a bit about us

Olive and Dingo from NW Documentary on Vimeo.

Thanks France!

I was walking by some French women cooking in our kitchen. I say, "Poulet."

She smiled. Then her and her friend each took a small portion and gave us the whole bird.

We took it up to our room to devour.

Thanks France!

Clowns know that word because it's hilarious.

YUMMY!!!!
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Meanwhile... folks bring our fans to us in magnificent vehicles.

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Meanwhile...we are patrolling our turf

Contraband Canadian food.

We were paling around with a couple of young women from Victoria Canada. 
They gifted us some crazy Canada food that they accidentally brought over the border.
 I wanted to not like the Ketchup flavored chips but they were great. 
lol We are making great friends. 
Normally we don't have time of headspace for strong friendships but we make great single serving friends.
 I like being the first and last Portlanders a lot of people meet.

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meanwhile...we rocked out for the kiddos everyday.

Olive said "Hey come downstairs...and bring a camara!"

Here is something you don't see every day. 

Houseclowns get to scrub trashcans.

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Little A and Friend gardening with Olive at our pad yesterday.

 I'm so stoked that she has been in my life so many years. 

The very last thing I did at the Clown House was ride away with her on the back of the Behemoth. 
She continues to be incredibly supportive and a joy to be around. 

 Olive and Lil A are very tight. She is an expert gardener and really gave us some amazing insights about growing things. This is the first year in O&I's time together that we are able to grow anything. 
Before it was just grimey "Partment's parking lot. 
Lil A showed us how to grow our wig tree really well.

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Brujia trying weed for the first time

Another single serving friendship in the can.
 We just dropped our new friend off at the airport and soon she will be back with her husband in Korea. 

She has been married 2 years and told us she is very independent. 
Married life has made her less independent so she took a solo trip to the USA to get her self-power on. 
She picked Portland-town because she read we are weird here and won't diss her for expressing herself. 
The first few days she took herself out to great food and drinks. 
Then she got to know the clowns better. We hit it off (like we do).
We had a late night together playing cards with my daughter then this morning when I asked her what she planned to do today she said "Go with you I think."
I'm really impressed with her English. 
It's a struggle around the clowns since we use lots of slang, jargon and double speak. 
I was also impressed with her Spanish. Her nickname back home is "Lil Brujia". She has some Latinos in her neighborhood and she said Spanish words as well as I do. 
Last night she asked me to translate her Spanish, Korean name into Scandinavian runes. That was funny. 
L.B. went to our gig with us today, rocked out a bit and enjoyed the shops. 
On the way home I pointed out a pot shop and told her that's where Marijuana is sold. Her eyes lit up. "I wanna try that. I wanna tell my husband I tried that he will be so jealous." 
I was enjoying hearing her say the word Marijuana in perfect Spanish. As long as she kept talking I was happy to share. I rolled a joint and packed a bowl. I forgot she had zero backstory about how to puff out so I lit and handed over the doobie first. 

She sat there drawing on it over and over. She never got the memo that you typically pass it after a few hits.

Then she just sat there puffing and experiencing. 
Finally she passed it over, crushed and more than half over. The pipe was challenging too but she did it up like a champ. 

We were worried that she could have a bad reaction so we were watching her carefully. She was fine. She liked the sensation and we liked that she finally got her political on. After the smoke sesh she was happy to talk about climate, global economy, our two countrys etc. 
We talked so long she was almost late for the plane. We offered to take her to the airport. 

As we got close to the airport she asked for the windows to be rolled down. She wanted to breathe as much clean Portland air as she could before she went home where the air is very contaminated (by China). 
She also wanted to breathe in the last air of her vacation. She said she will never forget us. I asked her to name her children after us. Just then something in the road ahead burst into flames. Smoke was pouring over the road."Stop breathing in Portland. Roll the window back up quick!" Portland is ironic as well as weird. 
Little Brujia showed no adverse effects from the ganja and made it to her gate on time. 
We had a strong goodbye, goodluck to our single serving friend. Before she left she asked if her room was having guests tonight.
Olive "Yep, new single serving friends are already there by now."


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Meanwhile...we still enjoy riding in rain

We got home today soaked and face melted after rocking a party appearance.

We got home today soaked and face melted after rocking a party appearance. 
We could have worn raincoats but we purposely don't. When folks in traffic see us drenched in bad weather they lose their minds. 
People honk, yell and encourage us the entire commute. Normally they only do that for most of our commute. 
It's a profound delight to make those folks so happy. 
We do pick our moments and do this sparingly. 
The gear and threads can only take so many torrents. 
Also this is how George Washington died. 
He got sick after a long horse ride in the rain. We ain't going down like that. 
All warm and dry now. 
Hope you are too.

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Meanwhile...we always fight for what's right.

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Meanwhile...this kid auditioned for our gang.

Sorry kid, too small. We would like to see a lot more of you. 

Like literally double your size a few times and try again, 

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new digs debrief

It's interesting adjusting to our move from the old place. We spent many year directly in harms way. Living by the Safeway bottle return was no picnic but it was all we knew for almost 10 years.
It didn't start that way.
We used to have a vibrant community.
Then most of our neighbors were classed out.
Now all that was left were the new middleclass folks and the chronically desperate.
 We felt compelled to help the people as much as we could but then withdrew when it got really bad.
 Now we have to understand how not to always have the heightened sense of awareness.
The new place offers safty, comfort, we can actually see the stars and have a yard.
But in our heads we are still by the bottle return.
Hope this survivor's guilt fades soon.
An odd side effect of the new place: sleeping.
We used to only sleep a few hours a night but now in the relative safety of our new place, we found ourselves sleeping in and actually being late for gigs. Oops better not get complacent.

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Meanwhile...we took lots of brakes during our clowny day so stop and eat the roses.

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Covering over the old place.

It was very sad.
That is how it goes.
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