#Pittock Mansion

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Portland, OR

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Gratitude

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View from Pittock - Portland, OR 2/2/24

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Pittock Mansion, Oregon | October 2022

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This was my moms idea hehehe

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The Tuesday Ramble: West Hills Hiking, 2 April 2013

The Portland area is rich in points of interest. Too rich, if you ask me. There are so many great places to go to that it’s hard to go to them all, all the time. Every time I end up on Powell Butte, or Rocky Butte, or biking Leif Erickson, or up to Kelley Point, or (insert location here), I wonder aloud, “Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve been here! I need to come here more often!” And of course,…

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View from Pittock Mansion, Portland, Oregon, United States

Ümit Aslan

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I’m no expert in the matter but it’s wild to me that in absolutely no critique or discussion or mention of Wildwood by Colin Meloy (that I’ve been able to find) has anyone ever discussed its colonial aspect. I’m writing this down just so I feel like I’m not going crazy. I know I’m the sort of person who wrote my dissertation on imperialism in steampunk, and the book is also just not that popular, but it feels so immediately obvious.

Where are the Native American people? What’s the history of their relationship to the Impassable Wilderness?? The question stands out so much more to me than in other fantasy novels because Wildwood is established as existing within the real world. Prue and Curtis don’t stumble into a secondary reality alongside our own, Wildwood is a magical part of mundane reality. The maid at Pittock Mansion tells Prue that she can see the roofs of Portland from her home in South Wood.

The Laika trailer even mentions the background from the books, “When the first settlers came here, they called these woods the Impassable Wilderness.” So if we’re talking about the historical European/American settlers who built Portland, what about the historical indigenous people who would’ve lived beside the Impassable Wilderness for hundreds or thousands of years? It just feels like such an obvious awkwardness to me, and the book never seems to notice what it’s left unaddressed.

When we have a disputed wilderness existing within the real world, populated by good-guy bandits who all talk like Scots-Irish rough-and-tumble American revolutionaries, fighting against brigadier coyotes and a woman who looks like this,

described as wearing buckskin, with feathers in her hair…it all just starts to feel a little weird that I can’t find a single comment on the book’s relationship to colonialism, however unintentional I think it may have been.

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one of the showers of the pittock mansion

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Ran 15 miles yesterday, 10 of which were Pittock Mansion climb repeats (mostly hiking on the way up because: average of 9% grade for 1.3 miles at a time, repeated four times). Averaged a 13-minute mile on what turned out to be my second-climbingest run ever--about 3,300 feet of elevation gain. Motherfucker Unlimited tbh

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Friendship

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View from Pittock - Portland, OR 2/2/24

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I was just watching the hilariously bad Body of Evidence movie for some 1990 Portland nostalgia. I remember when they made this movie because I lived downtown when they filmed it and people were either excited because Uli Edel just made Last Exit To Brooklyn or they were into Madonna. Madonna was doing shit tons of publicity by whipping her titties out 24/7 and saying really stupid cunty shit and people were like "omg, she's a feminist or some shit" Anyway, there was some civic building next to the cemetery where you had to go get your food handler card and I remember one year I was too stoned to take the test and got caught cheating looking at my friends test and the county employee started power tripping and told me I couldn't cheat and made me move and when I brought the test up to her I tried to hand it to her and she fucking tapped a sign that said "place test here". A real Jamie Lee "NepoBaby" Curtis could win an Oscar portraying this bitch level of asshole.

Anyway, they movie really sucks and isn't even fun on a "so bad...." level. The portland shots are interesting in the beginning when viewed out of the office windows. Pittock Mansion in the hurricane thunderstorm at the start is like Draculas castle for a hot moment.

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