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i believe the old sign just got replaced with basically the same sign (minus the graffiti on it) as it's now the hung far low building.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

80 in the daytime, 44 in the nighttime

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW hi Mike I've been to your house a bunch on account of tight friending with your roomates.

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Went to the "Digital Democracy" panel thing at Acme tonight. David Sirota was in town, hosting it, and it was a pretty good time with some interesting ideas.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Bear: Huh? You sure you mean me? Here a bunch? Ummm, when?

I have three roommates, one's my girl and the other two don't hang out that I know of -- in fact one of them's been away for a few months now, on tour.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah Mike. Christie lives there right? I came through on tour about a year ago, stayed in the attic that night and didn't leave town for months afterwards. Pretty sure that was your place. Could be totally off on that.
But seriously thread, I miss that city something fierce.

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohhh, that place?! I never really lived there for long -- it got sold right as I was in the process of moving in, which really was not so nice. Anyway, yeah, Kristy's rad and that awas a cool house! Close-in and cheap!

(Now I'm in northern NoPo, and we don't have too many visitors so I was just confused.) You're the Castanets guy, then? How's it going?

― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike, Douglas, thanks for the tips! Exiled sounds like exactly what I want. I've already been told to go to Saburos. I'm going to sneak out of my conference early one evening to check it out.

― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't forget to hit Ground Kontrol.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Kingfish try Yoga Shala on N Williams, I busted my yoga cherry there. Everyone's nice and the beginner classes are relaxed and unintimidating. Also easy to pop in and out of so you can find a class and instructor who work well for you.

― goth casual, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, Ground Kontrol looks great and Strategy is DJing tomorrow night. I wish there was a place like this in Chicago. No, wait, it would be overrun by Big 10 frat guys and completely suck.

― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah, Big 10 frat guys don't have much use for Discs of Tron.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

(which Ground Kontrol finally got, meaning that my bugging their on-duty guys for it paid off)

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike - good to see another North Portland person here. Are you in St. Johns then? I live just a few blocks off lombard, right up the street from the movie theater. Also great to see someone repping for the local businesses (James John Cafe and Proper Eats)... St. Johns also has one of the finest tacquarias in town in the back of the Santa Cruz panaderia.

― ianinpdx, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That would've been the place Mike and that would be me. Might be taking Yoni's studio this summer or back into Nick's (Kristy's boy, Shaky Hands) place in the NE. Maybe in two weeks or so. Stoked.

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Ian -- I'm actually a few blocks from King Burrito, in-between Kenton and University Park. We're off Lombard too, just ten minutes drive or so from St Johns. Really like it up here a lot -- I've been in PDX three years and have only lived in NoPo, though. People who've lived here all their lives consider this area really far away.

It took me a few months living here to figure out that old school PDX-ers not only cling to ideas for what rent should be based on like what they were in 1989 (which makes sense -- I do the same thing for Bklyn, which is the main reason I no longer live there), but they basically think like a drunk when it comes to distance. Everything has to be within stumbling distance: work, friends, bar, etc. I moved here from Seattle though, where I got super used to being 20 minutes from downtown/ Cap Hill)...

Bear-- is Yoni going away again? I always just run into him when he's about to go on tour. great kid. Send me a note when you get into town please. And if yr here for Labor Day would you play the Halleluwah Fest pt 2???

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 17 May 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://lh6.google.com/image/kerdunc/RkvDH4G7U7I/AAAAAAAAAV8/dSzl3MxXDLQ/s800/DSC05164.JPG

Took this yesterday as I was riding by.

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

That, in the background, is the canonical sign.

― Casuistry, Thursday, 17 May 2007 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link

right -- and it doesn't say cocktails with the tails crossed out anymore!
nice picture.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I almost started a Portland thread two days ago to ask about galleries but it looked like most aren't open during the week so I just rode around the city taking pictures instead.

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Is anybody else going to the Dino Jr show tomorrow?

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to Reno tomorrow. I saw the Joe McMurrian Quartet at the White Eagle last night. Then I got a Jetta hood slammed on my arm.

It went like this:

A friend of ours' Jetta's alarm system was malfunctioning, so I had to hold the hood sensors down while she started the car, and then I had to jerk my hands out of the way at the last moment when my buddy shut the hood, so:

My buddy: "Ok, I'm gonna go One, Two, Three, Drop"

Me, double-checking: "Wait, so One, Two, Three and then-"

*DROP*

The hood latched shut with my arms in the way. Good thing Jetta hoods are not very substantial.

Then we were going to go to the A-Crop on the way home but someone spoiled the fun by being too tired and having to work in the morning.

What should I do tomorrow before I have to leave for Reno at 4?

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Reno? For serious?

― Casuistry, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

We're stopping in Eugene for din-din and then either crashing somewhere for the night, and then making Reno Friday.

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

~~either~~

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike - Yeah I was worried about it being far out and isolated when we moved here but truthfully, with Rte. 30 and Columbia at our disposal it's pretty quick to get to most places in the city. It takes me 30 minutes by bus to get downtown which is just 5 minutes longer than when I was on 30th and Prescott - the distance is greater but I now bypass having to wind through slow city streets. I've become quite a St.Johns booster since moving here and kind of can't imagine living anywhere else in the city. There is a palpable sense that good things are happening up here. Good energy to grab onto.

