HBO simply has to repeat PDXPup's wonderful posting re: the Huckleberries Chaos Theory, which she introduced with the line: "The way I see it." The Pup belongs to one of three blogging families that inhabits this blog. All hyper-talented. She's also related to HBO by…
Cartoon: Jim Tibbs/Grants Pass, Ore.1. I wasn't going to post a BOTLB today, but Marianne Love/Slight Detour forced me to do so, with two excellent posts this week. One that had me busting a gut as she plays off our front-page story Monday about bull…
Students at St. Peter Parish in Kirkwood, Mo., watch the burning of the palm branches Tuesday in an annual ceremony the day before Ash Wednesday. The wind shifted direction and the smoke blew towards the first-graders who are from left: Max Prosperi, 6; Allison Henry,…
You can find a cool Pew Center quiz that'll show you where you fit among several types of people and political animals. Me? I fell in the "upbeat" category. Check it out here.Hat Tip: SR colleague Rasha Madkour
First, you should know what office colleague Renee's bumpersnicker sez: "Please, Lord, let it snow 20 feet this year -- Maybe the Californians will leave." Then, you'd understand this hand-printed note that was on her windshield when she returned from shopping at Safeway on Fourth:…
Remember when I said I thought there was something fishy about that recent Coeur d'Alene Press poll re: the Idaho governor's race -- you know, the one that had Demo Jerry Brady way ahead of favored Repub Butch Otter (and then switched within a few…
Dear Flabby,My husband spends way too much time on the computer reading and commenting on some newspaper blog, Strawberries or something, he never takes me bowling anymore and has even lost interest in sex, I'm at wit's end! I'm still a young beautiful woman and…
A couple of peeping toms look into a window in Norfolk, Neb. Monday. About a dozen wild turkeys were spotted around the northeast Nebraska city. (AP Photo/Norfolk Daily News, Dennis Meyer)
"Linette Freeman of Coeur d'Alene first shared her story with Spokesman-Review columnist Cynthia Taggart three years ago. At the time she weighed more than 400 pounds and was considering weight loss surgery. Her friends and family raised money so that she could get laparoscopic gastric…
Participants in the Cardboard Classic race along during Red Lodge Winter Carnival on Red Lodge Mountain in Red Lodge, Mont., Saturday. Racers were built from cardboard, tape, glue and paint and the raced down a ski slope. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Bob…
Issue: Relatives want death penalty for DuncanFamilies reject plea deal idea/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman-ReviewDarlene Torres (Brenda Groene's mother): "We're definitely not interested in any plea bargain whatsoever. Mr. Douglas – we're behind him all the way."Question: So, that's that? Forget about any possible plea bargain for…
1. APhoto Fix: Anna Nicole Smith, walks outside the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington earlier today. Dressed in all black, former stripper turned weight-loss promoter fought her way through a throng of photographers and autograph-seekers on her way to a Supreme Court showdown in her…
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.
