Loving Portland, OR, even though I haven't left my room

[image error]This would be the view from my room if the Ace Hotel hadn't put up a permanent window shade. I had to sneak my hand around the back of the shade to take this photo. This place is bizarre. Tonight I'm meeting up with either my friend Craig Thompson, who wrote one of my favorite graphic novels of all time, Blankets, or my super-cool friends Sylvia and Geoff, who I met last year when I subletted Sylvia's apartment for a month. Portland is just that kind of town: you meet people everywhere and actua