Portlanders

Portlanders of....Portland, Unite!

2008-07-13T05:16:52Z

If it is okay, I would like to do some advertising. I have recently created a new community and thought there might be some people in here who are interested.

http://community.livejournal.com/pdx_socialists/profile

Things are sluggish now, with any luck more members will equal more discussion.

New to Portland

2008-07-11T15:08:24Z

Hi! As my subject says, I'm completely new to anything Portland. My girlfriend really loves it there, and we're hoping to move in a couple of years. I'm hoping we can go for a visit in the next few months.

Are there any resources people can refer me to so I can learn a bit more? It'd be greatly appreciated!

portlanders @ 2008-06-11T21:33:00

2008-06-12T04:41:17Z

So it's my birthday this Friday and I'm looking for some food advice.

Usually I go out to lunch by myself at some place that offers free birthday lunches. I used to go to Todai but they stopped doing it--is it true they've started again? Where else is good that's near the Max line that would have that?

And also I'm looking for something new for dinner with my parents and sister (and my friend and my sister's boyfriend). We have a wide palate, but since we're looking for something new, that rules out American, Thai, Italian, Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Chinese. Also I don't much like seafood of any sort. So what's out there in the 20$ or less price range?

FOUND CAT

2008-05-30T19:06:42Z

I think someone dumped her near St Johns Bridge and Germantown Rd or NW Skyline Blvd and Forest Park.
She's super sweet and I'm sure would like to be an indoor kitty. She's hanging out on our porch now in a bed I made for her. My old cats refuse to let her inside! I'm trying to post everywhere I can think of to get her home. If you think you know her owner please let them and me know! Saturday we have a vet apt to see if she microchipped, get checked up and see if she's spayed. Cross your fingers for me!
Thank you!

In Town

2008-05-29T06:01:29Z

Hey there. I'll be in Portland for the next four days for RailsConf and I'm just curious to hear what some locals think are things to see/do in Portland. Also curious what the best delivery pizza in the city is (local, non-chain). I'll be staying near the convention center (I'm assuming there's only one, or at least a clearly more significant one than all the others), if that makes a big difference.

Thanks!

(cross-posted to damnportlanders as well, sorry for any duplication)

Backline is looking for New Board Members

2008-05-16T19:57:48Z

Backline Seeks New Board Members!

Backline is a pro-choice organization supporting connection, conversation and support around all aspects of pregnancy, parenting, abortion and adoption. Based in Portland, Oregon, Backline offers national programming including a toll-free Talk Line and professional training services.

Backline is an all-volunteer organization and is currently seeking highly motivated, passionate individuals to join our Board of Directors. Board members must be based in Portland, Oregon. Board candidates will be committed to Backline’s mission and will ideally have experience in the one or more of the following areas:

Fundraising
Grantwriting
Event planning
Volunteer management
Nonprofit management
Counseling
Reproductive Healthcare
Bookkeeping/accounting
Nonprofit law
Database management
Public Relations
Movement building

To learn more about Backline, please visit our website at www.yourbackline.org <http://www.yourbackline.org> .
To apply for a Board position please complete the online application at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JzJs3AMz9IWWzq3L0kpeFg_3d_3d

Applicants will be contacted after the May 31st deadline for follow up information and to set up interviews.

Applicants must complete the survey prior to May 31st in order to be considered.

Please direct any questions to: grayson@yourbackline.org

portlanders @ 2008-05-14T18:06:00

2008-05-14T20:56:48Z

I'm in need of a ticket to the Stephenie Meyer event at the Bagdad Theater on May 20th. If you have an extra one, let me know, would ya please? Thanks much

travel tips??

2008-05-11T20:41:45Z

I've got myself a bit of a problem... I am flying up to Portland on Monday, May 19th and staying until Saturday, May 24th. I'm coming from San Francisco(if that matters). My problem is that my friend who has recently moved up there has proved to be one of the worst hosts ever.... so I'm pretty much going to be by myself the entire time. I have never been to Portland so I have no idea what I'm in for.

My friend actually lives in Vancouver, WA and he says it's just a hop, skip and jump away from Portland. So here are my questions:

1. How useful is the public transportation? Will it be easy to get from Vancouver to Portland? From the airport to Vancouver?

2. Is there any kind of public transportation to get me to Seattle? Canada?

3. Please suggest things to do and see. I enjoy art museums, really good coffee, and bargain shopping.... also any really good restaurants to check out? Or any bars or clubs?

