[pdx_liff] Sittin' In With T.A. Barnhart and Ted Wheeler

3363.

Yesterday I had the exceptionally fine privilege of being in the same room with some pretty smart guys.

T.A., in the driver's seat.

To be most precise, I got a ringside seat to watching a good and smart friend and fellow local blogger, T.A. Barnhart, conduct a video interview with Portland mayor-elect Ted Wheeler for an upcoming project he's busy right now crafting. As experiences go, it was pretty peak. I got my first real up-close look at some video production with inspiring, driven people, and it was a real bracing education. I'm still busy processing the experience.

Ted Wheeler, as is no secret, is Portland's mayor-elect. He avoided runoff when he took more than 50 per cent of the vote in May, and I was an enthusiastic voter for him. I'm pleased and proud to say I had that chance. His campaign singularly impressed me that he was ready and eager to tackle the problems that the Rose City is experiencing right now.

What impressed me the most, and inspired me the most, was a really daring step, as campaigns go. He took his 'office' to the people, setting up a desk and talking and listening and hearing. Political animal that I am, I watched a lot of campaigns and a lot of styles. I've also followed Ted's story since he became Multnomah County Chair and then left, to my own chagrin (but the State of Oregon's benefit) to become State Treasurer. There was a kind of honesty and sincerity to it I've not seen before, and I fancy myself as cynical as they come.

Office hours are open ! Come on down to SE 79th and SE Stark and bring your ideas for #pdx #TedsDesk pic.twitter.com/fbwofy1bFN

— Ted Wheeler (@tedwheeler) March 25, 2016

The trip is as honest as it comes. I live in outer east Portland, Out 122nd Way, in the David Douglas community. This is an area which seems a beneficiary of a sort of benign neglect from the City of Portland. And I don't know how much change is in store. I think, with Ted, we're going to get a higher order of mayor than we've had: smart, engaged, open, and accessable.

More simply put, the Ted you saw on the campaign, based on my impression, is the Ted we're going to get. And that's going to be a good thing.

In the meantime, look forward to what T.A.'s putting together for us all. I know it's going to be good, but then, I saw the raw material. 

[bloggage] It's Good To Be Listed: I'm On The List At PDXBloggers.

3151.

As I've hinted, I'm now part of the most recent PDX master blog directory: PDXBloggers.com.

So check that shizz out, yo. And thanks to the PDXBloggers crew for adding me.

[pdx_blogs] The Burnsider: A Bridge-Based Corner of Our Town

2931.Just stumbled on this delightful thing that sadly didn't get the attention it needed or they'd still probably be putting things up: it's a blog called The Burnsider, published by a couple of folks who walked across the Burnside Bridge to go and come from whereever it was they were to wherever it was they were going in the day.

It published only four months, during the year of May 2005-May 2006. But there are these clever little glimpses there. Here's one I hope they don't mind me using:

… which proves they have the eye for the long view.

As blogging has evolved over the past half-decade or so, the proliferation of local photoblogs have been less proliferious. I am sad for this.

http://burnsider.blogspot.com. Go there; surprise 'em. Leave a comment or two. Imagine the delight as they check the inbox.

We salute you. Burnsider.

[pdx] Happy First Year, Dave And Heather

2675.Many cool couples have wedding anniversaries in August. My wife and I are one.

Dave (DaveKnowsPortland) and Heather (Mile73) are another. This member of an insufferably-happily-married couple wishes that pair have many more. 

[pdx] Portland's Public Art Doesn't Like You

2669.... And it has issues:



Another funnay from Mike Vogel, who's been busy as a … well, beaver … with the creative stuff lately.

[net_liff] Win Fawlty Towers For Following Dave At Twitter

2254.As anyone knows, Dave Knows PDX.

Dave knows PDX is built on an ancient unicorn burial ground, and you can trust Dave, because Dave Knows PDX, as I said.

I know that Dave is on Twitter, and Dave knows he wants more followers, and if you follow Dave, then you DM him on Twitter so that Dave knows you're following him, he will enter your name in a drawing, and once Dave knows he has more than 150 followers, he'll randomly pick a name and you'll know whether or not you'll be the proud owner of a shrink-wrapped set of the complete run of Fawlty Towers, which, as you and Dave and everyone knows, stars the not-yet-late John Cleese.

You know.

So you'll want to follow Dave at http://twitter.com/DaveKnowsPDX. And then let him know that you're following him.

If you know what I mean. You know?

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Ahem. If I May Be A Little Impertinent And Ranty Here?

2009.(Rant=on)

Now that Actual Big Important Portland Bloggers have discovered the news item that Tom Peterson's has cleared off, I'd like to point one little thing out:

I had the first posting up on it by anyone. It was on the 18th of March, if anyone cares to check.

Another Portland Blog noticed it and had the extreme class and courtesy to link to and at least give me the hat tip. That's highly excellent. Another Portland Blog is near the top of the Nifty for me. The fellow who has crafted a very loving Wikipedia article on Tom Peterson is also back in contact with me and I'm changing the permissions on my TP photos in my flickr stream so he can use them there. Because that's the way I roll, yo.

But at least one other local blogger read that one, complete with a link back to me, and didn't think I was important enough to mention. That's not excellent. It's also hard to understand, given the perception and the experience that that at-least-one-other-blogger has.

And so what if this post seems a little tantrum-y? Normally I have the dignity to continue on as though typically being treated as one of the ignorable rabble by the PDX Blog Cool Kids club is the order of the day.

Despite being seen as unfashionable, though, I seem to have attracted a core of regular readers and some fascinating people who actually went to the trouble of linking to me (you guys know who you are). And I am always publicly grateful for when someone links to me. I make it a point to give credit whenever I possibly can.

But sometimes you just have to stand up for yourself. There are a great number of enjoyable blogs out there that just get endlessly scoffed at by people who weren't always the most popular bloggers in town themselves. And you know who you are.

Would a hat-tip and a little credit have killed you?

Hissy fit over.

(Rant=off)