I guess he didn't like the Scandanavian sense of humor.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a1iNH7W9SC8

Some of us are still exploring the possibility of daylighting Moxlie Creek. During our conversations a number of resources have come to light. I thought I'd list them here so people could find them all in one place.

Moxlie Creek

• The 3,200 foot culvert
• Historic Moxlie
• Downtown Olympia, then and now
• The Thurston County Department of Water and Waste Management Indian/Moxlie Creek Basin Plan

Daylighting

• A daylighting effort in Seattle. The Thornton Creek Aliance.

UPDATE: Water Quality and Stormwater Management

• NEW: Find out what's in all that stormwater (full report).
• An excellent description of water quality and surface water issues in the south sound
• The Washington State Department of Ecology’s Stormwater Management Manual for Western Washington.
• The Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
• The Puget Sound Partnership
• The Decator Street LID in Olympia
• Seattle’s 110th Cascade Project

Possible Funding Sources

• Thurston County Conservation District, the lead agency for the Salmon Recovery Funding Board Water Resource Inventory Area 13

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Carving Demonstration

Carvers from the Northwest, Canada, Hawaii and New Zealand will be present to talk to visitors and discuss their work while they carve. It’s a wonderful opportunity to interact with some of the best Indigenous wood carvers in the field today. You can look at our newsletter for more information.

Location: TESC Longhouse

FREE

This event is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

I'm perpetually curious what everybody in Olympia is reading, so I created a group on the book sharing site Goodreads called "Oly Reads." If you like to talk about books, come on over and join.

Link to the group.

Wow, that title is a mouthful. I like it though. I live in Kyoto, Japan (yes, I miss Oly) and me email ballot came the other day. Since I made a voter guide for the primary a while back I thought I would make another. I am a little busy at the moment so I made it a wiki. I guess we risk getting in accurate info if we get a vandal, but let's see is the "broken window theory" works.

Look at my old one for ideas and please reference sources. Good luck. The wiki is here.

ciao -bdmp

The NW is well represented here, thanks to Portland being so cool. Oh yeah, that other city in the NW made the lists too.

From the 'America's Favorite Cities ' CNN survey:


CULTURE

Museum and galleries

1. Washington

2. New York

3. Chicago, Illinois

Classical music

1. New York

2. Boston, Massachusetts

3. Chicago

SHOPPING

Flea markets

1. New Orleans, Louisiana

2. Charleston, South Carolina

3. Portland, Oregon

Home design

1. Chicago

2. Charleston, South Carolina

3. San Francisco, California

PEOPLE

Diversity

1. New York

2. San Francisco

3. New Orleans

Friendly

1. Charleston

2. New Orleans

3. Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota

Intelligent

1. Seattle

2. Minneapolis/St. Paul

3. Boston

Worldly

1. Washington

2. San Francisco

3. New York

FOOD AND DINING

Ethnic food

1. New York

2. San Francisco

3. New Orleans

Farmers' markets

1. Seattle

2. Portland, Oregon

3. Philadelphia

CITYSCAPE

Access to outdoors

1. Portland, Oregon

2. Denver, Colorado

3. Honolulu, Hawaii

Cleanliness

1. Minneapolis/St. Paul

2. Portland, Oregon

3. San Diego, California

Notable neighborhoods

1. San Francisco

2. New York

3. Boston

Public parks and spaces

1. Portland, Oregon

Painting or just paint? Portland continues its graffiti debate

Some defend it as street art, but there's still plenty of resistance to tagging, even in funky Portland, where painters and businesses have an occasion to face off.

Go here.

Jon is doing a Halloween Countdown, posting something daily on scary fun stuff

Allie gets into the spirit with Enjoy the Creepy Digs, Yo!

Jeremy asks Are you a Basher?

Fred writes a Samhain Meditation, including:

Samhain is the turning point, the threshold, where the veil between spirit and matter is thin as a whisp. We sense a world of souls around us. We sense the Holy Spirit vibrating in the silence. We sense the spirits of the newly departed, who wish us farewell before commencing their journey. We sense the spirits of the plant kingdom and animal-guides celebrating the harvest with us. We sense the presence of our ancestors, to whom we make offerings of love on the alter of the heart's remembrance.

What do you have planned for this season?