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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Politics Bringing the Obnoxious with the Bus Project

Posted by Unpaid Arts Intern on Wed, May 21 at 3:47 PM

I think I get played up as an alcoholic on this blog, which isn’t really fair. It’s just that I drink a lot on Mondays and Tuesdays because I work on the weekends - see? It’s like my weekends are your work days. Make sense? Not an alcoholic.

Anyway, I tagged along with the Portland Bus Project last night for the duration of the evening’s parties. There were about 30 of us piled into a bus, and we went to every single party, dude. Every one. It was really fun, inspiring and exhausting (maybe a smart person wouldn’t have ended an exhausting day by drinking into the wee hours at rontom’s?).

Click Here for a surprisingly well-written article from the Oregonian about the Bus Project that was published yesterday.

This is the flavor that the Bus Project brought to the scene last night (the fuzziness works here, doesn’t it?):

How could Sho turn away such a group of excitable, good-looking youngsters?

I could write way too much about this, it was a really fun night, but I’ll stop here. The bus brought the surreal to each political party it hit up, and in Portland, that’s a very necessary ingredient to anything or anybody that’s trying to represent the city.

More info here.

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Comments

How is anything in that picture "surreal"?

It just looks like a bunch of sheltered college kids trying to be "edgy" for a night on the town.

Posted by gary | May 21, 2008 4:08 PM

Aw, I hope you do a more thorough write-up! I'll bet you got an awesome perspective on election night... damn I wish I'd scored some buffet action.

Posted by Michelle | May 21, 2008 4:36 PM

Hey Gary, you're a jerk!

Posted by hayley | May 21, 2008 5:06 PM

Hey Gary, you're a jerk!

Posted by hayley | May 21, 2008 5:06 PM

Hey Gary, you're a jerk!

Posted by hayley | May 21, 2008 5:07 PM

Hey Gary, you're a jerk!

Posted by hayley | May 21, 2008 5:07 PM

Hey Gary, somebody thinks you're a real jerk!

Way to go!!

My BFF Sophie is in this pic wearing MY white sunglasses! MY ACCESSORIES HAD MORE FUN THAN I DID LAST NIGHT!!!

Posted by JONES | May 21, 2008 10:00 PM

Gary, those sheltered college kids do more for this state in 20 minutes than you probably have your whole life. The worst thing you can say about the Bus Project is that it's going to be almost impossible to find a new leader as capable and inspiring as Rep-elect Jefferson Smith (which is no knock on them but rather testament to Jeff).

Hmmm....young people getting wasted at Barracuda's and Dixie then driving home, or getting together in a bus and immersing themselves in democracy (while getting wasted)--which would you prefer?

Posted by torridjoe | May 22, 2008 10:30 AM

Unpaid intern, you might want to learn the difference between an article in the Oregonian and an Op-Ed commentary. Then you might not refer to an essay written by the Bus Project's director and youth vote director as "a surprisingly well-written article from the Oregonian about the Bus Project."

Posted by unpaid intern critic | May 22, 2008 1:06 PM

WHAT PART OF UNPAID DO YOU JERKS WHO CRITICIZE THE INTERN DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?

Posted by Aaron | May 22, 2008 4:46 PM