The Urban Pantheist

Hi gang! I missed a few days because I went to my dad's retirement party and then spent a couple days hanging out with my brother and my father*. I have dozens of photos to post and my regular stuff to catch up on. Do I start new projects in order to procrastinate the old ones? A question for therapy, which I will start when I need to procrastinate going to the dentist or something.

So I've written a few pages of script for the Species of Least Concern Podcast and I figure I'll ad lib for a few minutes about stuff people have had me identify lately. I'd also like to begin taking questions and starting discussions on a page totally devoted to the podcast. First I thought facebook made the most sense, then I took a look at it and remembered that timeline makes it so nobody can find anything ever, and I'd just get the same questions over and over again and no one would be able to look at it for five minutes without getting bored and frustrated anyway. I'm a little scared of Tumblr, and livejournal is my safe space where I can be myself more or less, as long as I use an lj cut. I will use my twitter feed because it's convenient (if evanescent) but I need a more stable home base for the print content of my podcast. You guys have got all the bright ideas, lay 'em on me!

*My dad's speech was great, but the best part might have been the vigorous frisbee game where both the 42 year old son and the 77 year old father fell down at different times. Ow my knee!

**There's some urgency involved, because I don't feel like I can start uploading podcasts until I have a place I can send people with questions and comments.

Hello all!
I know some of you are Portlanders, damn Portlanders, or former Portlanders (talking about Oregon) and I need a bit of advice. My brother, father, and I are going drive around the coast of Oregon, but we are going to fly into Portland first, and spend the first night there. My brother is getting there ahead of us on another plane, and wants to find us the hotel so he can check in, drop his bags and explore. I seem to recall the area around the airport (like is the case in most cities) being not all that fun. Perhaps I'm wrong, but you tell me: is there a hotel reasonably near the airport that isn't too depressing to hang out at/around? We won't be there long, but no need to start the trip on a bummer.

Thanks in advance!