Hey PDXtards!

[East Coast Hustle]

Sorry I never got a chance to hang out with you guys while I was home. I ended up camping on the WA coast and Olympic Peninsula for 3 days, and that rocked but it ate up pretty much all of my free time. I'll try to catch up to you guys in December when I have more time off. In the meantime, keep kicking the shins of the squatters on Hawthorne for me.

[Sir Fronkensteen, The Hawk]

Alright we will

[Jasper]

I'll spatchcock a hipster for ya.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Sorry I never got a chance to hang out with you guys while I was home. I ended up camping on the WA coast and Olympic Peninsula for 3 days, and that rocked but it ate up pretty much all of my free time. I'll try to catch up to you guys in December when I have more time off. In the meantime, keep kicking the shins of the squatters on Hawthorne for me.

Last time I was on Hawthorne, I couldn't help noticing that it has morphed into Not A Cool Neighborhood. It's now a middle-aged shopping mecca full of fat townies.

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Sorry I never got a chance to hang out with you guys while I was home. I ended up camping on the WA coast and Olympic Peninsula for 3 days, and that rocked but it ate up pretty much all of my free time. I'll try to catch up to you guys in December when I have more time off. In the meantime, keep kicking the shins of the squatters on Hawthorne for me.

That does sound preferable to hanging out with forum denizens, I can't blame you.

[East Coast Hustle]

Sorry I never got a chance to hang out with you guys while I was home. I ended up camping on the WA coast and Olympic Peninsula for 3 days, and that rocked but it ate up pretty much all of my free time. I'll try to catch up to you guys in December when I have more time off. In the meantime, keep kicking the shins of the squatters on Hawthorne for me.

Last time I was on Hawthorne, I couldn't help noticing that it has morphed into Not A Cool Neighborhood. It's now a middle-aged shopping mecca full of fat townies.

that's actually the same crowd that's always been hanging out on Hawthorne, they just haven't aged well. Besides, all the people that are too cool to care about being cool know that Foster-Powell is where it's at.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Sorry I never got a chance to hang out with you guys while I was home. I ended up camping on the WA coast and Olympic Peninsula for 3 days, and that rocked but it ate up pretty much all of my free time. I'll try to catch up to you guys in December when I have more time off. In the meantime, keep kicking the shins of the squatters on Hawthorne for me.

Last time I was on Hawthorne, I couldn't help noticing that it has morphed into Not A Cool Neighborhood. It's now a middle-aged shopping mecca full of fat townies.

that's actually the same crowd that's always been hanging out on Hawthorne, they just haven't aged well. Besides, all the people that are too cool to care about being cool know that Foster-Powell is where it's at.

Perfect as long as the people who are too cool to care about being cool have money to spend on pastries and coffee, since I have a friend with a bakery in that neighborhood.

[East Coast Hustle]

is it the indescribably good but hard to pronounce one with the vietnamese-sounding name? Because that place is fucking AMAZING. Sometimes I buy a baguette on my way by and can't even wait until I get home where the butter is. Other awesome businesses on Foster: The best gun store this side of Maine, Devil's Point (I don't care if it's "hip", they have goddamn FIRE DANCING STRIPPERS), the Slingshot Lounge (my favorite dive in PDX), the place right near the corner with Powell that has all kinds of used records and VHS tapes and stuff, Meticon Bikes (the absolute LEAST snobby bike shop in the city), and fucking FOSTER BURGER.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

is it the indescribably good but hard to pronounce one with the vietnamese-sounding name? Because that place is fucking AMAZING. Sometimes I buy a baguette on my way by and can't even wait until I get home where the butter is. Other awesome businesses on Foster: The best gun store this side of Maine, Devil's Point (I don't care if it's "hip", they have goddamn FIRE DANCING STRIPPERS), the Slingshot Lounge (my favorite dive in PDX), the place right near the corner with Powell that has all kinds of used records and VHS tapes and stuff, Meticon Bikes (the absolute LEAST snobby bike shop in the city), and fucking FOSTER BURGER.

I don't remember what it's called, but it's around 60th. The owner is Kate.

I don't make it over to Foster much because, like most Portlanders, I don't like to leave my quadrant. It feels wrong out there.

I did walk home from Division the other morning. I'm hoping Mr. Language will move to NE because SE is SO FAR AWAY. It takes nearly 20 MINUTES to drive to his house from mine. Unacceptable!

[Jasper]

Huh.  The only place I almost never go is SW.  It doesn't make any sense to me yet.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't like it when outsiders come around slumming in my quadrant, either.  They ought to stay in their own neighborhoods, damn foreigners! 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Huh.  The only place I almost never go is SW.  It doesn't make any sense to me yet.

Well, yeah.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to go there. Luckily, those kind almost always stay on their side, because our "grid system" confuses them.

[Jasper]

I've only ever been through to get to PCC Sylvania.  When I was scooting there without gloves.  In the winter.

I don't have very fond memories.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I've only ever been through to get to PCC Sylvania.  When I was scooting there without gloves.  In the winter.

I don't have very fond memories.

Oh christ.

I took some classes out there, and the evening of one of my finals the bus slid off the road into a ditch. We all had to get out and walk, and then when I got there the final had been canceled. I had to wait in the dark, in the snow, for two hours for another bus.

I hate SW.

[Jasper]

It should be kicked out.  We could probably figure out a new quadrant system that didn't include them.