It's a Quickie

I just got home from an evening downtown with Makal... he's got a new work schedule that is 7a-3p instead of 9a-5p, so it allows us a LOT more time to hang out while the Sun's still up and do cool things like go downtown. The annoying thing about downtown Portland is that everything seems to close up shop around 7p. Why?! I thought Ptown was a hip place for cool cats to chill? But the clock chimes seven times and everyone is outta there. Anyway.

We went downtown to hit up some thrift stores to find me a new winter coat; recently parted (unknowingly/unwillingly) from my leather coat, I needed something that would keep me warm and moderately dry. And Tuesday's forray to the local Goodwill had no results, so downtown we went. Thankfully, Red Light didn't close 'til 8p, and Buffalo Exchange 9p, so even though we didn't get down there until 6p we still had plenty of time to peruse the racks.

Strangely, Red Light at this time of year seems to present nothing but all the particularly kitschy, tacky, and garish items they collect over the year--either they think everyone wants to dress like a hideous pimped-out 70's sofa for Halloween or they think particularly unique-minded fashionistas are willing to wait all year to restock their wardrobe in one shot. I dunno. So that place had pretty much nothing in the way of reasonable outerwear. But they are now right next to Buffalo Exchange, so we just turned the corner and started browsing there.

Within minutes, I'd honed in on the rack on the back wall that houses some of the longer dresses and coats. And while I did find not one but two lovely coats... I'm not going to tell you about them yet! Hehe. I'll wait until tomorrow to do that, when I can take pictures of them. Because really, you just have to see them to really appreciate how fabulous they are. ;)

And speaking of fabulous, I find myself finally getting to the point of this post. Yes, my intent was not to talk about my evening--lovely as it was--but to tell you about the blog of a friend of mine. You'll find him on Flickr or Model Mayhem under the unassuming pseudonym "ninjaphoto", but I tend to just call him Kenji-san. He's a very cool guy and a great photographer (even though he'd probably tell you he's just an amateur), and he recently started blogging some of his photo exploits.

I think to tell you this now because he messaged me tonight with the news that he'd just posted some of the pics from our first shoot together, which I think was at the beginning of the year. So, go check out some artistic NSFW pics of me (and subscribe to his RSS feed) then head on over to his Flickr photostream for more of his work with some of Portland's finest, most unique and fun models. Go Kenji-san, blog away! :D

Now I'm going to bed, because when you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to make a nutritious breakfast and see your man off to work, 10p feels awfully late.