Statement from Craig and Cindy Corrie 1-05-2006, posted on the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice site.

(via Phan Nguyen on olympiaandrafah@lists.riseup.net and olympiansforpeace@lists.riseup.net)

My almost 26 year old son is walking me to the transit station after our very fine meal at Water Street Cafe. He's telling me something about reading Nietzsche when my attention focuses and I see someone curled up asleep on the pavement in a lit shop doorway. I hear myself make this low "Ohhhhhh" sound of empathy.

A few blocks away and my son tells me that he did not see the person in the doorway, but he did see someone sleeping on a bench nearby that I did not see. As we are talking this over, as I am questioning him about what he sees each night downtown, we exchange friendly greetings with two people on bicycles.

The two people on bicycles have full trailers that my son tells me are packed with food, blankets, and other necessities. He tells me that the bicyclists are EGYHOP (Emma Goldman Youth and Homeless Outreach) folks and that he sees them out most every night.

More...

But, as it turned out, the real future, which is now the past, was ten times more horrifying.

OLYMPIA - An Olympia woman would have paid just about anything so her Army husband could spend Christmas with their kids.

Now she's convinced Continental Airlines took advantage of her, turning her Christmas wish into a stressful and expensive proposition.

[snip]

Continental Airlines told her they had plenty of seats available... for a price.

For the first change, Sandy called Continental's customer service line. "When I said this is my situation, he's changed ports, I need to get him out of Corpus Christi, oh, well you can pay another 700 dollars."

Via TheNewsTribune.com:

HANDS ON CHILDREN -- MUSEUM Exhibit: Reopening of "Good for You!" Parents Night Out, activities, dinner, crafts, creative play for ages 4-10, 6-9:30 p.m. second Saturdays; $20 for first child, $15 per additional sibling, preregistration required. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays, 11th Avenue and Capitol Way, Olympia. Admission: $6.95 ages 2 and older, $5.95 seniors/grandparents, $3.95 ages 10-23 months, free for children 9 months old and younger, half price 3-5 p.m. scheduled school days, half price for home-schoolers on Tuesdays, half price for military, free admission 5-9 p.m. first Fridays; 360-956-0818.

Winter-break class makes nourishing avian snacks

Maybe I am the only person who reads this headline as telling us that a group of people were eaten by birds. And that the birds found that their snack of people was nourishing.

Or did the people eat nourishing snacks made out of birds?

Perhaps I've been overexposed to humor and now expect to find something funny in everything.

There was an open mike night in the CAB in the late 1970s, and for some reason this guy was the one who really made the biggest impression on me. He had a guitar and played only one note with a teeth-jarring BLANG! I even used him as the basis for a character in Bezango WA 985 (see Evergroove trivia, pt. 39), and here is how I recorded his lyrics and playing:

"Duh-pressionnnnnn"

(Pause)

BLANG!

"Ree-jectionnnnn"

(Pause)

BLANG!

"Frrus-trationnnnn"

(Pause)

BLANG!

"Dee-jectionnnnn"

(Pause)

BLANG!

"Aaaalien-ationnnnn"

(Pause)

BLANG!

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I wanted to jump up and cheerfully shout, "Hey, everybody join in!"