Friday, October 14, 2011

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Tumwater, Washington

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Everybody's talkin' about Bagism

A special little friend I constructed a couple years ago to accompany me at important strategic planning meetings at the office. I find that making him talk in a high squeaky voice in my clumsy attempt at ventriloquism really helps makes the meetings much shorter for some reason-- even if this cute character is discussing important and serious matters. My co-workers sort give me a weak smile and back away out of the room as soon as this little fellow emerges.

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

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I-5 plows through Tumwater, Washington
It basically flattened the original central business district back in the 1950s

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I-5 looking south
Tumwater, Washington
The very southern tip of the Everett-Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia megaopolis

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Saturday, October 8, 2011

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Grant and Lee under plastic

Our Own Arab Spring Brings Up a ?: Which One is Creepier, Anonymous Guy Fawkes Mask or Burger King King?



Hey I like the Anonymous/Occupy Movement, and I like Burger King food (so I'm eclectic and not a purist. Shoot me). But they both employ very creepy and very similar logos that I find disturbing and not inviting. Which one is worse?

By the way, the leader who manages to convince the Tea Baggers and the Anonymous that they share the same corporate enemy and can get them to work together will be the political genius who will change American history. It is in the interest of the Establishment (yes, I use that term freely and without any sense of feeling dated since it still applies more than ever) that we are divided, fractured, and against each other. The Left/Right, Humanist/Religious, Progressive/Regressive chasm really works for them. All those shouty media personalities have really helped The Man.

An Ecumenical Politician who rejects this Old World template and embraces the New Reality has his/her work cut out for them, but the condition is ripe for the picking and the reward would be great. We are having our own Arab Spring.

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