at SE 37th and Hawthorne.

Also, Yximalloo is playing here twice this weekend!

― Douglas, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

I meant SW 9th, of course.

― Douglas, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

I may move back from Brooklyn in a month or so. I need the NE. I need the coffee. I miss Magic Gardens.

― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think I finally went to the Magic Gardens a coupla months ago. Seemed a great place for the really drunk and about-to-be-hungover types. Of course, late night food in portland is fucked, so sometimes you NEED dim sum.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hell, I'm playing on Friday if you're in town for it. EP release party for three bands.

Adam, where did you end up catching your "football" game?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

dogs:Portland::cats:Seattle?

At least on the east side, we have more cats per square inch than I've seen in any neighborhood in Seattle. Out where Aimless lives, there are probably more dogs.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh, I didn't. I had a nice cup of coffee and looked at thrift stores instead.

xp

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Also The Kennedy School was amazing. Detention Bar!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

I wanted to smoke a cigar but did not as I was with my ho (as opposed to my bros).

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

Also no sales taxxxx! No self-service gas (if only I'd known this I could have avoided a quite embarassing scene).

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

That weird coffee place where people drink coffee....through straws!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

...what? Was it iced coffee?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

Rust! Steel!

xp no it's called Dutch Boy or something? I don't have the name right.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

Our room at Kennedy school!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

The corridor! creepy!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Rust! Steel! Asphalt! Rain!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Portland

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dutch BROTHERS
http://www.dutchbros.com/

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

Another great record shop is EXILED, on Hawthorne: sweet selection of experimental/ drone/ folk/ outsider LPs in there (used and new) plus they've got the best Middle Eastern psychedelic selection I've seen anywhere (on disc and LP) -- it's even better than Amoeba or Aquarius.

But Douglas is right -- MISSISSIPPI is the best shop in town, also a great record label doing vinyl only releases that are pretty hard to find esp. now that Damon Albarn's shop in the UK, Honest Jon's, buys up half of whatever they make as soon as they're out. The Thai Orchestra one they just did is super great, kind of like gamelan meets 'Ethiopiques' with a bit of drumcore thrown in. Mississippi is sold out of that LP but Exiled has copies still, I think; it doesn't have a name or any text written in English, so just ask for the Thai Orchestra record. If you don't like it, I'll buy it back from you. (Full disclosure: I'm working with them on some projects that'll be out later this year OK).

More record shops: If you have some time on your hands, there's a big antique mall styled shop on Hawthorne across the street from Big Daddy's BBQ that I always forget the name of -- dozens of dealers all under one roof, really good for '60s rock and the occasional OJL blues LP. ANTHEM is a pretty good shop for new-ish alt-drone-metal stuff, I always find something at the weirdo punk-folk-country shop Q IS FOR CHOIR, if you like metal chek out 2ND AVe. RECORDS, and yeah the EVERYDAY MUSIC on Burnside is so big that they invariably get some good stuff. I myself am satisfied with just going to Exiled and Miss. (I've never liked JACKPOT, but that's just me.)

For my $$, this town also has a lot of great places to eat fresh/ local/ organic/ sort-of-gourmet type food for very little $$: VALENTINES, PROPER EATS, THE FARM, L'ASTRA, etc. There's also some really good Ethiopian food (DALOS being the cheapest and also the only one I know of with both brown rice and delicious shakes offered) and Japanese as well (SABUROS is amazing --large, fresh sushi cuts, very inexpensive-- and well worth the hour-long wait).

Coffee is kind of a big deal here. Thanks largely to the fact that Duane from STUMPTOWN has trained so many people and done so much to work directly with growers and pay them well above "fair trade," this town's crawling with awesome coffee plaes and baristas. You'll get a great shot at any of these places, ranked rougly in descending order: ALBINA PRESS, STUMPTOWN, FRESH POT, CREMA, TINYS, that new place in St Johns, and SOHBET. The Stumptown bean shop on Belmont has fresh cups made with a ridiculously expensive machine that are pretty out of this world, too.

