ok, well what about Portland, Oregon?

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yup. the pirate thing i think is what happens when you have a bunch of geeks, techies, SCA/drama major folks, and Burning Man types wanting to do drunken dress-up, along with borrowing from the local mythology.

tour info, i think

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks... also, a bearish mandolin/glockenspiel trio!? They were recommended by a local:

http://sneakinout.com/site/?page_id=3

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

(Acme isn't quite in Hawthorne but close enough. They make a good old fashioned there.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

dear Portland,

Please be done with your 100-degree heat wave before my arrival next week.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

you might be in luck

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

yes. I wonder how folks in AC-less hotels are coping right now.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not humid, at least.

Those of us with 8am Latin classes are decidedly unhappy about this turn of events.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Still tryin' to get the Shanghai Tunnels tour to call me back.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

yes. I wonder how folks in AC-less hotels are coping right now.

Probably about as well as those of us in AC-less apartments that get the sun all morning and afternoon.

Off to see an air-conditioned movie, at least!

― cws (cws), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I must return to Portland in the spring sometime when it's cloudy and 55 (ie, easier to climb the hills).

I did get a SOLO tour of the Widmer brewery, and made it to Cathedral Park on my last morning (byootiful). Had lunch with the delightful mensch Casuistry -- one of those New York natives who has to emigrate to calmer burgs so there are vacancies in Gotham for bitter Noise boys from the sticks.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I was at Cathedral Park on Sunday! Just briefly, during a break in recording.

This week it is cloudy and in the 70s, which is not so bad at all!

No Portlander has ever called me a mensch.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I'm no Portlander! I was out of the park by 9:30, then went to my friends' house in Hawthorne (they have a 3-yr-old, so there was plenty of Captain Bogg & Salty).

NYC is predictably 86, muggy and full of people who don't look where they're going.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

I'm moving to Portland, somewhere in the SE preferably. What area area do I move to that's cool but affordable?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i really like the laurelhurst/mt. tabor area. dunno how affordable it is these days.

― any cop (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Rents are picking up, but there's plenty of affordable areas east of the river...

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Define "affordable".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

basement apartment what leaks but a while?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i went to portland for two days over labour day! what a lovely city. only went downtown for powells the second day(and only for 1 hr. we had to head back to vancouver then, but i'd only just started... i'll go back!). spent the night drinking first at mcmenamins and then at... the chopstick? out on burnside. had breakfast + beer at a hippie place on belmont. wonderful! went for a hike up a canyon off of the columbia gorge, too.

i'd like to go back!

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

the drummer of my band just moved there and i hope he dies

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Why the hell didn't you say hi, Derrick?

Roxy, give me the deets and I'll make it happen.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i should have! it was a last minute thing; i was informed of the trip two days in advance. i went down with five people, one one of whom i knew well at all, and hung out in portland with six other people i'd never met before, only two of whom actually live in portland. i was kinda just along for the ride, but there's nothing like an impromptu road trip to make fast friends out of complete strangers!

portland has good IPAs.

what neighbourhood are you in, chris?

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Define "affordable".
Less than Seven hunj for a 1 bed/studio

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Casuistry: hitman, or hit, man?

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

hunj

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

SE Portland is still my favorite part of town. My GF and I manage an apartment complex by the Trader Joe's near 39th & Holgate. The owner has been raising the rent this year, but the one bedrooms are still going for under $550 and the two bedrooms for $700.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Well hunj

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hunh, I have a friend who lives near that intersection (but then, there are a lot of apartment complexes there). It's not really my favorite part of town, right there, but the TJs is nice.

I'm in close-in NE, not far from Sandy and 20th. I actually really like this neighborhood a lot. It's a nice mix of industrial and residential and is a quick walk or bike from my favorite parts of town.

Uh, I'm in a two bedroom for under $700. I don't think you should have any problems with that budget.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, what am I talking about? It's a one-bedroom.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I'm glad to be back home.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The return of the almost-native.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i love this city, but the cold rain today is a sad reminder of fall.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Casuistry is right - check out NE PDX too while you are at it. Lots of really cool neighborhoods in that area that are still very affordable.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, I plan though I'm leaning towards the SE since the only people I do know in PDX just moved there

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

plan too

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

-o

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you PDX natives (Casuistry, darin) mind if I email you off list?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Go for it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

if you need any more NE info, hit me up, too

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:26 (seventeen years ago) link

baller

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, feel free to email me off list.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i might have gone right past your place! we went east on burnside from MLK, past sandy. we saw the sandy hut, apparently better known as the 'randy slut', where burnside and sandy meet. what's the n/s cross street at that intersection?

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link

That's like 15th. You probably didn't go past my place but you were an easy walk away. (I'm not actually on Sandy, thankfully.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i understand the neighbourhood. very similar to commercial near hastings and east strathcona. nice.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The 2006 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is going on next weekend!

http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/images/poster06.jpg

Oct 6->8th at the Hollywood Theatre, NE Portland.

Speakers, guests, vendors, and films both short and feature-length!

http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/images/SandwichBoard.gif

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah! I wish this were somewhere nearer to me. My friend is going to be working (speaking? vending?) at this. If you see a lovely goth chick named Jemiah, tell her that Masonic Kate says hello!

― We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Just finished the festival weekend. Several hundred weirdos and geeks and goths and a handful of really attractive genre fans streamed thru the theater. I did not get enough wine.

I am now at work, trying to get some rest. Whee.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

going to be in portland next weekend to see bonnie prince billy. i know i gotta check out ozone and everyday music.

now i just need to know where to eat? breakfast and dinner suggestions welcome. bakery ideas would be appreciated to.

[really wish i had tix for the katatonia/agalloch/moonspell show instead,but my betrothed is not to fond of metal]

― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link

For a second I thought you were donut bitch because of your "e-mail", and I got very confused.

Anyway, where are you staying? There's no shortage of great breakfast and dinner places in Portland. But search Valentine's, the Farm, Nicholas, maybe J&M for breakfast or Bijou. Stop at Voodoo Doughnuts. Pearl Bakery, perhaps also Grand Central. And, you know, Powell's.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i was also scratching my head -- bonnie prince billy? betrothed? lack of knowledge about pdx? that doesn't sound very donut-ish.

― the orchid and the wasp (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

gonna be there for thanksgiving. can't wait.

breakfaast-wise, i like fat albert's.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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