Wrasslin’ in Portland
Last Friday, I went to Portland to catch a WWE houseshow (a non-televised event), which was the last show before Sunday’s SummerSlam pay-per-view, one of the four original pillars of the old WWF programming from the 80s-early 90s era I grew up watching. For those of you that care, the others are, of course, Wrestlemania, […]
Portland Japanese Garden
Back in the middle of June, I spent the morning at the Portland Japanese Garden and Rose Garden. The Japanese Garden is quite easily one of my favorite places in Portland. I wish this place was my backyard.
PDX Pop NOW!
Back in the middle of July, I volunteered for PDX Pop Now, a three day long festival featuring some of the best new Portland-based musical acts spanning multiple genres from bluegrass to hip hop to indie to sludge metal. The festival is completely volunteer run and supported by various local and national sponsors. Each year, […]
Calvin Johnson, Babies and Cheap Trick
Last weekend was an unrelated medley of baby birthdays, baby showers, adventures with babies, weird walks and 70s rock casino style. Yeah, I know. Sounds perfect, right? We’ll start our story in Olympia on Friday night, where I finally got to meet 6-week old Margot, the beautiful daughter of Forrest and Roussa. Forrest is the […]
WWE SmackDown in Portland!
On October 11th, WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown rolled into Portland. I bribed my friend Shawn (the only person I knew would even be interested in seeing such an event) into going with me by paying for his ticket. While the show was well worth the $120 I ended up plopping on my credit card, I […]
Pavement in PDX
Pavement played at Edgefield outside of Portland last night with Quasi. It may as well have been 1994 again. I certainly felt 16. Pavement played the hits and misses, touching on all their releases. On stage for almost 2 hours, the set included quite a bit of witty banter between band mates and the audience. […]
four day weekends
Through July, I will be enjoying four and a half day weekends. I started summer off right with a three day excursion to Portland to celebrate memorial day. I stayed with friends Jess and Erik and enjoyed several lazy sun soaked days. The impetus, however, was to go see Grizzly Bear kick off their national […]