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Excellent. "Noxious weeds are everybody's problem."
safetyfork-You went to Evergreen? I went to Hampshire College which is basically the same place, just in Western Mass. A lot of people I know from the DC punk scene went out to Evergreen.
It's possible, although I'm a bit older. I graduated in '94, and the biggest Oly-DC crossover I was associated with was during the summer of love, which was either '89 or '90 (wasn't it? I can't remember any more), when Bikini Kill moved East and Kicking Giant (ok, an NYC band, but connected through Simple Machines, and the NOU nexus) moved West.
That was just a bit before me, obviously, but it's remnants were still felt in Oly by the time I got there. I used to see Kicking Giant at house parties a fair bit. (As well as some great Fugazi shows thanks to the DC/Oly connection.) Tae I mostly knew from afar, but I know the nyc guy that put out Kicking Giant's Halo. I wasn't quite cool enough for Kathleen Hanna, but the ladies from Sleater-Kinney were still walking among us -- so to speak. Damn, there was a lot of amazing music around.