― ianinpdx, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the St. John's record store, Vinyl Resting Place. Nice old folks run it. A v. good friend of mine has been living in that neighborhood for about a year, and yes Route 30 and Columbia get you downtown shockingly fast.

― sleeve, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i loved st. johns when i lived there. somebody could totally film a movie from the 5os or 60s there no problem

― jergïns, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i always find good stuff at vinyl resting place, yes. and being close to sauvie island is swell for all your inexpensive produce and nude beach needs!

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

somebody could totally film a movie from the 5os or 60s there no problem

This is a little more difficult now that we have 4 coffee shops within three blocks of each other, but yes, as long as we have the Man's Shop and Patti's Home Plate, that 50's vibe will stay strong.

― ianinpdx, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

So I took pictures in Oregon City and Aurora:

http://lh6.google.com/image/kerdunc/RkyxGoG7VAI/AAAAAAAAAWw/QzMFIeeGOks/s800/DSC05237.JPG
Foam swirls behind a barge.

http://lh4.google.com/image/kerdunc/RkyxJIG7VBI/AAAAAAAAAW4/P3B-KY_G8-k/s800/DSC05278.JPG
Willamette Falls

http://lh6.google.com/image/kerdunc/RkyxLoG7VCI/AAAAAAAAAXA/QHWHC1w9F_I/s800/DSC05325.JPG
Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the Hung Far Low pics! And love. Also, those pictures above are stunning. how blue can the sky be?

― aimurchie, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks. I pushed the color a little bit, but not a lot I don't think. I don't trust the monitor I'm using, so it's hard to know sometimes.

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, PDX'rs, I need an update. I went undergrad in Portland and spent the last part of my time there in the bizarre Lad's edition. Way up Hawthorne there was a bar called The Watering Trough. I would like to know:

a) is it still there?
b) are tall boys of pbr still $1.35?
c) is pool still 25 cents?

(for the record, this was the case 5 years ago, not 1977) God damn, I loved that place!

― Caledonia, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't look like it. It's probably turned into a thousand other places since.

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, god! that is so sad!

― Caledonia, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't the Watering Trough near Sewickly's? I could swear it's still around. I drive by there 3 times a week but have never noticed if it is gone or not.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

the sickly addiction!

― jergïns, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

depends on the intersection its by. maybe it's been turned into Bar of the Gods by now or something.

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Bar of The Gods was a previously a bar called the Crow (not to be confused with the Crow Bar). It became the BOG around '96 or '97.

― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

It's right by the Mt. Tabor, or Tabor or whatever it is, Bar. It was by BOG too. it's just a dark-ass hole in the wall. But the prices . . . ohhhh, the prices.

An old dude was playing keno there one afternoon. He had really bad eyesight and asked me to help him get money out of the cash machine. Then he sent over a beer for my troubles. The gambling was rather sad, but the beer was good.

― Caledonia, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

RIght then, there ya go. We've eliminated that possibility, now what's the next one?

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i think it's safe to say that cheap pbr's will be available as long as pdx exists, no? and i don't go to bars so i know nothing about that place, sorry -- though a web search says they had shuffleboard in there?! cool.

i was just thinking that another thing to love about this place is how (in part thanks to actual city planning) the "yuppies" tend to live in three areas, each of which might as well have a moat around them: the northwest 23/ 21st corridor, the pearl district condo city-states, and that south waterfront condo-land next to the base of the tram.

and yes, of course, we have a tram now. i've yet to ride it but it looks a little bit like the future. i need to take my nephew on it shortly...

― Mike McGooney-gal, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

We call that moat "the Willamette".

That mystery bar sounds familiar but it's been nearly 5 years since I've been in that boozey neck of the woods really.

― Casuistry, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yuppies are now spreading to Irvington, parts of Mississippi, and Alberta

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

If yuppies = white people with money, then you can pretty much count everything in the city limits, at this point.

― darin, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

No, not necessarily. I'm talking about the areas of a particular flavor of gentrification.

At any rate, for those who are around, head to Ash St Saloon tonight. Poison Idea is playing a free show, and one of the opening bands is Dead Moon's Fred & Toody doing the first show of their new group.

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

If yuppies = white people with money, then you can pretty much count everything in the city limits, at this point.

haha yeah the vicious class warfare between groups of white people in adjoining tax brackets is one of the things i miss least about portland.

best place to american shuffleboard: the black cat in sellwood.

― goth casual, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I like your fair city! Initial impressions:
1. Many restaurants, public places play this bizarre mix of lite jazz/muzak I haven't ever heard.
2. There are more strip clubs per capita than any place else I have ever been except for maybe New Orleans.
3. The homeless keep to themselves. I encountered well into the double digits today and not a single one asked me for change. This would never happen in Chicago.
4. A la the Chris Rock routine, unlike every other city in America, MLK Blvd here is not sketchy--well, at least the parts I've been on.

― Bill in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I might be at my free show tonight at Langano instead. We might be the last band to ever play there! I feel like the kiss of death for nice small clubs.

― Casuistry, Saturday, 19 May 2007 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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