In honor of Mathias Eichler’s recognition of being the best person in town (Awww-SUM), I give you Mathias’ best idears as copied by other people and as told by Discover Thurston.
And, when I say “copied” I mean borrowed without credit seemingly being given. Credit may have been given at some point, but not in these videos or anyplace else I could find.
Then, as told by Discover Thurston: “Tonight we’re having a Table of Ooooaaah… South Sound.”
TJ, you almost blew it, you almost said Olympia.
To be honest, I don’t have any problem with people taking ideas and running with them. I do itall the time. But, it is at least polite to give credit where it is very much due.
1. But, if you were to google “Sh*t people from Olympia Say,” you see a video that achieves a greater hilarity than the average for the meme. Damn, don’t google it, just here it is. If you haven’t see it yet, have fun.
2. One of the two times I’ve seen the Vagina Monologues was at the Midnight Sun. Now, Alec points out, they’re in trouble. Help save them.
3. Washington Our Home is a decent looking localish blog. I particularly like this post about stumbling onto the Ft. Eaton historic marker on the way out of town.
4. Speaking of history, the Olympia Historical Society is doing something pretty awesome. Even more awesome than the Olympia video.
Well, I did post one olyblogosphere up on Friday, but that’s not a true link post. But, people seem to be interested in the topic. And, if “Lunch Scholars” was a spoof, then they did a bad job labeling it.
1. Krista and Jess come late to the blog post about the weather party, but the pictures are well worth the click through.
2. Olyeats combines two things I like. Well, she always does the slow back in to talking about food blog post thing (which I always like). But, this week she also does the categorize Olympians thing, this time with the “OlyGrrrl au Natural.”
The mantra of the OlyGrrrl au Natural is ‘Love your mother (earth)’. A free spirit, her home (if she has a permanent one) is co-housing or a bus parked on someone’s property on the West Side. Her news source is Democracy Now! and she probably enjoys listening to Scatterlings of Africa and the Polynesian Hour on KAOS. She is most definitely a wanderer, likely hailing from somewhere else originally. The open and communal atmosphere, the beautiful natural surroundings and the great hiking drew her to feel at home in Oly more than any other place at the moment.
3. Over at Thurstonblog, sidrat38 has a great commentary the day after the state house’s vote on marriage.
4. For my taste, Cecelia Carpenter is one of the best historians with a local focus ever. But, One Pissed Off Vet does a decent review of a book that covers the ground Carpenter spent a life covering.
This is really only interesting (and therefore more depressing) because I found it at HuffPost first (featured at Hill Buzz too) and then realized this was most likely filmed at Olympia High School.
I’m about 95 percent sure its Olympia High School.
What can be done about sidewalks & crossings? I understand that there aren’t resources for city to clear any sidewalks and that it’s not legally the city’s responsibility. However, a week & a half after start of the storm, several days after melt started, sections of arterial sidewalks are still nearly impassible. There’s multiple areas VERY slick ice, never shoveled, trampled down into hard crust over the sidewalk.
3. And, just to round out snow related blog posts, Flummel, Flummer, Flummo: we gots Snow!
4. Of course there are a lot of snow related videos posted lately, but these two speak to me. Kids going down a little hill (from clwtrip).
And, of course, trying to make sure everyone gets treated fairly.
2. Another great local webshow is “Around Thurston County.” Its also on local cable, but the creator is posting his shows online as well. Here’s Olympia’s new mayor.
3. Here’s a post from the Yelm Highway Project blog on what the what is with the signals at Rich Road. Which, for people heading west every morning (to me it seems as I pass them heading east) is a big deal. Its a nice reminder of a good local government blog, but also because I now know that Setina is that business at that corner. They build bumbers, which is pretty cool.
4. Erica’s Garden writes about sun tracking, with a pretty smashing graphic she made herself.
5. I feel bad linking to this one, but you have to know that the county spent money on a video about our bridges.
5. Janine’s Little Hollywood had been one of the best news blogs in town for awhile there. She went blog silent in May and recently updated the blog to explain why. Lots of work and getting married are good reasons!
I like that I end up doing this on Friday. Seems like a regular thing almost.
1. A little history from Accidental Initiations 2 of those days in the early part of the last decade. Olympia newly minted as “hippest in the west” and other things:
During the show’s run we sold out The Capitol Theater every night but the impact was even greater than that. Like The Spearhead Sound Hours Benefit, The Transfused involved so many people that it felt like the whole town was in on the ritual. There was talk of taking it to Broadway and I am sure if they had, it would have stood a shot at Hedwig-style success. Sadly, like so many Olympia projects, The Transfused and its creators could not contend with the dangers of commercial success, so the production went no further than the city limits, and today it lives on only in the videos from its one production, and in the memories of those who were there. Even more disheartening for me, once the production ended, that sense of inclusion I had enjoyed dissipated and I faded back into the white woodwork of Olympia with most of my former collaborators walking past me on the street without any sense of kinship between us.
There is no actual evidence of this on the internet, but I remember one of the last (or maybe THE last) performances, the cast and audience of The Transfused invaded Lake Fair on an early summer evening and goofed around. Before 9/11, before the Nisqually quake that changed downtown Olympia forever. Boy, those were the days.
2. Yodelling Lama wonders (as do the rest of us) why Fish is the only microbrewery in town. There used to be that racing place in Lacey, but I don’t think that really counted.
3. Alice (@wazzuoly) on her blog writes about the KRS-One show:
This pleasant night on the town taught me an important lesson. Every once in a while, I need to step outside my comfort zone. And I am going to do it. Too often we stay in our own little box, never taking the time to experience something different. It’s sad really. And it has driven this country so far apart.
1. Arbitrary and Capricious (on hiatus since June 2009). This was beyond a public defender blog (of which there are more as I come to understand). I first came across it when I was building a reading list for when I blogged over at Western Democrat. The author at the time lived in Idaho, and around 2004-05 had smart things to say about living out there. He since moved to Olympia (weird, isn’t it?) and subsequently had smart things to say about living here.
2. Scribblemark. (not officially dead, but not updated since May 2010). Great blog by Karen Patrick, reminds me of a proto Olympia Views, with its up close commentary on the Olympian. Loving Oly is a classic Olyblogosphere post and I hope it never disappears.
3. Public official blogs like Citizens for Karen Rogers. Unfortunately, many of the really good ones have been blinked off the face of the earth (lots of good blogging used to happen at rhenda.com). These blogs are a great example of why archiving local blogs is important. As we see newspapers retreating from covering nearly everything local, candidate and other civic blogs record our history and public debate.
4. If on a rainy night (gone since October 2008). Just a pretty good local blog, a great example of how links get picked up between blogs, especially as reflected in this post. He says something, someone somewhere else writes back and he writes something else that wouldn’t have been written if not for a link into his blog.
5. Damn, almost forgot What this town needs (gone since October 2007). Best blog around for awhile, and something that really Olympia needs is a blog about what Olympia needs. Maybe a feature that can be built into a blog like Olynotes?
1. Everyone should love and read Mark’s Notes on the State of Olympia, especially since Mark has to attend Saturday meetings during the holidays. Okay, all together now: POOoooooor Maaaaaaark!
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