Filed under: Profiles, television | Tags: Dr Who, Katie Campshure, Oh the Times and Places You'll go, Tardis
By: Katie Campshure
This young woman is brilliant. I must have this book.
Filed under: television
In Oct. 2012 I had the pleasure of being an extra in a Portlandia skit while interning at Willamette Week. The episode finally aired on Fri. Jan. 25, 2013. (I’m the one in the black and white blazer & glasses.)
Shortly after 3:00 pm on a moderately warm October afternoon the WW editorial office is gradually transformed into a Portlandia film set as young urbanites in their 20s and 30s fully clad in tight button-up flannel shirts with rolled up sleeves, fedoras, trucker hats, Nike’s and Chuck Taylors lug in heavy filming equipment.
By 4:30 pm set lights are turned on, the room is silenced and the frame is cleared. Enter Fred Armisen. Giggles spread across the room. “Ohhh I know that guy!” someone shouts. “We went to high school together.” After a couple minutes of mingling, Armisen walks up to me. “Nice to meet you. I’m Fred. What’s your name?” he asks. As I begin to introduce myself, a woman walks in with a snack tray of fruits and cookies. A man wearing a green button-up shirt and hipster glasses approaches the snack lady. Pointing at a lush strawberry, he says that he would like just one single berry. He picks up the strawberry above his head as if to inspect it, then grins in approval before tilting back his head and taking a bite.
Scene one opens with an attempt to mock the undeniable decline of newsprint, that is expressed in a monologue delivered by George Wendt, who is best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show Cheers. Wendt plays the editor of a local Portland newspaper that has just been bought out by LINX PDX, “a very successful online blog.”
Armisen and Brownstein play the role of Trudy Adler and Craig Rodriguez of LINX PDX, who emphasize that headlines are the new articles because readers tune out after the first couple sentences. [Are you still reading this? Good. Glad I was able to keep your attention.]
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Here’s the best part:
In between takes, while actors, staff and extras mingled, Armisen wanted to add a little something to my notes. He wrote the following love letter (to himself):
“Fred Armisen seems very muscular and smart. He reads books constantly — all kinds of books. There were some titles that were clearly in different languages, and he was reading them all with ease. He has nice shoulders too. So cool and nice.”
Filed under: Advertisement, television | Tags: Mini, Mini Cooper, Not Normal
Sep 26, 2012 Mini Cooper AD. Very Cleaver.
Filed under: News | Tags: Liquor Privatization Initiative, oregon, Washington
For years now, the embattled Oregon Liquor Control Commission has been fighting powerful lobbyists for grocery store chains that want to end the state’s nearly 80-year monopoly on selling booze.
The argument for killing off the OLCC goes like this: Letting the private sector sell liquor—that is, allowing customers to pull into a Safeway or Whole Foods for their vodka—will be more convenient for consumers and much cheaper without a state bureaucracy setting prices.
Continue reading at Willamette Week.
Filed under: News | Tags: Baby Elephant, Have Trunk Will Travel, Oregon Zoo, Rose-Tu
Oregon Zoo officials quietly cut a deal to give up the 2nd, 4th and 6th offspring between Rose-Tu, owned by the zoo, and Tusko, a prolific male owned by Have Trunk Will Travel.
Last week’s birth was the second offspring between the pair. And most importantly the Oregon Zoo never said they actually own the elephant. In a press conference, Director Kim Smith said she wouldn’t make that guarantee that the elephant will stay with her mother, rather the HTWT organization could claim ownership at any time.
Filed under: Campaigns, Profiles | Tags: Democratic Women, Democrats, Emerge America, Emerge Oregon, Jessica Pederson
A group that trains Democratic women to run for office is showing success.
As a candidate for public office, Jessica Vega Pederson already had a compelling life story. She was raised in a Mexican-American family in Chicago, where her mother was politically active and Pederson got involved in Latino issues.
Now a project manager for a tech company, Pederson spent this year running for the Legislature in East Portland—and a victory she said would make her the first Latina elected to the Oregon House.
What Pederson lacked was practice in telling her story.
But this year Pederson took part in what’s become a secret weapon for Democratic women: Emerge Oregon.
CONTINUE READING AT WILLAMETTE WEEK
Photo from: http://www.emergeor.org/
Filed under: Profiles | Tags: Francisco Hernandez, Neighborhood house, Oregon Wild, Robert Klavins, Skidmore, Skidmore prize
The Skidmore Prizes celebrates the work performed in the nonprofit sector by Portlanders under the age of 36. At a celebration held at Rontom’s on Nov. 12, each of the four prize winners received a check for $4,000,in recognition of the award.
ROBERT KLAVINS Oregon Wild:
A land of mountains, forests, wetlands, lakes and rivers, Oregon is not lacking for intricately crafted hiking trails, serene camping grounds or estuarine marshes that cling to seaside cliffs. This is why Rob Klavins, a tall and husky 28-year-old, first moved here, he explains. Klavins is now wildlands and wildlife advocate for Oregon Wild, whose mission since 1974 has been to protect and restore the state’s wildlands, wildlife and water…continue reading at WW
FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ Neighborhood House:
“Gentlemen: In the locker rooms!” shouts Francisco Hernandez, as about two dozen young men sprint from the parking lot of Roosevelt High School. “If you plan on playing today: In the locker rooms!”
