This is Portland, we do what we like. This is Portland, we do what we like.

no you're right being a former trailblazer is a sufficient resume to running a state

anyway I think there's still something like 75% of pdx's vote to be counted so that ought to put him out of his misery

i wasn't referring to the governor thing. i just wondered if locals get sick of seeing a lolhueg billboard of their perpetually injured star rookie pick

oh yeah, sorry - that dude's been benched for what 4 years now?

3. he should've done a write-in campaign!

Shades of Sam Bowie. Is Oden a restricted free agent yet or does he have to wait until the end of the season?

there's still something like 75% of pdx's vote to be counted

THANK FUCKING GOD

(I did not know this).

Defazio beat off an insane Tea Party challenger in the 4th House district. Art Robinson, the GOP guy, had millions of out of state money. It was closer than I would have liked, but looks solid now.

Bummer about Measure 73 passing. Prisons not schools, yeah, sounds great.

Oh shit, Art Robinson.

http://i51.tinypic.com/vrzcd2.jpg

Thank God I won't have this distressing visage staring down at me from a billboard anymore.

Some master Photoshopper put that image on a blue billboard near my house, so he looms down like a sort of enormous grim hunchback.

I went to Tim & Eric at the Roseland last night. Seeing Dr Steve Brule in person made it all worthwhile. Kept checking the election results on my phone, tho.

come on, Kitzhaber!

oregonian has called it for kitz, btw.

yeah looks like he'll squeak in

Jesus Christ, I didn't need that.

lol:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/careless-blazers-goofing-around-with-basketball-sh,18448/

ha

I go to portland for the STUMPTOWN COMICS FEST this wkend. It'll be me and Jeffrey Lewis and Joan Reilly and Tom Kaczynski tabling together.

Where do I get Pho?

pho van is pretty good and pretty cheap. won't change your life or anything, but it's usually where i go for pho: http://www.phovanrestaurant.com/menus.html

Much love for Jeffrey Lewis

I might be around the weekend of May 14, if things go accordingly.

I'll be volunteering at the door of Stumptown this weekend during the mornIng. Find the big bespectacled guy with a buzzed haircut and come say hi.

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Great weather for pho, but not much else, except maybe ducks. My favorite is Pho Hung. Go to the location on Powell. It's suitably divey and the pho is better there than the other location on 82nd.

Made it! Unfortunately my publisher got hit yesterday with a nasty case of strep and as a result I will have a glorious zero copies of my newest comic at this show. But fuck it it's a trip to portland to hang with comics pals.

Thanks for the pho tips and whoa is this some dismal weather. On the upside, it's kind of cute how Frontier Airlines has a different animal on the tailfin of each aircraft.

biked from woodstock to sauvie island and back today in just dumb gorgeous weather. sunburn season

Are there any good hotels in the downtown area that are less upscale than places like the Ace? Looking at taking five days and going to a Timbers game in late August, but Ace/Mark Spencer/Deluxe/etc. are out of my budget.

milo you could try the Jupiter which is just across the burnside bridge from downtown (20-25 minute walk to Timbers) and attached to the Doug Fir which may have a show you'd want to see or the Travelodge across the street from it (both on Burnside) if you're looking to go even cheaper. Interstate (along the Max Line which wld take you straight to the stadium) has dozens of v cheap no-name motels with varying degrees of seediness but there's not much to see up there even if is convenient for getting into the city

there's a best western at 23rd and vaughn, I believe. That's walking distance from jeld-win field. and a travelodge (I think) up by PSU which would give you plenty of options for getting around.

All that said, I'd suggest the Jupiter.

love the jupiter so much.

jupiterhotel.com btw if you haven't found it yet

The Jupiter looks great (the light bondage package you can order with a room is pretty 0_0), may postpone til October to save more cash.

Hit the places on the eastside of the river. Bus and train access to everywhere else is easy, and you'll save yourself the headache of having to be downtown

I've stayed in cheap-ish hotels in the Lloyd Center / convention center area east of the river. Not the most exciting place but easy train access to downtown.

https://www.google.com/offers/home?x=MQAAAFmiP_wHoG-jgfJ9ixAZcffD8p8TMHCZoWlmhivrFYmCz4nJwDuc2FMIcPzZRRMTO1m-Bj25TQtQNVUC30d-7F4#!details/dcdb08976299ecb0/XBUS0MARORCE2LY3

50% off at the hotel deluxe in today's google offer, fyi.

i want to live here one day

This week I'm hosting my thing at the Alberta St Pub on Tuesday, and there's a Puppy Prom downtown on Wednesday!

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2011/08/29/puppy-prom

ayo ilxor dlh i see u

^^^ this was rad, and well-spotted

maybe we should do a thing sometime guys

Too hot today for anything

that was supposedly the heat's last stand, or close to it

gonna be there Thurs & Fri, any can't-miss things happening?

Freestyle self-regarding will be happening all day Friday and most of Thursday, too.

Friday pretty sure I'm having dinner with my friend Theresa. Other than that not really sure

i've never understood this thread title

thursday night is first thursday, when everyone wanders around the pearl/chinatown looking at Art and hoping the free drinks at the next place aren't out. i have a scrabble date at an old high school friend's place though unfort. friday night a friend has an opening at a gallery in southeast so i'm going to that. but ilpdxors we need to drink somewhere soon. i met clay for ten minutes on one of the Occupation's muddier days.

happy to see all the magic gardens love upthread: the only strip club i have been to more than once (usually in the afternoon, on, like, a tuesday).

this thread title just makes me think of RED RIDING: IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN-SEVENTY-EVERYTHING-IS-AWFUL

yeah we should all get together soon, seriously. Rev was a good instigator of that when he was around (miss u, boo).

I usually Daj at a relatively central location on Thursday nights but of course I won't be this week. Wandering around first Thursday, while I haven't done so in lord knows how many years, is always a good distraction and it'll get you outside and walking around which is tough enough this time of year. I checked the mercury and didn't see anything that I could strongly recommend, music-wise. Local favorite Laura Gibson is playing mississippi studios Friday night, but I'm not familiar with her. Some of my friends seem psyched!

And by "I usually Daj" I mean DJ duhhh

i always assumed the title was a reference to hilarious child-rape tune "Jordan, MN"

(miss u, boo)

aww <3