From my Facebook news feed recently: Sort of funny how, now that you have to pay for access to The Olympian, and they require folks to comment using real FB identities, that there are no almost no comments on the articles whatsoever. Whatever will the trolls do amuse themselves? The Olympian put up a bit…
Month: October 2013
Mars Hill, other entrepreneurial Christians and the Cascadian religious landscape (Cascadia Exists)
The seemingly manufactured debate between the Mars Hill Church and Sound Transit on who should own some property in Bellevue seems out of place. When you dig into the debate, it leaves you scratching your head. Why would any organization (a church or whatever) seem to have any case when the rightful owner of a…
Why won’t those damn kids just obey the will of our Grecian columns?
The most hilarious part of the otherwise troubling piece about street culture downtown by Austin Jenkins was this passage: On Washington’s Capitol campus in Olympia, sandstone buildings stand as monuments to the rule of law. But just a few blocks away you can find a street culture where young adults and teenagers live by their…
Three Olympia local food options that aren’t the co-op or the farmers market
Don’t like shopping at Safeway or Fred Meyer? Ralphs and Bayview got you down? Tired of shopping at the co-op and the farmers market is never open? Recently, one local email group I’m part of had a long conversation about the food co-op, whether it really serving the community and if expanding to a larger…
Evergreen should play more games not on campus
Here’s on thing about Evergreen State College and Olympia that a recent resident here observed: You’d hardly think Olympia was a college town. Now, this guy is from the upper Midwest, went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison. So, maybe he has a different idea of what kind of college town Olympia could…
October a day early. Well, that’s a surprise (Olyblogosphere for October 7, 2013)
1. On the day before October, October Surprise uploaded Stuff with October. 2. Democracy Wall went downtown to check out the feeding the hungry debate. Very, very much worth reading the entire thing: The bartender in the 4th Ave. Tavern looked a bit like a pirate, but he didn’t want to be identified any more…