It may be grayer than Bea Arthur's pixie cut outside, but not so inside King's Books Wednesday. The Tacoma bookstore's Scrabble Rabble tournament allows participants to establish their own skill levels and compete with others for glory. The Weekly Volcano has always enjoyed hanging onto the "Q," where it hangs there on our rack like some ultimate weapon of destruction, waiting for that all-enabling "U" tile to unleash its point-mongering wrath upon our opponents. Anyway, if your job sucks or you have a strange rash, join the tournament and those problems will, if only for a few hours, ease back into the recesses of your mind.

Read Kristin Kendle's feature on Scrabble Rabble on the Weekly Volcano's blog Spew.

KING'S BOOKS, 6:30 P.M., $5 INCLUDES REFRESHMENTS AND CATS, 218 ST. HELEN'S AVE., TACOMA, 253.272.8801