"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
—Mother Jones

Sunday, August 19!

the One AM Radio (Los Angeles)
the Lymbyc Systym (Phoenix/Austin)

If an Olympia band would like to play this show, email us!

all ages | 7 p.m.
donation at door for touring bands.

@ the Finger Complex
203 rogers st. nw

You can pick up a free copy of The Finger at this show, which includes in this issue a compilation CD with these bands:
Yes Please, 1985, Your Heart Breaks, Jenny Jenkins, Eli Moore, Hail Seizures, Kickball, June Madrona, Dandelion Junk Queens, Bow + Arrow, Flee the Century, Seaweed Jack, Dead Millionaires, Las Maquiladoras, The Pasties, Bob Schwenkler, The Mona Reels, Jordan O'Jordan

As promised, the tale of two cities.

If you haven't taken the foot ferry from Ocean Shores to Westport, you're missing a nice cruise. Rates are $12.50 per person round trip, an additional $2.00 if you want to take your bike along.

Aside from the sea breezes, you can take in the surfacing of anchovies, which become a meal for pelicans and seals. The crew sells bread slices to feed the seagulls as they follow the boat.

There is not much nearby on the Ocean Shores side (you purchase tickets at the Silver King Motel on the jetty) so I suggest that you set your course from there as the moorage in Westport is walking distance to the entire Downtown area.

Lots of treasures to be bought, and don't forget the salt water taffy!

A technology center at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington will be named today in honor of actor Jimmy Stewart, according to an Air Force news release.

Stewart, who died in 1997, enlisted in the Army in 1941 and flew 20 combat missions over Germany during World War II. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He subsequently served in the Air Force Reserve and retired from the Air Force in 1968 after 27 years of military service.

The center will be dedicated as the Brig. Gen. James Stewart Theater in honor of the actor’s service and his efforts "to promote Air Force heritage and morale programs to benefit future generations of Airmen," the release said.

I really like Jimmy Stewart movied, particularly "It's a Wonderful Life". When I first read the news article I thought for a moment that Bolling AFB was in Eastern Washington, but I was mistaken, it is actually located in Washington D.C. Because I think Stewart was a really great guy, I decided to post the article anyway.

So I pad out this morning to grab my copy of the daily O all sleepy eyed and flat tailed only to be met with this headline: Gang member suspected in downtown bar attack. "Wow", I thought to myself, "a front page story about gangs two days in a row!" Having gone to high school in the south end of Seattle during their peak gang problems of the 90's, I feel relatively familiar with the look and feel of a gang presence in my area. And while I've certainly seen some people walking the streets of downtown Olympia sporting colors it is the exception rather than the rule of my almost daily experience downtown. So I'm curious, and I start to read.

First sentence: "The main suspect in a July 7 attack at a downtown bar that left one man...". Wait a minute. July 7? Isn't today the 13th? What kind of organized scare campaign is this? What kind of crappy sensationalism uses a story about a July 7th suspect as the lead article on the front page? What lame fear mongering. What a sad attempt to drive up newspaper sales with such a bold headline that feeds a predetermined weekly storyline (note the accompanying front page aside linking today's story to yesterday's report about South Sound rising gang activity). Pathetic, zero. Absolutely f'n pathetic.

Edit: So I've come back and fixed two spelling errors so far. I'll take some irony with my pathetic crow pie.