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A WHISPER FROM BEHIND BARS RE: “The Fall of Romneyville” [Feature, Sept 7], a report from the Republican National Convention. DEAR EDITOR—Loved Andrew R Tonry’s piece. It seems like you have the talent to become an important little paper if you wanted to by including more feature-length articles. I, for example, really wish you’d start doing a little poking around in the Oregon Department of Corrections. If only you knew what goes on here. DL STRIPPERS FOR IAN RE: “Portland as Fuck” [Feature, Sept 20], in which comedian and writer Ian Karmel sizes up Voodoo Doughnut and Portland strip clubs, declaring the latter “just fucking fun!”
BRIAN—The amount of people begging for dimes and food here in Portland actually stands as explicit testament to the quality of our weather this summer, but more so unto the very generosity of the hard-working and compassionate folk scattered unsparingly about our fine city, that those who are asking may find enough here to live well enough to ask another day, another week, another year. Many of those whom you reference are chronic rather than acute cases, seasonal at that, as someone who resides here permanently can attest to, Brian, my serially visiting fellow human. Nicolas
The strippers of Portland would like to thank Ian Karmel for his refreshingly positive shoutout to us in his recent guest article “Portland as Fuck.” Dude, you totally rule! The Strippers of Portland like my friends there either (1) felt sorry for (via Rocket, co-producer of the Strippies) me or (2) thought I was a loser for appreciating the time off. Back visiting friends in Portland, though, not a single person looked BONA FIDES RE: Up & Coming [Sept 20], in which au- askance at my unemployment-by-choice. The thor Morgan Troper unfavorably previews problem with the way we think about calculating un(der)employment is that we work a Matisyahu concert. from the baseline assumption that working MORGAN—Your hostile preview of Mati- 40-plus hours a week is everyone’s ideal. syahu’s recent show in Portland is both ob- Instead of the baseline being “works 40 noxious and offensive. Are you aware that hours/week,” the baseline should be “works Matisyahu is actually an observant and hum- as much as s/he wants to work.” If the city ble Jew living a private family life (when not is able to provide the range of jobs that the touring) in a religious enclave of Brooklyn? community demands, then that should be our You may not like him or what he stands for, mark of economic success. If Portland can figor you may be like most of the writers for ure out how to provide for and embrace both the Mercury, supporting punk, metal, and these types of people—and if it can control the melancholy indie scene, which is fine. gentrification and promote socio-economic But don’t take your aggression and possibly diversity in the inner city—then I think it’ll anti-Semitism out on Matisyahu, even if you be in good shape. At the very least, it’s got the right attitude already. don’t like his music. posted by Linn Davis Ezf ODD JOBS RE: “Portland: The Place Where Young People Are Underemployed” [Blogtown, Sept 21], regarding a study showing that, contrary to popular saying, young Portlanders are more likely to be underemployed than unemployed. For more on the subject, see News, pg. 9.
SPEAKING OF ATTITUDE, Linn, we like yours. We don’t know if you’re right, but we applaud positive thinking. That’s why you win this week’s Mercury letter of the week, and two tickets to the Laurelhurst Theater, where the underemployed enjoy recent films at competitive prices. COVER ART:
This is an awesome piece, and I could not be more appreciative of Sarah [Mirk’s] recognition that a 40-hour workweek isn’t everyone’s idea of utopia. I remember a couple of years ago when I was temporarily unemployed and living in New York City, and I felt portlandmercury.com
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THE VISITOR RE: “Be Ashamed” [Letters, Sept 20], in which “yearly visitor” Brian writes in to express outrage at Portland’s number of homeless people.
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