Put a bird on it!

[thrihyrne]

There's a TV show called Portlandia that debuted earlier this year on IFC, the Independent Film Channel. I hadn't heard of it until talking with Jen, and so I downloaded a couple of episodes while with her in Eugene. It's terribly self-aware, and if a viewer hadn't lived in Portland in recent years, I'm not sure that s/he would get the many inside jokes of living in this particularly self-aware city. But as someone who has, I found many of the skits hilarious because they're so true. One of them is about a penchant for stores and individuals to decorate things with images of birds, especially in a solid cut-out fashion. I'd remembered seeing that in some stores on Hawthorne from when I was here before. So when on my first night back, I saw a store called Branch Birdie with two bird mobiles in the window, I laughed aloud. I got a picture of it this morning:



This won't necessarily be funny to anybody else, but if you've seen the show and the skit, perhaps you, too, will get a giggle.

In other exciting news, one of my former Portland Opera buddies who I'll be seeing tomorrow for a walk around the Hawthorne area, he was looking on Craigslist for a job for himself in retail when he saw a post for a position at a yarn store! Good friend that he is, he told me about it and I sent off an email this morning, including not just my qualifications, but also a couple of pictures of me in that incredibly complicated thistle-patterned cardigan I finished not long ago. Fingers crossed!