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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Pinot noir or Merlot? Cultivate your taste in vain; It won't obscure your column strain. Your-editor-told-you-to-pick-the-very-best-words-and-you-are-not-getting-the-Pulitzer. Bobble Tiki wrote that poem in early 2002 after a few of his Tiki Logic music columns graced the Weekly Volcano. Chances are you'll hear a few other doozies like
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Back in the day Bobble Tiki wrote a weekly music column in the Weekly Volcano. The HBO series Deadwood killed the column. The series' opening fiddle summoned Bobble Tiki to a dirty 1870s town (barely) built in the Dakotas territory by colorful outlaws and lowlifes, (barely) held together by its
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It's Back to Beale Street time again - which for Bobble Tiki feels a little more like Back to back to back to back to back to Beale Street. Every year the Back to Beale Street competition, which is sponsored by the South Sound Blues Association, is one of the highlights
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Bobble Tiki doesn't just love the blues, he is the blues. Themes that define the genre also define Bobble Tiki's very life. Yes, Bobble Tiki has seen a lot of pain - he's had many girlfriends leave, he's squandered plenty of money, and he's seen the bottom of a box
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Several days ago, Bobble Tiki put a plastic bag containing his typical plate lunch - two scoops of white rice, macaroni salad and kalua pork - in the fridge. Kalua pork is cooked in a traditional Hawaiian cooking way in which pig is rubbed with salt, wrapped in ti leaves
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Everybody knows that Cinco de Mayo is a holiday that was dreamed up by a cartel of Mexican beer smugglers and tequila runners, but there are plenty of folks who still celebrate this fiesta like it's National Eggs Benedict Day. So, just this once Bobble Tiki is going to look
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Nature being arduous enough, Bobble Tiki tends to avoid the supernatural. He has, however, had his brushes with the otherworldly. He called Miss Cleo back in the day, just to find out if the accent was real. And Bobble Tiki swears that every time he has his tarot read the
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The annual Tacoma Home and Garden Show opens Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Tacoma Dome. Everything Bobble Tiki wants to know or see in the garden world will be on display. The huge event features the first-ever "$25,000 Backyard Makeover" contest, award-winning garden writer and designer Don Engebretson, aka "The
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Bobble Tiki's hula girl alarm clock woke him up last Thursday with the sound of Waylon Jennings singing "I'm a Ramblin' Man." No matter how foul Bobble Tiki's mood, that song has always made Bobble Tiki feel good - cocky, strong, self-assured. When it comes ripping out of a jukebox,
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You know that awkward moment when you think you know someone - say, an Olympia police sergeant - when all of a sudden he pulls out a grainy photo of a light in the sky (probably created by the camera's own flash) and lectures about UFOs and making contact with
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The Broadway Center welcomes travel guru Rick Steves to its Pantages Theater for a travel chat. Steves - book author, Europe expert, pot smoker, global wanderer, TV host - has spent four months each year overseas for the last 30 years. Bobble Tiki loves to travel and was all set
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For weeks the newspaper ads have been catching Bobble Tiki's eye: "Psychic Readers Network - Work at Home - No Experience Necessary." If no experience is necessary, then anyone could be a telephone psychic? Bobble Tiki is determined to try. He has seen the late-night television commercials that portray psychics
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Bobble Tiki thinks he's heading through the twisted k-hole of a mid-life crisis. OK, maybe he's exaggerating. Plus, Bobble Tiki doesn't have a driver's license, so he probably won't buy a banana yellow Miata like his friend's dad did back in the '90s. But Bobble Tiki does feel panicked. Maybe it's
