BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson avoids placement in the Weekly Volcano's Numbered Spaces column. He's the best. A 32-year-old Alfonso Ibanez Martinez has been convicted in Tacoma of heroin trafficking charges after more than 46 pounds of...

BOBBLE TIKI: BRUNCH WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tuesday marks the day for school bond and levy voting. It’s a all-mail election requiring ballots to be postmarked by midnight March 10. However, express voting booths are open today to deliver your vote in person. Vote yes because we need to fix t...

BOBBLE TIKI: BRUNCH WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma city officials want to bust down your apartment door to rid you of yellow teeth and reeking clothes and ashtray tongue and shallow breaths and bad skin and 50 bucks a month that you could instead spend on sushi and wine and good porn. Most imp...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> A Gig Harbor neurosurgeon who treated the teenage kayaker critically injured Sunday puts a twist on Steve Martin’s Famous song: “Oh, I'm picking out a thermos, for you / Not an ordinary thermos, for you.� The doctor substituted “picking�...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma firefighters rule. After five years in prison, Ali al-Marri will finally get a trial. President Robin Hood Obama rides in with new tax cuts and increases. Lesson learned by Facebook: Don’t piss off social network users. Jewel pulls an A-R...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Snow. Tacoma City Council didn't know folks from White Center can now handle their classified operations. Meanwhile, the winners and losers of the Obama budget. What's wack? The fact that G.M. may need more money. GM loses $9.6 billion … which i...

BOBBLE TIKI: CHEAP BEER AND JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN >>> Bobble Tiki knows it’s been a long time, and he apologizes. No, not for taking last week off. Every few months Bobble Tiki just needs a break before his Tiki head explodes. Bobble Tiki apologizes because he knows it’s b...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Tacoma students might be enjoying Fish Sticks Friday in the Skippers Seafood & Chowder House & Cafeteria. Japan faces its worst economic slump since Godzilla kicked Mechagodzilla's ass. When Sen. Lindsey Graham advocates a government takeo...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Be prepared to dump another $12 a morning for a venti caramel macchiato, an orange Odwalla, and a blueberry Bliss Bar because a wave of gray, humorless hell is coming our way. Economic stimulus legislation is on track for final votes Friday in the...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Our intern was fooled by the midnight telephone call from Tacoma Power threatening to shut off electricity to the Weekly Volcano World Headquarters. The intern freaked out over the call because he knows the wrath of hell Publisher Pappi Swarner wo...