Nora Robertson

Check out Back Fence’s theme this time around—it’s Just Can’t Get Enough: Getting Stuffed and Being Stuffed, and yours truly contributed a story about being addicted to mentally recording moments, sort of an extreme take on remembering important things in life, aka writer’s disease as one friend said to me.   Though I think mostly the moments I notice are a sort of distraction from the depressing real stuff that might going on.  I wouldn’t know.  I’m too busy noticing the curtains.

Adrianne Young’s account of a acutely constipated kitten is also pretty amusing.

I interviewed Adam Arnold a couple years ago for a fashion column profile for PDX Magazine right before his color blindness collection and was struck by how complex his understanding of color perception was, of visual perception actually, and how informed his clothing was by these insights. Truly, wearable art. So I can’t wait to hear what story he has to tell now, and he’s only one of a great line-up. Must also mention that Jess Hecox, my darling friend and graphic designeress, had quite a bit to do with the poster…ain’t she grand?

Ok, Back Fence PDX is really about the stories, but unfortunately, my camera was full early in the evening. I will say the storytellers rocked, though I only got to see the second half since I was part of the crew modeling swimwear at intermission. Will definitely come to the next one as a paying customer, which I believe will be next August, theme to be true colors, including a former gang member and one of those ladies who does your colors.

Check out the gaggle of beauties I got to strut around with last night at the premier of Back Fence, theme being summer love, pool time, sweaty stickiness, that kind of thing. For a more complete account of the evening, check out Matt Davis’ blog entry—I wonder if he was there because Allison Hallett was a storyteller and they both write for the Mercury? I don’t know, but was sorry I had to miss her story because we were all getting ready together the first half of the show. Which experience reminded me of getting ready for the prom or a wedding or any other girl-centric nail salon sort of environment, all trading make-up tips and bits of experience about life and love in no particular order. You might say we had our own storytelling series while putting in hot rollers.

On the porch of our “green room” house, the bevy surrounds Pamela Levenson of Popina Swimwear. At Tour de Crepes, Jessica Hecox and I make ze small talk. Bottom, primp time. Jess is applying gloss very gracefully I must say, while Kathryn, aka The Recovering Straight Girl blogger, gets some hair time with Sadie Byington of Eclipse the Salon.