{"id":12348,"date":"2012-01-16T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=12348"},"modified":"2012-01-15T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:50:35","slug":"recently-discovered-portlandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/01\/16\/recently-discovered-portlandia\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently Discovered: Portlandia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am in love with Portlandia<\/strong> on IFC.<\/p>\n

Now, IFC is weird in our house: Verizon makes it a subscription-only channel and we do not subscribe. And yet, somehow we can still see it? I don’t know. I blame techno-djinn. As should we all.<\/p>\n

IFC has been very good with the making-funny, given that there is where I also discovered Whitest Kids U Know (streaming on Netflix<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and the Dinosaur Rap<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is necessary viewing).<\/p>\n

Anyway, point being, I’m a bit late to the game here, but Sweet Jeebus, Portlandia<\/strong> is some funny shit. I’m not particularly aware of Portland culture, but it matters little — the show walks this bizarre line where it first puts hipster culture on a pedestal and then pelts it with Pabst Blue Ribbon cans until it falls off and breaks. On Saturday Night Live, I generally can’t stand Fred Armisen — and yet, here, he’s allowed to, I dunno, become his comedy self<\/em> and go Full Tilt Weird with it. And it works. By god, it fucking works. (Oh, and his comedic partner in crime is, somewhat mysteriously, Carrie Brownstein from totally rad grr-grrl band, Sleater-Kinney. So, there’s that.)<\/p>\n

If you don’t have IFC, Portlandia still streams on Netflix<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I leave you with this:
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Anyway, point being, I’m a bit late to the game here, but Sweet Jeebus, Portlandia is some funny shit. I’m not particularly aware of Portland culture, but it matters little — the show walks this bizarre line where it first puts hipster culture on a pedestal and then pelts it with Pabst Blue Ribbon cans until it falls off and breaks. If you don’t have IFC, Portlandia still streams on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-12348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-television","8":"tag-funny","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-3da","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12351,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions\/12351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}