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.
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BE A PART OF THE HOOPLA >>> Contemplate if you will - and as you most likely have - your past Oscar experiences. Lonely. Nachos with not enough cheese. Asleep on the couch before the Best Original Screenplay winners are named. Wake up, little starlet! You can endure the four-hour show by
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Next to the question "Don't you ever shut up?" Bobble Tiki's mother, the saintly Mrs. Tiki, was most often heard to ask her precious Bobble when he was young "Aren't you ever happy?" "Well, excuse Bobble Tiki for living!" was his usual snappy reply - even then charmingly referring to himself
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FREE EVENTS JAN. 16-22 IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> Snow prompts Bobble Tiki to think that the All Mighty, while he may not shoot craps with the universe as Albert Einstein said, at least has a sense of humor. She makes existence uncertain by conjuring up sea-level snow every now and
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PLEASE STAND BY >>> Tin Man founder Rusty Parrish just sent Bobble Tiki a new video for the song "Perfect." As you may remember from Bobble Tiki's interview with Parrish last year, Parrish created the alt-country meets rock band Tin Man after years spent in punk bands. And, Tin Man released
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FREE EVENTS JAN. 9-15 IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> Bobble Tiki suggests that you start ducking and covering now. That's because it's this week's Freeloaders column - Morbid Edition. What in the Tim Burton is that, you ask? This week's column starts weird, with dark, morbid funhousey opening credits a montage
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FREE EVENTS IN THE SOUTH SOUND JAN. 2-8, 2012 >>> The folks in the Freeloaders-land R&D Department have been diligently working to find new ways to improve this column, and they think they've outdone themselves with their newest innovation. Just in time for the shorter days of winter, Bobble Tiki's column
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FREE EVENTS THIS WEEK IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> Ugh. Bobble Tiki thinks he's officially reached middle age. Old and tired. Bobble Tiki used to do things like go to New York for Christmas or stay out dancing all night. This year for Christmas, one of Bobble Tiki's best friends gave
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FREE EVENTS IN THE SOUTH PUGET SOUND DEC. 19-25 >>> Well, the spirit of Christmas is lurking around the Freeloaders column, giving Bobble Tiki a wedgie. Bobble Tiki has already seen It's a Wonderful Life three times and the Christmas cartoons are making him cross-eyed. And Bobble Tiki loves it! The
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Bobble Tiki speared Christmas shopping. Not "eased it"; not "did it early." Speared it. In one all-night, online hurricane of holiday goodwill. A monster bag of Tim's chips and a two-liter bottle of Dew (a salute to the creators of the Net), Bobble Tiki demolished his nagging list and reclaimed
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FREE EVENTS IN THE SOUTH PUGET SOUND DEC. 5-11 >>> Feeling disenchanted this holiday season? Well, there's a holiday for that. A Festivus for the Rest of Us, created by Seinfeld character Frank Costanza who thought the holidays became to be too much: too much buying, too much stress, too
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FREE EVENTS IN THE SOUTH SOUND NOV. 28-DEC. 3 >>> Oh man, Bobble Tiki loves outer space, UFOs, lizard people from the 5th Dimension walking among us and everything X-Files. Many times Bobble Tiki has hopped around the Arizona desert, searching for clues and bunkers and spacecraft wreckage and secret codes
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WE SCENE IT >>> Bobble Tiki dropped in on the Graceland Five show Saturday night at Hell's Kitchen. For those who haven't caught their show, think Elvis backed by a punk band. Graceland Five doesn't give concerts, they perform pageants that make the Macy Thanksgiving Parade seem like little more than
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FREE EVENTS FOR THE WEEK NOV. 21-27 >>> Well, the spirit of Christmas is lurking around Freeloadersland, giving Bobble Tiki a wedgie. Bobble Tiki has already seen It's a Wonderful Life three times and the Christmas tunes are making him cross-eyed. And Bobble Tiki loves it! The trees are decorated, the
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THIS WEEK'S FREEBIES NOV. 14-20 >>> Contrary to popular perception, writing is actual work. No matter the frivolity of the piece, even if it be a mere Freeloaders column, you can rest assured true blood, sweat and beers were spilled during its composition. Perhaps not as much blood, sweat, etc, in
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THIS WEEK'S FREEBIES NOV. 7-13 >>> Hey, what happened? Bobble Tiki was just traipsing happily through autumn, watching the leaves turn pretty colors and fall into someone else's yard, when it suddenly turned cold! When the cold arrives is when Bobble Tiki begins doing his old man thing: puttering around the house.
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THIS WEEK'S FREEBIES OCT. 31-NOV.6 >>> Bobble Tiki loves lists. Before Bobble Tiki passes out, he makes a list of what he'd like to accomplish the next day. Sure, list keeping helps Bobble Tiki stay organized and on task (like those things even matter), but there are even greater benefits: First,
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THIS WEEK'S BEST FREEBIES OCT. 24-30 >>> Bobble Tiki loves all holidays - or most of them anyway. Bobble Tiki loves Christmas because he loves getting presents. Bobble Tiki loves Thanksgiving because he loves stuffing his face. And Bobble Tiki loves Halloween because he loves dressing up like a damn fool. While
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ARTS CRUSH >>> As part of this year's Arts Crush event, the 253 Arts Collective is creating an Art Quit to represent the diverse 253 area. If you're an artist located anywhere in the 253 area, you're invited to contribute your original 4-inch by 4-inch art square to be incorporated into this community quilt. If Bobble Tiki did the
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SCENES FROM A PARKING LOT >>> Bobble Tiki gets itchy if he goes more than two blocks without seeing some poured concrete. He blames it all on the movie version of The Wizard of Oz. Not only is country life so dreary they couldn't bother filming it in Technicolor, but Judy
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COME AND GET IT >>> Bobble Tiki has been alive many years; he's been a male for all of them, and Bobble Tiki therefore doesn't roller-skate. Granted, back when he was a tiny tiki - before he knew what the hell a dance was, let alone Farrah Fawcett, back when boys
