The Spovangelist

There is a new bar on 2nd and Cedar called the Kick Ass Saloon. Apparently the owners thought it too offensive to display the word “Ass” on their signage, so a Ren and Stimpy style donkey with obscenely large testicles takes its place. Make of it what you will.

Basketball is a numbers game. From twenty feet away, the idea of putting an inflatable ball with a diameter of roughly nine and a half inches into a basket that is eighteen inches across and ten feet from the ground should defy physics. But that is precisely what happened countless times this last weekend with [...]

Spokane is a city full of khaki, blue and gray. When people deck themselves out in black around here it is often meant to signify something. To some it is anti-social and threatening. To others it is a sign that someone isn’t bound by confining social norms and is more likely to accept you for [...]

This man didn’t bat an eyelash when I asked if I could take his picture. He jumped right in to explain that he’d been trampled by horses. “I’ve done it all,” he said, waving to a broken cheekbone. Pick-up line: “You’d make a good jockey with that slim figure of yours.” Another verbatim quote: “I [...]

We took a bike ride up to Worley, Idaho yesterday, and I saw this beautiful thing. Since I grew up in a Catholic family where nobody was naked – EVER, the whole concept of a family nudist resort makes me a little uncomfortable. Make of it what you will.