Gimpy's Gyros

From the MySpace page:

"Portable unit has been obtained. So now if it doesn't work out we will be selling a unit. know any one interested? Regular Gyro. Veggie Gyro. Combo Gyro. Good Sausages. Rotating Specials. Good possibility San Francisco St. will make fresh pitas for us. Gyros come with cucumber, tomato, onion, yogurt sauce, and fresh mint and parsley. Veggie gyros come with falafel, grilled mushroom and tahini. All beef product right now but we are going to try to find something local and lamby. We have yet to look into what sausage we would like to sell. Rotating special will include other street friendly food. (Maybe tacos, tamales, Pupusas, Hum bao, this is where your suggestion helps.) We won't sell it unless it's delicious so we will have to do some good research on specials. Everything is still going to plan. Pit and Eugenio have been encouraging. We are going to Spokane and Portland to look at equipment this weekend. Please offer suggestions and advice and link this page to other locals for us. Thanks."

I found this article...I am pretty familiar with the atrocities being commited inside of China, although it had never occured to me how much an economical gain a country could get by using slave labor to make stuff. Theres so much outcry against globalization and the WTO, nafta, cafta and all that other stuff. I highly doubt any other countries in the world use slave labor on such a massive scale, generating billions every year by creating such a gigantic trade deficiet, and most of the money is used to feed the corruption of the chinese communist party.

Video documentation of unsafe crosswalk conditions in Olympia, WA.

Here is a very dangerous pedestrian crossing area at the corners of
4th & Chestnut St. (across from the Capitol Playhouse)

Notice the impaired pedestrian field of view and the traffic accident
that almost happens when the speeding drivers finally stop for the
cameraperson and child. (a very dangerous place to cross)

More video footage of unsafe pedestrian crossing conditions found
in Olympia can be seen at the Olympia Traffic Watch blog.

[Warning, unless you are into alternative and obscuro comix, the following essay will contain references that might seem esoteric and remote. This article (now slightly revised, 12-1-07) was originally written in Apr. 2002 for the White Buffalo Gazette (WGB):]

Morty Comix started in Feb. 1983 with several motives in mind. First, it gave me a way to loosen up my drawing hand. Second, it was a way to drive completist collectors crazy. The basic Morty Comix was a blank index card folded in half with four original drawings. They were numbered in sequence, dated and signed. I attempted to include an issue in each piece of correspondence. Here are some answers to questions you probably didn't want to ask about this series:

The first issue was drawn in Feb. 1983 in Olympia, Wash. It was sent to the now legendary Ron "Gato" Vicens in Hawaii. I won't call #2195 the final issue, since I consider this title to merely be in stasis, but this was drawn in late 1999 and sent to Jeff Zenick in Florida. It was reprinted in WBG in June 2000.

There are four distinct subsets. #1-1000 (Feb. 1983-Mar. 1984), #1001-1225 (Jan.-June 1985), #1226-1760 (Sept. 1985-Sept. 1986), and #1761-2195 (Apr. 1, 1989-Nov./Dec. 1999).

In addition to the blank index card format, other issues were drawn on library waste cards, large sheets of butcher paper, cardboard, foam, styrofoam, and wood. Some issues were produced as puzzles, #1446 and #1500 are 80 pages thick. One issue (sent to Tim Corrigan), was burned into a large sheet of plexiglass. Another (sent to Bob X), was drawn in the sand at Ocean Shores, Wash. and sent as a photo. #1641-1690 were drawn on the inside covers of copies of Starhead Presents #1

Despite its status as the first immigration law, the Page Law of 1875, which prohibited the entry of Chinese prostitutes, has received little attention from immigration scholars because it seems to be so narrowly tailored and because it sidesteps the labor and national security issues addressed by later immigration laws, Abrams said.

Today's media sighting is again, the Letters to the Editor from our good old Daily.  As usual, we have the weekly dose of "immigration" complaints.  Just so that everyone understands that there is a learning capacity in everything, I want you all to know that I finally got tired of the rhetoric and forced myself to google "first immigration laws" and came up with the above information.

Unless I missed (correct me if I'm wrong, as I love to learn) immigration laws didn't start until 1875 and were directed at the Chinese (surprise....someone that isn't "caucasion").  This tells me that all sorts of "Europeans" could have come here for 100 years without one law restricting them, thus the claims of "legal immigration" are "true".....well....half true.

This is an amazing talk about how to intentionally design our cities to be true community centers that people WANT to hang out in. The part that sticks out the most for me is when Kunstler states that we shouldn't have to have special events to get people to come downtown. In Olympia, for instance, we shouldn't have to have a street fair, or PRIDE, or Lakefair in order to get people to hang out downtown. We should begin designing, and redesigning, our downtown so that it attracts people naturally.