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THE DAILY WORD

Spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

USAGE EXAMPLE: Mr. and Mrs. Tiki can’t wait to head to the theater to catch the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, and make out throughout the entire thing like the spoony love birds they are.

MORNING NEWS

TACOMA: National Night Out recap

OLYMPIA: Campaign talk

SEATTLE: 8/8/08

UNITED STATES: Here's why the media should cover the Edwards scandal

ENVIRONMENT: Eco friendly Olympians

JUST BIZARRE: 26 cheerleaders in an elevator

MORE STRANGE NEWS: Karma

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Vituperate \vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi-\, verb:
To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

USAGE EXAMPLE: As soon as he arrived home, Bobble Tiki’s father immediately began vituperating him. As it turned out Father Tiki was not ok with Bobble Tiki skipping school to get drunk down by the river. It was, as they say, a learning experience.

MORNING NEWS

TACOMA: Smog alert!

OLYMPIA: Diversity fair becomes more diverse

SEATTLE: Spam King 

UNITED STATES: GOP voting rolls show drop

ENVIRONMENT: Good ol' gorilla census

JUST BIZARRE: Shot over a cheeseburger

MORE STRANGE NEWS: Meth attracts the smart ones

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SUZY STUMP: 5 THINGS TO DO TODAY >>>

10:30 A.M.: Jim Valley of Rainbow Planet and formerly Paul Revere and the Raiders keeps the Playground Express Concerts series drive alive this morning at Wright Park.  Expect juggling, a clown, and hands-on art table from the Children's Art Museum, too. 

11 A.M.: Twenty-eight works by filmmaker and artist Karl Krogstad, plus works by Eve Wright and the ICONcepts group show focusing on icons in the Tacoma art scene hang at Two Vaults Gallery.

3:30-7:30 P.M.: Every Tuesday afternoon the 6th Ave Farmers Market fills Sixth and Pine with cool commodities ranging from fresh flowers to vegetables just off the farm. Today the market heats up with hot weather, newly picked Shamrock Apples, ripe raspberries and a new goat cheese from Blue Rose Dairy that tastes and melts like mozzarella. Chef's Demo at 5:30 p.m. will be Pat Kerth of Old Milwaukee Cafe© will prepare fruit cobbler at 5:30 p.m. Deborah Page rocks the market beginning at 6 p.m.

5:30 P.M.: Cool out after work with jazz guitarist Ed Taylor, trumpeter Kevin England and other cats laying down smooth grooves at Engine House No. 9 in Tacoma.

7 P.M.: While block parties, police presentations, cookouts, and other neighborhood-organized events happen across the nation as part of National Night Out, the Brick City Project in downtown Tacoma will rock out in the name of NNO. Hosted by Club Impact and Safe Streets Robots vs. Humans¬" the band¬" will inject a little pubescent emo rock into the Brick City Project Tuesday with New Heights, Ghost Runner On Third and hip-hop artist Verzatile. Rock the night out here.

LINK: Viva South Sound arts and entertainment calendar
LINK: Live music and DJs tonight

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THE DAILY WORD

Brummagem \BRUHM-uh-juhm\, adjective:
Cheap and showy, tawdry; also, spurious, counterfeit.

USAGE EXAMPLE:  As the police officer approached Bobble Tiki’s pedal paddle boat, all Bobble Tiki could offer were brummagem claims of sobriety.

MORNING NEWS

TACOMA: Roads in Lakewood need care, money

OLYMPIA: The things people do to sell houses

SEATTLE: Internet superhero

UNITED STATES: Republicans plan to turn Obama into Dewey

ENVIRONMENT: Obama changes course on off shore drilling

JUST BIZARRE: Gang of tweens

MORE STRANGE NEWS: The return of Schlitz

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10 A.M.: Train enthusiasts embody both the history (choo-choo trains, cow catchers, waving handkerchiefs from the platform) and the future (mass transit, commuter rails, park and ride) of transportation. Further study of their beliefs and practices is encouraged- try, for example The West the Railroads Made, the Washington State History Museum's salute to the tracks and equipment from the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads beginning in the 1840s. Climb aboard here.

10 A.M.: All juried shows are alike: a few outstanding artworks, a whole bunch of so-so stuff, and a few really bad pieces. The sixth annual juried art exhibit at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College is no exception. Read the good stuff here.

