We read yesterday that the City of Springfield, Oregon has a new motto: "Proud History, Bright Future." This reminded us that the City of Portland is overdue for a new motto itself. "The City That Works" has gotten old; it was copied from Chicago to begin with; and, well, it doesn't seem too accurate these days.
But if we get rid of "The City That Works," what should we put in its place?
Po' Rt.(wing wacko) Land -- the graveyard of elephant Republicans, where each social issue is gripped differently by six blind men listening to a programmed animatronic illiterate LIAR read it to them on the radio ... extinct as the beaver, leave with the beaver.
Speaking of Rt.wing Republicans waaaaaay past their Last Sale Date, this is gonna kill their Mc Lame puppet campaign: YouTube.COM/watch?v=wTitf2gjMmk .
Second largest city in the Northwest.
Second largest floral parade.
Second largest hammered copper statue in the world.
Second most bike-friendly city in the world.
Second most lustful city in the U.S.
Second most eco-friendly city in the world.
Second most climbed mountain in the world (Mt. Hood).
Second best organized marathon in the world.
Second best U.S. city that combines local food with exercise, diet and overall healthy living.
Second city to adopt "The City That Works" slogan.
Second city to adopt "Keep [Insert City] Weird" slogan.
I heard a piece of folklore that "The City That Works" was copied from Chicago after some news team did a story about Portland city workers sleeping in their trucks. Do any lifelong residents know if this is true?
I always thought that "The City That Works" sounded like "The Car That Runs," faint praise. Not that I have a better idea.
When I was a kid the Rose Festival had a theme once of "For You a Rose in Portland Grows," which was often changed to "For You a Nose in Portland Blows."
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 32
At this date last year: 66
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (43)
"Got Tram?"
Posted by Dave J. | June 10, 2008 9:01 AM
"Sustainatopia"
Posted by Frank | June 10, 2008 9:20 AM
Yesterday's government at tomorrow's cost.
Posted by Bark Munster | June 10, 2008 9:21 AM
"Those aren't potholes, they're wetlands."
Posted by Bob W | June 10, 2008 9:22 AM
I thought it had already been declared:
"Keep Portland Weird"
Posted by hilsy | June 10, 2008 9:37 AM
Po' Rt.(wing wacko) Land -- the graveyard of elephant Republicans, where each social issue is gripped differently by six blind men listening to a programmed animatronic illiterate LIAR read it to them on the radio ... extinct as the beaver, leave with the beaver.
Speaking of Rt.wing Republicans waaaaaay past their Last Sale Date, this is gonna kill their Mc Lame puppet campaign: YouTube.COM/watch?v=wTitf2gjMmk .
Posted by Tenskwatawa | June 10, 2008 9:41 AM
Portland run by the Whitest yet from from the Brightest.
Posted by meg | June 10, 2008 9:43 AM
"The Urban Plantation"
"The City that Molds You"
"Our Vision, Your Money"
Posted by Panchopdx | June 10, 2008 10:09 AM
I think "Fly now, pay later" was copyrighted.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 10, 2008 10:11 AM
Portland: A City of Seconds
Second largest city in the Northwest.
Second largest floral parade.
Second largest hammered copper statue in the world.
Second most bike-friendly city in the world.
Second most lustful city in the U.S.
Second most eco-friendly city in the world.
Second most climbed mountain in the world (Mt. Hood).
Second best organized marathon in the world.
Second best U.S. city that combines local food with exercise, diet and overall healthy living.
Second city to adopt "The City That Works" slogan.
Second city to adopt "Keep [Insert City] Weird" slogan.
I heard a piece of folklore that "The City That Works" was copied from Chicago after some news team did a story about Portland city workers sleeping in their trucks. Do any lifelong residents know if this is true?
Posted by Garage Wine | June 10, 2008 10:23 AM
Portland: The City of Good Words and No Fictional Limits.
Posted by Bob Clark | June 10, 2008 10:26 AM
"Portland - We have the best government our large developers can buy"
Posted by Musician | June 10, 2008 10:46 AM
How about "Innsmouth West"?
Posted by Sid | June 10, 2008 11:26 AM
Portland: Fill our condos and ride our tram - no one else will
Posted by genop | June 10, 2008 12:09 PM
Welcome to PeterPanville
Posted by meatpuppet | June 10, 2008 12:26 PM
I always thought that "The City That Works" sounded like "The Car That Runs," faint praise. Not that I have a better idea.
When I was a kid the Rose Festival had a theme once of "For You a Rose in Portland Grows," which was often changed to "For You a Nose in Portland Blows."
Are we getting close?
Posted by Sue Hagmeier | June 10, 2008 12:51 PM
How about "The City That Plans"?
Posted by Deeds | June 10, 2008 12:56 PM
One well planned disaster after another.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 10, 2008 1:02 PM
"The City that Quirks"
Posted by Bill Holmer | June 10, 2008 1:05 PM
I'd like to see them return to "the City of Roses".
Posted by Dave Lister | June 10, 2008 2:13 PM
I second "Those aren't potholes, they're wetlands."
Perfect and fitting
Posted by Anthony | June 10, 2008 2:19 PM
"The nations largest amusement park"
"Keep Portland Weird" was stolen from Austin Texas.
Posted by Dennis | June 10, 2008 2:41 PM
Proud History, Blight Future
Posted by telecom | June 10, 2008 3:57 PM
City of Pints and Roses
Posted by Scott | June 10, 2008 4:13 PM
"The City that Used to Work"
Posted by Scott Rickard | June 10, 2008 4:15 PM
The City That Works You Over
Posted by Max | June 10, 2008 4:55 PM
Portland: Maybe the rest of the globe is warming, but that isn't a problem here.
Posted by Bob W | June 10, 2008 5:07 PM
"The City That Works The Taxpayer To Death"
Posted by Rich | June 10, 2008 5:30 PM
Portland: just another city the Developers Worked!
Posted by Oh my | June 10, 2008 5:41 PM
Portland, The EvironMental Ward
We're Sustainable!
Posted by Howard | June 10, 2008 6:07 PM
city motto: "We don't need no stinkin' motto"..we got Sam the Scam and **Randy.
Posted by KISS | June 10, 2008 6:13 PM
"Our Vision, Your Money"
Brilliant!
Posted by Jon | June 10, 2008 7:00 PM
Wow. Springfield's new motto sure is close to the one on Union Pacific's heritage locomotives: "Proud Heritage, Powerful Future".
Posted by Andrew | June 10, 2008 8:20 PM
No Vision, Blind Borrowing
Posted by Howard | June 10, 2008 9:20 PM
Willy Week or The Mercury ran this same idea a year or two ago. The one that I remember:
The City That Works (Two Jobs)
Posted by Stan | June 10, 2008 10:29 PM
"Public Process, We Don't Need No Stinking Public Process!"
Posted by Lc Scott | June 10, 2008 11:33 PM
"Keep Portland Insufferable".
Posted by Sid | June 11, 2008 7:45 AM
"Portland,like a cold day in June"
Posted by DB | June 11, 2008 8:12 AM
You mean June-uary?
Posted by Jack Bog | June 11, 2008 8:27 AM
"The City that Irks"
Posted by JWH | June 11, 2008 8:42 AM
Portland: the bayless Berkeley.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | June 11, 2008 10:37 AM
Portland: You may have heard about us from the New York Times
Posted by Aaron | June 11, 2008 11:49 AM
"What's In Your Wallet"
"Hey, We Are NOT Houston"
Posted by Steve | June 11, 2008 6:09 PM