Sweeping Generalizations Department: If everyone in Southern California secretly wants to be in the movie industry and everyone in the District of Columbia years to be involved in politics, what does everyone in the Spokane area want?
Today's Slice question: Do you ever scan the box office results, bestseller lists, music charts or TV ratings and feel very, very alone?
1. An old guy in a parka complained about parking downtown and explained to an Apple store employee that he never comes downtown because of it. 2. The wide garage-like door that opens Nordstrom to the rest of the River Park Square's ground floor was…
Today's Slice question: What would Dr. Seuss have titled a Christmas story set in Spokane?
If you were the news director at a Spokane TV station, how would you cover wintry weather?
Today's Slice question: Will there be a lot of soul-searching and gnashing of teeth if Boise someday passes Spokane in population?
I'll be having dental work that day. Go ahead and try to top that. I'm no fan of Valentine's Day performance romance. But my 2013 plan might set some sort of record. Of course, I won't be in the dentist's chair all day. At least…
Today's Slice question: How many of Spokane's old telephone exchange word prefixes can you recall?
On Dec. 11, 1959, an episode called "And When The Sky Was Opened" first aired. Some early astronauts come back from a flight and then, one by one, begin vanishing -- along with any record of their mission. It's an OK episode. But the thing…
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Those loose, foam packing peanuts. But you'll have to get in line behind me.
The three wise men are Fragile, Liquid and Perishable.
And you can't help but wonder if people with shiny baubles to sell suspect women are not especially interesting people.
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Today's Slice question: How would the Inland Northwest be different if you had never been born?
When you see this, what goes through your mind? A) Appears Santa got gunned down. B) Those reindeer look as if someone tossed a bucket of water on them, like when the Wicked Witch got taken out that way. C) 'Tis the season for festive…
The fact that seemingly every time you take your car in for servicing and they wash it before sending you on your way, you then drive off onto wet streets and a grime-filled mist created by traffic. So, in essence, your car wash lasts approximately…
My advice is to do a Google image search on "Calvin and Hobbes snowmen" when you get a chance.
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On walking through the kitchen and sticking a tasting finger in cake batter?
It's one thing to remember the name of someone you haven't seen in a long time when you bump into that person in a store or on a sidewalk. Coming up with "Steve" or "Chris" is a good feeling. But some of us aren't satisfied…
Overheard at the Elk Cafe in Spokane's Browne's Addition (two twentysomething guys talking about a new hire at some local business): "Does he have any ideas?" "Not new ones." "Well, then they aren't ideas."
Overheard at the Thai Cafe: A waiter was explaining the system of ranking spicy-hot dishes when a first-time patron asked "So, like three stars, how hot is that in Mexican?"
Today's Slice question: Do people who grew up in one part of Spokane but now live in an altogether different section of the city retain any loyalty to their old neighborhood?
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