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Book Portlandia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Armisen
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2012-11-13
  • ISBN : 1455520578
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Portlandia written by Fred Armisen and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking of visiting Portlandia? Discover all that this magical, dreamy city has to offer with PORTLANDIA: A Guide for Visitors. Inside you'll find: A comprehensive guide to all restaurants and food carts, including extensive use of symbols to signify Vegan, Freegan, Sea-gan, Wheelchair-Accessible, Skateboard-Accessible, Segway-Accessible, Clothing Optional, Polyamorous, LGBTQ, Dog-Friendly (No cats), Cat-Friendly (No dogs or mice) Mouse-Friendly (No cats or elephants), For Dogs (only), Regionally-Sourced Food, Regionally-Sourced Waitstaff, and House-Sourced Food (Born/dies on plate). A guide for dogs and dog owners, including a detailed map of the numerous dog parks the city has to offer. Very numerous and passionately maintained. An up-to-date guide to shopping, schools, and entertainment. A city activities guide for older adults who are stuck in perpetual early twentysomething-dom. A guide for getting around, either by foot, or by bicycle, the official car of Portlandia. Featured also are the 9 official bicycle rules of the road, drawn up by Spyke and his bike comrades. Not to be ignored! *Please note, and point out to your best friend, that this book is printed on 130% recycled paper in a peanut-free, smoke-free plant by local workers in a friendly and fair environment, free of sudden noises and unnatural light.

Book The Portlandia Activity Book

Download or read book The Portlandia Activity Book written by Fred Armisen and published by McSweeneys Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is The Portlandia Activity Book--a compendium of guaranteed enrichment for the Pacific Northwestern part of your psyche. Like a cool high school that prefers a sweat lodge to the traditional classroom, this book will expand your mind through participation, dehydrate you to a state of emotional rawness, then linger in the corners your bare soul. Here you will find enough activities to get you through a year's worth of rainy days, including: "How to Crowdfund Your Baby," "Punk Paint By Numbers," "Terrarium Foraging," and so much more. With pages unlike any you've seen before, this is the kind of book that you can be yourself around. Shed the trappings of normalcy, let down your glorious mane, and take the deepest breath of your life. Portlandia is beckoning your arrival.

Book Quicklet on Portlandia Season 2  TV Show

Download or read book Quicklet on Portlandia Season 2 TV Show written by Jonathan Kaufman Nathan and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK “I like to describe Portland as a city with a lot of self-esteem, filled with people with a lot of self-doubt. Portland is a really kind place, with all kinds of people who will go to tyrannical lengths to show you how kind they are, to the point that it actually feels kind of mean. I think a lot of our characters are trying to navigate that.” – Portlandia co-creator Carrie Brownstein, quoted in The Daily Beast “You remember the 90s, when everyone was pickling their own vegetables, and brewing their own beer? People were growing out their mutton chops and waxing their handlebar moustaches. Everyone was knitting and sewing clothes for their children. People were wearing glasses all the time, like contact lenses had never been invented.” “Wait, are we talking about the 1990s?” – Jason From LA and Melanie, Episode 5, “The Dream of the 1890s” If you haven’t heard the joke, then you haven’t been going to the right bars in the right cities with the right people. Hang around enough cool, plugged-in, young, urban progressives - “hipsters,” as they’ve been termed in the last few years - and you’re bound to eventually meet a couple of them who are self-aware enough to have latched on to it. The joke is dry, bitter, self-deprecating. It indicts the entire hipster scene for a sin, one which is simultaneously inconsequential and monumental, that has characterized American progressives - young and old, hip and square, urban and rural - for decades. “Hey, are you a hipster?” “No.” “OK, you’re a hipster.” Hipsters are becoming notorious for their self-loathing. The internet is lousy with Tumblrs, blogs, and entire websites dedicated to bashing the hipster phenomenon. But who are the people hanging out long enough to make all these observations in the Mission, in Williamsburg, in Silver Lake, in Wicker Park, in Capitol Hill? It generally takes one to know one, when it comes to hipsters, and the joke is that one of the first identifiers of a hipster is denial of membership in the group. It’s a social identity literally built around participants’ pretending to not be participants. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK “Hey, are you a hipster?” “No.” “OK, you’re a hipster.” Hipsters are becoming notorious for their self-loathing. The internet is lousy with Tumblrs, blogs, and entire websites dedicated to bashing the hipster phenomenon. But who are the people hanging out long enough to make all these observations in the Mission, in Williamsburg, in Silver Lake, in Wicker Park, in Capitol Hill? It generally takes one to know one, when it comes to hipsters, and the joke is that one of the first identifiers of a hipster is denial of membership in the group. It’s a social identity literally built around participants’ pretending to not be participants. It’s not new, this progressive self-hatred. Its roots run deep. Liberals have always seemed uneasy with their own ideals. Conservatives rarely engage in the same degree of public, brutal, hilarious, humiliating self-flagellation. Recent studies have confirmed that conservative politics are bolstered by what is termed “low-effort thinking.” Firmly attached to a relatively simple, black-and-white worldview, a conservative does not see enough complexity in the issues of the day to see the funny side of his or her own perspective. But philosophical self-mutilation is so deeply entrenched in the left that progressives even do it in their daily lives. They wryly adopt and self-apply the most insulting terms hurled at them from across the aisle. Bleeding heart. Flaming liberal. Treehugger. And so on and so forth.

