letter
from
the
editor
c o n t r i b u t o r s
w e s l e y • b a u m a n
b e n • r a m s e y
a v e r y • b a g l i o
k i m • b i r k l a n d
Welcome to the nonsense!
Well, this one wasn’t exactly the easiest thing to throw together. Last minute stories, scrambling for
designs, rewrites, rewrites, and…well, more rewrites.
This issue offers more of the type of thing I had set out to offer in these pages. We have two firsttime writers in this issue. Ben and Avery had never produced an article for publishing. Ben took on the
plight of the jazz scene in Portland while Avery conducted her first interview with a burgeoning Portland
rapper, Young Hawkins.
Two wet-behind-the-ears 20-somethings took a chance and mustered the gumption to take on the
challenge of writing an article which will be read and judged by total strangers with little to no experience.
That kind of flight of fancy and the results are something to be admired.
This issue has other firsts, too. We have a night out with Kim in PDX pub crawling from dive bar to dive
bar. We have our first infographic along with the first entry in an ongoing series we are fondly calling our
Half-cocked Concepts.
As you can see by the cover art, we’re taking on a controversial subject and making a case for an
arguably extreme or amoral solution to saving lives. What will future series entries take on? Gun control?
Public education? Prostitution? Well, yes.
We try to be not only a magazine which tells the stories of one of the most habitable cities in the world
[thanks for the tip of the cap, Monocle, but I’d prefer we stop awarding PDX anything else since traffic is
bad enough as it is (top ten worst to be exact)], but one which I hope reflects our values and progressive
manner of thinking.
I hope you enjoy what you find here, can excuse typos and grammatical errors, and we would love to
hear what you think. If you’ve got a story, let us know. If you’ve got an opinion, we’d like to hear it as long
as it’s constructive and most definitely if it’s praise (our egos never turn away some stroking). As always,
if you think you can contribute as a writer or photographer then I’d love to hear from you as well.
Sincerely,
Wesley Bauman
Editor in Chief
projectpoppycock.com
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