Portland Dating Dispatch

We met at a bar and I immediately realized that I wasn’t into you. You were pretty enough, but I don’t really go for the female “jock” type. Either way… We bar-hopped for an hour or two, talking about mundane things and consuming more alcohol. Then, my friend texted to say that another friend was […]

I started hanging out platonically with one of my male friends after the end of a years-long relationship, and it was totally fine and enjoyable and clearly not a relationship when, out of nowhere, he started texting me constantly. If I didn’t respond, he would text me again. He clearly had no fear of double-texting. […]

I had a crush on a kinda punk girl in one of my college film classes. I worked up the nerve to ask her out on a date despite her hanging out with golds gym looking bro bros. She drove us to see Moulin Rouge in her bright red brand new BMW talking about how […]

One of my cooler friends, a lady about ten years older than I was, wanted to set me up with a guy from her Tae Kwon Do dojo. I was into it. She was my good friend that knew my personality + free dinner. I wanted to keep it friendly/casual so I suggested she join […]

Tinder guy 6″3 handsome and available. We start texting a few days and decide he is going to come over. Hit it off everything was great. Second date everything seemed ok. Then third date he starts telling me about “The Makeover” . He likes to remodel women and I was the next project. Less bar […]

A few years ago I got set up with a guy. We went on a super uncomfortable dinner date to Mother’s downtown. Upon entering I learned HIS mother had purchased him a giftcard specifically for the occasion, and had called ahead to make sure the payment was worked out in advance. It didn’t improve from […]

We met at Tugboat and hit it off instantly, racing through the conversation because we were so excited about what the other person was going to say next. She dragged me to a bar, another bar, her friend’s drag show, a food cart, another bar, and finally back to her car where, quite drink, she […]

So this last story from my lovely long vacation to Portland takes the cake. Technically it was a ride share, not a friend date. There’s a guy going to the coast as a photographer and can take me to the ocean. He picks me up at hostel and its like a Soviet version of Jersey […]

The other guy I chatted with from said platonic CL ad, I actually met. His pictures were gorgeous and he seemed way out of my league so yeah, why the hell not? He seemed to like my banter and band pics. We meet for a few drinks at a brewery and I immediately feel like […]

So I only visited Portland for a month last year, and was going through a pretty hard breakup at the time. I decided to post an ad on Craigslist for activity buddies, people to hike with, see shows etc. I meet someone who seemed pretty cool and wanted to go to some gorge I hadn’t […]

I met him in a bar, we talked exchanged numbers, and over the next few days set up a date. It was the summertime so we decided to meet at an bar with an open patio. Everything was going great, we were throwing back beers, laughing, swapping stories, it was turning out to be a […]

Back when The Merc was printing their “I Saw You”s in the back of this rag, I would go out dancing alone a lot. I’d get high & go out to the Holocene or Rotture & cut a rug by my lonesome: Hole in My Soul, Snap!, Gaycation, I’d be out dancing. It was Halloween […]