{"id":1190,"date":"2016-07-15T20:37:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T00:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2016-07-15T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T00:38:35","slug":"new-york-city-portland-blog-july-11-july-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"New York City \/ Portland Blog – July-11 – July 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m in Portland, Oregon to visit friends, to get to know this charming city better and to attend the 8th Northwest Book Festival on July 30. It\u2019s held in Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland\u2019s living room. I will be selling copies of The Lemrow Mystery<\/em> and announcing the upcoming sequel, Graphic Lessons.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Flyer for the Northwest Book Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For my sins I used Airbnb to rent a place that was probably a converted garage with a curious shed called a moon house. Being a New Yorker, I thought the term, moon house, was a touch of quaint Portlandia and didn\u2019t pay the attention to it I should have. It\u2019s an outhouse. Since we don\u2019t have outhouses in NYC, you can imagine my surprise and dismay when I inspected the moon house which is attached to the owners\u2019 house – plumbing, you know. It\u2019s about twenty paces across a crab grass garden. The moon house is a tiny space with a tiny toilet, a tinier sink and a shower that shouts defunct summer camp. The ex-garage or the garden house, as the owner call it, is a dismal room that conjures up the film Psycho<\/em>, not the Bates motel (if only) but the house on the hill where mom lived. It reeks of solitary confinement and has no running water. For that refinement, you have to go to the moon house. I give the owners full marks for their sense of humor. The wifi password for the ex-garage is goldenroom. They are also superb trick photographers.<\/p>\n

Last Friday I was in Cooperstown, N. Y. attending the Glimmerglass production of Sweeney Todd<\/em>, staying in a wonderful 1950\u2019s motel and having grits and shrimp by the Otsego lake. This week I\u2019m on the west coast, near the Columbia and having green lipped mussels. Somebody\u2019s got to do it.<\/p>\n

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West coast green lipped mussels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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East coast grits and shrimp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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