Curious about romantic things to do this weekend in Portland? Check back every Thursday to read about a romantic event happening this weekend in the City of Roses. If you know of an event you feel should be featured on PDX Romantic, send an email to events@pdxromantic.com with the details of the event.
There’s something about fireworks that makes me want to cuddle. I don’t know what it is. There’s just something about the combination of a lit up night sky, my sweetie in my arms, and loud booms that make me feel like a kid who just found his favorite baseball card. If you don’t know what it’s like to find your favorite baseball card, just imagine a very happy kid smiling ear to ear. Read more
Bartering is a method of exchanging goods and services for other goods and services, usually without the exchange of money or currency. Examples include trading a churn of butter for a loaf of bread, a pair of clogs for a winter coat, roof repair services for washing the dishes. (Let’s just say that dishes and I don’t get along.)
In many tight-knit communities, bartering is the primary way of exchange. What’s so great about bartering is that the exchange happens only if both parties receive something of value. This lends itself to being the default method of exchange in times of monetary crisis.
You, however, do not need to wait until a catastrophe to incorporate bartering in your romantic endeavors. Read more
“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.” – Jean Cocteau
Life has a way of turning us into lemmings who simply follow the plan of those that came before us. Our daily routine is often times a result of doing what we’re “supposed to do.” We wake up, go to work, work all day, return home from work, eat dinner, go to sleep. Lather, rinse, repeat. We repeat this cycle until the weekend comes and we fill those 48 hours with seeing the family and friends we neglected during the week. Read more
Curious about romantic things to do this weekend in Portland? Check back every Thursday to read about a romantic event happening this weekend in the City of Roses. If you know of an event you feel should be featured on PDX Romantic, send an email to events@pdxromantic.com with the details of the event.
If you are anything like me, you enjoy watching movies. Growing up, no movie resonated with me more than The Breakfast Club (aside from Rambo because I look so good without a shirt on). It was one of those movies that, no matter when in the movie I turned it on, I had to finish it. Read more
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic could possibly be the smartest musician ever. He has produced over 20 albums using his humor and an accordion to craft parodies that leave many (myself included) bobbing heads back and forth in marvel at his greatness.
I can still remember the first Weird Al Yankovic CD I purchased. It was his Off The Deep End album and I instantly fell in love. I would play the album over and over again to memorize the words to Smells Like Nirvana, You Don’t Love Me Anymore, and The White Stuff. In fact, Taco Grande is the sole reason I have a somewhat decent Spanish accent.
So what can this creative, parody-producing, polka-playing, curly-haired musician teach us about romance? Actually, it’s quite a bit. Read more
