Now, Where’S That Remote?

Todd Klement’s “Top 10 Things to do While on Strike” include:

Go to lunch with friends that have jobs, so they can buy.

Call significant other three times a day at work, ask what he/she is doing.

Call creditors and discuss “Meaning of life.”

Watch Oprah gain weight.

Teach “old dog” “new tricks.”

It’s not just apples or potatoes: “It doesn’t seem to matter whether I am far from where I grew up or living only three hours away,” wrote Allison Blankenship. “When people discover I was born and raised in Walla Walla, they expect me to be an expert on onions. Quite honestly, I don’t even like onions!”

A reader in St. Maries writes: “After having read `Random Acts of Kindness’ and having had this overwhelming desire to go out and do one, it makes me really sad that when I contemplate what to do about a neighbor who rakes his leaves into my yard that the desire is no longer so overwhelming.”

Great things about fall: Jonathan apples, flight of geese overhead, pumpkin pie, warm sweaters, smell of turkey roasting, morning mist. - Elinor Compton

Cat in the hats: Darlene Brice said a junk dealer friend of hers named Paul wears the coolest around. “He wears Johnny Depp’s hat from `Benny & Joon,’ hats from the 1930s and 1940s, vintage baseball caps, straw hats from pre-Castro Cuba, top hats, fedoras and on and on.”

Slice answers: Never mind about sneezing. “My somewhat younger brother, when he was about 8 (he’s close to 40 now) THREW UP in the silverware drawer,” wrote a woman who, for publication, wants to be known only as “The somewhat older sister in Davenport.”

We also heard from a proud mother in Deer Park who reported that her 8-year-old son not only covers his mouth and nose before sneezing but also reminds others to do the same. So there you go.

Today’s Slice question: Would Spokane support a movie theater open only for weekday matinees that screened a combination of first-run flicks and oldies along the lines of “Casablanca”?