DOWN WITH PANTS!

The Down With Pants! crew spent the Labor Day weekend on the road, taking a trip down I-5 stopping in the fine cities of Tacoma, Olympia and Portland. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and wanted to share the highlights. Think of the Portland part as a quick guide to spending two days there...



Throw Rag at Hell's Kitchen - The tattooed and pierced crowd was out in full-force on Friday night to see our heroes play and they didn't disappoint despite the absence of the washboard and butt trumpet player. By the way, Hell's Kitchen is a surprisingly nice Tacoma club. Best t-shirt sighting: Tacoma - 20,000 alcoholics can't be wrong.

Portland Saturday Market - Yummy food, interesting people and christmas gift purchases for Death? What else can you ask for in a public market.

Powell's City of Books - The PNW's greatest bookstore. You could literally spend days in here searching for what you want. We spent a good hour and a half and barely saw anything.

The Grotto - A beautiful chapel, an amazing grotto built into a cliff and holy water in the gift shop.

Delta Cafe - Awesome macaroni and cheese, catfish, potato casserole, collard greens, hush puppies, cornbread and sweet tea. Forties of Pabst available if you want one but I opted for the $1.25 single bottle. We highly recommended restaurant this restaurant.

Portland Beavers - Stinky game (8-0, Sacramento pounded the Beavs) but fun nonetheless.

Kennedy School - Stopped by for a quick nip. Drank a very nice Brandy while Death? had some port.

Tin Shed Garden Cafe - Death? had some amazing sweet potato bread french toast and I had some really good biscuits with bacon gravy. I ordered the "Everything Naughty" meal, while Death? ordered the "Everything Nice". Aren't we cute?

Japanese Garden - I have never seen a Zen garden and they have two.

Rose Garden - Now we know why they are called the Rose City. Never have I seen so many roses.



Oregon Zoo - I love this zoo. We are blessed with some good ones in the PNW and this might be the best. Feeding the Lorikeets was awesome.

Rocco's Pizza - Right across from Powell's, we stopped for a slice after seeing it the day before and drooling all over ourselves. Nothing like a pizza called the Red Menace.

Garden State - A very good movie. Natalie Portman is awesome in it. She is about as cute as it gets. A very realistic look at falling in love, changing and sacrifice. Death? liked it more than me mainly because I don't think Zach Braff is a very good actor. Nonetheless I liked it a lot.