Dear Mr. and Mrs. Spokane Business Owner, Want to get rid of customers fast and forever? It's simple, really. Just have a van or truck prominently adorned with the name of your establishment and hire a driver who is an utter ass out on the…
I've always liked "Just Like Paradise," but I think, technically, that's a Davd Lee Roth song. In any event, I don't like it $175 worth. Before turning in last night, I read a lovely and generous New York Times piece on a Beach Boys concert…
Well, maybe two phone messages and two emails doesn't quite qualify as "hammered." Seventy five percent of this particular readership subset this morning have been perfectly friendly. (Should that be "has"?) In any event, I have noticed a shift in my attitude about the Grammar…
An episode called "Young Man's Fancy" first aired on May 11, 1962. Intending to stay for just a minute, a just-married couple stop by the groom's vacant childhood home after the wedding. He discovers that he cannot leave. Some regarded this as one of the…
Saying "Happy Mother's Day" to a woman you don't know indicates that you... A) Assume all women are mothers. B) Assume all women should be mothers. C) Are just trying to be friendly. D) Are incapable of comprehending that the values, circumstances and choices guiding…
www.checkoutmycards.com www.images.mitrasites.com Sakata spent all or parts of three seasons in Spokane in the 1970s. www.nerdbaseball.com I seem to recall that my former colleague, Susan English, has some stories about this guy.