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Pat Cashman | ‘The Play’s the Thing’
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Pat Cashman | My record as a handyman not a winning one
I remember it vividly from many years ago. I had sneaked up to my young son’s bedroom door…
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Pat Cashman | Facing up to our problems, one foot at a time
I can still remember the day Mark Hughes decided he would spend the rest of his life indoors.…
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Pat Cashman | Modern dangers now include Gamer’s Thumb, Stylus Finger and Raver’s Wrist
I walked into a neighborhood coffee joint last week and noticed that the barista’s left eye was swollen…
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Pat Cashman | Bill Gates and Napoleon: is that an insult, or what?
I was standing on a street corner last week waiting for the crosswalk light to change. All of…
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Pat Cashman | Call him ‘chief’ or call him ‘czar,’ he’s still pretty funny
The title is spelled variously – Czar, Tsar, and sometimes Tzar. And Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske is…
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Pat Cashman | Learning to ‘single’ task in a multi-tasking world
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were watching the DVD of Titanic, when she suddenly –…
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Pat Cashman | A ‘frivolous’ cruise becomes trip of a ‘life’ time
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were home watching the movie Titanic when she suddenly hit…
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Pat Cashman | Things, even faces, are ‘natural’ in Canada
See the picture of the goofy-looking guy that accompanies this column? Well, that’s nothing. You should have seen…
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Being presidential can leave you out in the cold
There’s enough inherent drama in next week’s presidential inauguration that you might think it wouldn’t be necessary for…
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Describing a Christmas pageant in two words
On a very late night recently in downtown Seattle, I saw a scene unfolding that looked like big…
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If my IQ is so high, why am I in the gutter
Last year, after one of this area’s odd and paralyzing snowstorms, I watched a very dumb guy in…
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Things (you wish) you didn’t know about slugs
When Noah was getting ready to push off with his ark, the story goes, God told him to…
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Before you go to sleep, remember this…
Here’s a headline for you: “A NEW STUDY HAS COME OUT!”
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Everybody wants to be the best at something
T here was almost a very ugly confrontation at a Fred Meyer store the other day: Two guys…
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Next on the endangered list: chairs!
While out for a jog the other day (a jog that turned into a sprint when a German…
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A broken tooth is nothing to smile about | Pat Cashman
Looking for something fun to do? Here’s an idea: Take a pen or black magic marker to the…
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Three things that just make you wonder
In our modern day swirl of grim and grimmer economic news, it would seem difficult to find many…
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It’s time again for us to face the needle
Season’s greetings to you! I mean the flu and cold season, of course.
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Hey, dude – and, yes, I’m talking to you
When I was a teenager, I remember watching TV at Dean Cartmill’s house. Dean was my best friend…