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BIBLE BASH: Christians and faux Christians are feuding in the 'burbs. It started when "Jake," the increasingly beloved figure behind the satirical site SavePortlandFromHell.com, planned a protest of the World Naked Bike Ride on Saturday, June 27. Jake suggested people unable to join him in wrapping bedsheets around nude cyclists at the annual ride through Portland should instead donate sheets to Lake Bible Church in Lake Oswego. Jim Andrews, senior pastor at Lake Bible, was not amused. "We have our own way of dealing with things, and we absolutely do not want to be conscripted by any 'lone ranger' presuming upon our complicity in your way of doing things," Andrews wrote in an email to Jake. Andrews, who happens to be Jake's neighbor, also threatened legal action. Jake was not dissuaded. "I'm an unemployed 36-year-old recovering heroin addict with bipolar 1, and I live at my parent's house…I guess he could sue me for my laptop," he tells WW. Leading up to Saturday's ride, Andrews was interviewed by KATU and KGO, saying he was "ticked off" and suspected that the Censor the Naked Bike Ride protest was "some sort of covert campaign to stir up dust." According to a follow-up email to WW, Jake attended the Sunday morning service at Lake Bible and afterward approached Andrews. "I told him I had no malicious intent like he accused me of on television," Jake says. In his second service, Andrews spun the story of his earlier meeting with Jake: "He said, 'I'm not an atheist.' I said, 'Well, we heard you were; you're a satirist.' He tried to explain that he didn't mean any harm. I put my arm around him and said, 'You're forgiven.' When God orchestrates things, there can be wonderful outcomes." Said Jake: "The story he told his congregation is not what happened." And so, as always, the battle between old men and neighborhood kids in Lake Oswego rages on.
ADMISSION $10, DIME BAG FREE: There's an interesting loophole in Oregon's new marijuana law. Pot is legal as of today, but there's still no place to buy it—even transporting it from Vancouver is, technically, illegal. However, people are allowed to give pot away and charge admission to venues where it's given away, according to Portland police and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. The party Weed the People on Friday, July 3, offers 7 grams of weed for $40. The OLCC says it has no jurisdiction over such events as long as there's no booze sold. "Is it just a clever way of getting away with selling marijuana? That's something we're leaving to local law enforcement," says OLCC spokesman Tom Towslee. Local law enforcement wants no part of it. "It likely will be something addressed through the regulatory process down the road," says police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson. "We aren't taking a position of enforcement on the issue at this time." At some point, this loophole will probably be fixed. Until then, look for Sneaky Pete's Kushy Van rolling through Chinatown. Admission is $10, dime bags free with paid admission.
THE SCOTTISH PLAY: Parkrose High School's theater troupe #1783 recently won one of 40 coveted U.S. spots in next summer's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, touted as the world's largest arts festival with nearly 50,000 performances, from cabaret to opera. The 18 Parkrose troupe members, who will perform their own show at the festival, have started a fundraising campaign to come up with the $7,000-per-student cost.
WWeek 2015