6 & 8:30 P.M.: In The Last Mistress, a passionate and explicit film about sexual obsession, everything pauses for a scene depicting a marriage. It is 1835, in a church in Paris. Vows are exchanged between Ryno de Marigny, a notorious young libertine, and the high-born Hermangarde, whose wealth will be a great comfort to the penniless Ryno. The film opens with two gossipy old friends wondering why the Marquise de Flers would sacrifice her beloved granddaughter to this rake. Watch it at The Grand Cinema.

9 P.M.: Check out the fresh faced kids called the Bombadil Project, who write songs about subjects like, how Jesus can change your life, andgetting a job at McDonalds,a according to MySpace. They take the Eastside Club stage with Paleface, Danny Kelly, and Mark Eckert.

9 P.M.: Give Tacoma a microphone and a live band, and you have Rockaraoke at Jazzbones every Monday night. Fun is always had by all, and booze is consumed at an alarming pace.

LINK: Viva South Sound arts and entertainment calendar
LINK: Live music and DJs tonight

DANIEL BLUE: MEET THE SHIZSICKLE >>>

Parked here outside of Supernova Hair and Tattoo, Tha Shizsickle is a pink 1969 mail jeep that has been transformed into the best bad ass mobile ice-cream deployer this side of the Atlantic (that's the whole continent, yo!) 

Despite fairly priced cream and being hard to miss, the most unique thing about this biznach is the music.  Somehow the owners, who preferred to remain in the shadows of the cab, have figured out how to take the typical ice-cream-man song maker play Snoop Dog's "Tha Shiznit," which is ominously familiar to both your inner child desiring ice-cream and your inner teenager desiring rebellious activity.   

Not to be 'effed with, Tha Shizsickle remains a Tacoma original, and you should buy their cream in good humor.

LINK: The Tacoma Files archive

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THE DAILY WORD

panoply \PAN-uh-plee\, noun:
1. A splendid or impressive array.
2. Ceremonial attire.
3. A full suit of armor; a complete defense or covering.

USAGE EXAMPLE: In the den is where Bobble Tiki kept his favorite board game collection â€" a display he liked to call a “panoply of Monopoly.”

MORNING NEWS

TACOMA: Family sues over Foss shooting

OLYMPIA: Anyone got $40 million dollars?

SEATTLE: Neighborhood parking in Seattle is a bitch

UNITED STATES: Keeping fast food away from LA's poor

ENVIRONMENT: Ethics of meat eating

JUST BIZARRE: UK food addict

MORE STRANGE NEWS: Food rub bandit

THINGS TO DO TODAY
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Egress \EE-gress\, noun:
1. The act of going out or leaving, or the right or freedom to leave; departure.
2. A means of going out or leaving; an exit; an outlet.

\ee-GRESS\, intransitive verb:
1. To go out; to depart; to leave.

USAGE EXAMPLE: The entrance and egress points of Grandma Tiki’s trailer park are hard to find once you’re inside the maze. Bobble Tiki once found himself lost for several hours in the dilapidated community for elder Tikis.

MORNING NEWS

TACOMA: Toad talk

OLYMPIA: Price tag for Oly brewery

SEATTLE: Texting while walking ruled dangerous

UNITED STATES: Judge says White House aides can be subpoened

ENVIRONMENT: Green colleges

JUST BIZARRE: That's one big, smell gambler

MORE STRANGE NEWS: Designer vaginas are trouble

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SUZY STUMP: ERNIE AND BURT RAP >>>

I have a call into Amy McBride at the Tacoma Arts Commission regarding the rumor that the two in the video below will join Josh Rizeberg on stage at Showcase Tacoma. Stay tuned.

DANIEL BLUE: MEET ORLANDO MCCRAY >>>

Welcome to Orlando McCray. 

Orlando is the sort of person who sneers intentionally in your direction because he knows you know that is how he expresses his love. For the first couple of years that I knew Orlando he would speak in a normal voice only 50 percent of the time, the other half was a strange sort of Grover/Muppet falsetto, which made me feel at ease. 

A drummer in the band called Don't Tell Sophie, and a frontman in his electronic music project, Physics, Orlando is a Dear Records poster boy. 

On the Foursquare court he is known as "Black Magic" because he plays with rules that no one knows. You have to respect a guy who learns the game so quickly; I almost lost an eye one night when he put such a wicked English on that ball it toppled me like a Jenga.

Sometimes he is nice, and sometimes he is cold as ice, but Orlando is an incredible artist, a creative dresser and a master of facial expressions at every occasion. 

Sometimes I wonder what I'm going to do, but Orlando always knows exactly what to do. I fear that in a man, but you should find it attractive.

LINK: The Tacoma Files archive