Do I have to Throw a Temper Tantrum??

EDIT--- GOOD NEWS----click! says It's A Go!!!!!

I have to wait for an appt.....so I guess whining coupled with perseverance will prevail.....
I wanted to stay with click! since I've been a cable internet customer since almost day 1...since the system went Go !!!! I love my utility company......I was so surprised to have such a big issue here...it's always been such smooth sailing.......to get things done, utility-wise.

3 weeks ago I called Harbornet to move my click! acct. downtown.....inside the World's Most Wired City........click! now says they can only run wires for me through the neighbor's wall.......huh? and he isn't returning their calls.
so......click! can not run wires to 712 Broadway but thru the walls of a non-Riley business????
That's the last in the Episode of Will Funkoma ever get cable internet???
Stay tuned!!
I really don't understand what the hangup is.....I can think of several ways to run wires. Methinks no one wants to run any new wires since the Big Remodel is coming to Broadway..........
Do I have to do all the work here? Why do I have to keep calling and calling..... .........Maybe I should blow up city hall in protest......it's only 2 blocks away......(kidding-- homeland security...)
Any bloggie-friends got some super secret numbers to call........
Can anyone give me a sane reason why Steve had wires running all over the bldg, and I am having some trouble here????

I am sarcastic.....you know that...but I'm actually very nice and just want my damn cable internet installed.
Next week, I'm calling Comcastic.........

The Lonely Blogger - Folksingers in Hell

so you blog, eh? Wish you had your own Tacoma-Centric theme song?
David Fewster has answered your call of anguish.....we know you labor in the dark....clickity everyday.....and BONUS.....he homages our beloved Exit133.......It does not get any cooler..any more Tacoma than that......
Clicky the YouTube linky and listen to David sing.....and his daughter Hannah blog.....with whiteout.....it's all very chiaroscuro.......

David Fewster and song partner Heidi Fosner are the most exciting and gritty...Tacoma doomish-cheerleaders.....if you love Tacoma, you can not call your self, your bad self a real life Tacoman or Tacomawoman.....or Tacomakid until you've listened to Folksingers In Hell.....
Just as you love Teddy and bro Leonard Haggerty, artists and karaoke entrepreneurs....extraordinaire.....who have brought Tacoma to life in scratch paper and song.......these folks are the real deal........
No faux-urban pioneers....you know.......the kind that are more Fit than Grit......
Folksingers In Hell are not Sanitized For Your Protection!
Though mostly child-safe......
And Fewster and Heidi sing of our dysfunctional families, drug rehab blues..sans ciggies...at St. Joes..........
So get busy......
Do you truck up to Frost Park to see/be/do The Big Chalk Off every Friday noonish?
I bet you do....
So don't be a Tacoma poseur....
This is the real thing.....Like Girl Trouble........
You chose Tacoma because it isn't pretentious and the real estate prices are doable....
Folksingers In Hell and Fewster and Spawn are both unpretentious and quite doable!!!
Maybe you saw them at First Night 2008.........
Maybe you saw them at the recent Train Fest.......
So see them now....Leave a comment.... Support the Local Arts..
GO LOCAL....
.....brought to your attention by.......a ......Tacoma blog.....

Girl Trouble + My Spawn = Sweet Sweet Love

If you "get" Tacoma, then Girl Trouble is your fave band.....and, I get braggin' rights on my oldest child dancing for Girl Trouble, when Jan and Neko were
GT's Go Go Girls!!!


Jan wrote me this the other day:

OK, so you are always braggin on me dancing with GT..check this out. I am at about 2:48..dancing with Neko.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOrILYGV6dE

January
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So click the link to youtube and listen and watch.....My Hometown

Course Neko, big fat Star, won't return Jan's phone calls.....yeesh!
But GT will !

Law Fetish + Mars + Naked Cowboy

Tacoma business (well, you know...) Mars Candy Company is being sued by a Naked Cowboy.....(well, you know...) and my Law Fetish (well, you know...) combined for this silly Tacoma-centric story.......(well, you know...)


ewwww Alert......I don't find this guy attractive in the least......but here he is......


