Bobble Tiki has troubles. Computer troubles.  Here is an abbreviated Breakfast with Bobble Tiki.  I'll try again tomorrow morning with the Daily Word, music suggestions and what not.  Bobble Tiki sucks. Sorry.

THE MORNING NEWS

COLUMBIA: Farc woman steals plane to desert.

SPORTS: Sounders to final.

MUSIC: System of a he went down.

BERLIN: Ho ho I’m gonna blow!

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: What's on tonight.

DISH: Where do you want to eat?

FILM: “The Kingdom” rules the lot.

BOBBLE TIKI’S THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
Tonight, The New Jazzbones will celebrate its one-year anniversary. The Randy Oxford Band, Nick Vigarino, Antonio Edwards, and comedian Jason Stewart will provide the music and entertainment for the occasion. Oxford, thanks to his Wednesday Night Blues Theatre jams (which have run since the days of Mackinnon), has quite possibly seen more stage time at the New Jazzbones than any other musician. His presence at the anniversary show only seems fitting.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

THE DAILY WORD
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Hebetude \HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\, noun:

Mental dullness or sluggishness.

USAGE EXAMPLE: If you thought the hebetude Michael Vick displayed with his dog fighting fiasco was impressive, you should see his hebetude … on weed.

THE MORNING NEWS

LAKEWOOD: Skinny-dipping past your house.

TRANSPORTATION: Ron Sims says “no.”

SCIENCE: Dudes popping pills for more popping?

MEXICO: No place like home.

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 isn’t very politically active, doesn’t often think about the big picture, and doesn’t much care who’s the leader of the free world â€" as long his pizza shows up on time and wine continues to be cheaper in the box. However, that doesn’t mean Bobble Tiki doesn’t appreciate, and down right enjoy, the music of Fear Train Caravan. In the same vain as icons like Dylan, Petty, and Pearl Jam, Fear Train Caravan goes heavy on the politics, but does so with a musical skill that lets even layman like Bobble Tiki enjoy the show. FTC will play Jazzbones on Friday. If you’re a fan of top notch music with a message, or just a fan of top notch music period, consider yourself booked on Friday.

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

DISH: Where do you want to eat tonight?

FILM: “The Kingdom” rules the lot.

BOBBLE TIKI'S THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
Turdus Musicus will play Hell’s Kitchen on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Bobble Tiki isn’t a very intellectual fellow, nor has he ever claimed to be. That said, Bobble Tiki was primarily interested in writing about this show for two reasons. First off, Wednesdays at the Kitchen equal $1 PBRs. That’s never a bad thing. Secondly, it sounds funny to say “Turdus Musicus.”

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

THE DAILY WORD
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Anodyne \AN-uh-dyn\, adjective:
1. Serving to relieve pain; soothing.
2. Not likely to offend; bland; innocuous.

noun:
1. A medicine that relieves pain.
2. Anything that calms, comforts, or soothes disturbed feelings.

USAGE EXAMPLE: During the Seahawks last minute victory over the weekend, Bobble Tiki received picture messages from his buddy at the game â€" a supervisor at a local landscaping outfit. The pictures showed Bobble Tiki’s buddy, shirt off, blitzed on at least 30-plus dollars of Qwest Field beer. Unfortunately, Bobble Tiki did not receive a picture message when his buddy vomited on the train ride back home. Bobble Tiki only wonders what Monday was like in the work truck for his buddy, and if there was an anodyne for his pounding headache and Hawk burned man chest. 

THE MORNING NEWS

VOTE: Is the system fair?

SPACE: Buganauts kill.

NEW YORK: Almost popped during the question.

HOTEL: Our pet ducks’ heads keep popping off!

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 in the military. To be honest with you, there’s no way he could cut it. The whole country is better off with Bobble Tiki as a civilian. However, if Bobble Tiki was in the armed forces, he knows for damn sure he’d make his way to Maggie O’Toole’s in Lakewood every Tuesday to watch three local bands “rock his face off,” and enjoy half off his entire military tab. When you start talking half off tabs, you start talking Bobble Tiki’s language.

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

DISH: Where do you want to eat tonight?

FILM: “Eastern Promises” and “In The Valley of Elah” kick ass.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

THE DAILY WORD
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Egress \EE-gress\, noun:

1. The act of going out or leaving, or the right or freedom to leave; departure.
2. A means of going out or leaving; an exit; an outlet.

