fuckin’ geeksexuals, ambiguous Mormon surfer-lookin programmers and their mousy-ass septum cosplay gfs, can’t get a read on shit

Kinfolk-ass wardrobes but giving the vibe I’m supposed to want your girl as some sorta str8 roommate fantasy by proxy

New Portland trend I’ve noticed: Christian college girls (as a type, yes, but I overhear and literal WP/UP/Concordia students) ambiguously out at bars with soft butch partners

Batman ‘66
Quarterworld
Portland, OR

nerdcredred:

This was undoubtedly the best one.

Spencer’s Gifts

Just realized I’d been confusing Gestalt Haus, the bicycle steampunk-themed New Division bar with Victory Bar, the Orwell’s 1984-themed New Division bar a block away

how embarrassing

It’s snowy and everything’s a mess but the buses are giving all-day transfers instead of 2-hour and that’s a nice touch, Portland

The Lutz
Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR

Yeah now I have to qualify that “no equipment” too, Mr. I Finally Got To Powell at 3 The Next AM

So for the second time in about a week there’s snow on the ground in Portland

Apparently before I showed up that was a hella rare thing, to the point that bars would post pretty undistinguished by Pennsylvania standards pictures of their storefronts “the day it snowed”

Since I’ve been here we’ve had two winters with one snow day and now this one with two so far

For all the 4wd Subarus and light pickups no one can drive for shit, Portland doesn’t have any plowing or salting capacity, and you realize how flat it isn’t. They put chains on the buses and people stay home

It’s not clear whether this is fluke (coast and inland mountains, the Columbia Gorge, and the Pacific Ocean all do weird things to airflow, when these come together things get crazy) or the new normal, since I’ve been here the summers have been droughty enough for the grass to turn yellow and apparently that’s new too

My concern is how this affects the viability of a motorcycle as year-round exclusive transport

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to walk a fucking mile through the snow to feed a friend’s cats

you’re Beautiful, Just the way you are!
Stay Sexy!
Don’t get murdered!

SE 34th & Belmont
Portland, OR

In a bar with all the early 20somethings who grew up here before Portland was gentrified this far east

No one playing pinball but a stackup at Big Buck Hunter

Cluster of guys competing who can say “do a barrel roll!” in a more ridiculous voice

Don’t think this is representative but it’s awful signal: girl who loses her southern drawl as she gets drunk

waytoomuchportland:

Hard to tell the Bolsheviks from bullshit sometimes.

meanwhile on Facebook…

US MAIL
BRU H

Portland, OR

middleman between sharing economy hosts and local cultural tourist businesses

Like you’re the guy giving the Airbnb owners the bottles of localbrew and the pamphlets with ads and coupons for restaurants and dispensaries to leave on their Kinfolk-ass side tables