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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FREE EVENTS THIS WEEK IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> Ugh. Bobble Tiki thinks he's officially reached middle age. Old and tired. Bobble Tiki used to do things like go to New York for Christmas or stay out dancing all night. This year for Christmas, one of Bobble Tiki's best friends gave
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FREE EVENTS IN THE SOUTH PUGET SOUND DEC. 19-25 >>> Well, the spirit of Christmas is lurking around the Freeloaders column, giving Bobble Tiki a wedgie. Bobble Tiki has already seen It's a Wonderful Life three times and the Christmas cartoons are making him cross-eyed. And Bobble Tiki loves it! The
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Bobble Tiki speared Christmas shopping. Not "eased it"; not "did it early." Speared it. In one all-night, online hurricane of holiday goodwill. A monster bag of Tim's chips and a two-liter bottle of Dew (a salute to the creators of the Net), Bobble Tiki demolished his nagging list and reclaimed
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FREE EVENTS IN THE SOUTH PUGET SOUND DEC. 5-11 >>> Feeling disenchanted this holiday season? Well, there's a holiday for that. A Festivus for the Rest of Us, created by Seinfeld character Frank Costanza who thought the holidays became to be too much: too much buying, too much stress, too
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FREE EVENTS IN THE SOUTH SOUND NOV. 28-DEC. 3 >>> Oh man, Bobble Tiki loves outer space, UFOs, lizard people from the 5th Dimension walking among us and everything X-Files. Many times Bobble Tiki has hopped around the Arizona desert, searching for clues and bunkers and spacecraft wreckage and secret codes
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FREE EVENTS FOR THE WEEK NOV. 21-27 >>> Well, the spirit of Christmas is lurking around Freeloadersland, giving Bobble Tiki a wedgie. Bobble Tiki has already seen It's a Wonderful Life three times and the Christmas tunes are making him cross-eyed. And Bobble Tiki loves it! The trees are decorated, the
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THIS WEEK'S FREEBIES NOV. 14-20 >>> Contrary to popular perception, writing is actual work. No matter the frivolity of the piece, even if it be a mere Freeloaders column, you can rest assured true blood, sweat and beers were spilled during its composition. Perhaps not as much blood, sweat, etc, in
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THIS WEEK'S FREEBIES NOV. 7-13 >>> Hey, what happened? Bobble Tiki was just traipsing happily through autumn, watching the leaves turn pretty colors and fall into someone else's yard, when it suddenly turned cold! When the cold arrives is when Bobble Tiki begins doing his old man thing: puttering around the house.
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THIS WEEK'S FREEBIES OCT. 31-NOV.6 >>> Bobble Tiki loves lists. Before Bobble Tiki passes out, he makes a list of what he'd like to accomplish the next day. Sure, list keeping helps Bobble Tiki stay organized and on task (like those things even matter), but there are even greater benefits: First,
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THIS WEEK'S BEST FREEBIES OCT. 24-30 >>> Bobble Tiki loves all holidays - or most of them anyway. Bobble Tiki loves Christmas because he loves getting presents. Bobble Tiki loves Thanksgiving because he loves stuffing his face. And Bobble Tiki loves Halloween because he loves dressing up like a damn fool. While
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ARTS CRUSH >>> As part of this year's Arts Crush event, the 253 Arts Collective is creating an Art Quit to represent the diverse 253 area. If you're an artist located anywhere in the 253 area, you're invited to contribute your original 4-inch by 4-inch art square to be incorporated into this community quilt. If Bobble Tiki did the
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SCENES FROM A PARKING LOT >>> Bobble Tiki gets itchy if he goes more than two blocks without seeing some poured concrete. He blames it all on the movie version of The Wizard of Oz. Not only is country life so dreary they couldn't bother filming it in Technicolor, but Judy
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COME AND GET IT >>> Bobble Tiki has been alive many years; he's been a male for all of them, and Bobble Tiki therefore doesn't roller-skate. Granted, back when he was a tiny tiki - before he knew what the hell a dance was, let alone Farrah Fawcett, back when boys
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BOOZE UPDATE >>> When Bobble Tiki was a tiny tyke, Father Tiki taught him an important lesson. Father Tiki said ''Bobble, every rose has its thorn. Just like every night has its dawn. Just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad, song.'' Wait a minute, those are also the lyrics from a
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ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY >>>> Well, gee, Bobble Tiki wonders what today is - oh, that's right. In 1920, innkeeper and "Queen of Mean" Leona Helmsley is born. Helmsley is famous for two things: marrying a very old wealthy man and once saying, "Only the little people pay taxes." Join
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THREE QUESTIONS WITH AN ISLAND-THEMED SOUVENIR >>> Warning: this week Bobble TIki is not writing about a musical "show," per se. In fact, he's not even really sure what "per se" means. Rather, he's writing about an event - a musical event, yes - but not your standard three
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Q&A WITH AN ISLAND-THEMED SOUVENIR >>> Bobble Tiki isn't the first Volcano scribe to spill ink over Death By Steamship. Far from it. In fact, a wet-behind-the-ears Rev. Adam McKinney first introduced the band way back in late 2009, saying the new group was, "bursting with messy exuberance."
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FREE COMMUNITY CLASSES >>> There was a time when Bobble Tiki, dear reader, wasn't a cranky old wooden souvenir. That time was the '70s. Bobble Tiki found happiness in Sesame Street, Hee Haw, stripped bellbottoms, H.R. Pufnstuff, The Electric Company (Sh. It. Shit.), the Bradys in Hawaii, Chaka and Farrah Fawcett,
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SATURDAY AT BACKSTAGE BAR & GRILL >>> Name aside, the Tacoma Rock Festival offers a full day's worth of action that's sure to be right down the alley of many of T-Town's finest. Kicking off at 2 p.m., and running all ages from 2-9 p.m. before going 21+
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MOTHER'S DAY WORTHY CAUSES >>> In its third year, this Sunday's Breastfest III at the Swiss will specifically aid Diana McCasey's cancer fighting efforts; a cancer survivor, McCasey is participating in the Climb to Fight Breast Cancer, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro - an effort that will raise at least