USAGE EXAMPLE: With the news that Barry Bonds is making his egress from the San Francisco Giants, who have decided not to resign or bring back the 43-year-old walking advertisement for human growth hormones and steroid creams, Bobble Tiki only has one thought.  Barry Bonds at DH for the Seattle Mariners.  Visualize it.

THE MORNING NEWS

IRAQ: Old Blackwater keeps on rollin’.

SONICS: Drive to the hole.

HONG KONG: He’s Batman!

TOGO: Ouch!

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: Though Bobble Tiki likes the vibe at the Brotherhood Lounge, or even the The Clipper, better than he typically likes the vibe at McCoy's Tavern â€" two things are undeniable.  Number one: McCoy's equals inexpensive drinks.  Number two: the Swinos play with Jackmove at McCoy's tonight.  Who needs vibe when you've got cheap booze and a great band?  Not Bobble Tiki.

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

THE ARTS: Catch a play tonight.

DISH: Where do you want to eat tonight?

FILM: “Eastern Promises” and “In The Valley of Elah” kick ass

BOBBLE TIKI'S THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
Bobble Tiki gets it. Bobble Tiki knows that making fun of old performers is funny. And Bobble Tiki knows that Leon Russell fits the bill.

But reducing Russell’s stop in Tacoma this week to merely an occasion for AARP cracks isn’t fair to anyone. It certainly doesn’t do justice to the career of such an accomplished American musician.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

THE DAILY WORD
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Soi-disant \swah-dee-ZAHN\, adjective:

Self-styled; so-called.

USAGE EXAMPLE: Bobble Tiki is something of a soi-disant cable television guru. Whether it's Court TV, A&E, BET, ESPN, the History Channel, or MTV â€" there's a good chance Bobble Tiki has seen it. It might be pathetic, but it's all Bobble Tiki has sometimes.

THE MORNING NEWS

DOLLAR: We suck in Europe.

BIN LADEN: Hater.

BERLIN: Is that a sausage in your sausage or ...?

SYDNEY: What the hell?

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: On Friday, Splendid Vengeance will get their hairspray and self importance on at Hell's Kitchen.  If you're anything like Bobble Tiki, you were big in the '80s.  Huge, in fact. Well, Teddy Vengeance was too â€" and his hair still is.  Unabashedly glam-rock and unashamed of their own ridiculousness, Splendid Vengeance is a baffling phenomenon.  Why does Tacoma love them so?  Who knows and who cares.  Splendid Vengeance is a sock-in-the-spandex good time.  Bottom line.

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

THE ARTS: Plan your week.

DISH: Where do you want to eat tonight?

FILM: “Eastern Promises” and “In The Valley of Elah” kick ass

BOBBLE TIKI'S THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
Bobble Tiki gets it. Bobble Tiki knows that making fun of old performers is funny. And Bobble Tiki knows that Leon Russell fits the bill.

But reducing Russell’s stop in Tacoma this week to merely an occasion for AARP cracks isn’t fair to anyone. It certainly doesn’t do justice to the career of such an accomplished American musician.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

THE DAILY WORD
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Arrogate \AIR-uh-gayt\, transitive verb:
1. To claim or seize without right or justification; to appropriate.
2. To claim on behalf of another; to ascribe.

USAGE EXAMPLE: With guns drawn, and stupidity abounding, O.J. Simpson and some dudes he met at a “cocktail party” burst into the Las Vegas hotel room, set to arrogate the sports memorabilia Simpson claimed was his. Shortly thereafter, the Juice was arrested. Before attempting to arrogate his “belongings,” perhaps Simpson should have tried to arrogate a little common sense.

Stupid, OJ.

THE MORNING NEWS

BURMA: Not monking around.

CHINA: Shanghai surprise.

BEES: Balling to death.

HONG KONG: Forehead grew.

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: If ever there was a day of the week meant for $1 PBRs, it’s Wednesdays. Getting drunk for cheap in the middle of the week is pretty much the only thing that gets Bobble Tiki through to the weekend. Luckily, Hell’s Kitchen realizes this. Every Wednesday score $1 PBRs, and this week catch Six Pack Remedy â€" a new-to-the-Tacoma-scene punk band with an affinity for the finer things in life â€" mainly beer and power chords.   

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

THE ARTS: Plan your fall season.

DISH: Where do you want to eat tonight?

FILM: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

THE DAILY WORD
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Salad days \salad days\, noun:

A time of youthful inexperience, innocence, or indiscretion.

USAGE EXAMPLE: If the University of Washington Huskies are lucky, and correct in their assumptions, the flashes of greatness that Ferndale’s Jake Locker has shown in his salad days are only a harbinger of tremendous things to come. See: Billy Joe Hobert with a brain and minus the poor hair cut and Trans-Am paid for by boosters.

