One thing about this part of the country
You never know when a woman with whom you are dealing might be a former barrel racer. www.truewestproductions.org
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TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2011
Battle of the breakfast cereal predators 1
Who was your favorite? www.mrbreakfast.com www.westfieldcomics.com
Imagining our feathered friends attacking 1
Sometimes, early in the morning, there are more crows and gulls moving around downtown than there are people. And when one of the birds gives you a certain kind of look, well, it can conjure visions of an old movie. www.hitchcock.tv
MONDAY, JULY 18, 2011
Pros/cons of license-spotting in Spokane 1
Summer is license plate-spotting season -- at least for those of us who were or still are geography nerds. As Spokane is in a pretty remote location, we are not inundated with steady streams of license plates from all over. That could be viewed as…
Would this be worth more now or less? 1
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Don't wait a week or so to try these
www.sustainableisgood.com
You might want to sit down for this
Oh, OK. You already are sitting. Well, here's the thing. I'm not quite sure how to put this. But apparently some advertising stretched the truth a bit. I know. Shocking. My dad had a Corvair. And though it was kind of fun and all, rapid…
How often does this really happen? 6
I'm referring to coming home and finding your co-workers there in your house. www.toobworld.blogspot.com
Join in celebrating 200th Night Spokane
Festivities include selecting what you're going to wear Tuesday and then getting to bed early.
Once lighting up the night in Spokane
www.picslag.blogspot.com How many shacks in songs can you name? I'll start with sugar, love and psychedelic
SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2011
You make the call
In all of Gem State sports history, where would you rank Idaho State's upset of UCLA in the 1977 NCAA basketball tournament? www.campusexplorer.com
Family road trips and motel memories 1
Among those of a certain age, one way to get a good conversation going is to ask: When your family went on summer road trips, at what kind of places did you spend the night? Answers are all over the map. Some grew up with…
C'mon, get happy 1
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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011
Cold war, segregation and after-thirst 1
www.vintageadbrowser.com
Which car-wash tactic is most effective? 1
If you go out in your car on a summer weekend in Spokane, you are almost certain to be confronted by high-energy young people wanting to wash your car. Which approach is most apt to make you consider pulling over? 1. Jumping jacks. 2. Having…
Don't forget the life jackets 1
Maybe it's a quirk of the Saturday morning route I take when riding my bike up to get a haircut near North Central High School. But it sure seems like there are a lot of boats for sale. Nothing strange about that, really. Maybe the…
Can you get T-shirts with this logo?
www.trainweb.com
I would never say that to a dog
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…
Everyone had to have one of these 1
www.thinkfasttoys.com
FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011
I'll take Das Spokane Weekend instead 1
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In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there www.musicradar.com
Something that always cracks me up 1
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…
At the risk of painting with a broad brush 1
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…
Who was your favorite FNL character?
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…
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