Regrets don't have to be big to be remembered. One day between editions at El Paso's deservedly dying evening newspaper, my copy desk colleagues and I were sitting around talking. Someone mentioned The Bobby Fuller Four, a band that got its start in that West…
Today's Slice question: What's your best locally themed knock-knock joke?
www.flickr.com OK, I realize the brand-name allusion is to the railroading meaning of "Pullman" and has nothing to do with Eastern Washington. But I see it as my job to localize everything.
I once threw a rock that had come from the New England coastline into Puget Sound. Let some geologist eons from now figure that one out. "Clearly those two ancient seas, the Atlantic and the Pacific, merged at some point." (By the way, I carefully…
Wait. Don't answer that. Persons of a certain gender might hold it against you. They, uh, don't always understand these things. www.forum.axishistory.com
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I had a friend at East Elementary School named Rob Campbell. He made me laugh. Once, during a lively round of riffing on advertising slogans out by the monkey bars, he came up with something I regarded as hilarious. You might recall Madison Avenue's line,…
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The 1:50 No. 43 bus going up the South Hill was Third World full. So I stood and held on to a strap up near the front. How urban. I didn't mind my position because the driver is a friend and my proximity allowed me…
SR page designer Ralph Walter comes up with a lot of good ideas for which he does not get any public credit. This injustice was mentioned to him the other day. And he responded by noting that flying under the radar also allows him to…
Today's Slice question: If you got to rename the IN Life section, which would you choose? a.) Living Life. b.) Women & Women. c.) Focus on People Like You. d.) Scream. e.) 8 Pages o' Features. f.) Doin' Life. g.) other.
Keep an eye on The Slice column for details about how you can win tickets to the Feb. 27 GU men's basketball game against Longwood University. OK, that's not exactly a clash of titans. I have a decent knowledge of U.S. colleges and universities and…
Spokane's Jerry Cartwright was out for a walk and saw what he described as a "Hitchcockian" gathering of robins. "Didn't look like they were up to anything though," he added. That's just what they want you to think, Jerry. www.wintercenter.homestead.com
Some colleagues who happen to be parents of young children were talking about flying with little kids. There seemed to be agreement that occasional screaming fests are all but inevitable. But one mother said she has found other passengers will usually cut her some slack…
Was talking with a friend who rides my bus about this morning's moon. We agreed that it was pretty amazing. (At least it was about an hour ago.) I said it reminded me of a scene from "Star Wars." He knew just what I meant.…
We've shared a safe deposit box with my mother for several years. It's at her South Hill bank branch and has contained only the originals of my parents' will and my power of attorney paperwork. Until today, that is. We went by this afternoon and…
Now and then I find myself thinking about my readers and wondering, why haven't I heard from so-and-so in a while? One of my paranoid theories involves my most common email typo. I'm not sure why. But I routinely respond to reader submissions by typing…
This could also be called "Attack of the Mutant Grabber Hand." www.kirbydynamics.blogspot.com
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Today's Slice question: What's the best way to deal with people who constantly talk about themselves but never ask a single question about how things are going in your own life?
A reader named Alice called to say she is sure the coming flu epidemic is going to claim a victim and alter the storyline in the PBS series.
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