Oh Dog, you Sleuth!

I know the neon coverage is getting out of control, but it really is unbelievable here. Jeremy told me beforehand that Portland has refused to rip up its old stores and create nothing but Subways and Gaps and Starbucks. Apparently, Chin’s Kitchen is supposed to be really, really gross but I’m still dying to go. It doesn’t matter because the real gem in Hollywood is the Pagoda Restaurant, which will get its own massive photo shoot.

I love that I can walk to an art house movie theater. I saw Claire Denis’ ‘Friday Night’ last night, which was great.

It’s really spooky inside. I know Portland is supposed to remind you of Gus Van Sant and Elliot Smith (RIP!) but last night as I was walking back to my house through Laurelhurst, I couldn’t stop thinking about Blue Velvet and David Lynch in general. The old Americana vibe here really makes you feel like you’re walking around in one of his movies. And of course there’s the Twin Peaks thing. But my big movie thing is I want to visit the town where they shot “Goonies”. We need a car for that, though.

It looks like we’re planning something terrible but this was trivia at Beulahland last night, which was pretty hard and not so much fun.

Jeremy took our low score particularly badly.

Afterwards we went into Chopsticks Express around the corner to Karoke, but the line was too long.

Katherine stayed behind to page some of her friends and we didn’t see her for hours after that.

The next stop was The Ambassador, which is one of my new favorite places in Portland, because of it’s incredibly sleazy 80s coke dealer Miami vice design and it’s liberal policy about turning the reverb on the karoke mike.

Oh, and there’s a smoke machine on the stage.

Jeremy did Yummy, Yummy, Yummy and Sweat Pea.

Leslie, who along with Steven, actually has a very nice singing voice, did a duet of the Boy is Mine, In Your Room and one other song I can’t remember.

The real star was Katherine, who blew everyone away with a re-interpretation of Alice Cooper’s ‘I Wanna Be Elected’.

I stumbled through through Mary J. Blige’s Family Affair and the Shangri Las Leader of the Pack and pretty much massacred Boston’s More Than a Feeling.

Doesn’t this look like a still from DePalma’s remake of ‘Scarface’?

I looked at my web statics tonight and was kinda shocked by this search string someone used and ended up at ohdog.org. Jeez, they must have been so disappointed. And it was strange to see that the site’s popularity really peaked in July and has been experiencing a steady nosedive in the last three months. What can I do to spice this up? Prizes? More celebrity gossip?

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