And MAGIC GARDENS, for me, is the best strip club I've ever been to, even though a lot of my favorite people are no longer working there. It's usually got a decent male to female patron ratio (more a bar vibe than a gross/ sleazy one), there's no pole or anything, only two girls work per shift, the woman who runs the plae is super sweet and in her 60s at least, there is no cheesey dude announccing people and reminding you to tip, some of the dancers are actually my favorite DJs in town, and the best dumplings in town are right across the street at the GOLDEN HORSE, old shool Chinese place that's open until 11 or so. Yay.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

hmm

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

how many pdx ilxors do we have now, anyway?

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

I keep wanting to visit my bros over there. Damn you, poverty!

― Andi Mags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Portland is in walking distance. (Note: I did not say "easy walking distance".)

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time (and large water bodies aren't involved).

― Andi Mags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

What is summer like in Portland?

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

More record shops: If you have some time on your hands, there's a big antique mall styled shop on Hawthorne across the street from Big Daddy's BBQ that I always forget the name of -- dozens of dealers all under one roof, really good for '60s rock and the occasional OJL blues LP.

that's crossroads. i've found some pretty good stuff for super-cheap there over the years.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

two weeks of horrid heat, made worse by the fact that nobody except movie theaters, powells, and only so many bars have A/C.

Everytime else is just great/perfect. Green trees, sunlight til 9-10pm, attractive people and other drunks out & about, riding bicycles, openly copulating on the riverfront park, etc.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Please just reassure me that Hung Far Low is still there.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

copulating? sounds rude.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

A/C is bad for you

― RJG, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

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Great weather for pho, but not much else, except maybe ducks. My favorite is Pho Hung. Go to the location on Powell. It's suitably divey and the pho is better there than the other location on 82nd.

― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 14 April 2011 14:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

Made it! Unfortunately my publisher got hit yesterday with a nasty case of strep and as a result I will have a glorious zero copies of my newest comic at this show. But fuck it it's a trip to portland to hang with comics pals.

Thanks for the pho tips and whoa is this some dismal weather. On the upside, it's kind of cute how Frontier Airlines has a different animal on the tailfin of each aircraft.

― last name ever, first name gjetost (Jon Lewis), Friday, 15 April 2011 02:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

biked from woodstock to sauvie island and back today in just dumb gorgeous weather. sunburn season

― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 20 May 2011 08:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Are there any good hotels in the downtown area that are less upscale than places like the Ace? Looking at taking five days and going to a Timbers game in late August, but Ace/Mark Spencer/Deluxe/etc. are out of my budget.

― bill magill (milo z), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

milo you could try the Jupiter which is just across the burnside bridge from downtown (20-25 minute walk to Timbers) and attached to the Doug Fir which may have a show you'd want to see or the Travelodge across the street from it (both on Burnside) if you're looking to go even cheaper. Interstate (along the Max Line which wld take you straight to the stadium) has dozens of v cheap no-name motels with varying degrees of seediness but there's not much to see up there even if is convenient for getting into the city

― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

there's a best western at 23rd and vaughn, I believe. That's walking distance from jeld-win field. and a travelodge (I think) up by PSU which would give you plenty of options for getting around.

All that said, I'd suggest the Jupiter.

― Clay, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

love the jupiter so much.

― lxy, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 01:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

jupiterhotel.com btw if you haven't found it yet

― Clay, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Jupiter looks great (the light bondage package you can order with a room is pretty 0_0), may postpone til October to save more cash.

― bill magill (milo z), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hit the places on the eastside of the river. Bus and train access to everywhere else is easy, and you'll save yourself the headache of having to be downtown

― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've stayed in cheap-ish hotels in the Lloyd Center / convention center area east of the river. Not the most exciting place but easy train access to downtown.

― joygoat, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

https://www.google.com/offers/home?x=MQAAAFmiP_wHoG-jgfJ9ixAZcffD8p8TMHCZoWlmhivrFYmCz4nJwDuc2FMIcPzZRRMTO1m-Bj25TQtQNVUC30d-7F4#!details/dcdb08976299ecb0/XBUS0MARORCE2LY3

50% off at the hotel deluxe in today's google offer, fyi.

― Clay, Saturday, 23 July 2011 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

i want to live here one day

― jumpskins, Sunday, 24 July 2011 12:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

This week I'm hosting my thing at the Alberta St Pub on Tuesday, and there's a Puppy Prom downtown on Wednesday!

