Barnett, right, with Steve Bragg - 2016
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2006
If you had to divide the world into those who like maple bars and those who don’t, I’d be in the latter group. I break the lead in mechanical pencils because I push too hard. I get the hiccups when I eat toast. Life’s greatest mystery: how can they call ham “no-fat” when you can see the white stuff right there in the slice? Favorite phrase (based solely on frequency): “GET YOUR SHOES ON.” Thank God I never started smoking, because I’m way too compulsive. My car and I haven’t weighed in on the whole fish/Darwin thing. My most sagacious insight: “I DON’T WEAR THEM, SO HOW WOULD I KNOW WHERE THEY ARE?” I don’t put drinking glasses in the dishwasher, because the glass gets etched, and the sensation gives me the willies. It’s sort of a nails-on-chalkboard thing. Favorites: Thomas English muffins, ceiling fans, Pyramid Hefewizen with a hunk of lemon, Phad Thai from this little joint off of 100th Ave., the sound of wind through a long-needled Southern Pine, the novels of Richard Russo and Robert Inman, playing midfield on the left side, cross country skiing alongside Lake Wenatchee, hysterics with my kids. Most moronic phrase ever uttered in a song: “The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle.” More mysteries: Why do ice-cube trays smell so bad? Who is this guy Phillips and why do we have to use his screwdrivers, anyway? And who wrote the word “rhinoceros” in the grout above every urinal in Huntsville High School in 1976? I daydream WAY more than I should. Problem-solving words of wisdom passed on from my parents: “WHERE THE HELL DID YOU TAKE THEM OFF?!” Creative director in a Seattle ad agency. Still play lots of soccer. Two barefoot kids: Kate 10, Wilson 7. Married to a great, adventurous friend with a highly refined sense of humor (she laughs at my jokes). Communicate in sentence fragments. Sit on lots of aluminum bleachers at soccer and baseball fields and swimming pools. Have lots of dimestore theories and observations no one wants to hear…and so on.
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