Hooray - the kid’s at sleepaway camp this week, so I can absolutely, positively without a doubt be able to attend Back Fence PDX this time around. Back Fence PDX is the brilliant brainchild of Melissa Lion & Frayn Masters (collectively known as the Back Fence Babes). They’re so brilliant they even have an intern working with them! (Note to OurPDX readers, channeling Veruca Salt: I want an intern too! How can *I* get an intern???)

Melissa - do I now get some Turoczy-style love for calling you brilliant not once, but twice? Or do I just get dinged for being derivative and/or committing the cardinal sin of word repetition?

Here’s what their wonderful intern Nathalie emailed me last week:

Our second Back Fence PDX event will be held on August 13th at Urban Grind East, 2214 N.E. Oregon St., in Portland. For $7, you will hear six six-minute, true, unscripted stories from Portland Mercury news reporter Matt Davis, fashion designer Adam Arnold, IFCC creative director Adrienne Flagg, performance artist Reuben Nisenfeld, radical feminist Frances Miller and short-story smithy Frank D’Andrea. This month’s storytelling theme is “True Colors.”

Musical interludes will be performed by Ralph Huntley. Dinner service will begin at 6:30 p.m. and doors for the event will open at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit http://backfencepdx.wordpress.com. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

I’ll be the one totally going against the ‘True Colors’ theme by wearing my totally against type bitch.org baseball cap. You believe me - right?