Topic: saturday night

This weekend... this weekend we saw Avenue Q. We thought we had tickets to the Saturday night show. Then one of us (Hockey God) freeked out and thought we had tickets to the Friday night show. This thought occurred to him right around 3 p.m. on Friday. No, we had tickets to the 2 p.m. Saturday matinee. the guys at the coffee shop: You're taking the kids to Avenue Q? me: No. I am open-minded,...

I'm practicing my dance moves.

My friend sang a Karaoke rendition of "We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship on Saturday night. Since then, this horrible song has popped into my head every time I make the mistake of turning my ipod off. Dumb songs that have the propensity of getting stuck in your head have a name apparently, earworms. The good people at Radiolab, my and Ira Glass' favorite show on public radio,...

Crouched down against the concrete wall of an industrial park, I looked out into Saturday night in NW Portland and a sea of people, mostly young, in various stages of undress and revelry. All body shapes were represented: tall, short, large, small, male, female, non-conformist. Music with a beat thumped out into the cold air. It was dark, around 10:30 PM. Bikes everywhere. Beer being drunk....

I don't have much to say this evening, plus it's only 10 minutes from the end of the workday. Everything worked out just about right. No T'storms westside, and a nice afternoon/evening push. I sure didn't expect the cloud cover to be quite as thick, but it sure didn't keep the temp down did it? No new thoughts on the next week or so. The 7 Day Forecast pretty much says it all. Looks like...