Q: What do people throughout America think about Sam Adams and Portland? A: They don’t.
I see this blog post regarding Sam Adams at “Real Oregon Reality”, a blog I am aware of simply because I’m linked there (admittedly a good way of making me aware of a blog).
I will make this one small comment which I can’t really reiterate enough. I hear and see commentary from, say for instance KPAM’s Victoria Taft, that the Sam Adams situation is “turning Portland into a laughing-stock”. This is an absurd statement. There is no doubt in my mind that national name identification for Sam Adams is a rounding error, and Portland’s national identity remains essentially framed as a smaller version of Seattle — it rains a lot and studies show we’re depressed.
At any rate, Randy Leonard’s opinion of Adams has changed since that video… which, for some reason, the oh-so-eminant Portland blogging authority Jack Bog has ust discovered. I personally don’t have too much use for “Candidates Gone Wild”, which seems to do some harm and some good but probably a bit more good than harm on the political process, but I’m a bit humorless in some matters.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
A bit of an update: I overheard a conversation between a couple I see frequently, the man saying to his wife “There’s this incredible video on youtube of Randy Leonard — it’s super gay — from last November.” The wife saying “Really?” I not interjecting with “I see you read Bo Jack’s blog.”