Okay, it is possible for users to create unique content.  I've laid down the ground rules.  Anyone who feels like blowing off steam off of OB can pop over there if they feel the urge.

Vermin of the Week is Pizza Hut.  

Anyone who posts on Olyblog will get automatic "author" status by registering with their OB handle.  (As soon as I see the registration, I will update your status, until then all you can do is comment on existing posts.  With author status you can create content.)

Now my page isn't a substitute for a full blown and functioning community forum like OB.  It is mainly my page.  But as an experiment I've decided to expand it's functionality a bit.  Weirdos who have problems on OB can post stuff over on my page and lessen some of the tension here, and I get content.  It's win-win.  

Have fun! 

There was a question over at this post about what exactly the draft noise ordinance actually says. I found it over at the city's planning commission page.

Happy reading. In short, it looks like the limits for commercial spaces (the hot topic) are 65 at the building's wall and 60 within a living space.

A few weeks ago this rainbow was painted on this power pole downtown, near State & Columbia. Since then, the tagging stopped on the pole, and it made the corner look nice and bright.

Today when I came home I saw that it had been painted over, back to grey, a fresh canvas for more tags and junk.

I can understand painting over tagging, since it asserts 'ownership' over a certain area, but this was a rainbow.

I wonder why it was painted over back to grey, and who did it- PSE, City of Oly? The nearby Les Schwab?

Location: Evergreen State College Sem2 D1107

Speaking tour by Andrew Flood

Andrew Flood is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement.

more on the flipside:

12 mini-reviews for the short attention span, taken from dark corners of stevenl's video vault:

Native American performance artist James Luna will be visiting the TESC campus and presenting his show on Friday, April 26 at 8:00 pm. This event is free of charge to Evergreen students. Students may reserve seats (one seat per student) by putting their name on a reserved list at the COM Building box office from 12-3 M-F or by calling 867-6833. Faculty may reserve seats for their entire program by emailing their class list to me with the request. Tickets are not handed out in advance. Students may pick up their tickets on the evening of the performance beginning at 6:30 by showing their current Evergreen ID card. Tickets not picked up by 7:45 are released to the general public. Students may also just show up at the Longhouse for the performance and received a free ticket as available on a first come first serve basis. Non-Evergreen students may purchase a ticket for $5.

Locals, Internet Savvy geeks, world peace lovers, art fanatics - all of you!!

einmaleins has a very special announcement for you:

Olympia Artswalk 2008 will go Live, Worldwide, on the Web.

And you can be a part of this!!!

We installed a live web-cam at einmaleins, which will send Arts Walk across the wires all around the world!

How fantastic is that??

Here is the link for a preview:

http://www.everydayolympia.com/events/artswalk/index.php

So, tell your folks and friends from near and far. Logon yourself if you can't make it downtown this weekend or if just want to see why Arts Walk is Olympia's biggest party of the year!

And, if you want to let out that inner actor/actress in you, swing by einmaleins ans say Hallo to the world!

The camera awaits you!!

mathias

einmaleins

...by Naomi Wolf. I'm reading this book now (from TRL), and wonder if others have read this as well?

Any thoughts?

Update:

I finished last night and got a chuckle out of the "call to arms" for CJ and blogging that the author closes with-