Well you jokers finally got me on here! Don't really know where to start...much love to my new friends Jen and Kev..as my homeboy Phil (owner escape from new york) said the other day: "Look at that guy..that guy who started the 'keep portland wierd' slogan..look at what happened!" So it fortifies in me mind the value in PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PORTLAND as making it reeel BIG! On a whole different level!!
I joined forces with PEOPLES REPUBLIC..because well.. I LOVE PORTLAND. My grandmother moved here as a single mother with two kids in the 60s by herself with no husband. BraVO! (can you imagine what P Town was like for a single black lady and two black kids from Texas in the 60s?) I've been living here since 1979..so I know Portland. Portland Wrestling...Dick Bogle..Bud Clark..Town Hall..KGON..The Bhawagn and Ma Anand Sheila..knock out ladies in stirrup pants with new wave hair styles and sexy spindly legs (yum!)..Billy Ray Bates..Cadillacs with big yellow parking lights parked on the grassy hill at Irving Park on warm summer days..OMSI freeze dried ice cream..Lloyd Center open top mall..the first black Rose Festival Queen..Kaluu Davis mashing the Rose City Cab..big beards camels colored suit jackets with the elbow patches..Russ and John Plew..Dj Skeeter..meeting DJ Wicked the first time..buying Cool Nutz tape DIS NIGGAZ NUTZ at 15th Ave Market..I LOVE BEING LOCAL.
MUCH WORK TO BE DONE LOCALLY though. Young people getting older. Older people getting older. Changes all around BUT you must vanquish fear and panic from your mind. Got this from my good friend and brother Corporal James at the gun counter at Sportsman Warehouse. (Go by and ask for him. Spend some time talking to him. Insightful and funny guy. Then go get Hog Wild BBQ from DaWayne in the parking lot. Be careful..sauce is so dern good you find yourself chewing your fingers zombie style :o)
Am I mixing correct sentences with Pirate speak? Maybe so! After all if you look at me profile you will see AC/DC is one of my fa vor rite (think old school paper frozen food blocks from Safeways) bands..and as Ive said to various pool partners at countless pool halls across this great city..yelling with a Miller in me hand: "IF THE PIRATES GOT TOGETHER AND MADE A BAND IT WOULD BE AC/DC!!"
Long live PROP!
"told you I did..reckless is he..now matters are worse.." -Yoda from Empire Strikes Back
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