Portland Now Has a Brewhaha, Too

Via the Portland Mercury's blog, I discovered that the Portland Bus Project/Portland Mercury's Debate Club has been renamed Brewhaha in a nod to Eugene's version of the monthly political slam at downtown restaurants and bars.

I mostly need to note this because:

1) I came up with the name Brewhaha when we sat down to plan our own version of Debate Club (yes, my pride is spilling out my sleeve all over the table, knocking over your drinks). Thinking Debate Club was painfully dull (and evoked an image of geeky high schoolers meeting behind the gymnasium bleachers to compare notes), we set out to find a unique moniker (and apparently Portland liked it so much they now use it). Others were considered, including (if I remember correctly): Beer Talk, Foaming at the Mouth, Sexy Time, Talk to the Hand, Hot Seat, Eugene Area Singles Social Club ... but my memory is sorta sketchy.

2) Other than reporting on last month's Brewhaha from the shadows and live-blogging the inaugural slam, I've been pretty much absent from this event. I apologize, Bus Project peeps!!! You work so hard and all the Weekly does is promote with ads/posters and make feeble suggestions. I'll try to get my act together and become more involved as we enter the precarious election months of August, September and October.

3) Speaking of promo, there's another Brewhaha next week and it returns to its original venue: Davis' Restaurant. Here's all the deets: