We went to the TrendWest, WorldMark, etc. etc. time sharing seminar in Federal Way!

We spoke with Rex and pals for about 90 minutes.

We haggled.  I wanted to buy two credits @ $1.96 ea.  He wanted us to spend at least a hundred times that amount. 

I explained it with my jumbo calculator.  I typed 57718618 and turned it upside down so that it read BIGBILLS.

In the end we had connected on a situation that worked for both of us.  We got the free trip voucher to Lake Tahoe, and he got to see the tail end of a clown departing in the rain.

Rex is the King.  He even came back with his own camera... or the office camera.

This nice lady handed over the travel & food vouchers at the last window of the last door.

A Sustainable Agriculture Response to the Food Crisis

On June 5, 2008, Evergreen will host a talk by Joel Salatin, a farmer, visionary and expert in the practice of sustainable agriculture. Salatin was profiled in Michael Pollan's influential book, "Omnivore's Dilemma."

Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008

Location: The Evergreen State College campus, Lecture Hall 1

Time: 7 p.m.

Cost: free

A locally-sourced dinner dinner will be served from 5 - 7 p.m. at the Evergreen cafeteria, The Greenery, on the ground floor of the CAB.

About the Speaker: Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm achieved iconic status as the livestock farm featured in the NEW YORK TIMES'S bestseller "Omnivore's Dilemma" by food writer Michael Pollan. A sought-after conference speaker, Salatin addressed a wide range of issues from "creating the farm your children will want," to "making a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country."

Salatin's speeches are both conviction-based and humorous, akin to theatrical performances, often receiving standing ovations. He describes his occupation as "mob-stocking hervbivorous solar conversion lignified carbon sequestration fertilization."

Background: In 1961, William and Lucille Salatin moved their young family to Virginia 's Shenandoah Valley , purchasing the most worn-out, eroded, abused farm in the area. Using nature as a pattern, they began the healing and innovation that now supports three generations. Today the farm represents America 's premier non-industrial food production oasis. For more information about Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms: http://www.polyfacefarms.com/default.aspx

This event is sponsored by Olympia Food Coop, Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute, Olympia Slow Food, Olympia Climate Coalition and the Evergreen State College

The Olympia Comics Festival is celebrating its 7th year of this community tradition with special guests Jeffrey Brown, Jim Woodring, and Michel Gagne. Chicago-based Jeffrey Brown is best known for his candid autobiographical accounts of failed relationships including Clumsy, Unlikely and Every Girl is the End of the World for Me. Seattle’s Jim Woodring has risen to fame for his mesmerizing silent comics featuring Frank, a strange creature in a stranger world. Michel Gagne, originally from Quebec, is an illustrator/animator who has worked on feature films such as Ratatouille, The Iron Giant and Osmosis Jones as well as publishing many comics of his own including ZED and The Saga of Rex.

Northwest Cartoonist Expo

noon to 5 P.M. at The Vault (425 Franklin St. SE)

Free and open to all ages.

Book Signings

3-5 P.M. at Danger Room Comics (201 4th Ave. W)

Free and open to all ages.

Stage Show

6 to 8 P.M. at the Capitol Theater (206 5th Ave.)

$1 donation and parental guidance advised (for language and drawn nudity).

The Olympia Comics Festival differs greatly from typical comic conventions because it is dedicated to upholding comics as an art form and promoting local small press cartoonists. This event is intended to be enjoyed by devoted comic fans and casual readers alike. For questions, email olympiacomicsfestival@gmail.com or call Danger Room at (360) 705-3050.

Briana Waters' sentencing, originally scheduled for May 30, then moved to June 2, has been postponed. Stay tuned for updates.

For a closer view Mouse-click the individual posters. Sometimes there are mouseovers, so check...if you're into that sort of thing. If you're interested in movie or Theater times their posters are hyperlinked to their respective schedules.

If your event is not on here I apologize. I do not always see every flyer and sometimes the pictures fuzz up and are illegible.

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How well do you know Olympia? Here's the game: Each Saturday I post a picture from somewhere around Olympia and people try to figure out its location. The first person who gets it correct is the first person who correctly got the location *yay!*.

I love the library.  There was a time when I wouldn't set foot in one, but I love the library too much to stay away. 

I've been bringing home trickster tales, world mythology, and relying heavily on the books librarians have displayed on top of the shelves.  We can do a library run in five minutes and leave with 20 items.  That's important if we're going to read 20 minutes before bedtime and not repeat ourselves over and over and over.

Here's Confrere Lapin, the Cajun Brer Rabbit trickster.  "Lapin Plays Possum" adapted by Sharon Arms Doucet.

Of particular interest to me is this book of Indonesian Fables of Feats and Fortunes.  On the cover you see the trickster mouse deer convincing an alligator to roll over.

Almost every week this is the "What's on the city council's plate this week" review. I don't cover everything, so if you want the full rundown, read the packet and agenda yourself.

Remember that event down at Washington Center where we spend $25,000 to hear a forum on climate change? I'm a big fan of Terry Tempest Williams, but it didn't seem much like a forum (more like a sermon) to me.

Now it looks like the city council is ready to shelve the eventual end result of that forum, which would have been a city committee to look at climate change.

Staff report:

In April 2008, the General Government weighed all the climate change work already moving forward and contemplated whether establishing a Citizen Advisory Committee is the most effective use of City resources at this time. Attachment 3 summarizes the General Government Committee’s discussion. Their recommendation is that the City Council not move forward with the taskforce at this time and instead reserve the money for sustainability efforts yet to be define.

The original proposal came from former city councilmember TJ Johnson:

Almost every week this is the "What's on the city council's plate this week" review. I don't cover everything, so if you want the full rundown, read the packet and agenda yourself.

The most interesting reading in the packet this week is the update on the RV ordinance. The council is reviewing two options from staff, one that bans RVs 24 hours and one for only a few hours each night.

Staff report run down:

Whilst stopping to pickup some smoked king salmon from Sea Blossom Seafoods I caught this diggity performance of Gaelica playing a song to benefit the Rocky Prairie south of Olympia.