Do people strike poses like this where you work?
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The Slice archive for May 2011
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011
All aboard 2
After being at the train station early this morning, I've been thinking I'm in the mood to watch a train movie. Time magazine came up with a list of the 10 best last year. "Strangers on a Train." "The Great Train Robbery." "Silver Streak." "The…
Bloom alert
Often when I correspond with Wayne Pomerleau, it's about our favorite movie Westerns. But this time, he had something else on his mind. "The bushes are coming into bloom in the Lilac Garden at Manito Park," he wrote. "If your readers wait half a month…
All aboard
"Spokane Intermodal Facility" might be one of the more blah names you'll ever encounter. But inside, there's a sign that has to be among the most evocative: "To Trains."
What's the local connection?
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Just wondering
How many times are you willing to ask "What are you selling?" before telling the person who won't give you a straight answer to get off your porch?
Play along at home
Today's Slice column involves replacing 40 animal references in song titles with "Marmot" or "Marmots." You know. "I've Got a Marmot By the Tail." And so on. But by no means did I exhaust the possibilities. So I invite you to try your hand at…
Ever consider booing the audience?
Went to see "Bridesmaids" over the weekend at RPS. There's a scene where the woman at the center of the story is at her mother's home watching the 2000 Tom Hanks movie, "Cast Away." She reacts emotionally to a wrenching scene involving the born-of-isolation friendship…
Some still quote that line about Spokane
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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011
Slice Blog Advisory Board Critiques Week 1
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Gettin' nostalgic with it
Slice reader Eric Rieckers weighed in on bygone Spokane movie theaters. "I miss the State (now Bing Crosby) Theater. My grandma lived across the street above the old Travo's (now Agave) and she took me to see 'High Anxiety' there in 1977. I was 8…
Slice Group Retail Consulting
Is it too much to ask that I be allowed to enter or exit Rite Aid without the sensors at the door setting off accusatory-sounding beeping? Maybe it's just me. I can see the store employees wanting to know when someone is coming in or…
What's the local connection?
www.softshoe-slim.com
By any other name
The other day, I mentioned the practice of referring to neighbors by nicknames. That prompted a note from a South Hill waitress. "We have plenty of code names for some of our customers," she wrote. Among the examples she shared were "The good son," "Bionic…
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011
Thursday bonus nonsense
On "The Big Valley," Audra Barkley was known for saying: A) "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges." B) "I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar." C) "Who ARE those guys?" D) "Good morning, mother." www.possumsal.com
Slice Blog Advisory Board Critiques Day 4
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What's the local connection?
www.livedash.com
40th anniversary looming
It was over a long Fourth of July weekend in 1971 that the Universal Life Church "picnic" took place at North Idaho's Farragut State Park. It was actually a multi-band rock concert and celebration of what someone once described as "a morally casual attitude." Some…
Slow in what sense?
Jeff Clausen enjoys this sign at NorthTown so much he decided to take a picture of it.
Slice answer
Today's Slice column in print included a multiple-choice exercise in which readers of a certain age were asked to characterize their role during dodgeball back in school. Ashley Steinhart selected the last option, "Other." "Non-violent Peace Protestor," she wrote. "Hell NO, I won't GO! Threw…
Doing the wave
Now in my fourth year of three-season bicycle commuting, I've gotten to where I can usually tell when another Spokane cyclist is not going to return a friendly wave. So I have pretty much abandoned the practice of acknowledging bike riders decked out in such…
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
Built 'em all, with brutal results
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Slice Blog Advisory Board Critiques Day 3
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Just wondering
Are you more interested in criminal proceedings if the alleged perpetrator or victim is good-looking?
Today's photo of a B-24 in action
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