Better get out the paddles
Published 10:49 pm Monday, November 10, 2008
Welcome, winter. The rain returns soon after a short break. This means it’s time for the annual wet-season rituals of the Pacific Northwest. You know, clean the gutters, find the rain boots, replace the windshield wipers, rake the leaves, plan a trip to the desert and check your ark for leaks.
Vanessa Fontana, formerly of Mount Vernon, is making a good case to be “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF.”
The show’s not over yet, and she can’t say how it all ends, but she did say “It’s the kind of experience that just keeps giving.”
While some may dream and plot to become best friends with Paris Hilton, there’s a very thin line between a dream and a nightmare.
Corn. It’s what’s for dinner. A new study points out that a lot of food got its start as corn. The chicken ate corn, the cow ate corn, the fries were cooked in corn oil. You get the idea. If you are what you eat, then a lot of us are — what else? — corny. (Rim shot.)
