Ladybug

In the coffeehouse, she was acting shy before the camera, and I said, "If you don't want attention, why are you dressed up?" 

Later this evening, we only had five trick-or-treaters. I spell that: more M & M's for me.

Oh, to be a statue...

...and get a daily guano bath.

Dave Bass, the noted lawyer and jazz pianist....

...looks great in a hat. He looks like he should be hanging with de Kooning and Rothko in 1940s Manhattan.

For you completists...

Portland trip 10-2008

...who want to see every picture I took in Portland, click on the thumbnail above.

Powell's museum of computers

The Powell's technical annex bookstore in Portland has a wall of old computers, including this classic tombstone Mac.

Rimsky Corsa Coffee

Last night Marty and Peter took me to Rimsky Corsa Coffee, a coffeehouse in Portland. It's in an old Victorian and has no sign on the outside to indicate it's anything but a private house. But
inside it's a prime example of life, or in this case business, as art. The table above rotates clockwise so slowly that you don't notice until you reach for your cup and find that it's moved.

View from the upper tram station

Coffee time

Wonderful day today -- rode the aerial tram, visited the Japanese and Chinese gardens, and went to this great coffeehouse called Coffee Time. Sells hardly anything but has three cozy back rooms, including this one. It's also a great chess hangout. While I was there I saw three games going on outside featuring game clocks and chain-smoking.

A nice mural at Rocco's Pizza, Portland

The carousel at Voodoo Doughnut

Voodoo Doughnut...

...is a Portland bakery famous for doughnuts in odd shapes (like genitalia) and toppings (like Cap'n Crunch cereal and bacon.) 

The Gobama show

This uber-hip Internet cafe is called Backspace, but for this month they have been renamed Barackspace and they are hosting the Gobama Show, an exhibition of paintings of Obama by many different artists.

Required reading

I saw this book at the Portland airport. Want to know how awesome it is? The sole review quoted on the back cover comes from the Sacramento News & Review.

Large ball of rubber bands

Mystery stickers

...on the piano at the Lambda Playhouse. What do they mean?

Cy's blackboard

This blackboard (homemade!) reminds me of a Cy Twombly painting.

Convenient feature

We had dinner at the Tower Cafe. Our table had a little knothole in it which some previous patron had thoughtfully filled with salt. 

Advanced topics in TPing

Someone not only threw toilet paper over the bushes and trees at this house but also put hundreds of little sticks in the lawn (plastic forks? tongue depressors?) It actually begins to feel like an site-specific sculpture.

This business is Toast

I played at the restaurant Toast with Margie Ruiz, who I played with once before — at a wine bar in Old Sac during the Jazz Jubilee. She is moving soon to Oklahoma City so I probably won't see her again. Nice singer.

I played a Mormon wedding today...

...at the Hyatt with Ron Davis. He has a versatile presentation: he DJ's with a laptop and a small mixer, and also plays trumpet, trombone, and saxaphone live with recorded tracks. There was also the band with drums, bass, guitar, me (piano), and singer, but we played very little — less than an hour all told. Mostly we waited in a back room and traded stories.