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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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IN THEIR WORDS >>> This past winter a spambot out of China infiltrated the Weekly Volcano's calendar system filling it with love gone wrong, genuine college degrees, the Hon. Sid Dooku III and odd verb placement. It was a nightmare. Webmaster Zack, hopped up on beef noodle soup and shaojiu in some sort
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BLOATED BOBBLE TIKI SPONSORED BY BAILEYS IRISH CREAM >>> Bobble Tiki believes the foundation of St. Patrick's Day is undoubtedly beer, and the flagship of the genre is undoubtedly Guinness. Disagree? Well, it's now on the Internets and therefore it's true. Composed of a symphony of four and only four ingredients
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WHAT IS YOUR TALENT? >>> It was last month; Bobble Tki was hanging with Fat Pat in the Naches Tavern in Greenwater after a day at Crystal Mountain. Like typical random bar talk goes, some guy claimed Cool Hand Luke could never eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour. Then he
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LET'S EAT CAKE! >>> Bobble Tiki demands no more birthday parties or album release shows. Cake has destroyed half of his six-pack abs! OK, there's a big party tonight at the Northern Pacific Coffee Company, so Bobble Tiki will go and eat cake. It's sort of a local singer/songwriter hat trick show: Stephanie
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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