Review
Too Close to Home: Portlandia
Living in Portland seems to grant me a level of street-cred I’ve been able to ride for the majority of my adult life. The city is, at the very least, a part of a lot of people’s periphery. Our environmental practices and policies are nationally lauded. Our music scene has perfected the delicate oxymoron of being a well-known underground. The beer is good and rent is cheap. Really, not too shabby for a town in a state people still pronounce as OH-REE-GONE. Sure, we may take ourselves a little too seriously at times. And the hipster epidemic shows no signs
My, How the Tables have Turned!
In the last quarter of 2010, Hasbro and Discovery Channel launched a new network called The Hub. It showcases a variety of family friendly programming and above all, the network features some of Hasbro’s well known toy brands. On the day after Thanksgiving, they launched a new G.I. Joe series called G.I. Joe: Renegades. This is a depiction of the Joes I never saw before. “Accused of a crime they didn’t commit, a ragtag band of fugitives fights a covert battle to clear their names and expose the insidious enemy that is… Cobra. Some call them outlaws. Some call them