Just noticed that the Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon" is 20 years old. I remember being excited about it when it came out. In the end, not many people were all that impressed. And certainly it had its shortcomings. But at least it tried to…
I overheard a couple of younger men talking about softball. It was clear they took it pretty seriously. And I had half an impulse to warn them. Careful guys, I might have said. Let this become too important to you and you'll remember certain softball…
Long ago and far away, I found myself in a hotel room talking to Dinah Shore about her new cookbook. My editor wanted me to get her to talk about her recent break-up with Burt Reynolds. She wanted to talk about cooking. For some reason,…
You would have witnessed most of this evolution of the B-52 bomber's tail. www.wingweb.co.uk
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There was also the inexplicable Rat Fink craze. www.kustomkultureonline.com
Was the Mantle/Maris home run chase on your radar 50 years ago? www.moviegoods.com
For the longest time, I was somewhat baffled by the decision of so many of my friends and colleagues to live way out in the country. After all, isn't the relative ease of going from Point A to Point B one of Spokane's true assets?…
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It's almost a certainty that someone reading today's print Slice, in which I refer to the start of long car-drive season, will politely note that I seem to have forgotten about gas prices. Not really. I just haven't noticed motorists abandoning their cars. Sure, some…
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There are several good things about driving a company car or truck while on the job. But if those vehicles are adorned with a prominent business logo or a big sign naming your company, even those of us reasonably proud of our place of employment…
"Hi, Paul," wrote Robyn Stevens. "I hope I'm not too late to submit a line from the immortal Groucho Marx in 'Duck Soup.'" Actually, she is too late. I deal with all that in tomorrow's print Slice. And if you didn't read Sunday's Slice and…
A nice fellow named Paul Nolan called to say he endorsed the idea of putting an image of the late broadcaster Curt Gowdy on the Wyoming state flag (if the other 49 states were going to go with faces on their banners). Nolan grew up…
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"I love your list, although I must admit there are a few names I don't know," wrote Doris Woodward. "But mostly I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for suggesting that Maine use Joshua Chamberlain. He is my Number One favorite Civil…
But wouldn't you say the late Ezra Pound was among the least likely? epc.buffalo.edu
So, OK, we have Spokane. We have Spokane Valley. And there used to be Spokane Falls. But what if someone wanted to establish a utopian village near here and use "Spokane" as the root for this new place's name. Well, other towns and cities in…
How many times does something have to happen or how prevalent does a behavior have to be before it's appropriate to refer to it as "a Spokane thing"? "Twice on the National News," said Curt Olsen.
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Spokane's Ken Martin was on the phone with a customer service rep at a cable TV shopping network. He thinks she might have been in Florida. At the point where she was keyboarding his address, she stopped to mention that she knew someone who had…
"There may be some virtue in avoiding the obvious, and I appreciate your point about how a complicating factor is that some people were born in other states than those with which they're legitimately identified," wrote Wayne Pomerleau. "Here are two cases in point: It…
Here's a note from Bill Ellis. "I enjoyed reading your list of nominees for state flags, but as a lifelong Oregonian, relocated to Spokane in 2006, I must comment on your choice for the Oregon flag. If you wanted a writer you needed either David…
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