Across the street from Voodoo Donuts in downtown Portland is a glorious wall painting that reads:
"KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD."
I've heard it claimed that Austin, Texas actually originated the "KEEP [BLANK] WEIRD" meme, but no matter, Portland as certainly made it its own--and would that all the Lord's cities gloried in their weirdness! Indeed, when a friend of mine moved from Portland to Salt Lake, her chief gripe about the place was that in Utah, people said "Weird" like it was a
bad thing! ...
Published on April 17, 2014 08:15