Am long overdue to flee this miserable grey town that has just managed to get itself recognized as “the most miserable city ” in which to live in the USA. It is self absorbed right now with a mayor, the epitome of Portland’s new found metrosexuality ( tree felling, farming and fishing are frowned upon here now) who turns out rather to have a penchant for the underage male and a sack full of lies to go along with what he would have stump town’s gullible and stupidly tolerant consider a mere peccadillo. Add to that some pale faced woman at U of O whose power trip of transparently veiled threats to see the old White Satin/White Stag/Made In Oregon sign “go dark” if she and the powers in Eugene (likely the second most miserable place in the US) don’t get their way in changing its neon garish statement to promote “The Ducks” of all things. Maybe we should just call in “A Beaver” to chop the damn thing down. Geez, are we not now all scared witless when piling this on top of all the really serious stuff in life just now? Only in Portland, OR could the self promoting, made for TV pompous classes with the chichi spectacles a la Palin of Alaska, dodge the potholes, a sales tax, bums and collapsing bridges to add their verbal drizzle to the incessant meteorological kind. Thank heavens for little green apples, a few Republicans out on the farthest reaches of Sauvie Island and direct Delta flights to JFK.
The fact the flight requires a 4 am turnout is nothing to the thrill of leaving the forest and dropping in on Manhattan and a courtesy upgrade can only improve the mood. Prior to bag pack and catnap I see reports of an imminent late season snow storm for the city and other parts of the east coast with numbers ranging from 5″-10″ of snow on Long Island. Now that could well add a complication or two to a very tight schedule. (more…)