Being back at Mary's is really as good as being home. I'm so happy that working there has been as fun as I thought it would be way back before I moved to Portland. My coworkers, the Keller women, the regulars -- at any other club, the best case scenario is that you can tolerate everyone. At Mary's, I actually like and enjoy a ridiculous percentage of them.

That being said, we had some insane freaking people in the club tonight, like the out-of-towner who was buying drinks for one of the local street residents, the two (straight) guys who made out with each other, and the rare appearance of a make-it-rain Houstonian.

The out-of-towner was trying to score weed -- and I understand that this can be a difficult task, even in a pot-positive city like Portland, once you're over 30 and clean-cut and look like a suspiciously straight character to street dealers. I mean, they aren't gonna whisper "smoke?" to you. Still, I thought people used Craigslist for that these days.

Satori told a couple of very loud young men who were clamoring to see her touch herself (touching the kitty isn't SOP around here) that if they made out with each other, she'd masturbate. And of course they were just drunk enough to kiss each other. With tongue. Dan Savage would have fainted with glee.

One large dude who sat at my rack was so clearly not from around here, especially when he tossed a fat stack of singles and a few twenties on my stage. That's Atlanta and Houston behavior, especially in black clubs. "You must be from down South," I said, and sure enough, he was from Houston. He tipped us all really well and offered all of us $500 and then $1000 to come back to his hotel room. No one bit, to his shock, which is understandable enough considering what he's probably used to in Houston (that would be rampant extras and at cheap prices, one of the many reasons I never set foot in a Houston club).

I have about three more days in Portland before I leave town again. It's been a ridiculous year with the travel around these parts. I look forward to September.