WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?
Welcome to WW's.... FIRST ANNUAL SUPER-DELUXE INTERACTIVE READERS PROBE
November 18th, 2009
Randyland, Part II | WW examines whether Randy Leonard is using his power to benefit downtown’s largest private property owner.64 comments
November 11th, 2009
Randyland | With the Mayor sidelined, Leonard takes over.98 comments
October 28th, 2009
Natural Selection10 comments
October 21st, 2009
Left Out | Why are two virtually identical eighth-grade girls treated so differently by Portland Public Schools?56 comments
October 14th, 2009
Who Took Our Jobs? | Oregon’s unemployment is at the top of the charts—again. Here’s why.90 comments
October 7th, 2009
Text Appeal | On the eve of the city’s biggest literary blowout, we hounded Wordstock authors with the questions that really matter. And some that don’t.0 comments
September 30th, 2009
Censored | The ten biggest stories ignored by the major media.22 comments
September 23rd, 2009
Meet Dr. Know | Got a question? Ask our new brainiac. 12 comments
September 16th, 2009
Modest Mouseketeers | His band rules the world, so why is Isaac Brock starting from scratch with two obscure Portland bands? 14 comments
September 9th, 2009
It’s Not My Fault | What people will say to get out of a Portland parking ticket.31 comments
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[November 23rd, 2005] How do Portlanders really feel about weed, wine, dogs, politics, high heels and each other? (And, most importantly, where do they stand on the "Brazilian")? With our inaugural come-one-come-all Q/A session, we aim to find out.
Portland may be hard up for high-wage jobs, wild-spawned salmon and cash to keep the schools open. But one thing we have in teeming abundance: opinions. In a city where one political bumper sticker is never enough, everyone has something to say about just about everything.
Somehow, though, the sloganeering-as-dialogue leaves us seriously unsatisfied. Why doesn't anyone ask the important questions, about the stuff that really matters in a city constantly in flux, crawling with transplanted newcomers and locked in a permanent identity crisis?
Like, for example, tattoos, TriMet and the popularity of paganism?
In our quest to figure out the real deal in the City of Roses, WW composed a mega-survey, designed to expose the nethermost regions of Portland's collective consciousness. We added a few jabs of local trivia to find out just how much people actually know about this fine metropolis.
We expect the results to be ugly, but we're going ahead anyway.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: take the survey by Dec. 14. We'll throw the email addresses of all participants into a cast-off Von Dutch trucker's cap, and we'll draw the names of 10 lucky prize winners. One will receive a dinner and a night in a hotel—and we're not talking tacos and a skeezy room on North Interstate, people. Five folks will receive $75 worth of waxing pleasure (backs and pubes not excluded—Rio de Janeiro, look out!) at Wax On Spa. The rest will receive WW-customized gifts with varying levels of raunch.
A couple of notes:
One, this is not a marketing survey. (We pay professionals to do those.) Your responses will not be used to sell ads, unless we can figure out a really clever new moneymaking strategy that hasn't occurred to us yet.
Two, we'd like to acknowledge the good work of an obscure newspaper called The New York Times: We blatantly stole this idea, and some of the questions verbatim, from them. (We figure the Times' staffers will be too busy beating the crap out of each other over Judith Miller to notice the plagiarism. And if they do—well, maybe they're hiring!)
So dig deep. Unleash. We want to know what you think about this city and your fellow Portlanders. We'll publish the results sometime in January—and until then, you can bask in the knowledge that you're absolutely right about everything.
Take the survey: http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=554431518964
RECENT COMMENTS ON “WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?”
First ... and last survey (hopefully)You do realize, WW, that the wording of the questions in your so-called "survey" -- and even your very choice of questions selected -- are about as unbiased...
WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?There is too much of the Whiny Minority -whatever happened to The Majority Rules - ie ITs Christmas not Seasons Greetings- I like the Pledge of Allegiance and I love my Cou...
WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?What happened to The Nose? I totally miss reading those columns!!! BRING THE NOSE BACK!!!!—Cassie
WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?Dude, I wanted to participate in your survey. But you took it out before 12/14. What's going on? Who the fuck is in charge? Don't you have any regards for the late-comers? ...













