Well, maybe not quite yet. But keep in mind that I do start pretty early. And there are few things I like better than kicking back with a convenient half gallon fun-size bottle of locally brewed beer after a hard morning of item forging. Even…
A couple of my colleagues, Tom Sowa and Bert Caldwell, were just speculating about which self-important local personalities they would least like to play poker with. Who would you seat at your own table from Hades?
Or is the outgoing editor of The New York Times one of the best-looking guys in the country? www.mediabistro.com
You probably won't win any points with him if you call him Navin R. Johnson. www.listal.com
So the Belmont Stakes is Saturday. It will be nice for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winners to have a rubber match. Assuming that is, that they'll both be in the race. I guess I could show a little more interest and actually find out.…
"I was driving around Cheney and heard someone honk," wrote Jerry Hilton. "I never figured out who or why. It got me thinking. As I grew up in Cheney, almost always, whenever someone honked it was to get a friend's attention and say Hi. Does…
But I assume a few music lovers in Spokane bought this 1972 album. And maybe some still remember it. A few of the songs, too. www.albumartexchange.us
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One of the old Magic Lantern theater's bigger hits in the early '90s was the quirky Australian production, "Strictly Ballroom." One of the actors who made that fun to watch, Bill Hunter, died recently. R.I.P., Barry Fife. www.thereelbits.com
She started off talking about defunct Spokane movie theaters. But then one of my correspondents mentioned having seen a Ricky Nelson concert at the old Coliseum sometime around One Million B.C. Quite a few year's before that, the late singer's father performed with his big…
www.markymunster.com A) A fixer-upper. B) A little charmer. C) Handyman special. D) Motivated seller. E) Priced to move. F) The kid with the beard doesn't stay. G) Other.
Graceland, Elvis Presley's Tennessee home, opened for public tours on this date in 1982. I lived in Memphis at the time and was in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. So that summer or maybe it was the next, I took the boy with whom I…
So it's not new, and it's definitely not just a Spokane thing. But the pervasiveness, in certain circles, of ending every third utterance with a catch-all "...and (common scatological swear word)" sort of cracks me up. If you have been out of the home, you…
"I would never want this printed," wrote a reader I consider to be a friend. "But I can say that in all the 25 years of my sweet hubby and I being together, the only time we have sworn at each other was during home…
If his pal Patty Duke ever told him anything about the making of "Valley of the Dolls." Just saw part of that a couple of days ago. What a hoot. www.deccarecords-us.com
"Almost two weeks ago, you asked in a column something to the effect of, what if you could take back the 10 stupidest things you've ever said?" wrote North Idaho's Stephanie Eloe. "Well, I've been thinking about it, and I would have fewer regrets, perhaps…
Back in June of 2005, I spoke with a Spokane couple about their family's drive to Disneyland in the summer of 1955, the year of its grand opening. I alluded to some of the high-tech distractions modern kids have. And I asked how the couple's…
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This isn't really a 2011 Spokane Valley scene. www.angryhippy.net
Before my junior year of high school in Vermont, I spent part of the summer out in California with my older sister and her horse's ass husband. They lived in the other Inland Empire. One day, when my brother-in-law had something to do at UCLA,…
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When I was a little kid, I spent a lot of time listening to Top 40 songs on my transistor radio. One thing I learned, thanks in part to a singer named Lou Christie, was that when I grew up to be a teenager I…
Jerry Cartwright saw Saturday's column and had something to add. "Must be pretty obvious what those of us living up on Stone Street fancy."
It's a matter of opinion, of course. And it could be that some comedy simply doesn't age well. But having noticed that KWSU is showing the "Best of Laugh-In," questions arise. Is it funny? Was it ever?
So those who know say war is actually more "Saving Private Ryan" horrific than combat depicted in "The Longest Day." The truth can be upsetting. And "The Longest Day" has a lot of company when it comes to sanitizing brutality. www.demo.jomland.com
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