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what’s good, pdx?
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What’s making you happiest right now? What are you looking forward to? What made you laugh today? What’s the most optimistic thing ya got, Portland?

In the process of migrating old posts over from IG. New stuff on the way.
Anthony
Mar 15, 2018

This Captain N letter jacket was a recent acquisition from the Nintendo store and Anthony was visibly excited about it. We ranked Zelda games and bonded over the shared trauma inflicted on an entire generation by Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple.

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February 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Jeff
Mar 15, 2018

Freshly moved from Seattle to PDX, Jeff had been in self-quarantine for several weeks with a cold. He was celebrating his freedom here with some well deserved fresh air and a drag stage production of Death Becomes Her starring Peaches Christ at the Aladdin Theater.

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February 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Jessi and Jimmy
Mar 10, 2018

These two were planning a new food cart for a pod on SE Flavel. They’d initially planned to do hot dogs, but pivoted to a spicy chicken cart. Jessi claimed her bbq would turn heads, but Jimmy’s preference was for fried. A chicken-off was proposed.

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February 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Tyler
Mar 8, 2018

Tyler managed the Rogue Eastside Pub and this was his first day off in a while, so he planned to spend every second of it in his kitchen. He loves hand-made pastas and the delicate, time-intensive process of stretching Japanese rice noodles.

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January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Adrienne
Mar 8, 2018

Adrienne was exhausted when we met, juggling work, grad school, and moving in with her ailing father. We talked about the comfort of books and how satisfying it is to unpack them in a new place. Her ideal house would have books even before it had furniture.

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January 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Anthony
Mar 1, 2018

I took Anthony to a sound studio to record a narration for his self published book. The audiobook was his mother-in-law’s idea… she would text him frequently as she read it to let him know how vividly she could hear the words in his voice.

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January 31, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Orion
Feb 22, 2018

Orion was a chemistry student at Reed College. The tiny boxes in the vacuum-sealed glass container they’re holding each contain chondrite meteorites shot through with veins of proto-planetary matter - tiny time capsules from the birth of the known universe.

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January 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Grant
July 25, 2017

Grant’s story started this project. 99 years old in this photo and recently engaged to be married. He spent that whole summer taking lyfts four times a week from his house in Beaverton to his sweetie’s assisted living home to visit and sing to her.

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January 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM