Hold on to your wallets, Portland
This just in from Reed College: "Portland needs a new orchestra hall and opera house." Do you think Charlie Hales, art enthusiast, will build it (or is it them) for us? Maybe he'll have the water bureau do it.
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Comments (6)
If the Reedies want it, they can build it.
Posted by Michelle | January 6, 2012 1:26 PM
They can put it in the reactor room.
Posted by Robert Collins | January 6, 2012 2:37 PM
Yeah, the Portland Coma strikes again. "Oh, I'll do something worthy of a MacArthur Fellowship, but only after I get one." What these whiners fail to understand is that while the MacArthur Fellowship awards don't have any strings attached, they're also awarded to people who are already busting their butts to do great things. (That's one of the reasons why the awards are anonymously judged, and why it's impossible to nominate anyone for the prizes. You can only imagine some of the free-range Soylent Green who'd take advantage of their extensive Twitter readership to influence the vote if this weren't the case.) The question shouldn't be "Why hasn't anyone in Portland won a Fellowship prize?", but instead "Could it be that winning a Fellowship prize might entail something other than telling everyone that 'I'm in media'?"
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | January 6, 2012 2:44 PM
More likely Portland 'innovators' already know they're the greatest and don't need to earn the recognition of anyone else.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | January 6, 2012 3:06 PM
Mr. Grumpy, is that like saying that those grapes are sour anyway?
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | January 6, 2012 4:53 PM
The money quote in the article is from Carl Abbott of PSU: "Seattle has movers and shakers. Portland is all about process." The result of focusing on process and consensus is that nothing gets done on time or on budget. That's how a $400 million bridge replacement has ballooned into a $4 billion megaproject.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | January 7, 2012 8:25 PM