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February 29, 2008 at 8:56am

Poster of the Day

Filed under: Music, Olympia, Poster of the Day,

February 29, 2008 at 9:00am

Breakfast With Bobble Tiki

BOBBLE TIKI: SLUGABED, TWO SHOWS, MAHJONGG >>>

THE DAILY WORD

Slugabed \SLUHG-uh-bed\, noun:
One who stays in bed until a late hour; a sluggard.

USAGE EXAMPLE: Weekly Volcano Music Columnist Matt Driscoll may, perhaps, be the most dedicated slugabed Bobble Tiki has ever met. Somehow, through marriage and the birth of his first child, Driscoll has managed to sleep into a.m.’s double digits seventy-five percent of the time. While many people disapprove of Driscoll’s late sleeping ways (just apparently not his wife), Bobble Tiki admires his perseverance. Most people would grow up and stop being lazy. Not Driscoll. He’s a fighter.

MORNING NEWSBreakfaststarbucks111307

SEATTLE: Cops will kick your ass

TACOMA: Free full-day kindergarten

OLYMPIA:Panhandler crackdown

WORLD: Harry's cover blown

HUSTLER OF CULTURE
You can stand atop the mountain and scream your naked desires to the universe or shed that synapse epilepsy and hug the South Sound today with your fellow man:

MUSIC: Bobble Tiki’s not a psychic, but he does have ESPN. Bobble Tiki predicts two shows will challenge you tonight, making it difficult to decide which to attend. Bobble Tiki predicts www.myspace.com/girltrouble ">Girl Trouble, Guns and Rossetti, and the www.myspace.com/freakouts ">Freakouts will tear up Club SOTA tonight, and ‘90s powerhouse Floater will unleash a bit of grunge on Hell’s Kitchen. Which show you attend is up to you.

MORE MUSIC: What’s on tonight
REAL STORY: Evergreen riot
FORUMS: Check ‘em out

THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
When Bobble Tiki listened to Mahjongg, who released Kontab on Feb. 22, their latest record and first on K, he felt like he had a grasp on where these guys were coming from. Their influences are across the board, delving into afro beat as much as electronica and distortion, but their songs remain digestible and almost catchy at times. Bobble Tiki felt like he’d found a band in Mahjongg (named after an ancient Chinese game of strategy and luck) that he understood. Bobble Tiki knew they were arty, but he didn’t feel alienated

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs six days a week now. Deal with it.

Filed under: Sports, Tacoma,

February 29, 2008 at 10:39am

Van Halen to play Tacoma Dome?

BRAD ALLEN: REALLY?  WHY? >>>

I first heard a blurb that Van Halen was returning to the Western Washington on the radio.  Live Nation will not confirm or deny the rumor. Then, I received confirmation from a Tacoma Dome employee that Van Halen is scheduled to perform April 28 at the Tacoma Dome, but ticket information hasn't been released.

I went to last year's VH show at KeyArena.  I had fun.  It was not in my Top 30 shows I have ever seen.  Most critics claimed it was mediocre, too.

Is the rumor true? Can they fill the Tacoma Dome?

You Really Got Me.


UPDATE

Live Nation sent us a little note: "Just a rumor.  Had a date, but got pulled last minute and nothing on the books at the moment."

Mean Street.

Filed under: Music, Tacoma,

February 29, 2008 at 1:58pm

Take back the park

MATT DRISCOLL: IS LIKE VESPUCCI >>>

As News Tribune business columnist Dan Voelpel reported in today’s paper, Local Life Tacoma is a nonprofit organization designed to pump new life and energy into the downtown area. The idea is the brainchild of local life coach Paul Sparks â€" who along with two colleagues recently created Local Life Tacoma.

On Tuesday night Local Life Tacoma held there first event, called “Go Local or Die 2008.” According to Voelpel’s article, around thirty people showed up at Veritas Mortgage Group’s financial education center on Broadway (where the event was held) and those in attendance heard from a panel of “downtown’s young, nouveau leaders.” Those nouveau leaders included: Morgan Alexander, founder of Tacoma Streetcar; Patricia Lecy-Davis, president of the Downtown Merchants Group; Kevin Freitas, founder of the Feed TacomaNorth End Neighborhood Council. blog; and Eric Bjornson, vice chairman of the

Along with all the go local talk on Tuesday night, some at the meeting (according to Voelpel’s article) decided they needed to “take back” Frost Memorial Park, which sits near 9th and Commerce, and draws a regular and sometimes unsavory crowd of homeless and hooligans.

Today was the day to take back the park, or so it was reported. According to Voelpel’s article a group of do-gooders was supposed to flood the park today and reclaim the small green patch from the “ne’er-do-wells,” during lunch-hour.

I’ve never seen a park be taken back, so naturally I was interested. I didn’t know exactly how a park is claimed, or re-claimed, and it sounded exciting. I sat at Frost Memorial Park, during what I consider lunch hour â€" from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Maybe I’ve got a skewed perception of lunch hour, or maybe the park had already been taken back and I hadn’t realized it, but after sitting and smoking cigarettes for an hour at Frost Memorial Park, waiting for the onslaught of Local Life Tacoma’s conquest, or even a “ne’er-do-well,” I came back to the office a little disappointed. Maybe I left too early? Maybe everyone showed up right after I left? But during my time at the park I saw only one woman who looked like she was there to take back the park, carrying a tray of pink sprinkled cookies and anxiously waiting to be joined by the masses. (Nothing says take back the park like pink sprinkles.)

As far as I could tell the masses never came. Eventually the women with the cookies left, too.

So who owns Frost Memorial Park? Local Life Tacoma? The ne’er-do-wells?

Neither. Before I left I claimed that bitch for the Weekly Volcano and decided to call it a day. Taking back parks is hard work.

Filed under: Matt Driscoll, News To Us, Tacoma,

February 29, 2008 at 3:04pm

Take back the park part deux

MATT DRISCOLL: IS MORE LIKE VESPUCCI THAN HE REALIZED >>>

It's been brought to my attention that  Local Life Tacoma will actually be taking back Frost Memorial Park next week. Schedules conflicted. People had plans. Yada yada yada.

It's also been brought to my attention that if I had been following the action on feedtacoma.com I would have known this. Frequenters of the site have been discussing the meeting for days, and decided at some point this morning to reschedule. If I'd been reading feedtacoma.com instead of the Trib I would have known this.

It's also been brought to my attention that I'm a douche bag, but I'm getting kind of use to that one.

Filed under: Matt Driscoll, News To Us, Tacoma,

February 29, 2008 at 3:13pm

Stout beer injections!

JAKE DE PAUL: DRIVE YOUR CAR TO CARRS >>>

Although open since Feb. 21, I finally made it in to Carrs Restaurant and Bar today.  Formerly Le-Le’s, the Lakewood joint now sports a car theme with road signs, hubcaps, a garage door and stoplight. 

The service zoomed with a smile.

My $4.99 breakfast sandwich was satisfactory, although odd with a giant ball of bacon inside. They serve breakfast until 3 p.m.

Tonight, they launch their dinner menu, which includes black and tan onion rings â€" stout beer injections!

Filed under: Food & Drink, Lakewood,

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