Some Interesting Things to Read: May 2005

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

holy fucking shit! Scary shit.

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Slain mother of 4 was pregnant

Cassandra Lynn Oliphant was newly pregnant and raising four young
daughters on her own. The 33-year-old didn't get much work, and got
by...

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

FW: [OFFICIAL] Safety on Campus

Joseph B. Warren

Academic Service Learning Coordinator

Campus Connections Americorps

Bellevue Community College

3000 Landerholm Circle SE

Bellevue, WA 98007

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From: Lucy Macneil
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Subject: [OFFICIAL] Safety on Campus

As you may have heard, there was an apparent homicide off campus near the southwest corner of the campus. Bellevue Police have made an arrest and are continuing their investigation. This is a good time to remind the campus community to report any suspicious activity immediately to Public Safety, at ext. 2400, or to one of the Public Safety employees on campus. Public Safety representatives also provide escorts to students and staff to their vehicles when requested. Call ext. 2400 to make arrangements for assistance.

Faculty, please alert students in your classes to this message.

Lucy Parke Macneil

Vice President of Human Resources

Bellevue Community College

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Bellevue, WA 98007-6484

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FW: seattletimes.com: Woman slain, man arrested near college in Bellevue

Joseph B. Warren
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Bellevue Community College
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Bellevue, WA 98007
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Woman slain, man arrested near college in Bellevue
Full story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002286155_bellevue24e.h
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By Ashley Bach
Seattle Times Eastside bureau

Bellevue police said they have no indication that a woman slain
yesterday morning near Bellevue Community College knew her alleged
attacker, who was found by police lying next to her body.

But police said they need to investigate more before concluding that the
killing, the first criminal homicide case in Bellevue since 1998, was
random.

"We just can't commit yet to say this is a random act or a focused act,"
said Bellevue police Capt. Bill Ferguson.

Police declined to identify either the dead woman or the man under
arrest. Investigators said yesterday that the slain woman, who was in
her 30s, lived just north of the community college campus, and had
apparently left her home in the morning to go to an appointment south of
the college.

Police said the arrested man, 29, apparently only recently arrived in
the area and had been living in a car.

About 9:15 a.m., a man on his daily walk along the paved trail, between
the Eastgate Park & Ride Lot and the campus, saw the man with no shirt
standing in the bushes off the trail, police said. The shirtless man was
acting strangely, and he ducked down when the other man looked his way.

The walker retreated and called police. An officer walked up the hill to
find the woman's body and the shirtless man on the ground nearby,
Ferguson said.

The man was arrested at gunpoint and offered no resistance, Ferguson
said. The man at first was talkative with police, but then asked for a
lawyer and declined to answer detectives' questions, Ferguson said.

He was expected to be booked into the King County Jail last night.

The trail where the woman's body was found winds up a wooded hill, from
the north end of the park-and-ride lot to the southwest corner of
campus. The path is not busy, and not part of the school property, but a
"small percentage" of students travel the short distance from the bus
stop below to campus each day, said Bob Adams, a college spokesman.

School officials sent out an e-mail yesterday to faculty and some
student groups to notify them about the discovery of the woman's body.
But they said they were waiting on more definitive news from police
before they decide on other actions.

"If there are any issues that students need to be aware of, we'll let
them know," Adams said.

Bellevue Community College has about 20,000 students who attend classes
on a 96-acre campus.

Ferguson emphasized that the college area typically has little crime,
and there is a suspect in the case under arrest.

Above the trail yesterday, most students walked past the police cars
and didn't seem to notice the crime scene below. But others worried
about their safety.

Annie Harris, 21, of Renton said she walks the trail about three times a
week, but will think twice now. "It's extremely scary," she said. "I
didn't expect anything like that to ever happen here."

Terry Legg, 22, of Renton said he wants to know more about the crime.
"If it was random, it'd be a lot more disturbing."

The woman's body was found near the Puget Sound Regional Archives
building on campus, and just above a county public-health clinic next to
the park-and-ride.

As police officers investigated, parents with children walked in and
out of the clinic.

Christi Copeland, 35, of Redmond held her 1-year-old son, Tyler, as she
walked back to a bus stop after receiving a shot at the clinic. She said
she was "pretty freaked out" by the incident.

"I feel like it's really close," she said.

Ashley Bach: 206-464-2567 or abach@seattletimes.com

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Gotham Corner Store?

We seem to be down to our last Diet Coke.

A gentleman is on his way to pick some up. Just look for a black car.

