Welcome to Olyblog! The comment policy that follows is for you. It's for us, consumers and contributors just like you. It's not about free speech but rather about being civil and honest. We ask that you be accountable for your conversations here. We ask you to help us enforce this policy by living it while you're here. You wouldn't be here unless you wanted to be so please make yourself welcome.

This comment policy is subject to change at the discretion of Olyblog docents and the Olyblog community. No changes will be made without the consensus of Olyblog docents. Docents reserve the right to make immediate changes to this policy in the best interest of Olyblog. All comment policy changes will be communicated via Olyblog's front page. Any questions about the comment policy should be directed to a docent. They are listed on the front page. Want to make it better? You can let us know how by contacting a docent.

Olyblog User Accounts:

Anyone get any pics of the Free Tibet Rally today? I guess it was down at Percival Landing.

Feeling a little post-pie depression, I went to the playground with Orion. I got to play with some kids and listen to Radio 8 Ball. I wondered if I would get another call or e-mail for a pie. I wondered if I should take matters into my own hands and go pie Andras during the show, but I'd been driving all day, so I just thought I'd wind down.

Sitting in the Depression

Then it finally occurred to me that I should let Orion deliver the last pie.

Sprout said to give her pregnant sister Amanda a pie. Sprout was at the dentist. Amanda was covering for her at the BIAW. It's a lovely haunted building

I went over to St Martin's University to check out their career fair.

I gave out my outdated business card magnets. They give my home number (which is always busy due to dial-up) and myspace address... unviewable at many corporations and schools, of course. [Please see the main site at http://jusbytheclown.wordpress.com] 

I did the whole thing in about 10 minutes. Check out the triptych, a real microcosm of emotions.

(Conrad Melville--AP, Seattle) In an unusual step, described by some as a massive resource grab, the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is notifying state and local authorities in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho that as of July 2008, it will assume rights over unregulated fresh water wells and aquifers falling within the 10 mile buffer established in the Pacific Railway Act of 1862. According to the BLM, the rights created by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 have never been enforced, but dwindling aquifers and climate change have created a sense of urgency and renewed interest in the old law. “The same forward thinking that created the transcontinental railroads, also provided the tools necessary to protect some of our most valuable resources,” said Ronald Coase, Director of the BLM’s Strategic Resource Management Unit based out of Boise, Idaho. Cities with populations over 100,000 have negotiated exemptions.

What a terrible tragedy:

The Associated Press CENTRALIA — An 11-year-old boy has died in what his brother says was an accidental shooting in Centralia. Click here to find out more! Lewis County sheriff's deputies say the boy was rushed to Providence Centralia Hospital after being shot shortly before 9 p.m. Monday night. He died at the hospital.

The rest of the story can be read here.

Here's the gag.

Wendy Tanner wanted to implicate her boss, Charles Shelan, in a prank. He has a reputation for pulling them on his staff. In previous years he has suggested a skate park on the roof of their building. This year he was advocating abstinence education.

She intended that I arrive and give her a pie in the face and credit him as the Grand Pie-bah, masterminding the delivery.

I set about planning my routine. I obtained a recording of Mr. Shelan saying his name from his voice mail. I called on my cell phone after hours and put it on speaker phone. Then I recorded it into the device secreted within my clipboard.