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So last month I was in Portland for about a week, thought I would check out the clubs there. Portland has a lot of clubs but contrary to popular belief, Houston, Texas has more clubs than Portland! BUT Portland DOES have the highest number of strip clubs per capita in the US. Confusing? I know. Let's just put it like this, there are plenty of strip clubs in Portland.
It wasn't as easy to just walk in and start working that same night as I thought. That's what I'm used to....walk in, audition or sometimes not, get hired and work.
The first club we (I went there with Mandy) went to was Acropolis. It was a Wednesday and right around 7 pm.



The club was empty, it was still early though and the super unenthusiastic door guy told us that the manager wasn't there and gave me a card with a name and a number on it and told me to call it to set up an appointment. An appointment?
I'm assuming for an interview or audition. I did not have time to set up any appointments, I wanted to find a club that night and work. Well, after that we went to Casa Diablo. There is a Casa Diablo next to Acropolis called Dusk 'Til Dawn: Casa Diablo 2 but we went to the other (original) one. There the very enthusiastic DJ told us that in order to get hired you have to audition on camera. The footage then gets sent to the owner that decides whether you can work or not. This also includes a small interview where you get asked why you like dancing and what you know about veganism (NOT to be confused with vaginism) and a few other random questions.
Random question maybe, about veganism but Casa Diablo is a VEGAN strip club. So do not wear your fur bikini or ostrich feather panties there. Well, I wanted to work. So I said yes and got the awkward on camera audition done and over with and started that same night (Mandy too).



Let me start with what I liked about Casa Diablo. The girls were rather friendly and diverse looking. Lots of tattoos, piercings and different hair styles. I was probably the only one in there without any tattoos. Very cheap to work, only $2 and $5 to each bouncer. The guys sitting around the stage are required to tip at least $2 per song per entertainer and they use two dollar bills in there. Friendly staff. I liked the lights on stage and the DJ played what I wanted to dance to. Great hours 9 pm - 2 am. I can do that no problem.
Now the stuff that I did not care for. Although cheap to work, they take 30% out of your lap dance money. That's a big chunk. For the first time in my years in this business I saw several girls dance with a butt plug, yes BUTT PLUG jammed up in their butthole. I was like.....????!
Of course I asked a girl about it, like does it hurt and does she leave it in ALL night? She told me, after bending over and spreading her cheeks open right in my face, that yes she does leave it in all night and no it does not hurt. Casa Diablo is a nude club so I got an eyeful of all kinds of buttholes with butt plugs inserted in them. Interesting indeed.....To each their own but I personally do NOT think that butt plugs belong in a strip club. It gives off a trashy dirty vibe I think. I am also concerned for the future consequences health wise for the girls that do this. Dancing several nights a week, having a butt plug inserted in your butt even two nights per week, that's ten hours or so.....is this something that can ruin that area of the body after prolonged use? Perhaps a question to ask your proctologist.
Also the girls get way too friendly with the guys sitting around the stage, they would even get off the stage and climb all over the guys. Again, not my style.
Why pay for a lap dance when you can put up a few dollars and get all of that?
I also had a feeling that the lap dances in there were too hands on and wild, I didn't see anything crazy in the lap dance area but that was just my impression. I saw some other questionable practices on stage like full on girl on girl shows. I like it when girls make out but again, not in a strip club. A strip club should be a strip club, not some kind of a sex show/freak show. Would I ever go back to Casa Diablo and work? Never say never.



This was posted in the dressing room of Casa Diablo. In case you or somebody you know want to make an appearance at the Jerry Springer show. I will pass. I don't need to get my hair ripped out by some crazy dancer on meth.



Also posted in the dressing room. This is pretty good. I'm just too lazy to do all of that.
"You want a dance?", "You need?" or "lap dance bitch/es, hooker/s, slut/s?" is what I muster up. Yes, guys get really happy when I call them bitch or slut. It works!



One night we went to Club Rouge where I ran into my friend Egypt that I used to work with at the Bush Company in Anchorage. What a small world! That was a happy reunion!
And according to Egypt, the butt plug thing happens at pretty much every strip club in Portland, it must be some kind of a "trend" or something. Club Rouge is located downtown Portland and I like the location. The lights on stage there are HORRIBLE, they should definitely work on that. And a very unprofessional DJ with very bad music taste, they should work on that too. So, we could work but had to start during the day with the option to stay over at night (after suffering through a long and probably dead day shift) because they had too many girls which Egypt confirmed but I am not going to work at any club around noon unless it's absolutely FANTASTIC guaranteed or my only option. So no on that for me.
A Saturday night during a HEAVY downpour we ran through the rain to Spyce, also downtown. I liked it because it's a topless club and it looked kind of nice inside.
It seems like most clubs in Portland are nude. Anyhow, I think we could had worked that night BUT we decided against it because they keep your money, if you get paid with a credit card, for a few days. I guess until the transaction goes through. And we did not have time to possibly have to wait for a few days since this was a shorter visit. After calling several other clubs that same night I learned that MOST clubs in Portland do not hire walk ins. They have one specific day a week (usually in the afternoon) set aside for auditions and that's it. Or like at Acropolis and a few other clubs, you call a number and take it from there. Way more complicated than I'm used to but now I know and should I decide to go back to Portland and try it again I know how to plan ahead better.



