Columbia Employee Store pass for #PDX#portland but also other locations in the US and Canada. If you haven't been, you can find some good quality stuff for cheaper than retail. I buy my shoes, boots & slippers here as well as clothing. Expires end of July 24
Saw a couple good #movies this week. First up was the classic #Hitchcock adaptation of REBECCA, one of the all time great Gothic romance thrillers. We got to see a lovely print of it on the big screen at the iconic, beloved Hollywood Theater here in #Portland. It's an extremely subversive film for the era (1940!!), with brilliant #gender themes and brazen #queer subtext. Was presented as part of a queer film series and the crowd was brilliant - knowing and engaged but respectful. Superb
Art and artists really are strange. This film has a lot of really smart, thoughtful things to say about the relations between men and women, and the damage that power disparities cause. Yet we know about Hitchcock's treatment of women. Ain't that something.
#Portland, OR 🇺🇸 is the first “smoke stop” on the southbound #Amtrak Coast Starlight: everyone who wants may get off the train for a moment and stretch their legs. The lovely departure board in the main hall dates back to pre-digital times. And we again meet the Cascades #Talgo.
"The county expects to release updated election results by 6 p.m. Wednesday but does not expect to tabulate results from all of its tens of thousands of unopened ballots until later this week"
@glassdelusion It sounds like a terrible situation. I've not ever heard of this happening in Seattle, that I can remember, but I cannot imagine why it wouldn't happen here (Seattle): there are lots of stretches of the Burke-Gilman trail without any bollards at all.
The contrast with failed #VisionZero plans like #Portland's seems pretty basic: "They said: 'You as provider of the road transport system are no longer allowed to kill people on that mass level that you've done'
#VisionZero has worked when the adopted plan actually mandated changes to infrastructure instead of wishes for "safety funding". Here, we let people keep driving after they participate in the city/state killing someone with their car, because "we all need to drive." If we're going to hold drivers accountable, we need to make it easy & convenient to get to and from the bar without driving, make infrastructure where bad driving will break the vehicle, require drivers actually learn how to drive.