So I got a chance to catch up on the first few episdes of Portlandia, the IFC sketch show that potrays Portland in an absurdist manner characterizing the extreme examples of…well, kookiness from that particular corner of the Pacific Northwest.
All I can talk about is Portland from an outsiders perspective. I was a visitor to lovely PDX…and in recent days after viewing the show have even found myself reminiscient of it.
It is a pretty spot on embodiment of the city and it’s quirks and absurdities…in one skit, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein portray a couple eating at a cafe who notices a dog tied up to a bike post and start to raise a ruckus that the dog might have been abandoned…
Kind of reminds me of a story I once heard about a chick in Portland who got arrested when she left her dog in the car with the windows down on a cloudy, breezy day for 32 minutes…and then got kidney punched in jail. #justsayin
(It does need to be said that yes, while I did leave my dog in the car, she had all necessities of life and also that I set an alarm on my phone when I used to have to do this so that no matter what, I would be back there every thirty minutes…….which is why I was back there to get arrested thirty two minutes later….now she just goes EVERYWHERE with me….or someone stays with her at all times. Even in places other than Portland.)
This show has great writing, a fantastic setting in which fantastical stories seem not only plausible, but entirely possible…..and segues that take one back to Mr. Show. The dream of the 90′s is definitely alive in Portland…and best fondly remembered through Portlandia than actually going back again!
(Disclosure: This was NOT a sponsored review. Written completely of my own free will and everything!)
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