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It s that time of year again: Ask the managing editor!
nce a year we open up a page to
answer your most pressing questions.
And then, every spring, we do this
thing, apropos of nothing.
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Dear Managing Editor,
It must be very challenging in this day
and age to keep producing a newspaper.
How do you compete
with the fast cycle of
information churned
out online. Why would
you bother, even?
Seti: Paahhhh! Kill
Seti von Tetti is the
m anaging editor o f
Street Roots. When
she’s not working at
the paper, she enjoys
m aking bead jewelry
and collecting spoons.
me! Please!
Dear Managing Editor,
I’m curious about your take on the
scandals that just keep emanating from the
Murdoch empire. What do you think of the
allegations and the practices used by the
now defunct News of the World and their
minions? Do you think the public trust in
old-fashioned print media has been sullied
to such a low point that it’s barely above the
same type of gossip mongering we’ve come
to expect from most online sources that are
still struggling to get beyond their own echo
chambers? What will corporations currently
at the helm of most media outlets in the
PPB TESTIMONY, from page 2
recipe includes lungs and windpipes and
other things that don’t tend to appear in cut
out ‘n’ keep recipe cards.
Ingredients: 1 sheep’s pluck, i.e. the
animals heart, liver, and lights (lungs). Cold
water.
1 sheep’s stomach (empty), lib lightly
toasted pinhead oatmeal (medium or coarse
oatmeal).
1-2 tablespoons salt. 1 level tablespoon
freshly ground black pepper.
1 tablespoon freshly ground allspice. 1
level tablespoon of mixed herbs. 8 oz finely
chopped suet. 4 large onions, finely
chopped, (lemon juice (or a good vinegar) is
sometimes added as well as other
flavourings such as cayenne pepper)
Directions: Wash the stomach in cold
water until it is thoroughly clean and then
United States have to do to both compete
locally and abroad in an increasingly
confusing marketplace blending fact, fiction
and political agendas?
Seti: You could be the one! There’s a
stake in the corner of my office. Please! I’ll
leave the door unlocked. I won’t fight you!
I’m ready!
Dear Managing Editor,
In one of your recent columns (“Will
someone please drive a stake through my
heart?,” Street Roots, March 24), you
overlook a clear imperative that if we are to
get at the bottom of the controversial
sidewalk ordinance, City Hall, the police and
media like yourself will have to begin
unwrapping the package of deserving and
undeserving folks on the streets.
Stakeholders will have to find a way to peel
away the tattered old arguments and expose
the heart of the matter once and for all.
That is the only way this problem will finally
die.
Seti: Yes! Yes! Whatever it takes, for Ra’s
sake! Peel away!
Dear Managing Editor,
I question whether you truly understand
what’s happening on Portland’s sidewalks.
Obviously, you’ve never walked downtown
before.
Seti: Seriously? Kill. Me. Now.
Dear Managing Editor,
I’m very disappointed in you. In a recent
column (“I’m not angry anymore, so will
someone please rip my bones apart?” Street
Roots, March 17), you suggested that laws
that sweep the streets of one class of people
will undoubtedly push another off their
already tenuous grid. Really? You think
people would slip out of our concerns if they
were removed from the downtown corridor?
Like they would cease to exist in the
collective mind if we removed them from a
few sidewalks? We’ve had sidewalk laws in
play for more than a decade and we’ve never
seen so much progress on the homeless
front. Portland cares about people
regardless of whether they’re sitting on a
bench in Tom McCall Waterfront Park or on
the pavers at the corner of Third and Stark.
Why don’t you get off your high Horus and
talk about the good work being done in the
name of sidewalk sweeps?
Seti: Did you just say “high Horus?”
Really? Is that supposed to be funny?
soak it in cold salted water for about 8-10
hours.
Place the pluck in a large pot and cover
with cold water. The windpipe ought to be
hung over the side of the pot with a
container beneath it in order to collect any
drips. Gently simmer the pluck for
approximately 2 hours or until it is tender
and then leave the pluck to cool.
Finely chop or mince the pluck meat and
then mix it with the oatmeal. Add about half
a pint of the liquor in which the pluck was
cooked (or use a good stock). Add the
seasonings, suet and onions, ensuring
everything is well mixed.
Fill the stomach with the mixture, leaving
enough room for the oatmeal to expand
into. Press out the air and then sew up the
haggis. Prick the haggis a few times with a
fine needle. Place the haggis it in boiling
water and simmer for approximately 3
hours.
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