I had started doing this thing where, when I encountered family dogs tied up outside a store or lolling in a front yard alone, I told them "Don't let 'em go to hell." This is an allusion to an episode of "The Twilight Zone" in…
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Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there www.musicradar.com
Once in a while, some nice person will call me and say something like this. "I was wondering if, in your column tomorrow, you could..." Well, no, I couldn't. Because of the features section's production schedule, I write The Slice several days in advance. For…
I'm tempted to suggest that the free spirits you see riding bikes on sidewalks downtown, in clear violation of a civic ordinance, are the biggest bunch of strung-out, unwashed losers this side of cop cars' back seats. The fact that they never wear helmets is…
The pensive young man below might make my Top 5. But the real reasons I'm using his picture are: 1. I have been waiting for someone to note my seemingly gratuitous use of pictures of fetching females. And this could be seen as an equal-space…
Here's a note from Monique Lillard, who teaches at the University of Idaho. She now has my permission to write to me anytime she wants. "Your column reminded me of the Iliad, where Homer describes all the towns that sent warriors, and has a line…
"The last time I played catch?" wrote Barry Bauchwitz. "Well, when our Danish friends were here their son, 10 years old and born on the 4th of July, became smitten with baseball. We went to two Indians games and he made a couple of trips…
Some of us like to launch self-improvement regimens on significant dates. And one of the classics is coming right up. The anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969 is this Wednesday. And what better day to begin your drive to lose 10 pounds, stand…
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You might be able to make out that both these bottles and the can below say "Spokane Brewery." Why should you care? No reason, really. But me, I get a kick out of this sort of thing. And it's my blog, though the truth is…
Which population has a higher percentage of those who enjoy shooting at highway signs -- residents of Eastern Washington or those living in North Idaho? www.valdefierro.com
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...is the fact that Henry J. Kaiser lived here as a young man for several years, before he moved to California and "industrialist" practically became part of his name. www.kaiserpermanentehistory.org
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Gird your loins. www.visitspokane.com
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Though at times they can seem like adversaries, bike riders and dog walkers are actually natural allies. For one thing, they both recognize that not everybody wants to spend 100 percent of their outdoor time in cars. And secondly, they both tend to realize that…
Those who remember when it was standard practice here to place the directional (West, N., or whatever) before the number when addressing in-city correspondence. And those who don't.
You know when I said one of my colleagues had an idea for a promotional campaign for the newspaper based on photos of good-looking people reading the SR? Well, I misunderstood. His idea is to hire attractive individuals to read the paper in public places,…
According to a couple of potentially accurate accounts on the Web, the first patent for an electric bug zapper was issued to William H. Frost of Spokane in 1910. So why didn't we become the bug zapper capital of the world? I didn't find anything…
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