Let’s quickly forget about the meaningless distinction between someone that dances and receives academic credit and someone that swings a bat and does not. Let’s also forget that our schools maintain facilities for both artistic and athletic pursuits. Starting from here then, how do you think the public would react if the city of Olympia announced it was spending…
Month: June 2012
Why Dan Bigelow would’ve campaigned against Costco edition (Olyblogosphere links for June 29, 2012)
1. From Mojourner Truth, a dern good blog post about how own of our town’s earliest settlers fought the same fight that some of us still fight today: Replace “groceries” with “CostCo,” or for that matter, jsut keep “groceries,” and you have one of the most recent election’s main issues encapsulated. It makes me want…
Olyblogosphere links for June 18 (best video about Olympia railroads ever)
1. This video left me speachless. Basically, its a story about an old timber railroad through what is now the South Puget Sound Community College campus on the westside. But, its also a story of cross discipline and real world learning at SPSCC. Great, great stuff. 2. Sarah at the Snazzy Bouquet has the sort of post…
Olyblogosphere links for June 9, 2012 (basking in the glow of Oly Love edition)
1. Lots of video from the explosion of Oly Love this week. Here are just three: 2. Bees, Birds and Buttlerflies blog brings us (what else?) The Bumble Bees of Thurston County (which has nothing to do with WSB). 3. Flummel, Flummer, Flummo is on the WSB beat with The haters are now hating in Seattle and…
Olyblogosphere links for June 4, 2012 (no theme edition)
1. In Judith Baumann probably loves you blog, Calvin Johnson leads a walking tour of downtown Olympia. This event deserves a blog post of its own, but in this case, its crammed with other stuff. 2. I’ve had nightmares about when local grocery stores one by one stop carrying Olympia beer. Cosmo has news of…
Westboro Baptist Church bothering to picket both Olympias
Westboro Baptist Church (yes, those guys) are coming to Olympia next week. There is going to be a response, seemingly especially to their second day protest at Olympia High School on Thursday (sorry, you have to log in to FB). The reason they’re coming is pretty simple, the passing of the marriage bill last year in…