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Secrets.

LC's been here, and we've been bumming around, searching high and low for the perfect cup, meal, drink, laugh. Also we've been playing Portland Bingo: a group of middle-aged men riding around in a Segway gang, a unicyclist smoking a cigarette, goth dance parties.

ETC.

The reading last night was brill, thanks to Sampsell for putting it together and the amazing audience for playing along. I had a great time meeting up with Steve Almond, who I've been emailing with for years, and Zach Dodson, who I just wrote a FOB piece about for Print. Nice boys, the both of them.

Then LC and I went with Monica Drake and Blake Nelson to the Doug Fir, with Zach and his traveling companions joining us later. I got drunk. Later on Blake and LC and I went to Voodoo Donuts and then we made him show us Paranoid Park at 3 AM. It was perfect weather. Things finally cooled off. I could have stayed up till dawn. I liked Portland quite a bit last night.

Tonight I'm going to the Walter Kirn/Steve Almond/Aimee Bender reading that's part of the Tin House Writers Conference, and then tomorrow I'm off to Seattle for a quick little getaway. Good meals with nice men. Drinks in Ballard. Fun in the sun.

ETC.

(07/14/08)