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2011/08/29/puppy-prom

― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Monday, 29 August 2011 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

ayo ilxor dlh i see u

― bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 11 September 2011 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^ this was rad, and well-spotted

― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 September 2011 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

maybe we should do a thing sometime guys

― science you guys (Clay), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Too hot today for anything

― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Sunday, 11 September 2011 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

that was supposedly the heat's last stand, or close to it

― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Monday, 12 September 2011 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

gonna be there Thurs & Fri, any can't-miss things happening?

― JoeStork, Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Freestyle self-regarding will be happening all day Friday and most of Thursday, too.

― Aimless, Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

Friday pretty sure I'm having dinner with my friend Theresa. Other than that not really sure

― Clay, Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

i've never understood this thread title

― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

thursday night is first thursday, when everyone wanders around the pearl/chinatown looking at Art and hoping the free drinks at the next place aren't out. i have a scrabble date at an old high school friend's place though unfort. friday night a friend has an opening at a gallery in southeast so i'm going to that. but ilpdxors we need to drink somewhere soon. i met clay for ten minutes on one of the Occupation's muddier days.

happy to see all the magic gardens love upthread: the only strip club i have been to more than once (usually in the afternoon, on, like, a tuesday).

― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

this thread title just makes me think of RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN-SEVENTY-EVERYTHING-IS-AWFUL

― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah we should all get together soon, seriously. Rev was a good instigator of that when he was around (miss u, boo).

I usually Daj at a relatively central location on Thursday nights but of course I won't be this week. Wandering around first Thursday, while I haven't done so in lord knows how many years, is always a good distraction and it'll get you outside and walking around which is tough enough this time of year. I checked the mercury and didn't see anything that I could strongly recommend, music-wise. Local favorite Laura Gibson is playing mississippi studios Friday night, but I'm not familiar with her. Some of my friends seem psyched!

― Clay, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

And by "I usually Daj" I mean DJ duhhh

― Clay, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

i always assumed the title was a reference to hilarious child-rape tune "Jordan, MN"

― JoeStork, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

(miss u, boo)

aww <3

― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Thursday, 2 February 2012 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Anybody else hitting Bridgetown Comedy Fest this week?

― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

never knew they were holdouts. Gen Jack Ripper spins in his grave....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/portland-fluoride-water-oregon_n_1878515.html

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:42 (9 months ago) Permalink

The endless shit storm from paranoids on my Facebook feed about this has been pretty revealing re: who is crazy and who is not.

― Clay, Thursday, 13 September 2012 23:21 (9 months ago) Permalink

lol

― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Friday, 14 September 2012 09:33 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

ok so have you guys ever been to THE CRUMPACKER LIBRARY? maybe it's a pdx institution of which i've just been ignorant this whole time but a friend stumbled across it down a featureless hallway lined with unmarked doors on the second floor of the art museum and it's bonkers-nice, like pagemaster nice:

(^^^ 19c plaster reproduction of ancient sculpture depicting a boy pulling a thorn out of his foot, surrounded by inexplicable tetrad of THRONES)

and there is basically no one in there at all ever (double-edged sword of course in terms of comparison to other downtown libraries: lacks the multnomah county central branch's junkies, yes, but also the psu millar library's groups of girls whispering to each other about marxism). i may end up spending a lot of time in THE CRUMPACKER LIBRARY. also there was a book that was nothing but photographs of text people had spray-painted onto foreclosed houses. WHAT NEXT? was the one that got me.

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

funky

― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 25 October 2012 04:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

what in the

where can I find this place

― Clay, Thursday, 25 October 2012 04:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

oh the art museums see UPON READING. Can you get in without admission?

― Clay, Thursday, 25 October 2012 04:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

yes! unless we were being stealthier than we intended.

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 October 2012 04:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

it's not through the main art museum door though it's through a different one like fifteen feet north of the big sculpture i only realized today is of lichtenstein brushstrokes.

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 October 2012 04:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

wow that looks amazing

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

sinful Portland of the '50s EXPOSED!

http://www.fandor.com/blog/%E2%80%98portlandia%E2%80%99-revisited

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:55 (5 months ago) Permalink

Sweet!

― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Thursday, 3 January 2013 17:05 (5 months ago) Permalink

Portland's city gov during the 50s was notoriously corrupt.