Mars Candy, makers and pushers of sugar (the Dentist's best friend!!) was begun in T Town in 1911...the makers of Mars Bar, Milky Way, M&M's, Twix, Skittles and Snickers,
is being sued by Time Square's Naked Cowboy , Robert Burck. He stands around in his underwear with a guitar covering the covered up nasty bits, wearing a white cowboy hat, cowboy boots and sings. Now he's singing Foul !!
Mars' ad agency created an M&M ad with a disgusting M&M mimicking Mr. Burck on a billboard in Times Square. Mmmm, dude will settle for a few millions, me thinks. That will buy a lot of tighty whities.....I hope.

Mmmm. Maybe downtown Tacoma's Pac Ave Prison Yard Square....needs something like this! It's Tacoma, It's art, It's a spectacle. Perhaps Hume or Blue is available....

Mars company is opposing more energy development in Montana, is not a friend of PETA, and had an ad that upset the gays. Oh, let's not forget Sugar.
Sugar is bad. I almost never eat any. Some say that makes me bitter, sour and unAmerican. So be it!
I feel great when I don't eat it. I feel cruddy when I do. No cupcakes for me. Mmmm, maybe just a bite!

I Semi-French Kissed The Helm....

Because I love them so........tho sometimes the art laughs at me.....but we are in couples therapy and it will all be fine......And that is as good a reason as you need to attend the Fundraising Event they will hold soon. Date tba.......

Random Events during my huge move. I haven't seen my children or my grandchildren for a long time and I miss them so much. I wish I could Jeannie blink and get the rest of my stuff moved....but alas...I am not a Genie.....I am a Queen.

When Murphi was here Mark and Murry and I went to Masa to see him and stuff. Well, he (Murphi) is such a damn Rock Staaar, that we didn't get much face time with him. I did get to hug him hugely in his cashmere Izod sweater. NY is so lucky and Tacoma is poorer for his move away, but it is best for him. Perhaps someday our boy can come home.........

I'd never been to Masa.....I'm sorry, but fancy fancy restaurants in Tacoma make me giggle...but you know what I think about Prentiousness!!
I will call you out on that Each and Every time I smell it.....so knock it off!
Masa Smelled Good !!!! Once I found out the band was friends of Murphi (fom) they suddenly improved !
Masa smells like BBQ'd Spaniards and Axe Body Spray.

With Best Friends and Partners, we went to dinner at Harbor Lights to celebrate 11 Years of Glam Marriage ..........And Harbor Lights used to be our Comfort Restaurant......No More!!!!!!
Anthony's has slowly squeezed all CHARM out of H L......it was such a f'n GENERIC seafood restaurant experience, Mark and I won't be back to eat......
boring food, cut corners everywhere, the quality was OK, but boring boring boring boring.
And I am so PISSED OFF ABOUT THIS...
Where do people get off thinking they have to "IMPROVE" everything??? Some things are fine the way they are. I expect that NEXT they will ditch the fabulous Kitschy sign in favor of BORING CORPORATE GENERIC sign.

I don't share with you where my personal private favorite places to go and have fun and drinks.......but 2 words.......Flying Boots on 38th.......

Bye for now. I don't have new pics, I don't even know where my camera is right now....I misplaced it!!

Come and visit us in our new digs..
712 Broadway, Baby!!!

Here There Everywhere....

on ebay.......

60s Mod


50s Catalina swim suit





70s Koi Shaheen dress





50s Full Skirt Party Day dress

Oh man am I busy...Gobs of new stuff coming ...

to the new shop downtown.....
I have several vintage men's western shirts and T shirts...
Men's vintage is hard to find since men tend to wear their clothes till they fall apart !
But I grab it when I find it hidden in people's closets. I love to see the glint in the eyes of guys when they spy the racks of Man Stuff...sunglasses, vintage vinyl, stereo and music equipment...

And the ladies.....well, I have several tons of that ! I will be buying more designer fashion, both recent and vintage....
Next on ebay will be a 60s sculptural white Shannon Rodgers for Jerry Silverman dress, a 50s NOS black Catalina boy leg swimsuit...a Liberty Tana print blouse...

the small rack of kids vintage is up.....and, more to come !

I'll add pictures soon.....I moving my manni and Monday will be test picture day....new space, new lighting and much to learn.....I'm really happy to have a white painted brick background. So urban...