Kirk Lund

The Edwige #cocktail #mixology

2 oz Malfy Gin con Arancia
1/2 oz Red Dubonnet
1/2 oz Lillet Rouge
4 dashes Bittercube Cherry Bark Vanilla bitters
1/2 oz syrup from a jar of Luxardo maraschino cherries
1 Luxardo cherry pierced with a clove

Options: Dashfire Clove Bitters, Carpano Antica

Any locals want some old comics howto books from 1990s as historical curiosities? Free to good or bad home.

@stevelieberart.bsky.social Hey, any chance you and the rest of @helioscopepdx.bsky.social will be at Rose City Comic Con?

3 connected vignette panels of Speed Demon from Superior Foes of Spider-man, emoting, yelling at a seated Boomerang, who is drinking a beer and not listening, and repeatedly poking Overdrive in the chest. OD is trying to back away.

Old art: supervillain histrionics
(Marvel, please bring this book back into print. I *personally* could sell 20 percent of the numbers you'd need to break even.)

Nice! Say hi to my home town 😄

You must know Italian. I’d love to watch Giallo films without subtitles.

s this an outdoor event? Yes! BwPCon! will take place entirely outside, surrounding the Books with Pictures building. Tables are mainly planned to be on Orange Ave, on both the sidewalk and a blocked-off portion of the street. The garden area and Division sidewalks both have adequate shade thanks to trees, but the Orange Ave Sidewalk is pretty in the open. Will there be Food? Books with Pictures is home to the Shortbox food carts, located on the east side of the building. They will be open throughout the day per their individual hours. Will there be shelter from the elements? All vendors will be covered by a tent/canopy! We want to make sure everyone is safe from the sun or rain. (Hey, it’s Portland.) Can we Cosplay? ABSOLUTELY. You can, and absolutely should come visit us in your snazziest costumes. The Cosplay Competition signup opens at 10 am, and starts at 1pm! Can we bring our kid/dog/unicorn/etc? Yes! BwPCon is an all ages event, and BwP is a dog friendly store. So long as everyone is well behaved, then everyone is welcome.

This free, one-day comic convention will take over Southeast Orange Avenue in Ladd’s Addition from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 7. Hosted by Eisner Award-winning comic book store, Books with Pictures, at 1401 S.E. Division St., Portland, this event aims to celebrate comics, illustration and craft from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Participants can expect special guest appearances, cosplay, live music, trivia and a full transformation of of the neighborhood street. Invited guests for BwPCon inlcude: Kane Lynch, author of “Reel Life,” Jonathan Hill, author of “Lizard Boy, Odessa,” Joamette Gil, editor for Power and Magic Press, and Lonnie Garcia, author of “Putty Pygmalian.” The biggest event feature is the “Artist’s Alley,” where comics creators mix with writers, illustrators, plush creators, jewelry makers and more, for a city block of arts and crafts for sale. There are 60 exhibitors who were selected from nearly 200 applicants. A main stage will feature a comics art battle with local stars, who will compete in quick-draw challenges, a cosplay contest, a trivia competition and live music. New this year will be participatory programming on a Workshop Stage, including a session on submitting to comics anthologies by Gil, a drawing class by Hill, a workshop on cartooning with clay by Garcia, Tarot readings by The Fools’ Fools, and portfolio reviews by renowned Portland artist Steve Lieber. All of the events and free and open to the public. For more information, visit bookswithpictures.com. Read more at: https://portlandtribune.com/2025/05/22/this-one-day-comic-convention-is-coming-to-ladds-addition/

PORTLAND: BwPCon, your FREE 1 day outdoor comicon is coming next week, Saturday June 7 at Books With Pictures! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social 1401 SE Division.
Guests include @dylanmeconis.bsky.social @xtop.bsky.social @oneofthejohns.bsky.social bookswithpictures.com/bwpcon/ #pdxcomics
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This sounds like the unused opening for an unaired Rod Serling anthology series.

Me too

Hey! This Saturday! Portland! Free charity event in support of the LA fires & the all star publication of LA strong by @madcavestudios.com bring whatever you want & you get it signed. Great cause! great store! @cosmicmonkeycomics.bsky.social @oeming.bsky.social @mattharding.bsky.social

I have this one and it’s covered in signatures!

Hey did I read that you’re signing somewhere today?

What ho, ye mighty of Gallery! It's your loyal chum, LAVENDER JACK!

Wow… sad news. Hate to see you go…

Stramash ‘63 All new, all colour Stramash the Glaswegian crime comic that mixes Scottish myth and science fiction.

Stramash ‘63
I just backed @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/763...

Looks like @chrisroberson.net and @oeming.bsky.social had a signing at Cosmic Monkey. Thanks for signing my copy guys!

I found two tshirts in the refrigerator in the drawer with the prosciutto. I must’ve had an interesting night.

The shock of losing Lynch has finally turned to tears.

Record it. I recorded my labrador snoring on my iphone voice memos app. I'm super glad I did.

And “they” say romance is dead…

Or a character from 1980s Hero Alliance hanging out at the pool

That’s Brunner? I think he has a Captain America tshirt on.

A typewritten letter reads: Dear fellow alumna, Because of my recent book, Class Reunion, and because I am interested in women's progress in the past years, the Ladies' Home Journal has asked me to write an article about what our generation at Radcliffe is thinking today. This brief questionnaire will give me a profile of what has happened to many of us. Would you please take the time to fill it out? I know the results will be helpful not only to all of us but to women all over the country. Thank you. Sincerely, Rona Jaffe ’51

Question: What were your hopes, dreams and expectations when you graduated from college; in terms of work, love and family life? Answer: I intended to work my way around the world selling subscriptions to Business Week on tramp steamers, ending up in Manila where I would marry a Turkish archaeologist and have four children, until the success of my first opera would bring me to the attention of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, which hired me as a cover for my still classified work for the C.I.A. in Uzebekistan, after which I would divorce my first husband and marry some corporate executives and have some more children and then fulfil my real ambition which is to make jewel-like jars of quince jelly gleaming on the cellar shelves just like Joan Didion, while writing a lot of best-sellers and the definitive study of the works of Ssu-ma Ch'ien.

Question: Was there a point in your life where your values, dreams and/or expectations changed? Please explain. Answer: all of a sudden when I was 44 I wanted to smash all the jars of quince jelly and go weave sweat pants of natural fibers on a mountainside in Idaho. I cannot explain this.

A selection of Ursula’s VERY SASSY responses to Rona Jaffe’s PERFECTLY REASONABLE questions about her life from a Radcliffe alumna questionnaire ca. 1980 (never submitted, sadly). Thanks to Julie Phillips for this gem.

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

I hope so!

I think Bob Gellner bought or leased Mary’s space when she moved out. When I was too little to think about collecting, he had Bob’s Comics (1970s) in a small space upstairs/above the original Dragon’s Lair and Mary’s selling old comics. That was before comics Direct Market even.

I went to Mary’s frequently.

There was also an older couple
with a used book and miscellanea store not too far away. I was focused on mystery novels and Sax Rohmer when I was last in there

Might even have been an earlier location of the Bookworm

There was a used paperback store in a place that I should remember but instead my geographic ignorance will be revealed… maybe 90th or 120th and center or maybe further down into the single letter streets. I bought full runs of Doc Savage and The Avenger there in the 90s

Did you ever go to The Merchant of Venus? I loved that place for sci fi and fantasy. The owner was always very nice. That’s where I was first exposed to Thieves World

I probably browsed through it once but that place was more important to me for paperbacks, buying 60s/70s Doc Savage, The Shadow, Pellucidar, Nero Wolfe…