Category: olyblogosphere (Page 2 of 12)

1. Washington, our home, talks about posts left unfinished.

2. Stuff With October brings you a mildly infuriating floor tile somewhere in Olympia

3. If you don’t know Mathias Eichler and the massive impact he’s had on Olympia in a short time, then getting researching. Most of that impact seemingly is in the past, but he’s still around and kicking. Catch up with his 2014.

4. The best blog in Olympia is doing Olympia Visions. Awesome. Simply awesome.

5. Birds, Bees, and Butterflies and their Owls in the Ravines.

1. The first item isn’t even an item, but an entire podcast. Rutledge Radio! If that name isn’t familiar to you, just live here a few more months and it’ll come to you.

2. The second item is not even an item, but (yet another) entire podcast. Out of the Fridge! Holy Crap. Two hours of podcast in one episode? Really guys?

3. All eyes on the old brewery from Janine.

4. This post from Olympia’s best blog makes me feel all warm inside. Merry Christmas to me!

1. The Sky Like A Scallop Shell is a pretty good blog. But, this particular post of this pretty good blog is very epic. In an Olympia sort of way.

She was about 10 years his junior and kept mentioning her husband, but stayed consistently polite as he told her about his opinions on just about every restaurant in town, the important projects he’d worked on, how he liked to go dancing, and how he was single at the moment but usually had a lady friend.

Read read read. Read the entire thing. Do your job and read it.

2. Its this time of year, so here’s Heather Lockman’s 2012 post on Christmas Island (which was tweeted recently by the Olympia Historical Society).

3. Local writer Ryan M. Williams has a podcast. Which is totally in its 10th Episode. Listen!

4. Looking back in the memory of Olympia blogs, does anyone remember Crack Hole? Man. Talk about some meadows goodness out there.

5. Walking across mudflats: Please don’t f*****g do that. You will die. It will be terrible.

1. Things freeze here.

2. OMG. You can enjoy Olysketcher in print. All year long.

3. Birds, Bees & Butterflies: Looking for a Salamander on Thanksgiving.

4. I like this photo, but I think it should’ve been titled “Stone in the Midst of All.”

“Not All That Shimmers,” by Diablo_119 in the Olympia Pool on flickr.

5. And, finally. Over at r/olympia: Dino’s Dinner, death of a local business.

1. Northern closed.

2. Some actual good advice (if not spurious descriptions) of how to buy stolen goods stolen from Oly.

3. One of Olympia’s best artists has two new books out. And, is releasing even more soon. Damn.

4. One more LBA update from Olympia’s best blog.

5. Shrine of Forgotten Objects in TESC Woods.

1. Only one of the best things ever I’ve watched.

2. rebotco is the bomb. Here’s the Second Part of Olympia Now and Then. Even better than the first.

1.Over at MT, more reading as the days get shorter.

2. I’m a young pup. I’m involved, but I didn’t show. Mostly because young pups have young families.

3. “Recent donation stirs up controversy over bookstore Jelly Belly machine” is such a perfect college newpaper headline. But, the issue at stake here is actually worth reading the article for.

4. Apparently, the city council has been skating around the edges with money raised specifically for sidewalks and parks (here and here).

5. Did I tell you to take the LBA survey? Take the LBA Survey from Olympia’s Best Damn Blog!!

1. Alicia Elliott will save Olympia.

New investment opportunity. Threaten development of something, raise the hackles of your neighbors, Alicia Elliott will buy you out.

Its the modern Olympia Aunt Sally.

2. Support Zinefest!

3. The best Olympia blog ever reads my mind. What if! What IF!!!!!

4. Yeah, big surprise here. Every place in the world is more nuanced than it seems at first.

If you came here from New York, Austin and then Portland and moved to Olympia “because you liked its look” and then were disappointed.

You deserve that disappointment. It isn’t our fault. Grow up.

5. I don’t mind the debate on the LBA Woods. Let’s debate parks! I’m against spending money on it now. And, I actually like the proposal for development (because it was better than the straight up burbs that had been built in that area).

But, this is annoying:

LBA Woods are a true gem–an old-fashioned Commons of sorts in that the property is privately owned, though it is neither gated nor posted with no-trespassing signs or welcome signs.

Because it isn’t even true:

…the developer (D.R. Horton, a nationwide company headquartered in Delaware) has chosen to fence users of LBA Park out of the trails.

We can debate whether it should become a park, but the owner wants you to stay off their property. That’s their right man.

1. There are fake bees. Nothing to be scared of, Janet Partlow blogs. They aren’t even the scarier of bugs. Just flies that want to be left alone.

2. Like the first rain calling coho back to the freshwater, they call Mojourner back to the blog. Or, something like that.

3. Rebels By Bus is just a cool idea and a cool blog. Some day I’m going to make the public transportation trip to this one state park in Grays Harbor. And, I’ll blog about it, in honor of the Rebels. Until then, read their recent updates.

4. I’ve been piecing together historic storylines the last couple of years. I’ve often thought how easy it would be if the less famous had some ways to easily translate their thoughts. Some people have their collected notes and letters boxed up and kept at libraries. But, if you didn’t publish your collected thoughts and put them in your community library, you’re out of luck. Elaine Nelson made me think that I’m glad we live now, Facebook, twitter, and other things will be a boon for historians.

5. Rignall, Washington is a place. I have to learn more now. Thanks.

1. Best blog at Olyblog in a long time: Olympia Then & Now. Awesome.

2. They’re working to put Old Main on the list of national places of historic importance. I would’ve assumed it was on that list already, but there you go.

3. Sort of a meta post from the Plum Palate. But, it is important to keep up with your local bloggers.

4. Big News for the People’s House. Which isn’t a new proposed location to fight about, by the way.

5. I think the Percival just realized the Weekly Volcano died.