Spotted in the parking garage at the West Burnside Fred Meyer:

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I predict in the near future that NW Portland's various walls, doors and newspaper boxes will be covered in the stenciled images of every, single pop culture icon from the '80s imaginable.

I'm sure Hulk Hogan's visage is down there someplace. Speaking of him, woah.

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Spotted in the parking lot at the Kennedy School a few weeks ago:

I think I can field this one. WWCD? He would call for a ban on rock music, of course!

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They don't get much more random than this one.

You're welcome.

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I'd be exaggerating if I said that this gallery along NW 21st is devoted exclusively to portraits of Obama. In fact, only half of its retail floor is filled with them.

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Here's a window display in a NW Portland thrift shop, possibly inspired by a David Lynch movie. I'm thinking Eraserhead. It creeps me out every time I think about it.

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Some random stuff from around the city:

Irony or is the owner of this bike upset over losing their license after one too many DUI convictions? Consider this: the bike was parked outside of last month's Brewers Festival at Waterfront Park.

A crowd at the downtown Voodoo Doughnut. The "magic" is still presumably located somewhere in the region of the hole. Or maybe it was relocated to a spot within their second location on NE Sandy.

At a Flicks on the Bricks screening of Ghostbusters in Pioneer Courthouse Square a few weeks ago. Slimer, Bill Murray, Gozer, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, cats and dogs, mass hysteria, 1984...man, those sure were the days.

A blurry photo of a painting on a wall at the Fire on the Mountain location on North Interstate. Let's see, I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be Jerry Garcia hanging out on the edge of a volcano with Jimi Hendrix, Frida Kahlo and the "We Can Do It" lady. Yup.

Their chicken wings are excellent. I have it on good authority that their deep fried Twinkies are also excellent.

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Here's a photo of all the electrical doodads lining the walls of a corridor leading to the back deck of Chez Machin on SE Hawthorne. It's my favorite place in town to sit around acting like an extra in a forgotten ABC sitcom from the mid-90s. A food critic might describe the place as a "charming but tad overpriced French bistro." I know it as the first place I both bit into a crepe and downed a bottle of Orangina.

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A communist pig spotted in a shop in Chinatown. Political affiliations aside, he may have also been a male chauvinist pig. I checked his tag. It offered cleaning instructions but no details on his dating habits.

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Spotted in North Portland last winter. Or was it just a few days ago? Given how the weather has been in this city over the past few months it's hard to tell.

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The autographed photo of Al Roker hanging on one of the walls at Hannah Bea's, the first place I ever ate grits, which are hard to come by in this part of the world.

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A photo of the mural over the snack bar at Valley Lanes in Beaverton, where an hour of bowling won't set you back $50+.

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Every time I pass by this mysterious sculpture in NW I find myself thinking that someone carelessly abandoned it in that parking lot, treating it like a forgotten plastic bag from Best Buy. Does anyone out there know the sculpture's story and what it's doing there?

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