Presented for your pleasure:
My city, as described by stereotypical sayings.
YES, ‘Couch’ street IS pronounced ‘Cooch’ because YES.
We are just a collection of Urban Chicken Farmers and THERE IS NO NIGHT LIFE HERE.
Via Coeur de l'Histoire
Supporting Our Troops of the Day: Oregon Ducks head football coach Chip Kelly has made honoring the military a tradition at the annual spring game, and this year was no different. To the cheers of 44,129 fans, the team welcomed 100 military personnel onto the field, where Ducks football players presented them with jerseys. And not just any jerseys — the notoriously gaudy, Nike-designed jerseys off their stinky, sweat-soaked backs.
Next year, Ducks, if you’re going to saddle military personnel with ugly unis, at least spring for new ones.
Via The Daily What
Original Starbucks
Starbucks opened its first store in 1971 in the Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. Because the Market is a historic district with design guidelines, the store retains its original look.
CREATED BY SHWOOD EYEWEAR AND JULIAN BIALOWAS, “THIS IS OREGON” IS A COLLABORATIVE ENDEAVOR TO INSPIRE OTHERS TO GET UP, GO OUT, AND START EXPLORING. ThisisOR.com
No matter where you live, adventure is much closer than you think. New experiences, unknown surroundings, and exciting opportunities are just waiting to be discovered. Sometimes all it takes is a bit of motivation and knowing where to start.
We’ve traveled to ten locations within a 90-minute drive from downtown Portland, Oregon to showcase the awe-inspiring landscapes that are waiting to be explored. From highway pull-offs to backcountry overnighters, and sun-baked coastlines to snowy mountainsides, there is something for everyone, everywhere.
At each location we captured a featured photograph and paired it with an interactive 360 degree panorama and Google map to help you find your way. Hopefully these destinations will light the fire for you to look beyond and explore the endless beauty waiting outside your door.
(Source: fuckyesoregon)
Via Fuck Yes Oregon!
Japanese Golf Association of Portland, Oregon, originally organized in the 1920s by Dr. Benjamin Tanaka. Golfers here include Tom Kuratani, Henry Matsunaga, Mr. Iwata, Iwao Oyama, Mits Nakata, Mr. Tateishi, Kei Koyama, Mr. & Mrs. Matsuura, and Japanese Consul Shoda. Circa 1940.
I Can Has Existentialism? of the Day: Holy stereotypical Pacific Northwest shenanigans, Batman! Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold is set to score The Internet – A Blog Cats WTF Universe, a feature-length film presumably about, well, the Internet, blogs, cats, WTF, and maybe even the universe.
Pecknold’s connection to such a strange project? His brother Sean (who has directedFleet Foxesvideos in the past) is the mastermind behind it.
From the film’s Kickstarter page:
Matt is one of the best LOLCat caption writers in the world. He’s experienced the rise of the internet and came out on top. Thousands of fans, plenty of money in the bank, a successful career. But one day he realizes that perhaps there’s more to life than just viral internet cat humor. So he packs his bags and moves to Berlin, the new center of the artistic and philosophical renaissance, or so he’s been told.
Yep, sounds pretty quintessentially PacNW to me.
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It’s always pretty interesting to see what people outside of the PNW think of the people who live in the PNW…
Via The Daily What