Book Quicklet on Portlandia Season 1

Download or read book Quicklet on Portlandia Season 1 written by Jonathan Nathan and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the hipster movement it ridicules, Portlandia has its roots in the early 1990s - the Grunge Era. After early innovators like Mudhoney and Tad paved the way, the blockbuster triumvirate of Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains ruled MTV and college radio for half a decade, with Pearl Jam going on to even greater, and more sustained success. Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater made films that idealized underemployment and post-high-school doldrums. Quentin Tarantino pioneered a schizophrenic, heavily referential style of film that seemed designed to mimic the long, drawn-out, conversations of a group of stoned young film buffs with nothing to do and too big of a videotape collection. Flannel shirts and what Silver Jews frontman David Berman would later describe as "sarcastic hair" were the height of fashion. Every young kid in America since the second World War has probably been called a lazy, good-for-nothing slacker by his or her parents at least once, but in 1993, there was no higher compliment. Everybody was going to be an artist, a comedian, a writer, a filmmaker, an actor, a poet. And in two different grunge havens, separated by half a continent, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein were starting their long journeys toward that dreamed-of success. Given that they both found their most widely celebrated success working together on a sketch comedy series, it is perhaps surprising that they both started out playing in cult favorite indie rock bands.

Book The Portlandia Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Armisen
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 2014-10-28
  • ISBN : 0804186103
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book The Portlandia Cookbook written by Fred Armisen and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion cookbook to the hit show Portlandia by the Emmy-nominated stars and writers Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, with 50 delicious recipes for every food lover, freegan, organic farmer, and food truck diehard. Food plays a very special role in Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s award-winning satire Portlandia and now you can cook the dishes that define the show, from cult-raised chicken and Stu’s stews to pickled veggies and foraged green salads. Complete with full-color finished food photographs and illustrations, humorous stories and sidebars from the loveable food-obsessed Portlandia characters (such as Mr. Mayor, Peter and Nance, and Colin the chicken), and advice on how to choose a bed and breakfast and behave at a communal table, this is a funny cookbook—with serious recipes—for anyone who loves food. And yes, the chicken’s local.

Book Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Download or read book Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl written by Carrie Brownstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experiencing the power and mystery of a live performance. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s. They would be cited as “America’s best rock band” by legendary music critic Greil Marcus for their defiant, exuberant brand of punk that resisted labels and limitations, and redefined notions of gender in rock. HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era’s flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later. With deft, lucid prose Brownstein proves herself as formidable on the page as on the stage. Accessibly raw, honest and heartfelt, this book captures the experience of being a young woman, a born performer and an outsider, and ultimately finding one’s true calling through hard work, courage and the intoxicating power of rock and roll.

Book Systematics of Hintonia Bullock and the Portlandia Complex  Rubiaceae

Download or read book Systematics of Hintonia Bullock and the Portlandia Complex Rubiaceae written by Helga Ochoterena-Booth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania

Download or read book Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Skrifter

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  • Author : Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo. I. Matematisk-naturvidenskapelig klasse
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book Skrifter written by Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo. I. Matematisk-naturvidenskapelig klasse and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania  I  Mathematisk naturvidenskabelig klasse

Download or read book Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania I Mathematisk naturvidenskabelig klasse written by Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo. I--Mat.-naturv. klasse and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Arnold Arboretum

Download or read book Journal of the Arnold Arboretum written by Arnold Arboretum and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual "Bibliography of the published writings of the staff and students..."

Book The Butterflies of North America

Download or read book The Butterflies of North America written by William Henry Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Hard Can It Be

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allison Pearson
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2018-06-05
  • ISBN : 1250086108
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book How Hard Can It Be written by Allison Pearson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look, I was doing OK. I got through the oil spill on the road that is turning forty. Lost a little control, but I drove into the skid just like the driving instructors tell you to and afterwards things were fine again, no, really, they were better than fine. Kate Reddy had it all: a nice home, two adorable kids, a good husband. Then her kids became teenagers (read: monsters). Richard, her husband, quit his job, taking up bicycling and therapeutic counseling: drinking green potions, dressing head to toe in Lycra, and spending his time—and their money—on his own therapy. Since Richard no longer sees a regular income as part of the path to enlightenment, it’s left to Kate to go back to work. Companies aren’t necessarily keen on hiring 49-year-old mothers, so Kate does what she must: knocks a few years off her age, hires a trainer, joins a Women Returners group, and prepares a new resume that has a shot at a literary prize for experimental fiction. When Kate manages to secure a job at the very hedge fund she founded, she finds herself in an impossible juggling act: proving herself (again) at work, dealing with teen drama, and trying to look after increasingly frail parents as the clock keeps ticking toward her 50th birthday. Then, of course, an old flame shows up out of the blue, and Kate finds herself facing off with everyone from Russian mobsters to a literal stallion. Surely it will all work out in the end. After all, how hard can it be? Hilarious and poignant, How Hard Can It Be? brings us the new adventures of Kate Reddy, the beleaguered heroine of Allison Pearson's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It.

Book Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden

Download or read book Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden written by New York Botanical Garden and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Norges geologiske undersøkelse
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 836 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Norges geologiske undersøkelse and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contributions

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  • Author : New York Botanical Garden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book Contributions written by New York Botanical Garden and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania  I  Mathematisk naturvidenskabelig klasse

Download or read book Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabsselskabet i Christiania I Mathematisk naturvidenskabelig klasse written by Norsk videnskaps-akademi, Oslo. Matematisk-naturvidenskapelig klasse and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: