February 9th, 2004
On Friday night, we went to Hal’s Tavern for the first time, which proved to be a lot of fun. They have an especially nice shuffleboard table. Jeremy and I lost by a nose to Jenny and Stephen. I think this is going to be Jenny’s new Friendster picture. Lambchop have their version of the Friendster interface out. It’s kinda funny.
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In an attempt to take advantage of the fleeting sunlight on Saturday morning, Jeremy and I went to the darkest place in town: the Alibi in North Portland. Maybe it was only because it was so sunny outside, that I found it nearly impossible to see for about five minutes when I got in there. Taking pictures with a long shutter were the only way to see that Jeremy was sitting in front of a giant coconut. We were the only people in this mega-tiki restaurant/bar. I want to go back and karoke when it’s packed. I took a bunch more pictures of the insanity, but they will have to wait for the special page I do in collaboration with J celebrating and great restaurant booths of Portland.
Another attempt at enjoying the good weather was my idea to drive up to The Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. It wasn’t a long drive, but it took us from sunny, to rain, to sleet, to snow, to full on scary blizzard up crazy winding mountain roads with the car slipping on ice.
We literally got within a few miles of the famous Shining Overlook Motel before the whole proposition just started to get too freaky. The only other cars we saw were SUVs and neither of us were wearing much more than a sweater and t-shirt. It sucks because having made it to the hotel, it would have looked exactly like the movie where Wendy is running around in the snow with the big knife trying to escape in the snow cat, which we could have used as well.
Having survived the mountain, we checked out the much-recommended LeGin restaurant off 82nd street. There was all sorts of crazy stuff on the menu, like sea cucumber and chicken feet. I boldly ordered Sesame Chicken.
Later that night, everybody went to Stephen’s house. I had resolved to master my amazing Polaroid Propack camera that Jeremy gave me for xmas. It’s got a lot more variables than a regular Polaroid does, which is probably why all my pictures up to that point were looking pretty terrible (mostly over-exposed or out of focus). I love how it’s 1971 in all of these pictures. I wish I had this camera last May when we were staying in those 70’s time-warp cabins in Fredonia.
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