The Family that Drinks Together…

It was about 1:30 AM, I was at the bar in a seedy strip club with two blonde girls in their 20s while a skanky, bony stripper with, no joke, a cast on her wrist paraded around on the stage. One of the girls I was with stood up for a second and then missed [...]

Male Strippers… and me dressed as Santa…

Let’s see… I was dressed as Santa and the drag queen show had just ended and that’s when the male strippers started their thing… But I should probably give some background. A friend of mine convinced me to go to SantaCon — if you’re not familiar with it, SantaCon is a bunch of people who [...]

Being “Naughty”

After our recent visit to the strip club I got to thinking about people “being naughty.” By being naughty, I don’t mean just doing something that’s outside the rules, I do that all the time. I mean people who have an almost childlike pleasure in doing something they know they aren’t supposed to be doing. [...]

Tourist in a Strip Club

@Charlie_W_ had just a few simple requests for her trip to Portland — see the Pacific Ocean, try Cajun food and go to a strip club. The impression I get of British strip clubs is pretty tame, and the clubs in Portland are… well, they are tame, the way a lion roaring in the zoo [...]

Strip Clubs, Gay Bars and Rodin

I’m planning a night out Friday that will involve at least one strip club, which considering how many there are in Portland, Oregon, it’s really not much of a stretch of the imagination to find yourself in a bar with a naked woman stretching imaginatively. What I find interesting is how often I end up [...]