When the puffballs come
A friend of ours who recently moved out of state from the Portland suburbs spent a little time in downtown Portland this week. Her impression: "It's like a Fellini movie."
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Comments (7)
I thought it was Romero who directed Night of the Living Dead?
Posted by Gibby | May 19, 2012 9:48 AM
You mean like THIS?
There are some striking similarities.
Posted by al m | May 19, 2012 4:32 PM
OMG...it's Pioneer Courthouse Square!
Posted by Portland Native | May 19, 2012 6:11 PM
Sold some produce last week at Buckman farmer's market. Large market. Many booths. Hundreds of people.
No trash cans.
Stranger than Fellini.
Posted by Jo | May 19, 2012 6:25 PM
Which Fellini movie? La Dolce Vita? La Strada? Not sure what she's referring to.
My 84 year old father in law was in town with his wife last week. He speaks English with a slight German inflection, was a child refugee who witnessed the bombing of London in the 40's, and subsequently spent many years in the foreign service in all sorts of dangerous places. In our last conversation, he expressed his distress about what was happening to Portland....
I've been coming here for years, he said, and it sad to feel like we can't walk around anywhere anymore, without running in to these anarchistic types, people who are, obviously mentally disturbed, some of them real freaks...it's really ruining the place...
Wake up Portland, at a certain point the majority of visitors' primary aim will be to collect food stamps and drug and alcohol money.
Posted by Gaye Harris | May 19, 2012 7:44 PM
Al m, I clicked onto your Fellini post. I swear to God that at 1:32 the guy says "No More Pussy". Is that what Portland is all about? I don't speak Italian very well.
Posted by lw | May 19, 2012 8:10 PM
Gibby, that's what I thought the last time I was in downtown, a couple of years ago. Get rid of the palm trees and alligators and add a few bike kiosks and humorless hipsters, and a live feed from downtown Portland would be indistinguishable fom the first five minutes of Romero's "Day of the Dead".
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | May 20, 2012 9:51 AM