Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:45 PM

To all of the people who think its perfectly okay to treat food service workers like dirt, shame on you. Does it make you feel better when you get to yell, scream & insult people who have no way of defending themselves, without losing their jobs? I take crap from people like you everyday & I can't do anything but smile & apologize, when all I want to do is jump the counter & beat that attitude out of you. People like you have threatened me, thrown things at me; called me worthless, stupid & other names that I would never repeat. But I know I am none of those things, I'm just a kid trying to pay my way through college so that one day I can become a better person than you. I can't wait for the day someone ridicules & embarrasses you at your work, just like you did to me & my coworkers. And the next time you make a girl cry because she got you the wrong drink or yell at guy because he can't accept your coupon; I hope there is someone there to stick up for those people, and kick your A**.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:44 PM

Who works in a meat dept. As a young single mother, I was looking to meet someone, so I took the chance of putting myself out there & gave you my phone number. Not only did I give you my number, you called me 10 minutes after I gave you the number and asked to take me out that Thursday & I never heard back from you again. I returned to the store a few weeks later with my friend that I was with when you got my number & you had absolutley NO recollection of who I was & why I looked so pissed. It's too bad for you I must say because now you will never know what a good woman is, a$$hole.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:44 PM

My Mac Book Pro from The Elk on Sun. Aug. 15th. I need it for school and it's not even paid off. I'm so sad & broke & disheartened. I beg you.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:43 PM

Jeers to a certain Airway Heights bar. You always find some reason to not let me and my friends in. Time before last it was a cracked ID, this time it was a verticle ID. Just because its a verticle ID it should still be accepted, it shows the birthdate on it, why renew an ID when its still good for 3 years just to get into your bar. If you don't want us to be there why not just say it.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:42 PM

Thanks for shooting out the window of my car. Trying to explain to my 3 year old why someone would do such a thing was awesome. You are a worthless piece of @*#!. And that's what I told her. We are struggling to survive. The costs of the repairs was definitely NOT in our budget. If your motive was to ruin a family's Sunday outing, then job well done. You'll get what you deserve someday. You moron. Peace

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Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:42 PM

To the lowlife lazy piece of dogdirt who stole my beautiful plant from a N. Spokane restaurant on Aug. 18th! Wow - my crew worked their ass off this summer to keep our plants alive! At least we hope you do the same! Next time go purchase your own!

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Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM

August 15, Rosauers at 14th & Lincoln. Tall, skinny guy that left his 2 dogs in his car. It was hot out & your windows were barely open. 2 people were concerned enough that they went into the store trying to find the owner. The dogs were hot & panting. My mother was one of those concerned people. When she tried to tell you that your dogs were hot? What did you do? You said the F word over and over! You swore at my mother, who is 82 years old, & the other lady, over and over! Do you have any idea what a total jackhole you are?!?! You are so lucky that I wasn't there because I would have called the police. My mother was trying to tell you that she was concerned about your dogs and all you did was tell her off.  How DARE you talk to her like that! How dare you talk to any elderly person like that! She and the other lady cared about the fact you left your dogs in a hot car and yet you stood there, said it wasn't their problem and proceeded to tell them off. I cried when my Mom came home and told me what happened. My mother is the most caring, generous person in the world and for some sleezebag to treat her like that? It makes me angry. And sad. I watch out for her and it makes me sick to my stomach that some twit talked to  her like that. You should be ashamed of yourself!

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Posted By on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:34 PM

Each Wednesday on Bloglander, we'll be giving you a taste of happy hours going on at bars around town that night. Here's our first installment:

Four B's and a G to calm your thirst this Wednesday.

At the Baby Bar $1 grilled cheese sandwiches will pair nicely with $1 PBRs.

At the Big Foot Tavern 12oz cans of Bud Light, Budweiser, Coors Light and Miller Light cost $1.75. The cocktail Malibu Breeze goes for $4.

At the Blue Spark, order yourself a bucket containing five domestic beers for $12. A happy hour from 4-8 pm offers well liquor for $3.50 per shot and food plates from $3-$4.

Up north at the Bluz at the Bend, Bullblasters and Washington Apples cost $4. Robert Mondavi Cabernet and Townsend Pink Table bottles are half price.

At the Grail Bar in Coeur d'Alene order one well drink and you will receive three. That's buy-one-and-get-three. That is two for free.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:41 PM

College football is well-known for its storied rivalries: Ohio State-Michigan, Army-Navy, even goody-two-shoes like BYU-Utah get in on the fun. According to the media apparatuses at Eastern and Portland State, it's time to add one more name to that list.

Yes, that's right, in a frenzied fit of marketing, the two schools have announced the 2010-2011 Dam Cup, to be competed for in five different sports; soccer, volleyball, football, men's basketball and women's basketball.

The stated purpose of the Dam Cup is to "create a rivalry between Portland State University and Eastern Washington University and provide a sense of pride between alumni in the Portland and Spokane areas," according to the news release. Because nothing spells "artificial rivalry" like "inventing a trophy that holds no significance."

