I was walking past the Portland/Oregon section in Powell’s Books today – if you’re a Portlander you know the section. Not one of us has not purchased or thought about purchasing one of those books about Portland for someone stuck in some god awful place they wish they would have left long ago.
There’s so many books to choose from. And you know what – of the umpteen books about Portland and it’s culture, not one of them mentions Street Roots.
How can one put out a book called Zinester’s Guide to Portland and not mention Street Roots? Worse, Portland’s Red Guide, a book about Portland’s radical past and present, nothing. Secret Portland? Nope. Portland for Dummies? Forget about it. I haven’t read Fugitives and Refugees, which Street Roots has both of, but I’m sure Chuck Palahniuk forgot to mention us or something, something. Fucker.
I’m telling all my friends to move to Seattle anyway… so there.
