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April 2015

Where To Next?

Left to right: Mojo director of photography/editor/sound designer Kevin Graham, me, Avista marketing communications manager Colette Bottinelli (photograph courtesy of Mojo). You + more

Next Up: A Plague of Locusts

Remember Richard Dean Anderson? He starred in MacGyver, the 1980s TV show that chronicled “the adventures of a secret agent armed with + more

Has it really been that long?

In my lifetime, there have been 105 solar eclipses, the global supply of bananas per person has doubled, and the East + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

This is a delightful trip down the unlikeliest of rabbit holes: the contranymic nature of the word “no.” Occasionally, however, a + more

A Little Laughter on a Tuesday

McSweeney’s Honest College Rejection Letter is brilliant: You should also know that our committee did not fall for your attempts + more

BOOM!

Went for a stroll the other day and happened to pick up a copy of Clive James’s Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the + more

Maps

Our relationship with maps has always fascinated me. Whether in hard-copy or app format, we expect them to work correctly and be user-friendly. If not, + more

Prost!

Today is National Beer Day. Not that any of us needs an excuse to celebrate, but the backstory is here. If you’re + more

Words of Wisdom

From James Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1776): I gave [Johnson] an account of a conversation which had passed between me and + more

Local Boy Makes Good

I somehow missed the news that Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock, died a couple of days ago. The Spokesman-Review’s Doug + more

Quote of the Day

A lot’s been going on lately. Politically, I mean. Stuff we don’t want to discuss here. Stuff that turns Facebook and + more

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