Only in Portland. That’s my reaction whenever I observe an example of what makes my city quirky and vibrant. It explains the unexplainable.
The slogan “Keep Portland Weird,” adorning bumper stickers and t-shirts, is catchy but implies intent to meet a predetermined goal. But weirdness here tends to be organic. Nor is it weird if you revel in it. More like “Keep Portland Normal.”
What’s normal? Take the telephones nailed to a power pole at Northeast 28th and Burnside . I lifted the receiver of one. Written in neat block letters on the cradle was “Self Phone.”
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I totally agree. Although I have one concern. Mike and Amy from the Wolf, 99.5 we’re talking about bicyclists who run red lights in owntown PDX. I see this all the time and it pisses me off. I always hear the bicycling community wanting this and that, yet a small majority doesn’t care to follow basic driving rules. Are they completely ignorant? Not only are they breaking the law, they are putting other Portlanders’ lives on the line. How many more dead bicyclists are they going to have to peal off the ground until Portland police start ticketing these law breakers? Keeping Portland Weird is one thing, to all the bicycling law breakers, do your part to keep the city safe. Perhaps we can start keeping Portland normal, even better, safe!