responding to hot weather, goad decides to bathe
A rare Northwestern heat wave—with five days in a row at 90°F or higher—has culminated in this afternoon's shocking decision by Portland nightlife fixture Jim Goad to fill his clawfoot tub with cool water and take a bath.
"First and foremost, I need to clarify that personal hygiene is very important to me," Goad told this reporter while reclining in his tub and sanding the balls of his feet with a pumice stone. "I'm an obsessively clean man—I take at least three showers daily and always make sure that my pits, sac, and booty-hole smell as fresh as a bowl of vanilla ice cream. But this—a cool bath in the afternoon when I should be writing, or at least jerking off—this is unprecedented. It just goes to show you how hot the weather has been."
As the cascading faucet momentarily drowns out the pumping jungle rhythms from his "Best of Rick James" CD, Goad pours some Epsom salts into the mix and reflects on current events. "It's tiring to constantly think about Jim Goad and write about Jim Goad," he sighs. "I just needed to get away from all that for a minute. Just needed some 'Jim time,' that's all."
