Portland's monthly antique and vintage market - every third Saturday of the month from May through October. Our June 16th market will be held indoors at UNION/PINE: 525 SE Pine St.

Hours are 10am-4pm.

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Interesting article RT @MNBeerActivists Muni liquor stores in #mn find it hard to compete http://t.co/X7I5quwp #beer #consumer

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I believe that something strange is happening. Genuine literacy is seeing a precarious rebirth.

The best of today’s tweets seem to rise above the level of mere bon mots (“gamification is the high-fructose corn syrup of user engagement”) and achieve some of the cryptic depth of esoteric verse forms of earlier ages.

The recombinant madness that is the fate of a new piece of Internet content, as it travels, has some of the characteristics of the deliberate forms of recombinant recitation practiced by oral culture.

The comments section of any half-decent blog is a meaning factory.

though the Vedas were accurately preserved, the oral culture also sustained torrents of secondary expository literature that was not accurately preserved. The Mahabharata is an example. Not only was no canonical version preserved, there was no canonical version. The thing grew like a Wikipedia of mythological fan-fiction.

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Sites like tvtropes.org are sustaining basic literacy skills.

The best of today’s stand-up comics are preserving ancient wordplay skills.

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The cost of words is not the cost of storing them or distributing, but the cost of producing them. Words are cheap today because we put little effort into their production

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