Attention guerrilla marketers: Stay away from Portland, Oregon. Dale Waagmeester has had it up to here with your hip, pop-culture infused posters promoting the latest “cool clothes,” “hot energy drink” or “Andre the Giant.” He’s mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.

Case in point, as reported by THE OREGONIAN: the anti-graffiti crusader sees a guerrilla marketing team putting up some ads for Converse on a vacant building. Waagmeester proceeds to pitch a fit, demands that the posters be taken down and calls the cops. Converse has egg on its face and gets to test the “any publicity is good publicity” theory.

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KIMMY SHOWS SHE’S NO SAINT BY BEATING AROUND BUSH: Kim Kardashian, supposedly dating Saints RB Reggie Bush, showed up in New York looking for a new lap to straddle:

I DON’T LIKE YOU IN THAT WAY reports that Kim was at the launch of Lorraine Schwartz’s Diamond Monkey collection “trying to get on the lap of any rapper she could find.”

After being rebuffed by the likes of Pharrell Williams, she finally settled on getting freaky with Fabolous.

If Kimmy’s crass cavorting keeps up, Reggie is going to need a new date for the BET Awards.