I'd heard it'd been closed once, and my thought was Was it -- wait for it! -- failing? Turned out there were other reasons for that. But I went on a long walk last night, getting off the bus at the Rose Quarter Transit Center and walking up Interstate Avenue to Mississippi Street, which is an increasingly noted shop-and-restaurant strip in North Portland. I'd wanted to read (
(Whoa am I too easily amused.)
Anyway. I walked across it, then back across it, then up and down more of Mississippi. Then buses home, as it was dark and I was tired and there is such a thing as a long distance in Portland.
Oh and another thing. A little further east of Mississippi, Failing runs into Haight Street. Rick Emerson once said there needs to be a thrash metal band album called At The Corner Of Haight & Failing. This also amuses me.