Hawthorne and Xena
So this weekend's fable includes a genuine American drinking experience. It did not come off well against the chilled UEA pub.
Ok, so first of all on Friday I went to Hawthorne, which is a slightly boho district of Portland not far from Reed. I love Hawthorne already, I can tell. A plethora of cafes, shops full of useless kitchy things, record stores, boutiques and second-hand clothes stores. I got a jacket from the Buffalo Clothing Exchange, (where they were playing Suzie by Boy Kill Boy, how famous did I feel?), for the thrifty student price of $12. Then we ate crepes in a crepery, yum.
Got back from Hawthorne pretty late, but in time for our plan to play the Xena:Warrior Princess drinking game! Fellow Anna Mannonite Vasily came up with this idea. You have to drink a shot every time Xena makes that aiaiaiaiaiai sound and proceeds to kick everyone's arse.
Well we went out to buy some vodka or something but it turns out that, Handy Fact, all the Liquor Stores in Oregon close at 7 in the evening. How weird is that? So we went to Safeway but they don't sell spirits in supermarkets so we got beer and snackfood, but then they wouldn't accept my English driver's license as ID for the beer so we headed off to another branch of the same supermarket for another go. This time I picked a salesperson who looked tired and like she wouldn't give a crap, and she didn't give a crap and let me buy beer. Back at Anna Mann, Asha, Alice, Emily and Jennifer joined Vasily and Charlotte and I and we all ate a lot of snackfood and drank beer, so that was good, even though the Xena drinking game doesn't really work with beer. But after a while some people decided they couldn't stand Xena and her antics any more and the party broke up.
Lessons learned: It is really hard to buy alcohol here, and not everyone loves Xena: Warrior Princess as much as I do.
Ok, so first of all on Friday I went to Hawthorne, which is a slightly boho district of Portland not far from Reed. I love Hawthorne already, I can tell. A plethora of cafes, shops full of useless kitchy things, record stores, boutiques and second-hand clothes stores. I got a jacket from the Buffalo Clothing Exchange, (where they were playing Suzie by Boy Kill Boy, how famous did I feel?), for the thrifty student price of $12. Then we ate crepes in a crepery, yum.
Got back from Hawthorne pretty late, but in time for our plan to play the Xena:Warrior Princess drinking game! Fellow Anna Mannonite Vasily came up with this idea. You have to drink a shot every time Xena makes that aiaiaiaiaiai sound and proceeds to kick everyone's arse.
Well we went out to buy some vodka or something but it turns out that, Handy Fact, all the Liquor Stores in Oregon close at 7 in the evening. How weird is that? So we went to Safeway but they don't sell spirits in supermarkets so we got beer and snackfood, but then they wouldn't accept my English driver's license as ID for the beer so we headed off to another branch of the same supermarket for another go. This time I picked a salesperson who looked tired and like she wouldn't give a crap, and she didn't give a crap and let me buy beer. Back at Anna Mann, Asha, Alice, Emily and Jennifer joined Vasily and Charlotte and I and we all ate a lot of snackfood and drank beer, so that was good, even though the Xena drinking game doesn't really work with beer. But after a while some people decided they couldn't stand Xena and her antics any more and the party broke up.
Lessons learned: It is really hard to buy alcohol here, and not everyone loves Xena: Warrior Princess as much as I do.
posted by susie r at 1:50 PM
2 Comments:
Rumor has it there's a liquor store on Powell and 52nd that's open til 9. I've never been there. It's fabled to be sketchy but too fantastically convenient to avoid.
I want to go! Sketchiness doesn't stop me.
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