The Dam thing is named as such in honor of the four different dams (so naturally they would use five different sports) one passes on the drive between the two campuses. But how does one award a cup that involves five different sports? Why, by devaluing certain sports, of course. The breakdown is as follows:

Women's soccer (1 pt x 1 game) = 1 point
Volleyball (2 pts x 2 matches) = 4 points
Men's basketball (2 pts x 2 games) = 4 points
Women's basketball (2 pts x 2 games) = 4 points
Football (4 pts x 1 game) = 4 points

The winner will be whoever receives a majority (nine of a possible 17) during the course of the Dam competition period. For those of you following at home, you'll notice they made a foolproof formula — except soccer can end in ties, like the EWU-PSU game did last year. Though last year's scoring wound up at 10.5-6.5, all it would have taken was one EWU win in men's basketball to finish the Dam competition in a deadlock.

Ridiculous arbitrary point systems aside, there's also the arbitrary rivalry quotient of this Dam plan. Though the teams have faced off against each other on the gridiron 32 times (the first in 1968, a 19-13 PSU victory), they did not do so steadily until 1990. And call me an old-timey curmudgeon if you must (you damn kid, you), but a 20-year-history is not enough to warrant the creation of a trophy-bestowing series. Especially since PSU's men's basketball team has only existed continually since 1986.

Hey, Eastern? Isn't it bad enough we have to hear you constantly harp about your Redrum Stadium? Maybe you should let some of the Dam ephemera slide.

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Posted By on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:12 PM

We TV watchers love our season finales. We celebrate them, we rank them, we debate them. But the season premiere — the time when our beloved show finally returns from its hiatus — can be just as vital. That first hour or half-hour are when viewers are lost or gained.

Fortunately, since Bloglander is the go-to guide for screenwriters and TV showrunners alike, we're here to help.

Five Rules for a Great Season Premiere

1. Remind us what we love about your show. Take this through more drafts than your mid-season episodes. Craft it again and again in the writers room. If the season finale is your best episode of the season (and it should be) the season premiere should be the second best. If it's a comedy, find the best premise you've brainstormed so far. If it's a serialized drama, give us major plot momentum, hint at the season's overall plot, establish the stakes, and tease the villain. If it's a procedural drama with no major serialized elements, well, then give David Caruso a killer cold-open one-liner, I suppose.

2. Don't cheapen the season finale. So you left viewers with a season finale episode. That. Changed. Everything. At least, according to the promos. Well, don't Change. Everything. Right. Back.

Too many shows do this. Everyone quits, then everyone is hired back on. The big cliffhanger is resolved within seconds. (The gun was full of blanks! Or the bullet misses! Or it was all just a virtual reality simulation the entire time!) If we return to Chuck to find the blown-up "Buy More" totally rebuilt, if we return to Jack Bauer to find that, hey, he's back from the Chinese prison he was heading for already, we lose the impact. If you advertise a game-changer, let it change the game. At least for a while. While a few shows (like Lost and Angel) reinvent themselves each season, most eventually need to return to the status quo. But give it some time. Part of Breaking Bad's strength this season is that it actually had the guts to spend half the season dealing with Walt fighting with his wife before he returned to the world of meth-making. The show had enough faith in itself to know that the "premise" didn't have to be a cage.

3. Savor the reintroductions. Every show is composed of little elements in the world that audience has grown to love. There's the setting. There's the little bits of inside jokes or call-outs that comprise the setting. And there are the characters themselves. Here's the opportunity to highlight the personality of each character and world. In each of their opening moments, remind us that Greendale is a crappy college, that Dr. House is acidic, that Christopher Chance is a badass.

A bit cliche?  Perhaps. But there's bad cliche, and then there's fun cliche. This is the latter. ---

4. Give us an actual episode. We want to see our television show. Our actual television show.  Later in the season, we don't mind if you give us dream episodes or musical episodes or what-if episodes or my-god-the-curse-turned-him-into-a-Muppet episodes. If it's a series that has an over-arching ongoing plot ("mythology," we like to call it) you better not give us a humdrum case-of-the-week and expect us to be satisfied. Advance the story in your typical format. No gimmicks.

5. Careful with the time skips, Skippy. Television loves to throw in a  "5 years later" between seasons. Makes sense. It gives the writers a fresh slate of possible plots to work with. They can change a character's personality to something entirely new and spend the rest of the season obliquely referring to "the incident." Sometimes it works. The time skip on Battlestar Galactica gave the show four of its best episodes. But most of the time it seems a bit lazy. The advantage of television over, say, a movie, is that it allows us to watch character development in nearly real time. Over five seasons, the wuss can turn into a bad-ass or the asshole can begin to discover the heart-of-coal. Whenever that happens off screen, we miss out on watching our characters become different people.

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Armenian Festival @ Downtown Spokane

Sat., July 26, 1-5 p.m.
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