tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post5884100310946517636..comments2013-02-21T20:35:15.029-08:00Comments on A Life Domestic: Too many "people like me"Mainland Sisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13646776463451024139noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post-59948469516657229542008-08-21T10:46:00.000-07:002008-08-21T10:46:00.000-07:00You know, as I mentioned in this post, I'm not sur...You know, as I mentioned in this post, I'm not sure I could handle true dissent--the in your face kind. My family is pretty politically different from me so we talk around issues rather than through them. <BR/><BR/>It's one of those things that I perhaps like better in theory than in practice. A little bickering and snarkiness and teasing is more my speed--these are the things that keep my marriage and some of my closest friendships alive!Mainland Sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646776463451024139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post-48729094410967448792008-08-19T12:57:00.000-07:002008-08-19T12:57:00.000-07:00Maybe you need some conservative Christian Souther...Maybe you need some conservative Christian Southerners in your family, like me. I'm sure they all think our branch of the family is a bunch of judgmental liberal atheists, while we all think they're a bunch of judgmental conservative fundamentalists. Alas, at our occasional get-togethers, everybody is so busy being polite and biting their tongues that no real conversations happen. Sigh.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17478174537996376713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post-82503446575663819862008-08-18T22:53:00.000-07:002008-08-18T22:53:00.000-07:00Messy and weird seems like a good plan. Maybe we s...Messy and weird seems like a good plan. Maybe we should edit those ubiquitous bumper stickers--"Keep Portland Weird"--accordingly. (Not that I support the use of non-organic bumper stickers on anything but hybrid or biodiesel cars, of course.)Mainland Sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646776463451024139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post-20608665343263568442008-08-17T09:35:00.000-07:002008-08-17T09:35:00.000-07:00Oops. the first part of the post was eliminated bu...Oops. the first part of the post was eliminated but you get the gist.fasenfesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08868075767165147192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post-86148463041709649782008-08-17T09:32:00.000-07:002008-08-17T09:32:00.000-07:00You know there is a marketer licking his or her ch...You know there is a marketer licking his or her chops to get a part of this. What a piece of cake it will be for them if what we want has specifics; if it has to be grown, made and defined in such a way that we have literally hand them a blue print. More then our own preciousness or liberal judgements, I am frightened about the way this emerging movement will be distilled by our own silly absolutism.<BR/><BR/>So how to take this work seriously but keep either the liberal junta and/or branders from turning into either a burden or jingle?<BR/><BR/>For my part I try to keep it stirred up and messy. It's easy since I am messy. I am a contradiction. I like growing food and American Idol. I like free-range and sugar coated shredded wheat. I'm not trying to be a dichotomy, I am. I think humans are messy and I think being honest by outing ourselves and the herky jerkiness of the effort will give each other breathing room and keep the precious police at bay.<BR/><BR/>It's easy for me. I've always thrown myself up as a foil since I had easy definitions.. Like throwing a pack of smokes on the counter as payment for my organic tomatoes at the farmer's market. Like showing a woman canning eyeballs on my business cards as a reminder not to take me too seriously; so I won't take myself too seriously. <BR/><BR/>I think the folks at the farmer's market thought I was nuts but it was all so perfect and wonderful at the market that I thought it needed to rearrange the pieces.Sometimes I think it is about theater but then again I like smoking cigarettes when I'm loaded or not. There, I did it again. She smokes, she gets high and she teaching food preservation. I also drive my car to the corner store to get smokes when I'm too tired to walk. Messed up isn't it? And yet when you see my gardens and see what I grow and how much food I preserve or my clothesline or my water barrel or my compost bins folks go......oooh. <BR/><BR/>I have always been wildly inappropriate and that is because the preciousness of Portlanders can be overwhelming. Yeah, you got all those tatoos but you'd pee your panties in a New York back ally. There's "hard" and then there's HARD, there's walk and then there's talk. And what I found is that the folks taking the time to challenge the markers of privilege and class in their world are busy and honest and humble, or at least try to be. And they know it is messy and it isn't what it looks like all the time to outsiders.<BR/><BR/>So, let's keep it messy and weird. And if anyone ever sent me an invite asking me to report on what bus route I was taking or yada, yada, yada I just wouldn't go. I doubt they'd be fun to hang with when I caught a buzz.fasenfesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08868075767165147192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post-21410699927552739482008-08-16T09:39:00.000-07:002008-08-16T09:39:00.000-07:00I thought more specifically of the Portland green ...I thought more specifically of the Portland green parenting and food blogs that I visit. On one site, a woman tsk-tsked someone for making salad with tomatoes in June, and on another, people RSVPed to a potluck with long descriptions of what kind of organic, locally grown food they were going to bring and which alternative mode of transportation they were going to use--complete with bus line numbers and transfers! What ever happened to RSVPs that just say, "We'll be there! What can we bring?"<BR/><BR/>I'm already too Portland-y, by the way. So I'll be expecting a slap in the face soon!Mainland Sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646776463451024139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899847539073422781.post-69651884628164979832008-08-15T19:45:00.000-07:002008-08-15T19:45:00.000-07:00let's make a pact to slap each other in the face i...let's make a pact to slap each other in the face if we start sounding too portland-y. I saw BB on jon stewart and thought immediately of portland, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com