[pdx] Powell's City Of Books: Where We Keep Our Excess Culture

3179.

In the Orange Room in +Powell's Books, Inc. , there's a sign near where they now stock the journals and cards and such. Here's what a part of it looks like:

Sometimes it makes sense that there's excess culture, and it's made of recreation and misfortune, and you can find it at Powells.

This is probably the most meta thing I've ever seen.

[Out122ndWay] Starfleet's Own Ace Hardware Store - The USS Powell Villa

2996.
The Powell Villa is that old-school shopping center across from the Safeway at SE 122nd and Powell. And the Ace Hardware store that is there has been there for decades, so they say.

It has a tradition of service that comes down from the stars, and is highly … logical.

That's the USS Powell Villa, Captain Shawn-Luc Picard commanding.

Heck, I didn't even know they were cousins. Live and learn.

My wife goes there when she wants fasteners and such for small fixes, and I go there to get that delicious hardware-store popcorn (the only thing better is movie-theater popcorn, and I stand in fear of no contradiction here, in as much as the secret ingredient is it's free!) from the replicator.

Oh, they call it a popcorn machine, but who do they think they're fooling?

It's been broke down the last couple of times, so someone from engineering best get on that. This is a hardware store, though. How hard can that be?

The hull number is the store's ID number, so they say. I say it's the holodeck program file code. Like I said, they ain't foolin' nobody.

[pdx] Connect The Freakin' DOTS, People!

2838.You know, with 24-Hour Banking across from 24 Hour Savings …

… if I didn't know better, I'd say the WinCo and the Key Bank over on NE 102nd Avenue in Gateway weren't conspiring for something. What it is, though … I have no idea.

Remember. the truth is out there. Or on there. Or in there. Unless it isn't. Maybe it's just the bottle return room. who knows.

[PDX_liff] LOLBurgerville At SE 11th And Hawthorne

2807Burgerville USA, the only burger joint worth visiting, indeed, the only burger joint anywhere, has good news for this particular kitteh:

Yes, you can haz that cheezburger. Might I suggest the Tillamook Cheeseburger?

Of course, the injunction is delivered with a smile. Because that's how Burgerville USA rolls, yo.

[PDX_liff] Portlandia Releases Her Sex Tape! Can An NBA Wedding Be Far Behind?

2718.Portlandia has a point. Because, let's face it folks, you wouldn't know how to spell "Kardashian" if she didn't do the "nastah" on tape for everyone to see (aren't you sorry you paid attention now?):



Yeah, I'd tap that. But the love, it would ring hollow, I suppose.

If Raymond Kaskey were dead, he'd be rolling in his grave now.

(Please may I have a big hand for Mike Vogel, who apparently gets these ideas from a very dark, wet, and sometimes scary place)

[LOLPDX, teh_funnay] He Asks.

1303. The question of the age:

(Nicked from here. Noble cause. Maybe you can help out.)

Tags: Mayor Tom, Tom Potter, Portland ASKs, I Can Haz Cheezburger, LOLPDX