By Jack Stroud As for looking like you’re ‘bouta squeeze butterflies out of your solar plexus; lolloping cave-man like around a box TV framed in brightly painted polygons of cardboard; playing tug of war with your intestines when you’re an amorphous blob; twirling gracefully on an aerial swing amidst the […]
Trumpers Gone AWOL
By Jack Stroud Owing to the historic swarms on the National Capitol and various state capitols (including our own) on January 6th, the nation awaited Inauguration Day with clenched teeth and private curiosity—not, “Would the Trumpers turn out?” but, “How many would there be?” Picket signs scattered throughout the suburbs […]
“Our City”
By Jack Stroud NOV. 28th* Notice: This article contains profanity. It’s Small Business Saturday and I’m sitting on a bench in Sylvester Park wondering what makes Olympia how it is. A red Kia drives by and the driver, through a bullhorn, warns the citizens that there is a group of […]
Off of Ensign, Out of Mind
by Jack Stroud In early October, the City of Olympia made the decision (it was ultimately City Manager Jay Burney’s decision) to clear the camp of houseless people parked along Ensign Rd, the main justification thereto being that Ensign residents impeded emergency vehicle traffic to Providence St. Peter’s Hospital. On […]
The Election
by Jack Stroud (This article was written on Nov. 6.) Four days after the 2020 Presidential Election votes began to be counted, we still do not know who the next President of the United States will be. Although most indicators point towards Biden winning, the results are still not official. […]
The Olympia Waterfront: Past and Present
Photo: Aerial view of the Capital Campus in 1940, before the 5th Avenue dam was built, Washington State Digital Archives by Jack Stroud Percival Landing, Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 a.m.–Red Road Rising, an Indigenous-led spiritual group open to all, stand in a socially distanced circle of eight people, drums in […]