Oregon Native

My wife & I are preparing to head out for a night on the town, so to speak. We're actually planning to drive 20 miles south to the town of Orange where there's a coffee shop which is open past 8 p.m. on a Saturday night AND hosts an open mic event. I already showered & chose my "people's republic of portland" t-shirt to wear; I've been checking out the selection, online, of other Oregon themed t-shirts while she is getting herself ready.

I can't remember which friend gave me this t-shirt, black with "people's republic of portland" in red, lower-case letters across the front. I enjoy the joke associated with this shirt, the way it pokes fun at the often raical liberal atmosphere which drapes over Portland like a April morning rain. I'm wondering where I might find a replacement for when this one wears out (and I might want to still wear it), so I took a look & found an assortment of Oregon shirts. All I own, really, is this black one & the other red one which features the Powell's City of Books logo my friend Keith gave for me at Christmas a few years back. (I'm drinking from my favored Powell's coffee mug while writing this.) Anyway, I want to push my Cascadian homesickness beyond what it is, to show it up a bit, make it more dramatic, as is the custom for Portlanders as I remember them. So, I'm going to take this blog in that direction, see where I can go with it. Why not? At least it might be more funny.