Weekly Volcano music columnist who swills forbidden cocktails while injecting dangerous, sweaty, catchy, alcohol- drenched, cigarette- smoke-smelling, hard-volume rock 'n' roll plasma into his veins.
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Bobble Tiki isn’t wearing underwear right now. If Bobble Tiki could have one single wish — anything in the entire world — it would be for a frosty fresh breeze to find its way up Bobble Tiki’s grass skirt, and stay put. Ohhhh, how nice that would be. Bobble Tiki is hot,
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Bobble Tiki isn’t wearing underwear right now. If Bobble Tiki could have one single wish — anything in the entire world — it would be for a frosty fresh breeze to find its way up Bobble Tiki’s grass skirt, and stay put. Ohhhh, how nice that would be. Bobble Tiki is hot,
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Common Northwest wisdom says it’s not officially summer until after the Fourth of July. Other parts of the country may start chopping off their Levis in June, but around here, the sun doesn’t really start showing up until the seventh month — and it only sticks around into September. The
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Common Northwest wisdom says it’s not officially summer until after the Fourth of July. Other parts of the country may start chopping off their Levis in June, but around here, the sun doesn’t really start showing up until the seventh month — and it only sticks around into September. The
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Oh my god. Bobble Tiki loves the Fourth of July. He’s loves it so freakin’ much he doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s giddy for two weeks in advance and suffers from a deep depression for two weeks after. Bobble Tiki is as patriotic as they come — at
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Oh my god. Bobble Tiki loves the Fourth of July. He’s loves it so freakin’ much he doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s giddy for two weeks in advance and suffers from a deep depression for two weeks after. Bobble Tiki is as patriotic as they come — at
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For the last three years, Matt Driscoll has covered the Olympia Experimental Music Festival. Each time, he’s interviewed Arrington De Dionyso, who for the past 12 years was the festival’s curator. This year things have changed. Not only did Mr. Driscoll, probably wearing a cardigan soiled with baby urine and shopping online
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For the last three years, Matt Driscoll has covered the Olympia Experimental Music Festival. Each time, he’s interviewed Arrington De Dionyso, who for the past 12 years was the festival’s curator. This year things have changed. Not only did Mr. Driscoll, probably wearing a cardigan soiled with baby urine and shopping online
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Bobble Tiki was born in 1966. Lyndon Baines Johnson was President. The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and talking about it in Evening Standard. Bobby Hull was setting the NHL single season scoring record. The United States had 250,000 troops in Vietnam. The Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. Richard
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Bobble Tiki was born in 1966. Lyndon Baines Johnson was President. The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and talking about it in Evening Standard. Bobby Hull was setting the NHL single season scoring record. The United States had 250,000 troops in Vietnam. The Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. Richard
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(Bobble Tiki is in the kitchen). Buddhist Monk: Hi, Bobble Tiki, what’s on your plate? Bobble Tiki: Hundreds of things. Buddhist Monk: What are they? Bobble Tiki: Coconuts. Buddhist Monk: Then it is one thing. Bobble Tiki doesn’t give a pile of coconuts about comics unless it’s his
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(Bobble Tiki is in the kitchen). Buddhist Monk: Hi, Bobble Tiki, what’s on your plate? Bobble Tiki: Hundreds of things. Buddhist Monk: What are they? Bobble Tiki: Coconuts. Buddhist Monk: Then it is one thing. Bobble Tiki doesn’t give a pile of coconuts about comics unless it’s his hero — Bazooka Joe. Back in the
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Bobble Tiki knows a good match when he sees one. Rum and Coke. Ben and Jerry. Simon and Simon. All of these pairs get high marks in Bobble Tiki’s book. Sunday, June 3, Thee Ohsees will make a tour stop at Le Voyeur in Olympia, and something tells Bobble Tiki Oly and
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Bobble Tiki knows a good match when he sees one. Rum and Coke. Ben and Jerry. Simon and Simon. All of these pairs get high marks in Bobble Tiki’s book. Sunday, June 3, Thee Ohsees will make a tour stop at Le Voyeur in Olympia, and something tells Bobble Tiki Oly and
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Bobble Tiki would like to take this opportunity to apologize, formally. In high school, back when Bobble Tiki was trying to be Sonny Crocket and scribbling “Scorps Rulz” on his PeeChee, Bobble Tiki used to make fun of kids in the marching band. Dweebs. Nerds. Dorks. Nincompoops. Even mollycoddles. Bobble Tiki had
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Bobble Tiki would like to take this opportunity to apologize, formally. In high school, back when Bobble Tiki was trying to be Sonny Crocket and scribbling “Scorps Rulz” on his PeeChee, Bobble Tiki used to make fun of kids in the marching band. Dweebs. Nerds. Dorks. Nincompoops. Even mollycoddles. Bobble Tiki had
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The eighties. Ahh, memories. Bobble Tiki has many. Every once and a while, something comes along that sends Bobble Tiki into a retrospective haze, staring glassy eyed into space and recollecting a time when the Great Communicator was giving Dubya’s daddy lessons on ideological warfare, women wore shoulder pads, and Bobble
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The eighties. Ahh, memories. Bobble Tiki has many. Every once and a while, something comes along that sends Bobble Tiki into a retrospective haze, staring glassy eyed into space and recollecting a time when the Great Communicator was giving Dubya’s daddy lessons on ideological warfare, women wore shoulder pads, and Bobble
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Bobble Tiki sometimes feels a bit out of place in Olympia. From time to time, Bobble Tiki has been known to head south from his Tacoma bungalow, and hit up Le Voyeur for a few drinks and one of the few non-vegan delights on the menu. Sometimes Bobble Tiki cruises
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Bobble Tiki sometimes feels a bit out of place in Olympia. From time to time, Bobble Tiki has been known to head south from his Tacoma bungalow, and hit up Le Voyeur for a few drinks and one of the few non-vegan delights on the menu. Sometimes Bobble Tiki cruises