Portland
New Yelp! review
I have one new review on Yelp!: Laughing Planet Cafe in Belmont
Portland
Portland
New Yelp! reviews
I have two new reviews on Yelp!: Otto's Sausage Kitchen in Woodstock Pace Setter in Woodstock
Portland
Spray misty for me
Portland weather on the morning of August 1: 60 degrees and drizzling.
Portland
Taylor Street shaker
My housemates and I were jolted last night by a 2.6-magnitude earthquake. Not a very big earthquake, true, but you can really feel it when the epicenter (18th and Taylor) is only a mile away.
Politics
Parties and libraries
There is a Multnomah County library levy on this year's November ballot. When a library levy was last on the ballot (November 2002), there was a decided split in who supported it. In the ten precincts that would be John Kerry's best two years later, 73.
Me
Here comes the rain again…
The rainy season in Portland began this morning, at the crack of mid-October. As a fair-skinned pedestrian, I don't mind the gray skies, but the driving rain can impede me.
Me
Lay-dee-oh-duh-lay-dee-oh-duh-lay-hee-hoo!
With Stephanie Potter at KBOO last night (cameraphone photo by Marliese Franklin) You can't see it in the picture, but Stephanie is wearing an Austrian peaked cap. In honor of which we sang "The Lonely Goatherd" from the Sound of Music soundtrack. Which we recorded, because
Life
Hot town, summer in the city…
The mercury hit 104 this afternoon, which is a Portland record for July 21. It was still 100 when I got off the 6 at Belmont. I picked up my mail at the post office, then thought: "What the hell…why not walk the rest of the way home?
Me
I wanna walk up the side of the mountain…
Spent the early afternoon today hiking in Forest Park. After a couple of days of grueling mental work, I needed something physical. I started at the Thurman Street Bridge trailhead, and took the Lower Macleay Trail to the stone house. I picked up the Wildwood Trail there and took it
Portland
Young love
Seen today on Southeast 33rd Avenue: A teenage boy walking about half a block ahead of a teenage girl running. And he's smiling because she's running after him. And she's smiling because she's about to catch him.
Portland
Getting rid of everything…
Seen this evening at the corner of Southeast 33rd and Stark: A sign advertising a nearby garage sale, next to a kitchen sink with a price tag on it. No "everything but" for these folks...
Music
Nice night for a walk
It was a beautiful evening for a fair-skinned person in a long-sleeved shirt to be outside – overcast and in the 60s – so I walked home from work: MLK to Hancock to 33rd to Alder. About three-and-a-half miles. I had never walked through Irvington before. Pretty