― Aimless, Thursday, 3 January 2013 19:20 (5 months ago) Permalink

prob gonna be in pdx on the 17th for this http://www.facebook.com/events/549176155095577/?ref=ts&fref=ts

― hemioblock (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:03 (5 months ago) Permalink

oh for FUCKS sake. two fucking 22-year-olds from Gresham and Medford went wandering about Sellwood openly carrying their assualt rifles(doesn't mention if they were actual Bushmasters or not), causing normal people to freak out and at least one school to go into lockdown.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/01/second_amendment_supported_car.html#incart_m-rpt-2

Police say no crime committed by men strolling through SE Portland neighborhood with assault rifles
By Everton Bailey Jr., The Oregonian
on January 09, 2013 at 5:02 PM, updated January 09, 2013 at 8:00 PM Print
Police say two men who were openly carrying assault rifles in Southeast Portland’s Sellwood neighborhood Wednesday were trying to demonstrate their Second Amendment rights and “educate the public”.
And while their actions were legal, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman said such a demonstration can divert officers away from possibly more urgent emergency calls.
It can also frighten people.
Steven M. Boyce, of Gresham, and Warren R. Drouin, of Medford, both 22, were spotted by officers about 1:50 p.m. near Southeast Seventh Avenue and Spokane Street.
But both have concealed handgun licenses, said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman. They were not arrested because the rifles remained slung over their shoulders, he added.
Officers warned the duo that the sight of their rifles would generate 9-1-1 calls, but neither man seemed concerned, Simpson said. No shots were fired.
ORS 166.173 gives Oregon cities the authority to regulate possession of loaded firearms in public places. Portland is one of several cities that have imposed such a ban. However, people who have concealed handgun licenses are exempt from that regulation under that same law.
Similar cases of people openly displaying firearms are rare in Portland, Simpson said. And when they do, it’s usually a handgun.
“We support everyone’s constitutional rights, but we ask that they exercise them responsibly,” he said. “Anyone walking around with a visible firearm is going to generate calls from concerned citizens that we have to respond to. That takes resources away from potentially more serious incidents.”
Boyce and Drouin did, in fact, generate several emergency calls and caused at least one school to go into lockdown.
Creative Minds Learning Center in the 7700 block of Southeast 13th Avenue went into lockdown and sent an email to parents informing them of armed men in the neighborhood.
“We’ve been keeping the kids away from the windows,” said Meredith Cone, the school’s director. “It sounds unusual, but everyone here is safe and happy.”
Karl Janiak, who lives in the 1000 block of Southeast Spokane Street, said he was home with his wife when Boyce and Drouin were passing through, but did not see them.
He said he supports the Second Amendment, grew up in Alaska using guns to hunt and take target practice. He also owns a firearm, but said he was upset by the duo’s actions.
“Someone could have spotted them, felt threatened and the situation easily could have escalated because someone felt they had to make a statement that’s already in the Constitution,” Janiak said. “When you purchase and own a gun, you owe it to the community to be responsible with it.”

― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Thursday, 10 January 2013 04:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

This sort of cluelessness about firearms is the fruit of decades of NRA-induced stupidity regarding gun ownership. What, in the good lord's name, is there to shoot in a city neighborhood, except people or pets?

― Aimless, Thursday, 10 January 2013 04:35 (5 months ago) Permalink

you know good ideas are comin when they're comin from 22 year old men with assault weapons.

― Clay, Thursday, 10 January 2013 04:53 (5 months ago) Permalink

Photos and 9-1-1 calls from yesterday:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/01/rifle_toting_activist_in_portl.html

...Medford police have received at least 67 complaints about Warren R. Drouin openly carrying a semi-auto rifle or handgun in a wide range of public settings between June 2011 and December 2012, according to agency records. One episode generated more than two dozens calls to police. At least one Medford business barred him from the property because of his behavior.

The 22-year-old Medford man is so familiar to police in the southern Oregon city that top officials in the 103-member police force refer to him simply as "Warren" when describing their interactions with him. Officers receive training specifically on how to approach Drouin and others in the so-called open carry movement, which promotes the ability to openly carry guns...

― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:08 (5 months ago) Permalink

and he has his own youtube channel, naturally: http://www.youtube.com/user/Markedguardian

― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:10 (5 months ago) Permalink

crazy. anyway, i'll be in town the 17th-19th.

― The Reverend, Friday, 11 January 2013 02:55 (5 months ago) Permalink

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