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The Slice archive for March 8, 2012

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012

A modest proposal 

No, this has nothing to do with eating children. Rather, I was thinking perhaps we could simply declare this afternoon to be the prettiest of 2012 and then consider the nominations closed for the remainder of the year. If we devoted the time wasted talking…

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Defining "nearby" in Big Sky Country

Got a note from a Spokane friend who grew up in Montana. He is a graduate of the University of Montana and he watched his alma mater's basketball team playing in Missoula on TV last night. "I was taken aback when the ESPN announcer was…

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Which are not Hitchcock characters?

www.buttondown.mattalgren.com A) Lisa Fremont. B) Jennifer Rogers. C) Kimberly Lusk. D) Jo McKenna. E) Carolyn Lamberson. F) Madeleine Elster. G) Rebecca Nappi. H) Eve Kendall. I) Lorie Hutson. J) Marion Crane. K) Melanie Daniels. www.gonemovies.com

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Blake Shelton to begin doing autopsies 

"Do you ever glance at something and read it quickly...and get it wrong?" wrote Jim Markley. "At the very top of today's Spokesman is a headline that begins, 'Country crooner to play...' "When I took a quick glance at it this morning, I thought, at…

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Remembering the Dave Clark 5

If you are not a certain age, you probably wouldn't understand this. But once upon a time, purchasing this particular record was considered in some circles to be a flagrant act of disloyalty to a another British singing group you might have heard about. www.muskmellon.wordpress.com

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