Rev Roger, Sermon #75: Lurking Bastards and Ranting to an Empty Room

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, it is very not good for the psyche to research these things too hard.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Portland has a weird, creepy underbelly that isn't easily uncovered. We're all so happy here, it's so green, you see?

So green, and so clean, and so many bridges, and that big big park, and some weird fucking shit that nobody ever, ever talks about. Shit that sometimes, everybody knows about, but nobody talks about. Until finally someone won't shut the fuck up and they have to go exhume the bodies under the bridge and suddenly we know where all the street kids were disappearing to.

I really want to know about that compound, though. It was all these dilapidated shacks surrounded by an extra-tall chain-link fence that was completely covered with corrugated fiberglass sheeting so you couldn't see in. You could just get a glimpse of the shacks through the gate when it was open.

Are you talking about the one on 52nd and Duke (I think)? If you are, it's a super-creepy "campground" for some weirdo Jesus cult. I've never seen anyone going in or coming out, ever, and I drive by it fairly frequently. There's no corrugated fiberglass sheeting but there's a tall fence and the cabins definitely qualify as "dilapidated shacks".

Didn't Portland have, like a lot of Neo-Nazis, back in the day? 

Still does. We call them "Officer" now.

YESSSSSS!!!

That's the place! So you can see in now? I need to get a history on that place.

I was just researching Rocky Butte (again) and... oh, just fuck me. Same with Cathedral Park. Jesus.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So for some reason I can't find anything on the Web about that guy in the 80's and 90's in St. Johns who was taking in street kids, using them to traffick drugs, and periodically having them murder each other or homeless people for sport.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh god fuck it, what am I doing? More horrors I don't want to know about. Poor fucking kid. FUCK.

Time to go pour myself into a gold dress and put on gold makeup and go to the gold party and smile, smile, smile.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

 

i've never used this emote.
and now i'm going to.

[Sexecutioner Chao Tight]

Oh god fuck it, what am I doing? More horrors I don't want to know about. Poor fucking kid. FUCK.

Time to go pour myself into a gold dress and put on gold makeup and go to the gold party and smile, smile, smile.

Dark Empress Nigel, Portland is a dark city with a dark soul.  She smiles sometimes, a sunny cheery smile.  But for nine months out of the year she tries in vain to let the rain wash the blood off her hands.  Her main river runs in reverse.  And she always attracts the weirdest of the weird.  Not usually the truly horrifically strange that flock to LA and the Bay Area, but the quiet, subtle, mind-fuck types who given the right set of circumstances (nine months of rain and darkness, pure bleak) they forget about the light and just look ever deeper into the dark until they believe they are part of her and they succumb to her will.

You have seen the statue Portlandia?  Does it not scream, "Do not fuck with this bitch! She WILL cut you, or spear you with a pitchfork."?

[Juana]

Dude, I approve!



Nigel, that makes me want to see what I can find here. We've got our own nasty, seedy historical corners (Hitler's pet American Nazi, who helps shuttle Jews into ghettos, got involved in our town planning in the 70s, for example), but I don't know very much. You have me curious.


And actually, I'm fiddling with some Fresno mythos (riffing off Nigel's "all roads lead to Fresno" because that's cool and why should Portland, Tucson, and Providence have all the cool stuff?).

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh god fuck it, what am I doing? More horrors I don't want to know about. Poor fucking kid. FUCK.

Time to go pour myself into a gold dress and put on gold makeup and go to the gold party and smile, smile, smile.

Dark Empress Nigel, Portland is a dark city with a dark soul.  She smiles sometimes, a sunny cheery smile.  But for nine months out of the year she tries in vain to let the rain wash the blood off her hands.  Her main river runs in reverse.  And she always attracts the weirdest of the weird.  Not usually the truly horrifically strange that flock to LA and the Bay Area, but the quiet, subtle, mind-fuck types who given the right set of circumstances (nine months of rain and darkness, pure bleak) they forget about the light and just look ever deeper into the dark until they believe they are part of her and they succumb to her will.