No, this black car will be rather difficult to miss.

Just for the taste of it

Diet Coke!

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Wednesday May 11, 2005

Jesse,

How have you been?

Yesterday the campus was closed so I did some remote email work at my parents’ house and, but for the most part, while reflective, the day wasn’t very high stress.

There were a couple of things that made yesterday more of a “reflection day” than the official day off last month for me. For reasons in to which I am about to dive, I really had a chance to focus on the last couple of years, think about who I am, who I have been, possibly explore who I can be… that kind of reflective stuff.

In 1998, pretty much the only place where anyone could find high speed internet was on college campuses. I happened to be on one of those, so I spent a lot of time downloading illegal music from something called Napster. I have since abandoned this practice for reasons of personal ethical decisions too complicated to get in to here, and the larger fact that I no longer own a computer. But before achieving the moral high ground and breaking my computer, I did burn many, many CD ROMs full of mp3 music files.

Yesterday I made two important discoveries. The first discovery was the box of CDs I found in my parent’s garage. The second discovery was the fact that my DVD player can play MP3 files.

So I was able to spend hours in front of the television listening to the music that I had loved as a college student in the late 90s and early zeros. I was reminded of something that I hadn’t forgotten. I was really angst ridden. Sometimes a snapshot of ones self at an earlier age such as this can give tangibility to memory. Stabbing Westward, Nine Inch Nails, Elliott Smith

I’m a junk yard full of false starts

Exile in Guyville, long before Liz Phair started pimping Maybelline

I can feel it in my bones I'm gonna spend another year alone It's fuck and run fuck and run

But in addition to being the guy, asked every day “aren’t you hot in all that black?” I was also an idiot child driven to Spice Girls, Bouncing off the Ceiling, loving Britney (oops) all with an intensity matched only by irony. I had forgotten how many girl groups there had been, but I had all of their singles.

Hearing all of this stuff, in many cases for the first time since college gave me an uncomfortable, but strangely reassuring glance at my post-pubescent, pre-loss-of-brother, pre-9/11, pre-GWB self. Scary shit, yo…

I was arrogant, overly serious yet unable to take anything seriously, pathetically unprepared for “real life” and pretentious. I directed a sit-com style mini-production of No Exit and thought it was a good idea.

Pretty much the only thing that I loved totally un-ironically was a rock band called the Murder City Devils. From ’98 to ’01 I went to more MCD shows that I could possibly remember. In 2001 the organ player left because of carpal tunnel syndrome and homesickness for Chicago. Instead of replacing her, the band decided to end their brilliant run in a huge, drunken final show at the Showbox in Seattle.

The final show was Halloween, 2001. A strange little punk rock friend of mine came in from British Columbia to see it with me, as did a goth-as-fuck high school acquaintance. The show was filmed, and yesterday, they released the DVD of the final show.

So, along with a few dozen other people, I got to re-live the closing of one of the major chapters of my life last night, as it was projected on to a big screen at the Crocodile Café. I saw my sleeve on screen. I also saw Canadian Punk Friend Joey Cordless’s face. I didn’t see Stephanie-from-Blanchet-dressed-as-vampire though.

I really spent yesterday coming to an understanding of how far I have come, personally, since then. I have lived 5 places in 4 cities. I have served nearly 2 AmeriCorps years. I’m balder, fatter, calmer, and happier. I produce less “art,” but I am less pretentious in what I do produce. (you should have heard my “Home Alone” musical composition for 5 voices, written in a notation form of my own invention.)

I mean, what's going on with Bill, is he out there? Has anyone seen him?

Bill seems to be doing well, from the perspective of a Seattle Cluster member. In many ways, I think that he is the most together guy I know.

How are your projects?

Awesome.

What are you doing for your final reflection project (or is it a surprise)?

I don’t really know what I am going to do. I was considering writing some great big stream of consciousness essay and sending it out to the team, but that might just be tacky.

DANA, OMG Congratulations!!!!

Oh, and I just got a mysterious, creepy, but generally good natured crank call on my home phone. I star 69ed the guy and the number is 239-200-0252. So please, everyone call this guy and ask him in he has Prince Albert in a Can or if his toilet is running or something.

Monday, May 02, 2005

More Complete Comic Strip List

DEVO! oh, flogging molly

Bumbershoot this year will feature the TRI-fucking-Umphant return of
DEVO! HOLY SHITY, YALL. Oh, and for the third time in the year,
Flogging Molly takes the long drive up from California for B-shoot.
It's looking to be another 4 day pass year.