1. A blogger comes to Olympia, visits friend, enjoys self, spends money downtown. Please, visitor and business folks, peruse this post and look for clues to get more people to Olympia to spend money. 2. Then this other blogger comes to Olympia, walks around, entertains himself with portable technology and doesn’t buy a damn thing….
Month: March 2012
Olyblogosphere links for March 22
1. Bus Driver appreciation day? Sure! 2. Speaking of books (lots of books last week), Wolf Tales blog has a new book too! 3. Mark isn’t signing up for the planning commission again. Hopefully this means he’ll be blogging about non-planning commission things now. Best part of the post: The OPC, just like the other groups…
Olympia as a brand never left
O’Bee Credit Union reconnected with its roots by coming out with a credit card that attempts to bring the Olympia Beer brand back to its local roots. O’Bee is of course the old brewery employees credit union, so its pretty fitting that they’d launch an Olympia Beer themed card. O’Bee as in O.B. as in…
Olympia blogosphere links for March 13 (was supposed to be 5), 2012 (books!)
(Note from March 13, 9:52 pm: Just found this laying as a draft, though I swear I set it to publish over a week ago. Damn blogger.com) 1. From: Accidental Initiations 2: “‘Accidental Initiations: In The Kabbalistic Tree of Olympia’ went to press today… There really is something in AI’s one hundred and eighty-four pages…
Tragedy and the possible politics of WA10
Between PTSD, a standoff, burning, murder, a rampage in Afghanistan and now this crazy hit-man going to blow up the capitol story, Joint Base Lewis McChord has had a better few weeks. At the very least, the base and the community that is around it is feeling the strain of over a decade of deployments. So,…