You have seen the statue Portlandia?  Does it not scream, "Do not fuck with this bitch! She WILL cut you, or spear you with a pitchfork."?

When they first brought Portlandia up the river on the barge and installed her on the teacup building, I was afraid of her. I wouldn't walk under her menacing outstretched hand.

Now, though, I understand.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Dude, I approve!



Nigel, that makes me want to see what I can find here. We've got our own nasty, seedy historical corners (Hitler's pet American Nazi, who helps shuttle Jews into ghettos, got involved in our town planning in the 70s, for example), but I don't know very much. You have me curious.


And actually, I'm fiddling with some Fresno mythos (riffing off Nigel's "all roads lead to Fresno" because that's cool and why should Portland, Tucson, and Providence have all the cool stuff?).

Oh HELL YES>

Fresno: the city which once widened all its main drags to accomodate traffic it didn't have on the premise that "if you build it, they will come".

[Juana]

Yep.

[DECI4]

Oh sure, the decline in membership and posting has nothing to do with the administration, there are no facts, black and white, right or wrong, just shades of grey. Intellectual dishonesty being par for the course around here, it is no surprise that your rant disavows any responsibility and lacks any serious thought or introspection.

Now go ahead and move this post into your comfort zone. Out of sight and out of mind.

[Pæs]

Oh sure, the decline in membership and posting has nothing to do with the administration, there are no facts, black and white, right or wrong, just shades of grey. Intellectual dishonesty being par for the course around here, it is no surprise that your rant disavows any responsibility and lacks any serious thought or introspection.

Now go ahead and move this post into your comfort zone. Out of sight and out of mind.

How absolutely darling! Look at you!

Aren't you just an adorable little non-conformist?

"Hey, just wanted to stop by and not be part of the herd. Take note of the issues I have with the herd, okay?"

Too cute.

[DECI4]

Oh sure, the decline in membership and posting has nothing to do with the administration, there are no facts, black and white, right or wrong, just shades of grey. Intellectual dishonesty being par for the course around here, it is no surprise that your rant disavows any responsibility and lacks any serious thought or introspection.

Now go ahead and move this post into your comfort zone. Out of sight and out of mind.

How absolutely darling! Look at you!

Aren't you just an adorable little non-conformist?

"Hey, just wanted to stop by and not be part of the herd. Take note of the issues I have with the herd, okay?"

Too cute.

I'm sure your sarcasm and avoidance of the topic will score you +100 attention points with the home team.

[DECI4]

Oh sure, the decline in membership and posting has nothing to do with the administration, there are no facts, black and white, right or wrong, just shades of grey. Intellectual dishonesty being par for the course around here, it is no surprise that your rant disavows any responsibility and lacks any serious thought or introspection.

Now go ahead and move this post into your comfort zone. Out of sight and out of mind.

How absolutely darling! Look at you!

Aren't you just an adorable little non-conformist?

"Hey, just wanted to stop by and not be part of the herd. Take note of the issues I have with the herd, okay?"

Too cute.

I wouldn't bother replying either, your mods with brittle egos will just move your posts and mine anyway. Even if we are discussing the topic.

[BadBeast]

Oh sure, the decline in membership and posting has nothing to do with the administration, there are no facts, black and white, right or wrong, just shades of grey. Intellectual dishonesty being par for the course around here, it is no surprise that your rant disavows any responsibility and lacks any serious thought or introspection.

Now go ahead and move this post into your comfort zone. Out of sight and out of mind.

How absolutely darling! Look at you!

Aren't you just an adorable little non-conformist?

"Hey, just wanted to stop by and not be part of the herd. Take note of the issues I have with the herd, okay?"

Too cute.

I wouldn't bother replying either, your mods with brittle egos will just move your posts and mine anyway. Even if we are discussing the topic.

But you still did.