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Submitted by shoelace on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 11:52pm.
Mar 11 2007 - 9:12pm Mar 31 2007 - 9:12pm  The Raccoon Collective supports various incarnations of public DIY art especially if it's beautiful or interesting. Please send us any interesting street art pics with the subject "seen around town" or "raccoon sightings" and we will post them to our blog (the den) http://raccooncollective.blogspot.com/ and also our flicker site. Check out our post there too about the new* Guerilla POETRY Project *. On another note, our meeting today about this months WESTSIDE artswalk (3) Sat March 31st and next months procession after party/ 1st Eastside artswalk Sat April 28th went incredibly splendid. So if you are interested either for this months or next and know a house that would like to be a venue, musicians or bands that want to play, an artist/crafter who wants to display,a poet who wants to read, or if you've got other ideas for events to seed, PLEASE EMAIL US!!! raccooncollective@gmail.com with your contact info and we will email you back instructions (for house please include size, address, phone and emails of people to reach and any preferences or ideas for your space) I hope to see all you OLYbloggers and the end of this month and as always we will post a digital map at our website www.raccooncollective.org BEWARE:we never hibernate attached below is our new sticker design so print and paste at your will
Submitted by Sarah on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 11:00pm.
April Fool's Day is approaching and I've a challenge to issue to all OlyBloggers. Get inspired and write something amusing. You get extra points for making this something amusing local. Tell us about a thought you had while drinking coffee downtown. Describe an unusual lunch enjoyed at the mall. Write a comic rhapsody on your favorite local flora and fauna.
» No cruel jokes or other abuse. Are we locals too wet to share laughter? Or can we "grow a sense of humor" as our own esteemed founder Rick encourages? Anyone local who wants to answer this challenge on their blog other than here on OlyBlog, just let me know, msg me through OlyBlog. I'll try to keep track of who is writing what where and I'll weave things together on the big day itself. This challenge starts now. "April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." Mark Twain
Submitted by oolyps on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 10:37pm.
Hi, we're the Taelliouses! As fellow OlyBloggers you know us as pseudonym and enpen. We offer you our advice, free of charge. Every Sunday night we'll post responses to your personal plights, Oly. Trust us. Just send your questions to oolyps(at)gmail.com. Feel free to fully disclose your identification, or, create a "fake" e-mail account through yahoo, google, hotmail, outgun, etc. We'll treat you as anonymously as you like.
» Now is the time to ask us to figure out your personal problems, Oly. We'll begin posting on Sunday, March 18. “Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.”
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 10:30pm.
Mar 12 2007 - 11:30am We are going to make a last push to get 8016 to the Senate floor for a vote. Please forward this email to kindred spirits.
Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 9:36pm.
Penguin beak salad is, needless to say, very crunchy. And what, may you ask, happens to those penguins who now find themselves beakless as a result of giving up a part of their anatomy for your eating pleasure? [At this point an OlyBlogger raises his/her hand and asks this question]: "What happens to those penguins who now find themselves beakless as a result of giving up a part of their anatomy for your eating pleasure?" I'm glad you asked that. You find them employed as bowling pins at your local bowling alley. Since they can still waddle around, it makes the game a bit more challenging. The End.
Submitted by crazylacey on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 3:53pm.
I purchased a pair of nylon exfoliating gloves from the beauty section at a drugstore. I slip the gloves on and wash all the produce by rubbing my hands over it. I wash it in a pan of water or under the faucet. The gloves are very effective especially for large items like potatoes.
» One night I'll make beef stew and the next night I'll put the remainder of the stew into a pie crust to make a beef pot pie. Sometimes if I make a large enough pot of beef stew I can make four pot pies out of it and then freeze them. Most people cut the beef for stew beef into large chunks. I freeze all of my broth in ice cube trays. Once they are frozen, I store them in freezer bags or plastic containers. When I'm ready to use them, I just pull them out one or two cubes at a time depending on the recipe. you can soak large amounts of beans at a time and freeze what you don't use, in portion sizes for later use. It saves me loads of time and takes care of a big, time consuming task all at once. It really makes it easier and faster to use dry beans in recipes because I have eliminated the soaking step bydoing it earlier. I have really, really bad allergies - here is what I do to make a home smell good without perfume or home spray. 1 – 3 Cinnamon sticks • Water in a small pan Begin by boiling the water and cinnamon sticks on top of the stove. Then simmer for as long as you like. I leave mine on the stove and reuse for days by just adding more water as needed.
Submitted by Mike on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 10:09am.
 In an earlier topic I mentioned domestic violence with regard to charges of excessive or inappropriate use of force by Tacoma PD at the Port and I think I have not been clear about how I think these things connect, herewith, the connection imho: Norm wrote: I'm not sure what you are getting at with the DV. Do you assume that only people who are willing to commit DV are the people that say "They got what they deserve." ? What does DV really have to do with this conversation, it seems like you are pointing at EG as a present or future "wife-beater". Question: Do you assume that only people who are willing to commit DV are the people that say "They got what they deserve." ? Answer: No, I think that people who are willing to commit DV run the gamut, but I also believe that whether abusers say it or not, it is a commonly held idea among abusers that the victim "asked for it," "got what they deserved," "made me hit him/her." Context: The community who works to reduce domestic violence and sexual assault in this country (I number myself in that community) have generally agreed to confront these common justifications for abuse and to create an environment where an abuser would feel less comfortable ever saying anything like these justifications. Ideally, without these dodges, the perpetrator of physical assault would have to own their behavior, realize that no matter how provoked they got, when they took it across the line to physicality, they committed a crime, they have done the wrong. The responsibility and duty is to turn and walk away and not escalate any kind of domestic disagreement or couple's issue into an incident where an assault occurs.
Submitted by White Rabbit on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 8:11am.
Olympia, land of creamed scorn
» where shoes are made of paper but are hardly ever worn The nights are filled with flapdoodle The days with googer-goo The hippers are all feudal Pleasure bump grind & chew Members have their meetings Outers have them too They say their morning greetings And set fire to their shoes. |
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