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1.  Always under construction.
2.  Completely devoid of highway markings (find Rt 44 yourselves, outsiders).
3.  Responsible for the rapper Nelly.
4.  Full of horrible ghettos of every description.
5.  Spent a shitpile of money on an arch.  WTF is that shit?  Who goes anywhere to look at an arch?

Oh, wait.  That's St Louis.  Close enough.

TGRR,
Knows they're both full of ticks.

1, 2, and 4 are right enough.

Um.

Loisville adopted that slogan DECADES after Portland. When they adopted it, there were tons of people calling Louisville "the next Portland".  Now there are several "Keep (your city) weird movements... it's basically a buy local campaign. And they all copied Portland.

FWIW, I've been to Louisville and really liked it. It's more of a shithole than Portland is, and I mean that in the most loving way possible.

Yeah, well, everyone says Kentucky is stuck in the past, so by our moonshine-fueled reckoning, we still did it first afterwards.    

Portland's unofficial motto is "Keep Portland Weird".

Way to rip off Louisville, Western asscunts.

All I know about Portland is that some moron I knew in highschool once tried to convince me to go to some wacky college there, with the justification that Portland had "Like, the best new grunge scene in the world!" Not being any sort of grunge fan, I forgot about it and stayed in Louisville.

However, if this means Portland is the western version of Louisville, I may have to go thee on my next road trip.

But, this may lean towards more than the 4 obvious dimensions, if not an 'infinite multiverse'.

You seem to be conflating "dimensions" with "universes". Our universe has something up to 27 dimensions (I think, that number may be wrong) in theory, including the 4 dimensions we perceive. Any other universes as in Many-Worlds would presumably have these same dimensions.

Holy shit man, get out of my brain!

7. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk

really?

for really real?

I thought that album was absolute shit compared to what I've come to expect from COB.

Yes really, for really real. CoB is one band I find has consistently improved as time goes on. Though I admit it was pretty much just a coin toss between that and Hatebreeder.

10. Behemoth - Evangelion
9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
8. Slayer - Reign in Blood
7. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
6. Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
5. Dimmu Borgir - For all Tid
4. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
3. Tool - Lateralus
2. Primordial - Imrama
1. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Everyone wondering about stem cells curing Alzheimer's are thinking of Parkinson's, just fyi.

The Revelation Space books by Alastair Reynolds has a few of these; actually, all of the very few aliens encountered at all are like this. The two I can think of off the top of my head are:

-Grubs, basically giant maggots. Most prominent in Chasm City, also my favorite of all the books, definitely worth a read.

-Pattern Jugglers, essentially semi-sentient masses of seaweed that can store knowledge from people who come in contact with them, and implant that knowledge into others. People who contact them extensively tend to get completely absorbed.

#5 appears to be creationist-esque "logic". The universe seems perfect for life, so God/"Consciousness" must have made it. Except it's actually the other way around; life adapts to its environment as anyone who's read about natural selection in high school biology should know.