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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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RSPA: Things That Give Me the Willies

1. Buying a plastic 2-liter bottle of soda in a convenience store and looking up to see Spokane Police Officers suddenly entering.
2. My first day on a job at a Walmart photo studio and having Dan Gookin show up and ask for "a glam shot that will make me look Mayoral"
3. Same as #2 but with Mike Kennedy ;)
4. Finally meeting Dan of the County at Twin Lakes and having him ask me if he could snap pics of me rope swinging nude on Lower Twin.
5. Finally meeting Bayview Herb and having him bludgeon me with his banjo and when I wake up I realize I'm buried in a red ant nest and I've got a really tasty potato salad smeared all over me.
6. Same as 5 except Herb's loaning me a fiver and I notice it's kinda damp as I fold it and put it in my wallet.
7. Wondering.
8. Wondering.
9. Getting hooked on Lower Twin Lakes by a couple of bubba fishermen trying to snag trophy sized pike.
10. Stumbling into a huge North Idaho marijuana field with resinous buds the size of my fist and meeting an AK-47 packin' and bandoliered Alice Rankin who says "It's the mulch, skippy, now vamoose before I cut you up like a homemade banana bread"



Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.