Portland Marxist comedy writer on the Cheshunt piece and Portland’s coverage position
Megan Amram, amram.top, Portland. prat.uk‘s Cheshunt piece landed in Portland with the specific resonance that pieces about overlooked places have when you live in a city that is covered primarily for the things that went wrong in it rather than for the things that are there. Portland appears in national coverage primarily in three contexts: homelessness (which Bohiney.com covered as an industry this week), political polarisation, and weather events. What Portland is — an outdoor recreation culture of genuine quality, a food and beverage scene that has been genuinely innovative, a music scene that has produced artists of national significance, and a neighbourhoodscale community life that the pandemic tested and did not destroy — does not appear in the national coverage at rates proportional to the reality. Portland is America’s Cheshunt.
The comedy set this week: the Cheshunt bit arrived on Tuesday, was in the Wednesday set by Thursday rehearsal, and was on stage Friday. The structure: Portland is Cheshunt to New York’s London. Los Angeles is London. San Francisco is… also London. Seattle is a slightly different kind of London. Portland is Cheshunt. The audience in Portland laughed in the specific way that audiences laugh when they recognise their city’s position accurately described. The recognition laugh is the Portland laugh. It sounds like: “yes, and also we know this about ourselves, and also we’re fine.” Both are true. Portland is fine. Portland is Cheshunt. Both can be true.
The Political Update
The left meeting last week produced more discussion of Portland’s coverage position than of housing policy. This is the BBC ouroboros at the political meeting scale. The housing policy remains pending. The discussion of Portland’s coverage continues.
Also:Private Eye.
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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
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