Free Radio Olympia will be having a magnificant yard sale on Saturday, August 9 and Sunday, August 10, from 9am-4pm at 1611 4th Ave E. There will be a plethora of assorted consumer items you surely need and want to purchase. In turn, your $ will be used to keep FRO in maintaining a vital presence within our community and beyond.

Olympia's own Romanteek will be performing around 12pm on Saturday.

See you there!

Today's CSA haul:

The backyard produces food:

So I have never participated in a Critical Mass ride but in theory I love them. Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and assert cyclist’s right to the road. Well I love bicycling and any and all who celebrate it and as a cyclist I certainly want to increase awareness about cyclist’s right to the road; I’m as sick of having “Get on the sidewalk,” yelled at me as the next bicyclist. So what’s not to love? Well as the debacle in Seattle on July 25th showed, quite a bit actually. A lot has already been written about this but for those that haven’t heard during the July 25th critical mass a driver plowed into a group of cyclists and then attempted to flee the scene. Accounts vary greatly but according to the eyewitness accounts I have read the driver made it a block before meeting another wall of cyclists where he stopped, was physically dragged from his car. His car then had the front and rear windshields busted and the tires slashed, while his passenger was still in the car. The driver was then hit in the head with an object, the accounts I read said it was a heavy metal U-lock. Wow, huh?

Most likely on Wednesday night 6th of August. The radio antenna and windshield wiper were bent, the right side turn signal housing damaged, the fuel door pried open, fuel cap removed and I suspect dirt introduced to the fuel tank. I discovered the damage this afternoon and filed a police report. When I gave my address to the female receptionist she said that there have been a number of similar reports from the same area. The officer who viewed the damage to my van was sympathetic but honest saying he would file a report but I should not expect anything more to happen. I knew that at the outset. I just wanted to put the incident on record.

On Wednesday night around 11:00pm I heard a pair of male voices and a female voice shouting drunkenly to each other. Thinking it was the usual idiocy too common in downtown I failed to get up and go out to investigate. I assure you dear reader that won't happen again.

I live in the Elks building (600 block of Capitol Way S.) and this is the is the fifth time in two years I have been the victim of property crime. I've had two bicycles stolen from inside an allegedly 'secure' building and have had my van vandalized or broken into three times. In 2004 and 05 two other vehicles of mine were broken into. On top of that my building has been hit twice this year, inside and out, by the CPDT tagger.

Saturday, August 9

The Eastside Neighborhood Association (ENA) will join in the Annual Neighborhood Picnic at Lions Park. read more

Part of the Here Today public art project. Keep your eyes open for painted images of eyes looking at you around downtown. They seem to be walking off but they will be replenished. I would love to know who takes them and for what purpose.

This blurb revisits a position that I heard about back in '96...

...more rain, >wow<

Are we truly free in America?

This news item makes me think not...

...any thoughts?

>I'm *sick* over the fact that the dogs were murdered<