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lordog aka Lori aka LORD OG, RAWWWWWWR is a girl, has been a member since December 11, 2007, has scored 4,092 submissions, giving an average score of 2.21, helping 108 designs get printed.

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Sep 18 '09 by lordog
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The "Why you should visit and/or move to Portland" blog.

1. I live here. Hai! So do boysbe-priscilla, chengui-brian & helmut13e-renee, margo (sometimes), mgill52, polynothing, renfrue (i think?), and hopefully soon, alvarejo.

2. Portland is the #1 most bicycle-friendly city in the USA, and the #2 in the whole world! evidence! moar evidence!

3. There's no sales tax here. Sales tax is dumb.

4. It's relatively inexpensive to live here (compared to many west-coast areas)

5. Oregon coast ftw.

6. Mt. Friggin Hood, dude. Snowboarding/skiiing right outside the city. :)

7. Portland has been named BEER CITY USA (tied with some town in NC, but still!)

8. There's like, lots of nature and stuff, right in the city:
Portland is home to the nation's largest urban wilderness � the 5,000-acre Forest Park. The Portland metro area boasts 37,000 acres of parkland. Portland has 278 public parks and 150 miles of trails.

9. Just for tracer-brian: Tons of gluten-free dining options!

Okay, can you move here now, plz?

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boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:11pm

omg, lori, we had the same blog lol!

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:12pm

yours is better though

Rambunkcious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:12pm

*packing*

mike bautista on Sep 18 '09 at 4:12pm

I've been thinking about visiting/living in Portland for a while.

mike bautista on Sep 18 '09 at 4:13pm

Your floating mountain and coasts are beautiful.

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:13pm

Oregon doesn't have sales tax!

ISABOA on Sep 18 '09 at 4:16pm

i might be in town around Nov 5th

we should go tour a submarine or something

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 4:16pm

that's #3 priscilla!!!

wait you made a blog too?

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:16pm

submarine tour @ OMSI!

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:17pm

had = made in my first comment. oops...

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 4:32pm

oooh submarine tour...

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:35pm

^_____^

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 4:40pm

Portland sucks.

mike bautista on Sep 18 '09 at 4:40pm

I was sold at #donuts in the other blog.

canceromega on Sep 18 '09 at 4:42pm

I want to go to therrrrrre.

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 4:44pm

voodoo donuts + a WEEKLY artist market + they made Coraline here....

courtney pie on Sep 18 '09 at 4:44pm

I will be down every weekend so we can go to that rock and look for One Eyed Willy's treasure. :D

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 4:45pm

hey you, brian, yeah you, SHUT IT!

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 4:45pm

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:45pm

the farmer's market downtown is the bombbbb

sonmi on Sep 18 '09 at 4:45pm

i plan on visiting sometime!

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 4:45pm

KBShakedown on Sep 18 '09 at 4:44pm

10. Vegan strip club.

true, complete with pyrotechnics, so i've heard.

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:46pm

POWELLS BOOKS

I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT POWELLS BOOKS

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 4:46pm

You forgot about the famous Voodoo doughnut BURGER too!!!

how dare you...

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:47pm

Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in the Portland metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world.[1] Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown, and occupies a full city block, between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W Burnside and NW Couch Streets. It contains over 68,000 ft� (6,300 m� or about 1.6 acres) of retail floor space.

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 4:47pm

SONMI sighting! give us a head's up if you do!

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:48pm

there's a burger!?!?! WHAT

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 4:53pm

holy crap, i didn't know they made a burger. that's amazing.

and powell's ftw.

and julia, come visit! :)

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 4:53pm

You also forgot our awesome public transportation system!

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 4:55pm

lol @ the aerial tram. did you hear about the controversy when it was being built? apparently a nudist man lives right under the path of the tram, and refused to put his clothes on when in his yard. it caused an uproar, and i think they ended up re-designing the tram so it was harder to see the naked man or something like that.

lol.

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 4:56pm

that's lame.....

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 4:57pm

LOL @ naked man. I didn't know that.

Brian have you eaten the voodoo burgers before? We should all go get some soon!

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 4:57pm

we should! we can have heart attacks together!

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 5:06pm

I'd love to try one...I can't remember where they serve them...somewhere on the eastside methinks.

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 5:06pm

What are you ladies doing Sunday?

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 5:08pm

This Sunday? I may or may not be moved into my new apartment by then (and my roommate is flying back from Hawaii)...hmmm.

Twiggyhall on Sep 18 '09 at 5:15pm

Another reason to move to Portland: It's close to Seattle; therefore close to Mezo Knickers and I :)

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 5:19pm

dunno, what are YOU doing, brian?

and ^5 to that, twiggs!!!!!

iDanSimpson on Sep 18 '09 at 5:21pm

powell's is my fave.

i'm in trout lake, WA (1.5 away)

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 5:22pm

:o

idan

please meet up with us someday!

iDanSimpson on Sep 18 '09 at 5:24pm

! where?

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 5:25pm

portland, silly! let us know when you're coming, and we will has fun hangouts.

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 5:25pm

that's yet to be decided...but soon hopefully lordog, chengui, margo and I will meet up for thrifting and some noms. keep a lookout on the blogs!

iDanSimpson on Sep 18 '09 at 5:26pm

consider me on-the-lookout! :)

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 5:27pm

i love how we are making plans with margo, but she doesn't know it. kevin needs to give us her contact infos.

tracerbullet on Sep 18 '09 at 5:29pm

oh. my. god. you are seriously making me consider moving.

and lori, in answer to your question from the other blog, my current job isn't specifically a techie job, but i'm very good with technology-related things. i currently put together proposals for a health insurance company (very boring), but i would love to have a tech-related job. that stuff just comes naturally to me.

there is not one thing in that list up top that doesn't appeal to me. AND YOU HAVE GLUTEN-FREE PIZZA HOLY SHIT!

currently, my "I would seriously move to Portland if I had a guaranteed steady job" meter is at 70%.

wow.

boysbeambitious on Sep 18 '09 at 5:30pm

Portland Craigslist it, yo!

Chengui on Sep 18 '09 at 5:30pm

I met up with polynothing-Josh the other weekend but he seems super busy :(

But he's here in Portland too!

Lori - maybe we can do something this weekend...Sarah (who you met form our building) was thinkign about doing food or something this weekend...Renee's gone though :(

tracerbullet on Sep 18 '09 at 5:30pm

correction: i don't/can't drink beer, so only 8/9 things on that list appeal to me. but that's still a very high percentage.

lordog on Sep 18 '09 at 5:31pm

hee hee, i knew i could convince you. ;)

there's a gluten-free seafood restaurant down the street from my apartment. it's the nomz.

job market is a lil slow right now, but my company is hiring. and my company is awesome and growing. but the IT dept isn't hiring at the moment. if you'd consider doing something else, i can send you infos.

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