Heros IV - Feats of strength

What sort of birthday party would it be without cake?

A crappy one...

This is a cupcake turkey. Awesome!

Here; Spiderman wins the award for most revealing costume.

Congratulations.

Wonder Woman won the best host award.

Here; she performs her victory dance.

Here; Rick James is challenged to answer important questions.

And here; I, Shark Man, am asked similar, yet different, important questions.

This is me thinking.

Wonder Woman was asked questions while under the power of her own truth lasso. I think this is her melting.

In the end...I win.

This is my new and super powerful Gem Magic, or is it Gemagic.

All are stunned by it's powers.

Picking up where the hippies left off

Two cupcakes and and a hipster craft magazine. The breakfast of the next generation (look out you Baby Boomers', we don't care about our diets and our craft projects are much tougher than yours.)

Blythe and Chris were lovely hosts. Here is Blythe. Chris had left early in the morning for some sort of outdoor excursion.

We met up with Lexingberg, Stephenawitz and Meganstien at Portland's Jewish deli.

Here I am ready for a breakfast of gefilte fish and Manischewitz (the Manischewitz web site (where tradition is the new trend) has a page devoted to gefilte fish where they list facts, including the fact that gefilte fish is not a species of fish but a loaf of fish! Hooray!)

Troubling indeed. If I need to explain it, you wouldn't have thought the joke was funny anyway.

Woe is Steve.

We were discussing peoples willingness or un-willingness to have their pictures taken.

Is one camera more intrusive/annoying than the other.

Steve took the awsomecam to see at what point it's presence became irritating.

Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot to say about this particular sequence of pictures.

Just think of it as a dizzying adventure in outdoor breakfast.

Steve.

Megan.

Megan.

Steve again.

Gabriel.

I think this is the point at which we want it all to stop. Or at least Lexi does.

Megan's finger has started turning green from her skull ring.

Here is an avant-rock trio outside Macy's

I keep telling Megan not to take sideways pictures because it means more work for me. But does she listen...

While I have very little to say about this Thai restaurant; I like this picture of the three soup samples they brought us.

On that note, we will leave Portland

5th of July

This was the Cricket special

We got cupcakes, however, this is not a cupcake it is just an adorable plate.

This is a futuristic bathroom. (Now I have TWO posts labeled "toilets of the future". Awesome!)

This book had some pretty good pictures in it.

I think this will be the tattoo I get instead of a burning bridge (which seems a little melodramatic and doesn't really illustrate my current sentiment).

Or maybe this should be what I get.

So many good ideas...

Usually; Powell's gives me anxiety, I guess the secret is going in looking for new tattoo ideas and make a point to take pictures instead of buying stuff.

This is a root beer float flavored cupcake! While we had already bought cupcakes at the other cupcakearia; how could I resist one that was root beer float flavored? I would have had the same problem if it had been jalapeño flavored, it just would have been less enjoyable.

That guy's sign said something stupid/amusing. I don't remember what it was though.

At some point everyone realizes that their picture is going to end up on the internet regardless of if they want it to or not.

As we can see; Megan has come to this realization and has chosen to author her own fate.

I don't remember why I liked this. At some point we tried to buy a plastic eagle at a thrift store and the price tag said $2.95 for an item that was, maybe, worth $0.29. Megan haggled with the woman at the counter long past the point at which it was apparent that the price would not be dropped.

These are fancy soaps shaped like cupcakes. Have I mentioned how much I like cupcakes?

At night: awsomecams and actualcams aren't that dissimilar.

This is a chandelier at the coffee shop/bar/hookah lounge that we went to to meet various parts of the gang.

We ended up at a bar that had been/was having an art opening. Maybe, somebody knew somebody in the show or was related or something. I don't know.

This was the shows curator. He asked if we had met before, I said that we had.

I suppose it was possible that we had met and I just didn't remember.

This was my favorite piece at the show.

This is the bar that we passed up earlier because it seemed a little deserted. Now it was hopping and I didn't see a hookah anywhere.

I know there was a point to this one.