A PERFECT DAY

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Yesterday, B worked in a metalsmithing studio from late morning to mid-afternoon, while I caught up on my reading. Afterwards, we drove a short distance to a performance at Revolution Hall Theater, a Medium-sized performing venue, repurposed from a 100-year-old Portland high school.  

Already Dr Glaucomflecken YouTube fans, we eagerly purchased tickets for “Wife and Death," a stand-up comedy routine by the creator of  Dr. Glaucomflecken (Follow this link or the YouTube link below if you are among the minority who have never seen one of his YouTube videos.) The ‘Glaucomfleckens' live and practice here in Portland. 

To say it was hilarious is an understatement, though to truly appreciate his satire and straight comedy, it is far more entertaining if you are an insider in the healthcare business. The monologue about his experience sperm banking had everyone rolling in the aisles. Their show includes serious elements of health and life-threatening disease.

Though an ophthalmologic surgeon, he nails every specialty in his YouTube videos. Here is the "Farmer pain scale" that, having lived and practiced in Iowa, I can tell you is spot on.

On the building's top floor is a rooftop bar with a great view over eastern Portland with downtown in the distance, but rather than bar food we opted to head back home, to A Cena, an Italian restaurant six blocks from our apartment and one of our long-time favorites. I downed a wild mushroom ravioli special while Barbara enjoyed a lobster based main course. Back home we watched the last two episodes of "Patience," a detective series set in York, England.

It was more or less a perfect day.

The venue and show.

This was an impressive high school theater for 1923! It's a four story building with one very slow elevator. If you were a student here back in the day, you had buns of steel from stair climbing.

The front rows were reserved for his office staff and hospital friends. They were a rowdy bunch!

Great views from the rooftop bar, but more for drinking than eating so we headed back to our place.

Wild Mushroom special at A Cena. (five minute walk from our apartment.)