Not only does Portland have a plethora of strip clubs. They also have some other places like this one conveniently located walking distance from our motel. Me and Mandy would joke around that we could always work there but in reality of course not.



I'm not really sure what that Honey Suckles is all about but I have a feeling it's not a place for me. We stayed on 82nd Avenue, since this was my first visit to Portland I had NO clue what 82nd Avenue was all about. But now I know! I guess it could be worse and I'm still alive so whatever, I survived a week at a dodgy motel called Red Roof Inn on 82nd Avenue in Portland. One more experience in my life, that's how I look at it. I actually did ask the girl at the front desk if anyone had ever been murdered there after a few people visibly high on something more potent than weed, which is legal in Oregon, walked through the lobby.
She said no. Not yet I said.
Here are some 82nd Avenue souvenirs!



But hey, I LOVE Portland! It's a beautiful city, my kind of place and I do want to go back there. So I might. Because I only scratched on the surface of Portland, so much to see and do there!





So back to the butt plug thing. You can read about what other dancers have to say about it here. Quite interesting. To sum it up, I very much agree with what a girl calling herself TiffTiff has to say, page 2 comment number 46.





Do I not take pics of the BEST stuff ever?!

I had a full day today. When I was finally done running around doing stuff (nothing exciting) it was late and all I could do was pick up some pizza and go home. I like to read when I eat, a habit from childhood, my Mom used to not allow me to read and eat but I insisted so she finally let me have my way. I got the latest Playboy to read, pizza & Playboy - not a bad combo. A great interview with Bryan Cranston (Walter White aka Heisenberg) in this issue.



Now I am going to do some laundry, take a bath and go to bed. Another exciting evening in windy Sin City. It's really cold out by Vegas standards, people are staying inside when it's like this here. Me too.

I am laying on my luxurious air mattress looking through old pics of myself. It's really windy in Vegas on this chilly late evening. I have been thinking about ice cream for several hours now.....cravings! Sunday is usually my ice cream and pizza day (although that can be any day, especially for ice cream), I had pizza today but not the ice cream. Maybe I will get out in the cold and get some but I kind of crave chips too. KNPR on the radio for several hours now, I love KNPR - great content and great company. When people ask me what I listen to I tell them that I hear so much music at work that I prefer talk radio on my free time and good beats when I go out dancing. KNPR.....now you now. I have to get up early in the morning and do stuff. UGH.....I HATE having to wake up early!
Here are two pics from 2008.





Photographer Wolf189

A few months ago now I left Alaska where I had been living on and off since 2008 (first Anchorage then Kenai) and drove with Chhaya through Canada, after a few pit stops I ended up back in Vegas where in 2008 I started my journey to Alaska. Back in 2008 I packed up my Toyota 4 Runner in Vegas, drove to Bellingham, got on a ferry that took about 3 1/2 days, the ferry dropped us of in Haines and from there it was about 750 miles to Anchorage. I recall that I left Vegas on a Tuesday and arrived in Anchorage one week later on a Tuesday.
This time I packed up a Ford F250 and the drive through Canada took about five days.
The first couple of days, driving through the Yukon were not that fun. The road was bumpy for long stretches, everything looks the same.....trees and mountains, it's far in between gas stations and the signs showing miles to the next place for gas are also few and far in between. Very desolate. Pray that you do not brake down somewhere on the road through the Yukon. That first night I recall the moon was out and bright, lighting up the dark road for me and I had no radio to keep me company due to no reception, so I listened to cds. One of my favorite cds to listen to when I drive long stretches in solitude is Danny Tenaglia's double album "Global Underground 017: Danny Tenaglia in London."



My first stop to sleep was Whitehorse and it was just depressing there. But things gradually got better, once I entered British Columbia the scenery changed and it became very beautiful. Like WOW beautiful.
Somewhere in Canada, I can't recall where but I liked the sign.



Me and Chhaya slept in the car the whole way, here she is just waking up looking cute and sleepy still.









Mariposa Orchards in Keremeos BC was amazing. I would consider going back there. I was impressed.







Burning Man!



Finding a good espresso stand in Canada was next to impossible, a few hours from the US border I finally got a latte that was decent.



