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

How many ilxors do we have here now?

About as many as would fit in a clown car.

1 and 1/2 clown cars

If anybody needs a place to live, my landlord's wife is trying to fit folks into a large house at 57th & NE Sandy. It's a decent place in the Hollywood neighborhood for a decent price.

I know some hippie chicks in NE that need a roommate.

NOOOOOO hippies. Uh uh. Not happening.

57th/Sandy looks like somewhere from which it would be a pain in the ass to get to downtown Vancouver by public trans.

Yeah, if you're commuting to Vancouver then North Portland is def. the way to go. I haven't spent a lot of time up there, but I looked at renting house a few months ago that was cheap and really cool about 5 blocks from the center of the little Mississippi neighborhood. It seems like a really nice place to live.

If you don't already have one, get a bike, it's soooo silly to live in city with such great capacity for biking and never use it. I'm not trying to push you to become hardcore biker dude commuting across the Columbia (even though it's only five miles) but if just to run out and do errands and explore, bike is u+k.

It's an awesome place to do that kind of vacation where you just hang around, eat out, and basically act like you live there and it's just a long weekend.

awesome, i am doing this at the end of the month. looking at someone on ilm's list of portland music was as far as i was gonna go in terms of planning activities

Be sure to eat at least one cart meal (e.g. Wolf and Bear's at 20th and Belmont, holy shit, get the coffee with the cardamom).

Food carts are my current PDX fixation, they're so goddamned good and cheap, and the people who own and run them seem to have just figured out their lives.

Musicfest NW is this weekend as well

I've spent many a long weekend pretending to live in Portland doing mundane stuff, roaming around, eating, and so on. It's pretty perfect for that.

Reverend, I think if you stay close to I-205 then you won't have too bad of a commute.

Also, speaking of awesome food carts, Taqueria Los Gorditos on the corner of SE Division and 50th Ave. is superb.

That was kind of one of the pleasant surprises when I moved out to east county a couple of weeks ago -- there are taco trucks everywhere with buche, lengua, tripa, cabeza, etc.

close to I-205

rong end of Vancouver

I have a bike but it needs fixing and I'm totally penny-pinching at this point. In any event, it won't be coming down with me, at least not right away.

Yeah, do whatever you can to fix your bike; once you do that, you can get around the city with ease

Can't stress that enough. Portland is uniquely suited to biking, in some ways because it is ill-suited to other forms of transit: driving sucks a lot, things are just a bit too spread out for walking, and transit is good but not excellent.

I didn't realize this at first and spent a few months trapsing around waiting way too long for bus transfers on trips that would have taken ten minutes to leisurely ride.

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Alright when is beerztime for up and coming ilxor.com population center Portland, OR? I've got the next three nights off, just FYI.

I'm in Seattle until Wednesday :(

I am up for this if it happens in the next week and a half

HAY CLAY

I have to bounce back & forth between pdx & Astoria for the rest of the week. Will be up for this on friday onward, tho.

Also, "the Room" screens next at Cinema 21 on the 26th.

HEY TZA! are you up for dinner tomorrow with me and a couple friends maybe? I'll call you!

off at 7 if that's not too late. let me know :)

Perfect!

I could actually do any night for the next while except Sunday, I'm just off properly for the next three days.

PS What the fuck should I do with three days off and no car around here? Haven't had three days off in a row for like a year.

Drinkin', obv.

Yes, well, doing that.

Beerztime should happen at some point when I have beerzmoney. (Or before then if y'all should have beerztime without me.)

North Portland: tell me about this place.

North Portland is awesome.

Which part?

Tell me about different parts of North Portland! I don't know anything.

Are we talking St. John's and the fifth quadrant proper, or like Mississippi/Alberta? Both are awesome in their own ways. I'd live in Mississippi if I'd found a place. St. John's is v cool, but difficult to travel from to SE and other normally pertinent areas. I'd happily live there if I only rarely had to go west/southeast.

St Johns looks far outside of walking distance from the yellow line, which is the most important thing. Mississippi looks like a good location. In what ways is it awesome? The areas north and northwest of there would work, too.

I think Mississippi (haven't actually spent that much time up there, but did look at living there) is at that point in a neighborhood's development where there are shops and bars and restaurants but it's still mostly people who live close whom you'll see on a daily basis. Not that that's such a huge thing, it just feels very neighborhood-y. Housing also cheaper, I looked at a 2-bedroom house for $900 that, if I'd faxed in the application 2hrs earlier, I'd be living in right now.

Fuck, I just got my first speeding ticket ever on the way home from Astoria. It was on that fraction of the roadway right in Clatskanie where the limit halves, then goes back to normal over the course of like less than a mile.

Hey, I don't post here much, but since I live in the Mississippi area, thought I'd respond. I've lived up here for about a year now (used to live further out in NE), and it's really a great place to live. A lot of cheap food (there's a block of food carts just going in this month), good bars, parks, etc.

In terms of the areas directly adjacent to the yellow line, it kinda seems like the one with the most urban neighborhood-y feel; the areas to the north of it (Piedmont, Kenton) are more straight residential, I think mostly families living there.

I'll second the recommendation to get your bike working here as soon as you can. Trimet connects NoPo pretty well to downtown, but not as well to other parts of the eastside. Before I started biking most everywhere, I often would have to take the bus downtown, transfer, and come back across the river to get to where I was going.

As of right now, I don't really have anywhere I need to go except for Vancouver, Downtown, and maybe the occasional trip to Southwest. Of course this is all contingent on my employment situation and how that changes. Hopefully I can get a bit of exploring done tomorrow.

Fuck, I just got my first speeding ticket ever on the way home from Astoria. It was on that fraction of the roadway right in Clatskanie where the limit halves, then goes back to normal over the course of like less than a mile.

― kingfish, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:50 PM Bookmark

Never speed in small towns.

hey i'm back, let's drink!

into it

it wasn't even a small town! It was like an intersection than quickly went back into forest!

I am also back and thirsty

xp Clatskanie is an incorporated city. Small towns like that are notorious for speed traps.

Might have a job, might not have a roof. :/

Totally a better and less common situation than the converse. If you need any practical housing finding advice, I am a recent expert, feel free to webmail.

And for the record, any newcomer PDX ilxor has a standing offer from me for a night's free beers in the event of a Portland FAP.

(One night per ilxor, certain restrictions apply, must be willing to get Drunked)

hmmmm, might have to take you up on that, plans tomorrow night, tho

Whenever, I work swings aka The Lush Shift.

Not playing favorites tho, when some pseudo-lurker moves here in a year or two, f'real, let me know. Gotta weird Quantum Leap ethos wrt PDX noobs.