Bobble Tiki
Music Columnist
Weekly Volcano music columnist who swills forbidden cocktails while injecting dangerous, sweaty, catchy, alcohol- drenched, cigarette- smoke-smelling, hard-volume rock 'n' roll plasma into his veins.
bobbletiki@weeklyvolcano.com
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Bobble Tiki on January 19th, 2015
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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Bobble Tiki on October 6th, 2014
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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Bobble Tiki on June 30th, 2014
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 on May 26th, 2014
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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Bobble Tiki on May 26th, 2014
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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Bobble Tiki on April 28th, 2014
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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Bobble Tiki on January 27th, 2014
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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Bobble Tiki on January 20th, 2014
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 on January 15th, 2014
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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Bobble Tiki on October 21st, 2013
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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Bobble Tiki on July 10th, 2014
If you're anything like Bobble Tiki, then you're about halfway done healing after having been on the wrong end of a dangerous, though admittedly riotous, prank involving a bratwurst bun and three-dozen bottle rockets. Sometimes patriotism hurts.
While resting in the burn ward of the secret smart-person hospital that Bobble Tiki
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Bobble Tiki on July 4th, 2013
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY >>>>
Well, gee, Bobble Tiki wonders what today is - oh, that's right. In 1920, innkeeper and "Queen of Mean" Leona Helmsley is born. Helmsley is famous for two things: marrying a very old wealthy man and once saying, "Only the little people
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Bobble Tiki on June 4th, 2013
Just the other day Bobble Tiki held court at Tacoma Cabana discussing "The Comeback Album" by musicians. Bobble Tiki thinks its like shooting squealing divas in a barrel when an out-of-grace superstar releases The Comeback Album, the one that's gonna put 'em back in Tha Game. Remember Christina Aguilera's napalm-skanky
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Bobble Tiki on June 3rd, 2013
When is the last time you had a guitar pick lodged in your ear? It could have been 2010 at the Emerald Queen Casino. That's when Cheap Trick came to town. Those who have seen Cheap Trick live - maybe "At Budokan" - you know guitarist Rick Nielsen hurls around
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Bobble Tiki on April 1st, 2013
CREATURE FROM THE REF LAGOON >>>
Bodies colliding at high speeds. Bruises, bumps, and (occasionally) broken bones.
While the above description may evoke thoughts of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, Bobble Tiki is actually waxing roller derby - and specifically Dockyard Derby Dames' season 7, bout 2 Saturday at the Pierce College
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Bobble Tiki on February 11th, 2013
RIGHT ON! >>>
Slightly less obscure than, say, Uriah Heep in the pantheon of overlooked '70s hard-rock bands, British prog-rockers Wishbone Ash's harmony-laden dual-guitar attack predated Thin Lizzy, the group often credited with inventing it. Of course, Wishbone Ash also perfected the slow beginning/fast ending rock anthem.
Only guitarist
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Bobble Tiki on February 11th, 2013
WILL HE LEAVE HIS HEART IN TACOMA? >>>
Vocal legend Tony Bennett pushes boundaries when it comes to his duets, most notably those with k.d. lang. But when it comes to flying solo, the man gives the people exactly what they want: his smooth, elegant, laidback take on standards you'd swear
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Bobble Tiki on December 29th, 2012
HIT THIS STAGE >>>
The ball drops in Times Square. People on TV are singing. Fireworks go off in the distance. Strangers are kissing. You're already in your pajamas when you and your dog, wearing matching party hats, exchange a glum look as the remote slips from your fingers and
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Bobble Tiki on December 25th, 2012
NOT SO SILENT NIGHT >>>
If you're anything like Bobble Tiki - thousands of miles away from your family, with no money for airfare and a wife who flies home every Christmas - then you're likely to get a little bitter around the holidays, with only your iguana and reruns of
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Bobble Tiki on November 21st, 2012
BRING ON THE VIBE >>>
Sometimes Bobble Tiki gets irritated. Sometimes it's the rockets red glare over Gaza. Sometimes it's factory pollution in China. Sometimes it's batshit crazy talk, like adding eight cents to barely edible chain pizzas because of health care.
Sometimes it's something else.
Bobble Tiki guesses you could say he
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