History, politics, people of Oly WA
1. Holy cow Jusby, sad stories!
2. Holy cow Jusby, funny Olympia!
3. Pretty Percival Landing panorama.
4. If you need to be reminded how nice the Tumwater Falls (and Dam) park really is, here’s another one.
5. From from benjohume r/olympia on reddit, now that’s an interesting flier downtown.
1. Remember the time in the mid-90s that a Thurston deputy sheriff confessed to being a devil worshiper and sexually assaulting his daughters? Then he recanted, but was found guilty anyway? The Olympia Satanist Blog points to a documentary (the entire version is pretty easy to find after a couple of links) on the somewhat forgotten episode in our town.
2. These flew over my house a few days ago too, it was pretty impressive.
3. A blog post all about the South Sound Shock, which are mostly a Tacoma team, and very little about the hometown Pioneers.
4. Ken has a pretty solid run down of the primary ballot scene.
5. Ramblings of Spring blog brings us tales of getting a building permit in Tumwater.
6. And, lastly, I’ve been remiss on not ever featuring Jerry Farmer’s “America Ya Gotta Love It” blog. Mostly because of the name and his apparent fear of blank lines between paragraphs. That isn’t to say that there aren’t good posts there. This is a good one, for example.
1. Just a little old (vintage 2008), but the insight is pretty interesting on downtown and how to make it better. Some people are happy the way downtown is now.
2. May Day report #1 (from Mr. Tom Hyde): “As the TV news crews and other journalists trailed in their wake or
marched along the sidelines with phalanxes of police, I couldn’t help
think it was all so … pointless, and more than a little pathetic – for
the disorganized protesters with an incoherent message and seemingly
absent worldview (“fuck everything” is neither a particularly brilliant
nor achievable solution)…”
May Day report #2: Dumb Kid with a Skateboard.
May Day report #3: And, no Olympia event would be complete without Your Daily Hour With Me.
And, the fellow who had the run in with the anarchists at Evergreen posts his own May Day report.
3. Ducks reclaim the west side streets a few days early.
4. Also, one of the most sad posts ever on one of the most common feelings in Olympia ever (over at r/olympia): Why People Leave Olympia.
1. The most quintessential of Olympia discussions over at /r/Olympia: state office work versus regular office work. Discuss.
2. Wondering what’s up with Make Olympia. Well, that’s what’s up.
3. HA! I feel the same way at Mathias: “…we just had about a dozen cupcake shops open up in the last 24 months.”
4. Oh my God.
5. From Marcus Lane: Water.
6. Jinkies! College students (no Greeners) are all up to hijinks!
7. Makes sense that we’re talking about, but gun ban at SPSCC is controversial.
2. Speaking of views, both Stevenl (at Morty and Olyblog) and CIAguy have been sharing historic views of the Capitol from various vantages and vintages.
3. Mojourner Truth blogs about the impacts of the coal port in the future of the northwest in someone’s community:
I’ve never lived by a coal port, and Olympia is too small to be in the race. But I do drive Route 14 up the Columbia from time to time, I have tried to sleep in Stevenson as the plains rumble through, horns blasting, and it’s hard to imagine how a massive increase in traffic would be tolerable.
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If a coal port happens–and the relentlessness of North American capital suggests it will–the lucky winner will likely learn some hard lessons. Many of the construction jobs will go to outsiders, and operations won’t generate the employment or revenue expected. At Cherry Point, we’ve already learned that the proponents’ initial statements about the volume were a fraction of what they really plan, that there will be twice as much traffic and pollution. Friendly promises will be reneged. Coal, being a global commodity, may become more profitable (leading to increased shipping), or the bottom may drop out (causing jobs to disappear from time to time). Even if you support coal power, does it make sense to sell our reserves to China, whose import policy is partly to protect their own for the future?
1. This guy moved to Olympia. He seems happy about his choice, and well, he seems like an interesting fellow.
2. Over at GriffinNeighbors (which is outside Olympia, but might as well be a moon if Olympia was a planet) there’s a story about social capital, creative commons and stickers.
3. While not technically a blog or anything, its worth noting that KGY is posting some of their content over at Soundcloud. I haven’t listened to KGY is years, mostly because if I am listening to radio, I’m listening to some sort of NPR. Otherwise, I’m listening to podcasts. And, because I was able to turn their Soundcloud page into a nice handy podcast feed, I’m listening to KGY again!
Just one thing, one of the guys on their sports show needs to stop laughing so much. Super annoying.
4. The Fake News thing is present at Evergreen.
5. And, sadly, it’s worth noting that Everyday Olympia is going into hibernation again. I really loved the original version, which seemed to be building towards a cleaner version of Olyblog or a different version of Thurston Talk.
Yes, it has been a few months. But, there has also been very little to link to.
1. Neat little what I would say is a oral history on pre-2010 Olympia. Protests and the Reef before the fire.
2. Gosh darnit, I want to have an Oyster Christmas!
3. Holy cow. How about a really long post about Olympia music starting in 1971.
4. And, with all this talk about homeless downtown, let’s look at what Sarah at Olyblog has for us from 1883 Olympia and how they took care of vagrants.
2. Otters (sigh… at sunset) in the lake.
3. Zach (of my favorite zine ever) does stand up.
4. David does a free ebook sampler. Buy his regular books too guys.
1. Olympia Punk in Stranger: Punk Dead.
2. Sondrak’s KISP is one of the oddest blogs in Olympia. Well, I think Olympia. I remember her blogging a lot about the port protests a few years back. But, this post is too sweet.
3. And, as the days get short and its really damn cold outside, never anytime better to look back at Pet Parade.
4. Lastly, a Dutch band plays Olympia, WA. I think European neighbors were trying to send Mathias a little gift.
1. I don’t get the bead thing and I don’t get decorating skulls. Though, I suppose its a thing for Halloween. That said, Shipwreck Beads must be the capital of things I don’t get.
2. Arts Walk link #1:
3. Arts Walk link #2: Thad’s Things I like at Arts Walk.
4. This is the sort of thing I do this link roundup for, Janine’s recent writing on the county commissioner race is the best things out there right now on local politics.
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