ok, well what about Portland, Oregon?

Bellingham is just the greatest, too bad about the no jobs thing.

Seattle: more friends there
Portland: more affordable there

This is one of the biggest dilemmas, aside from the whole "they're both 2500 miles away" thing.

Save $$ by living in Portland and drive your fly ass new ride to Seattle whenever you want.

That fly ass new ride is a complicating factor -- a $360 car payment. But yeah, that idea makes sense.

are there publishing jobs?

not nearly as many as on the east coast

xp - No idea. I've been working for a client in San Jose for years, so I can do it from here or there.

You wanna move west and we can be roomies? They'd find us both dead with our hands wrapped around each other's throats, but it would be comedy gold right up until then.

you think? ive seldom found you aggravating (at a safe distance of course)

but no i dont want to live with anyone

hello portlanders!

several ilxors from seattle and various other places will be meeting up on saturday. won't you consider joining us?

saturday, november 22
7 pm
momo
725 SW 10th Ave.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Momo%27s/@45.5197592,-122.682519,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54950a04b0af7579:0xdd974fb0a3048c58?hl=en

Taking the train down, will see you there!

hmmm

I am already spoken for on Saturday @ 7. Have fun, y'all.

Got my bag packed!

yay!!

I'm driving down, seeing yall, and driving back.

hmmm

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gonna be fun

way sry i'm missing this, part of a general pdx-missing melancholy i've had as the trees don't change here

OK we're in, will be staying with friends that night out in NE

think I might stop by and meet some of you seattle people i otherwise never seem to interact with on here.

looking forward to this!

leaving Eugene momentarily!

road trip music:

Amy Denio - Prodigal Light
Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies 4
Camper Van Beethoven - 3rd album
Bevis Frond - Inner Marshland
Attrition - Realm Of The Hungry Ghosts

I am in vest w/ buttons, early??

Hey, I hope y'all are having fun. I'm having a particularly boring worknight in Seattle.

:( from me and Estella and Kate and lexy

I Love Everyone

that was super fun! thanks for coming out, portland and eugene and seattle and tupelo and brisbane!

Very nice to meet all of you! Hello from L and I.

it was very great to meet you both plus the other ilxors i hadn't met before, and to see the ones i had previously met again. sorry you couldn't make it, rev, i was hoping to get to meet you at last.

this was a lovely time!

So good to see everyone! And what a great neighborhood bar to take over.

and brisbane!

tsk

Had a great time last night and today, so good to meet everybody. Now I'm on the train with Jaq and Mr. Jaq, letting someone else do the driving.

Super-fun, y'all. And I made it back to Seattle in 2:20.

FAP of Missing Rev, tho.

I ran into an old friend of my brother's, now 30, and I asked him where he was living now
He said "Portland."
I asked him what he was doing now.
He said "A lot of dancing."
I said "Oh. What kind of dancing?"
He said "Blues dancing."
I asked him if he was a professional dancer.
He said no, he also just got a job in a vinyl record factory.

i'm going to portland for the first time ever this week! for a conference so i won't have tons of free time. i'm def hitting up powell's but anything else i should absolutely see/do if i have a free day? good stuff going on museum/gallery-wise? nice tree-filled walks i should take? (ps i don't care that much about donuts)

Dress warm. The museums are open and good.

xp eat delicious northern Thai food at Pok Pok (SE 26th and Division, I think)

I'd recommend self-touring My Own Private Idaho shooting locations, but there aren't many left! If you have park time i recommend this one at early morning or dusk tho:

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/finder/index.cfm?&propertyid=97&action=ViewPark

http://movie-tourist.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-own-private-idaho-1991.html

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1c/eb/7d/1ceb7df5eabcfe7484c3b68fbd6ed1a5.jpg

(it's a bit of a commute from downtown)

xp eat delicious northern Thai food at Pok Pok (SE 26th and Division, I think)

Really, you could just walk along this strip of SE Division (between 30th and 39th) and try a number of great restaurants - Sunshine Tavern, Bollywood Theater, Salt & Straw, Nuestra Cocina, Bar Avignon, Ava Gene's, Pizza Maria ... I could go on forever.

My folks are flying in for a visit this weekend. My mom expressly said they had a list of places from Guy Fieri shows and other food/travel shows they wanted to hit.

To which I said, oh great, lines for everything,

My one regret from my brief trip last year was not getting khao man gai at Nong's even though my hotel was just a block or 2 from the PSU food cart pod.

My folks are flying in for a visit this weekend. My mom expressly said they had a list of places from Guy Fieri shows and other food/travel shows they wanted to hit.

To which I said, oh great, lines for everything,

Let me guess - Screendoor, Apizza Scholls and Voodoo Donuts?

Pine Street, too, more than likely

Anywhere in the 20s to 40s or so along Hawthorne, Belmont, Division, and Burnside in the SE is fun to roam around, as is Mississippi and Albina in North Portland. I really like Kens Pizza and Apizza Scholls, Bollywood Theater, Pok Pok, Belmont Station for beers, Kens Bakery on 21st, salt and straw, and any number of other places. Voodoo donuts sucks though, don't waste your time.

Mother Foucault's is my favorite bookstore in town.

the park i miss is laurelhurst; also recommend the view from the rose garden and its little outdoor amphitheater not enough happens at. the pizza i miss is old town for tourist atmosphere (guy's probably on this) and hammy's for being high at 2 am and american dream for its giant cakelike slices that are the only non-nyc-imitative pizza i've ever loved. the rest of the food i miss is fire on the mountain and bombay chaat house and whichever of the east-side cart pods remain. the movies i miss are mostly at the 21st street cinema but stop making sense at the bag dad (w/ beer) poss the best concert i've ever been to. the museum i miss (besides movie madness' memorabilia collection) is "the crumpacker library", a more or less secret wing of the meager art museum i couldn't even give you reliable directions to but which is one of the most ornate spaces in the city and has a lot of neat books about photography. the sunday brunch i miss is at fucking home, in pajamas, with no boutique television fans flanking me like sibling sows.

20s and 40s on e hawthorne+belmont otm; this area also features a lower-pressure powells. jackpot records a naked emperor imo. the best thing to do in portland is this but it's only in september unfortunately.