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

Chewshabadoo & co., if you're doing Stalker on Sunday (or even if not), I'd be around to meet up before or after. OMSI isn't too far from Hawthorne Asylum (a pod of 15 or so food trucks + beer), so that's an option.

Hey, that sounds cool! I’ll send you a PM to exchange details

Film is on at 6:45. So we think we’ll try and get to Hawthorne Asylum about 4 o’clock.

Sounds good! I’ll be there around 4 — I sent an email to the Gmail in your message, but if you didn’t get it just let me know. (If you did get it, just search my name and you’ll see what I look like.) Hope other ILXPDX folks can make it as well if they’re around.

I’d love to swing by to say hi but my Sundays are generally spoken for. We should put something together soon though!

Just found your message in my spam folder. I’ll follow on Twitter - send me a message there.

Great seeing/meeting everyone yesterday! And Hawthorne Asylum worked so well on such a nice day. Really fun getting Brits' impressions of Portland.

It was really great seeing folks yesterday :heart:

Thanks Portland, we had a great time! We’ll be back one day.

Any interest in seeing Drunken Master II next week? https://www.thecinemagictheater.com/cinema-city

Up for it!

yeah i could be up for this! we'll see how my week pans out :)

also i didn't get to see the people's joker last week because brain weasels but it's apparently still playing at the hollywood for another week... anybody up to see it?

wkiw all of u, not sure when I will be back up but will bump then

What is “wkiw?”

"would kick it with"

lol thanks

Thursday is the free night I have in the week ahead, so if Drunken Master II doesn't happen am up for The People's Joker (otherwise, I bet the latter will be back often in the months ahead). Plus, I've never seen Drunken Master II and live a quick walk from the Cinemagic.

Getting a bit intense at PSU:
https://x.com/AbbyMartin/status/1785094429101162563

Portland State standoff with protesters continues as students, faculty urged to stay away

Portland State University remained at a tense standstill Tuesday amid the second straight day of a volatile standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters who have occupied the main library and the university’s administrators who have asked police to intervene.
Both Portland Police Chief Bob Day and university President Ann Cudd have said that a police response at the now graffiti-covered library is all but inevitable if demonstrators do not choose to vacate the premises.
The university canceled classes Tuesday and it was not immediately clear when they would resume.

Word has it the fuzz is coming down hard tonight

oof GL PDX

so quick swerve, i _am_ absolutely down for drunken master ii tomorrow, eazy you know how to get in touch with me, anybody else (sleeve?) my email is my username at gmail

Planning to go to Drunken Master II tonight at 7 at CineMagic, probably getting there by 6:45. See any and all who are there!

I’ll be there.

same!

Great movie, and I would have missed it if we hadn’t made plans. Glad it worked out!

jealous you all got to see that together, great flick and great company from the sounds of it!

^^^

yeah it was a blast!

100+ degree highs through Tuesday. I love the dry heat, though. Hope you all have somewhere with a/c handy, if not at home.

i mean at least it was ok through july this year, it isn't always

portland has a long way to go before it's phoenix's north annex, but I used to tell newcomers in the 1990s that you couldn't really count on summer starting by july 4th. you might have to wait until bastille day. that's not remotely true now.

this time of year i usually go out for a short jog around midnight, won't be able to do that til mid-week looks like. sorry but i am not running when it is 72º in the middle of the night

I met a heat-averse friend for breakfast this morning at 7:30 (at Spielman's Bagels & Coffee, god was it good), and the weather was just perfect. Coming from the Midwest, it makes me so happy having these temperate mornings even during a heatwave.

Mornings in Portland are so nice. The heat in Portland doesn't really start to hit until around 5. The rain here is so much better than the rain in the Midwest, too.

The part of Portland's weather that newcomers struggle with most is the prevalence of heavy cloud cover and gray skies from November to May. Coming here from almost any other part of the USA this is a serious challenge to people's daily moods. Apart from that, the weather here is pretty damn good by comparison.

in some ways, but there are no thunderstorms! xp

(re: rain, that is. midwest simply wins on summer storms, i miss them)

Torrential electrical summer storms and lightning bugs are the only things I kinda miss from the Midwest, yeah.

And White Castle

Lightning storms are rare in the PNW but they do happen. I can tell you this because my house out in Beaverton was hit by lightning during one of them. It wasn't something I particularly missed about the Midwest. I'm glad we don't have more of them.

Even heavy wind/rain seems unusual here vs. drizzle. Loving being outside this weekend, especially in the shade. It's like a happy-light from all directions.

https://www.wweek.com/news/environment/2024/07/06/bill-mckibben-talks-climate-action-as-heat-wave-arrives-in-portland/

As Portland entered a five-day heat wave, McKibben, the celebrated climate activist and author, arrived Friday evening at the First Unitarian Church in downtown Portland—a building, like many in this city, that lacks air conditioning.

“It’s not our job to stop global warming. It’s too late for that,” McKibben said to the sweating crowd. “It’s our job to stop it getting to the point where it cuts civilization off at the knees.”

Just a plug for local folks that I'm playing songs Sunday night with other good acts at Turn! Turn! Turn!, starting at 8. (Sets on the shorter side, so it won't go too late.) Info and links to all our music is on this page.

I'll try to make it! Things have been stressful lately but I'm hoping to start getting out again :)

That would be great! And if you can't make it, hope we can catch up another time soon.

Yeah, it's been too long!

https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-lottery-billboard-issue-08152024/

VIDEO: Oregon Lottery billboards taken over by possible furry hack

was it Raygun

(#onethread)