Thanks for your help!!

Toy Art Show Submissions Deadline Sunday

2008-05-09T02:47:21Z

Please have your Artwork submitted by Sunday May 11th, We are still looking for fashion, film, and more. www.toyartpdx.org
thanks

portlanders @ 2008-05-04T19:27:00

2008-05-05T02:31:22Z

So I'm going to an anime convention in two weeks and both my costumes are partially busted. Problems are that a, I can't sew, and b, one of them I think I'd need to wear while someone else sewed it up anyway.

Is there any way one of you could give me a hand with those? On the big one it's ripped seams in both legs (it's a jumpsuit), and the minor one has a rip on the fastener (it's a trenchcoat).

I'm looking to pay maybe 10$/hour, but it shouldn't take more than three hours to do both of them.

Coast Recommendations

2008-04-17T00:43:40Z

I am looking for recommendations for a trip to the coast. My family and I would need to go on a Friday and return on Sunday. We are looking for lodging, places to eat and family friendly areas of interest. Stuff to avoid is also appreciated.

Thanks!

Got Lupus?

2008-04-16T04:49:09Z

If you (or anyone you know) lives in Oregon or SW Washington and/or has lupus or a related disease, please check out a website/online network I ~~am helping~~ helped put together: My Life Works Today!.

Thanks!

portlanders @ 2008-04-13T22:32:00

2008-04-14T05:37:49Z

My friend and I were in Portland on the eighth for a concert. Stumbling out of The Chrystal Ballroom at eleven thirty at night before a window at a diner, the better half of the couple sitting there took a bunch of pictures of my friend and I until we got picked up. I don't know who the hell that woman is.

Where do you think those pictures are?
Do know what/who I'm talking about?

portlanders @ 2008-04-13T21:08:00

2008-04-14T04:09:36Z

Hi, I'm new here. My name is Eli. I work at a head shop on division. I drink a lot of dutch brothers because it's right across the street. I love snuggling up to a good Chuck P. novel. Good to meet you all.

Elections

2008-04-09T10:30:58Z

Hi, can someone recommend a website or two where I can find out about the candidates for judge, commissioner, etc? WHAt about Measures 51-53? I am out of the country and although I was sent my absentee ballot, I didn't get a booklet with the candidate's statements. Thanks!

The Zombies are Coming! Portland, Oregon

2008-04-08T04:58:41Z

Where to park? Doug Fir Lounge - E. Burnside

2008-04-06T22:30:23Z

I'm attending a show tonight at the Doug Fir Lounge in SE. I've never been to this place, and can't find any information for a good place to park. A friend said it's all street parking. I really hope not, this event will be packed. Is there any paid parking nearby? I don't mind walking a bit, I just want to know where I should go! The closer, the better, though.

Help me out! :)

Thanks!

...two bits?

2008-03-31T07:34:13Z

Hi, I'm new here.

Where in town can I get a decent haircut and beard trim for relatively cheap?

Call to Artists and Performers!

2008-03-25T18:56:36Z

The Toy Art Show at the Watershed needs your help!
Toys make everyone happy, they rekindle the experiences of our childhood.
What is your artwork that is related to toys?
Toy Art can be anything toy themed. Bicycles, puppets, sculpture, pinatas, dolls, games, fashion, robots, and more encouraged.
This show is also in search of toy related talent to preform.( Hula hoopers, fire, jugglers, klowns, puppets...)

www.flickr.com/groups/toyartshow2008/

* We welcome a variety of medium (photography, digital, illustration, collage, mix media, painting. sculpture...) There are no restrictions on size.

* Submissions should be uploaded digitally through flickr: www.flickr.com
* Up to 5 images will be considered for the exhibition. Images must be in jpeg format. Posted to the Toy Art Show 2008 on flickr.
* No Entry Fee Required! (But if the piece sells during the show a small percentage will go to the venue)

* The deadline for Submissions is Sunday May 11th, I understand that being creativity and procrastination go hand in hand sometimes so if you have an idea that you plan on getting done by the show June 6th let me know, and I may be able to hold a spot for you.

* The Show is June 6th @ Watershed please come celebrate toys with us!

STEPS FOR SUBMISSION:
1. Join the Toy Art Show 2008 group: www.flickr.com/groups/toyartshow2008/
2. To add a photo to the group, select the photo in your account you will see options for adding the photo to the group directly above the photo.
3. Please DO NOT submit more than 5 images.
4. We will be contacting you through your flickr mail account, so please check that account.