So now I can add that I drove through parts of Canada on the list of stuff that I have done, just me and Chhaya - she is a very well traveled puppy. I would consider going back on a drive in Canada if I had more time to explore places, camp and go to hot springs, preferably in an RV for comfort. This was just a drive through.
What's next? It looks like I will be leaving Vegas soon and continue back North. Not as far North as Alaska this time but I'm thinking I might go to Anchorage again in a few months and work, so far only a thought though. In fact, I kind of miss "my" beautiful house in Kenai with the daily visits from my animal friends, feeding my birds and squirrels and going to my office Coffee Roasters to write and the super yummy lattes from Kaladi. Who knows I might decide to move back there next year if I can't decide on where to live in the Lower 48, since it's kind of my house and I can move back into it basically whenever I want.....

A few hours ago I found out about the latest attack in France.....the death count is rising still. People are laying dead covered with sheets with blood seeping through them. I don't know what to say anymore. This kind of behavior and violence does not belong in the civilized world. Yes, I get angry too sometimes but never have I felt compelled to strap a bomb on me, grab my gun and go out and execute random people and then end the whole ordeal by blowing myself up. For what? To prove what? That I was crazy? Selfish? Political? What do these people want? What is the important statement being made here because I am totally missing the point. I can't wrap my thoughts around this to come up with any kind of reasonable explanation for it. Some societies have evolved, some are still stomping in the same place as they did thousands of years ago. Yes, I know that bombs are dropping in parts of the world and that innocent people are dying there too. At this point I have to say that any kind of group of people that boasts about recruiting young children to teach them violence and hate, view women as possessions, practices FGM, kidnaps and hold hostage journalists, aid workers and others that are trying to do only good to behead them, destroys books and monuments that are not to their liking, bombs planes out of the skies, forces their outdated and sick religious beliefs onto others - that is pure scum and should be exterminated. I don't care - bomb them. They will go straight to heaven anyways, right? No progress has been made in thousands of years besides that their weapons are more effective and they have the internet now, the mental progress......evolving as a human being has not happened.
I don't know at this point who is behind the latest in France. I'm sure we will find out soon. Who knows, it might be a gang of angry and violent Buddhists just wanting to stir shit up. What's going to change after this? What changed after Charlie Hebdo? Will European countries, like Sweden continue to take in grown men posing as scared refugee children with no form of documentation but a smart phone, give them a monthly check and housing (ingen fara sociala betala) at the expense of tax payers, while some of these "children" really are terrorists? Wake up Europe! What is going to change? Anything? Had I been in charge I would had allied up with Putin right away and cleaned up really good. No mercy. All the innocent people beheaded on camera in the last couple of years were shown no mercy either.
What did they do to deserve to die like that? What did Kayla Mueller ever do to deserve what happened to her (I think about Kayla)? And everybody like her.....trying to help and do good. Are they in heaven with God now or just dead, rotting flesh, a painful memory for family and friends?
Only ONE religion to my knowledge has a problem with every other religion that exists and even fights within themselves.
It's been going on for thousands of years, this bloody fight to push Jihad onto people that don't want to be part of it.
Eiffel Tower, Paris France 8 am Saturday November 14.



What else? I'm not in the mood to be social and wear close to nothing plus heels tonight.
I'm home with Chhaya.



I'm going to sleep soon, tomorrow my usual routine.....Sambalatte after I wake up. Yeah, I feel really bad about the whole situation in Europe right now but I still have to eat.



I am wondering what's going on in Paris right now.....what's going to change? When and where will the next terrorist attack happen? Close to me or you?

Last night I googled my blog just to see what would come up. See me and my friend and technical blog expert KISA discovered an issue with the blog recently. The issue was highlighted in red when my blog got googled but it's taken care of now......which is a good thing! What would I do without my KISA?
Anyhow, so when I googled the blog I saw that one of my pics made it to Pinterest......and no I did NOT submit myself, if that's even possible.....(I'm not that lame OK). OMG I'm famous now!!!!
Alaska Glacial Mud Co. somehow found one of my many facial mask selfies using their product, the Glacial Facial masque on my blog, this pic is several years old if I recall it correctly. How cool! Yeay.....my picture is on Pinterest and and a bunch of other random pics of me and stuff I took pics of, like Chhaya are found other places on the web when people search for whatever it is they search for. I can't keep track of it all. I never used Pinterest before last night....I also don't do Instagram (I get asked if I have Insta sometimes), I don't have Tumblr (although I have looked at some Tumblr pages before, there are some really cool ones dedicated to dancers), Snapchat - any of that stuff. I don't know how people have time!? I barely have time for the blog sometimes.......! I mean, I need to eat, sleep, take care of Chhaya and LIVE too.
And in case you wonder, I like the Glacial Facial masque, it works well!