She can't honestly think Caroline Kennedy hasn't taken her lumps for her "you knows" and "ums" during interviews. She has. They both need some lessons on how to communicate effectively. When she is wondering out loud, to a reporter of course, if Caroline is receiving…
If I take the concept behind an avatar, then I am assuming that each user is displaying his persona in that little icon. On Huckleberries – unlike any other forum displaying avatars – the individual avatars change sporadically throughout the day, expressing that individual’s mood…
Housing prices are plummeting. Jobs are evaporating. The economy is a mess. But singles are wading into the online dating pool in record numbers, giving virtual matchmakers their best traffic figures in years – and giving users even better odds for finding a snuggle buddy,…
A friend in Coeur d’Alene has discovered that she is not alone. PApparently others, including several of her co-workers, cannot easily read the handwriting of their grandmothers and elderly aunts.“When my husband and I receive such a letter from an elderly aunt, it’s somewhat of…
What should Obama's first objective be to turn America's economy around? 1. Raise taxes significantly on the rich 2. Tax Social Security benefits for the rich 3. Raise taxes across the board 4. Implement a new "New Deal" that puts everyone to work 5. Create…
If the weatherman is right, we have another night of snow tonight and then 10 glorious days of sunshine. After the last month, it sounds like a great formula for breaking out of the winter doldrums. Meanwhile, Gonzaga kicks off the West Coast Conference by…
Coeur d'Alene's Devon Austin, left, comes around to harass Lake City's Logan Frederickson Friday at Coeur d'Alene High. Behind Frederickson is Coeur d'Alene's Chris Reed. Lake City defeated Coeur d'Alene 68-63 in overtime. You can read Greg Lee's Sportslink blog account here. Jesse Tinsley/SR.
Arpie: The best named paper I know is the Fish Wrapper from Ennis, Montana.Toadman, you will have a hard time coming up with a better named paper than that.Question: If you started a newspaper, what would you call it?
Thwatful Reader (after noting Thursday's page-views and unique views, 7461/4319) asks: Are those numbers way down? Seems to me they are. Could be the new blog software, or certainly, things are quieter since the election.DFO: HBO numbers dropped steeply after the switch from the old…
When I was in high school, I cut out and kept a Ziggy cartoon. Do you remember Ziggy? (If you're not old enough, don't tell me. my daughter commented on one of my columns saying, “what's a boob tube?) anyway, the cartoon showed Ziggy walking…
I put the black cat in the microwave oven, and turn away to get a drink of water while it warmed up. All a sudden I heard crackling, and looked at the microwave, and saw the cat on fire. I open the oven, and threw…
For only the second time* in my life, I'm completely stranded. The first was when I was caught in a brutal blizzard that stranded me overnight in Moses Lake when I-90 was closed. But this is worse, because the flooding is supposed to increase madly…
We've been handed a deck of cards that is, for all intents and purposes, stacked against us. We've been short-sheeted in the atmospheric department so far this winter. In short, it's been hard times of late. Also, lately around these parts, there's been a lot…
This cliched comedy “Bride Wars” tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman flinging the bouquet at her single girlfriends. It’s amazing that two of the film’s three writers are women: Casey Wilson of “Saturday…
In the news on this TGIF evening, Illinois Gov. Rod Blogajevich dismisses the House impeachment vote today as politically driven here. The number of obese Americans now outweight those who are merely overweight here. A Texas Death Row inmate pulled his good eye out and…
You know it's deep when the ducks start swimming in the potholes. First, there was record snow and now comes the potholes in downtown Spokane/Christopher Anderson, SR.SR's Today In Photos
I am appalled to see pictures of children of all ages participating -- both "willingly" and unwillingly -- in the plunge into the 35-degree lake. It had never occurred to me anyone beside consenting adults would participate in this activity. As far as I can…
A rooftop gas leak at the Clark Fork Jr.-Sr. High School forced a school-wide evacuation Thursday as officials attempted to diagnose and repair the problem, reports Conor Christofferson/Bonner County Bee. Story here. Above, Trish Gannon/River Journal provides a photo of the scene, with this comment:…
5:24 p.m. Malfunctioning stoplights on Highway 41, causing traffic to back up onto interstate.5:02 p.m. A twentysomething man is walking around the Slab Inn area/Post Falls swinging a golf club at the ground and appearing to be "totally out of it."4:58 p.m. A man who…
In this photo released by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, "George," a live 20 pound lobster rests on a plate at City Crab and Seafood in New York today. City Crab and Seafood has spared the lobster, which is expected to be…
Said a Tel Aviv spokesman named Gus,"We regret this unfortunate fuss,but Hamas is to blamethat we bomb, kill and maim --and besides Hitler did it to us."The Bard of Sherman Avenue
At Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV continues to entertain us with photos like the one above of a Coeur d'Alene lifeguard from 1944. Let's see, the lifeguard'd be in her early to mid-80s now. Anyone know her. More Remember The Roxy photos here. (Blogroll roundup below)
Item: Physical shoveling proves to be pain in the back: Therapists see influx of snow-removal strains/Alecia Warren, CDA PressMore Info: Physical therapists see influx of snow removal strains. Everything was fine while Devonne was chucking humps of snow out of her driveway last month. Only…
Blogmeister Ryan has figured out why the comments section and the drop-down box under the 12:03 Huckleberries wasn't working. Ditto, for the original "Huckleberries Hears ..." earlier today. You can now comment on those posts. And see the drop-down boxes. Thanks for your patience as…
In the style of all these types of year-end communications my plan is to talk about the year just passed, and I preface it by borrowing from Dickens—these are the times that try men’s souls. They are times that are trying this woman’s soul as…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
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