Rock-n-Roll Odyssey Day 5: Portland bum? Or al-Qaeda sleeper agent?

It's actually Courtney Love--unfortunately for her, when she comes to she's going to think she's still in Pasadena five days ago.

Rock-n-Roll Odyssey Day 5.5: Here is the Hawthorne Street Bridge, Portland, OR . . .

. . . and here, on the Hawthorne Bridge, is one of the Pacific Northwest's infamous "jumping stations." In 1981, the state legislatures of both Oregon and Washington passed the so-called "Mercy Law" whereby every bridge with a 75-foot drop or higher must have jumping stations spaced every fifty feet for those citizens who can't take the gray drear for one more second and must launch themselves off a structure high enough to shatter their body and kill them. To their credit, lawmakers mandated that only those aged 16 and older can use the suicide queues.