Sushi in PDX?

2008-03-21T06:03:07Z

My mom and I are going to see Cirque tomorrow and thought about going for sushi afterwards. Can someone give me a recommendation for good Sushi somewhat near the Cirque tent?

Thanks!

Horse cock for me

2008-03-20T09:29:49Z

These days I've been far too busy to go out to the farm, see the horses, ride, and play with their giant cocks and twitching vagina's. So Sunday was a really special day for me. I will give you all bits and pieces as if you were dreaming it happened to you.

...you seem him there alongside the sweet grasses, eating peacefully, powerful stallion.

.......you see his huge prick all alone with nobody to love it, kiss it, suck it gently

.....He sees you and becomes hard, you are his Mare.

...your butt was his vagina weeks ago, he remembers how good this felt, but today you have a different idea of pleasure for your stallion master

.....his lusty balls hang perfectly, but you grab as much as you can inside your mouth, between your lips, as your flick your tongue inside the folds....

------ his horse sounds are becoming louder -------- it's like those epileptic thunderstorms you always heard about somewhere in the mid west but never experienced ------- you feel his weight, but he loves you, you are in no harm here.....or are you? Be careful.....he loves when you suck
------- on that swollen cockhead

------------You suck on his balls even more....as you slide your hand up and down his shaft

big enough of a cock to make the biggest man pathetic, so honor his cock with your hands, tongue, and mouth....

never stop until he cums pints of stallion jizz in your mouth

swallow, swallow, let it drip.....be happy

you pleasured a stallion.

Illustrator needed

2008-03-14T03:11:30Z

I have started to convert some of my nonsense/silly poems into kids' stories. I'm good at drawing as well as my writing, but I don't draw real things very well, and besides... I want to see if there's someone better out there willing to work with me.

If you're interested, email me at fayanora @ yahoo . com (without the spaces, of course) with an example of your work.

91-year-old blind, African American author talks about her life

2008-03-12T05:11:17Z

My name is Eva Fields and I'm sending this to tell you that my grandma Eva Rutland www.evarutland.com will be signing books in Portland. Mrs. Rutland wrote a memoir entitled "When We Were Colored, a Mother's Story" that tells her story of being a young black mother raising four children in California during the early days of integration of the 1950s and 1960s. Upbeat and funny, she states in her introduction "I was born in the
olden days, when pot was a cooking utensil, webs were for spiders and civil rights were for white folks." She tells stories all mothers can relate to. Stories like taking her four children all under the age of eight to the 5-and-10 (the five and dime) three days before Christmas and 5-year-old Ginger having a break down in the store because she spent all her money and forgot to buy her daddy a present. She peppers her stories with reminders of the special problems that blacks faced. She ends the Christmas story with a lament about having to walk past Woolworths during the Civil Rights era when the store was being picketed for because they would not serve blacks at their lunch counters in the South. She states "but pass it up I did. This was bigger than my pockets. These young people were bigger than me---and I couldn't let them down."

Eva Rutland is now 91-years-old and blind but she continues to write. She has published over 20 novels and is currently working on her sequel to "When We Were Colored," tentatively entitled "Grandma Troubles." She will be signing books and talking about her life on:
Saturday March 15th, 1:00 PM
Central Library - Multnomah County
801 SW 10th Ave
Portland, OR 97205

Moving to Portland

2008-03-11T05:26:15Z

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to move to Portland next January and I'm wondering if there's things I should know about the city i.e. cheap neighborhoods to live in, places to avoid living in, queer community stuff, whatever you feel like telling me honestly. I'm graduating college in December and have been in contact with theatre companies out in Portland already, sending my resume around and all, I'm a props master. I've lived in the northeast my entire life and am looking to start somewhere new. Any suggestions? :-)

Thanks,

-Amanda

emergency ride to eugene and/or back

2008-02-24T03:09:54Z

emergency ride from portland to eugene or vice versa

anyone willing to let me tag along in your car from portland to eugene tonight? i will pay ten dollars each way.
or a ride from eugene to portland on sunday?

one of my best friends just had a baby today and i want to go visit her.
also i had to put my cat to sleep and i want to burry him at my grandmas house in springfield, but any ride to eugen woudl eb fine, i know the buses.

PLEASE HELP!!
my name is talia (tuh-LEE-uh) Keen
i am 20yo
(503)933-3969

please if you knwo anyone. i need to burry him asap.
dont worry he's bagged and boxed by the vet, so you wont have to see/smell anything