THE MORNING NEWS

THAILAND: Scores killed in plane crash.

IRAQ: Bigger cut in troops.

TIRANA: What the …?

MADRID: Not so tough are you.

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: Even though Bobble Tiki got drunk on Three Star Vodka Friday, and thus slept through yesterday’s scheduled “Breakfast With Bobble Tiki,” no hangover could prevent Bobble Tiki from coming back with a vengeance today, and trumpeting the possibilities of the Bright Eyes show at the Capitol Theater tonight. If tonight’s show is anything like the latest Bright Eyes record, Cassedega, released April 10 of this year, then Conor Oberst’s time on stage at the Capitol Theater may well turn out to be the best thing to hit Oly since the Reef redid their menu. And that’s saying something. Conor Oberst is Bright Eyes, and if you miss this one you’re a damn fool. 

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

THE ARTS: Plan your fall season.

DISH: Where do you want to eat tonight?

FILM: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

BOBBLE TIKI'S THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
Unfortunately, Bobble Tiki isn’t currently hiding from the world or full of hate and spite. If he was, this weekend at Jazzbones lifted him out of it. There’s one more show left: tonight Lydia Pense and Cold Blood will give Bobble Tiki vague, hazy flashbacks of the ’70s and the smell of skunks in his dad’s record den.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

Glow sticks?  There will be an attempt to set the Guinness Book of World Records for most people playing with glow sticks Saturday, Oct. 27 at the Puyallup Fairgrounds Showplex.

Bobble Tiki will participate because he loves glow sticks. So helpful to find friends at night. Locate his bike. Look glowy and cute. They seem trite and childish but actually turn out to be mandatory and helpful and ethereal. What's not to like?

Oh, wait.

Woodstick. 

Woodstick 2007 hopes to attract 1,000 drummers this year to play the same music at the same time for six minutes and thus set a new Guinness World Record of more than 533 drummers.  It will take place at the same drum time and same drum location as mentioned above. Drummers confirmed to play include Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck, and Pink Floyd), Alan White (YES, John Lennon) and death metal drummer Derek Roddy (Hate Eternal).

Registration can be completed online.  Volunteers are also being sought. â€" Bobble Tiki

As always Bobble Tiki doesn't care what you do next week becuase he doesn't even know you especially now that he has rediscovered vanilla vodka on the rocks during the summer … or right about now.

But if Bobble Tiki did know you, he'd let you know Vanilla Ice will play The Factory Saturday, Sept. 22.

Bobble Tiki would also recommend you drink plenty of vanilla vodka during the show. â€" Bobble Tiki

THE DAILY WORD
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Indefatigable \in-dih-FAT-ih-guh-bul\, adjective:

Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue.

USAGE EXAMPLE: Few things can match coach Mike Holmgren’s indefatigable appetite for hot dogs covered in sauerkraut. However, Lindsay Lohen’s appetite for booze and coke is right up there.

THE MORNING NEWS

IRAQ: Insurgents kill key U.S. ally.

INDONESIA: More shaking going on.

RUSSIA: Screw work and screw.

MICHIGAN: Off with my head!

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: While the remaining members of Led Zeppelin recently announced plans to reunite for a night in memory of Ahmet Ertegun, a co-founder of Atlantic Records, most of you won’t get a chance to see it live. It’s in London, for one. And secondly, tickets for such a monumental occasion will surely cost an arm and two or three legs.

A show you can see, tonight at Hell’s Kitchen, features the Mosquito Neckties â€" a garage rock band from Seattle celebrating the release of their latest CD. Unlike Zeppelin, there’s nothing overly magical about what the Neckties do. It’s just dirty rock and roll.

Dirty rock and roll, however, goes a long way in my book.

Check out the Mosquito Neckties here.

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

THE ARTS: Plan your fall season.

BOBBLE TIKI'S THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
Unfortunately, Bobble Tiki isn’t currently hiding from the world or full of hate and spite. If he was, this weekend at Jazzbones would almost certainly be enough to lift him out of it. Thursday, Sept. 13, Junkyard Jane will get all their original members together for a reunion show. Friday Bump Kitchen will drop the R&B and funk. On Saturday reggae semi-legend Winston Jarrett will turn Sixth Avenue into Trenchtown. And Sunday, Sept. 16 Lydia Pense and Cold Blood will give Bobble Tiki vague, hazy flashbacks of the ’70s and the smell of skunks in his dad’s record den.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.