Skip to main contentWhile nosing around on MySpace this morning (that is, working), WWire turned up this profile:
Hey, isn't that Mayor Tom Potter's wife, Karin Hansen?
And—wait a sec—what's it say down here?
Holy hell! It says she's single!
Does Potter know?
Fortunately, perhaps, Potter and Hansen are traveling in China until next week. So we called Potter spokesman John Doussard for an explanation that he was doubtless unprepared to provide.
Doussard, who has never been on the MySpaces himself, called us back after consulting with the "resident experts on MySpace—anyone in the office under 28."
"As best as they could tell, Karin doesn't do much with her MySpace page," Doussard says.
He added that Hansen's profile pictures, which can be viewed only by her buddies, are mostly shots of her traveling with Potter. And, down in the comments, a friend says, "It's always fun to get to spend time with you and Tom." And, granted, "single" is the default setting for new MySpace accounts.
So it was probably an oversight on Hansen's part, as opposed to an, uh, advertisement. As Doussard puts it, "If it's a come-on, it's the most boring come-on I've ever seen in my life."
Apparently Hansen, like everyone else in the world, has migrated from MySpace to Facebook. (At this point, Friendster is totally deserted.)
"She is incredibly active on her Facebook page," Doussard says. "And on that page, she's married."
We'll take his word for it. We have to.
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Believe it or not, this was not the most bizarre City Hall-related link we found on the web today.
Portland City Commissioner and occasional blogger Randy Leonard has a new link on his official website.
"Listen to the 'Randy' song," says the link, all big and blue and mysterious.
The Randy song?
Yes. Here it is:
[youtube 7cPKV-vvkXE]
We're awaiting an explanation from Leonard.
Updated April 24, 9:55 a.m.: Leonard writes: "Randy Neves, the Ch 8 reporter, came into our office and had Ty [Kovatch, Leonard's chief of staff] play it on his computer....everyone here thought it was so funny that Ty put it up on the web site...I just ignored it...."
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