Funny as Hell Cartoon #3
Eli Connaughton Jordan, who did the cover illustration for my new book (as well as my first book), also submitted all 3 of the Funny as Hell cartoon drawings I’ve posted. She submitted them as […]
Author: Bill Spencer
Bill Spencer is author of the book Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh (Humor Outcasts Press 2020). His humor writing has been published by Funny Times, Narrative magazine, Reader's Digest, The Sun, The Inconsequential, Clever magazine, Defenestration, The Short Humour Site, Hobo Pancakes, and Nuthouse. He has also published scholarly articles on the novels of Cormac McCarthy and is co-author of an unproduced screenplay, "Angel Pays a Visit." He lives in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife, artist-poet Carolyn Elkins.
Home Alone
It pains me to admit this. But I’m a man. In contrast, my wife, to her great credit, is a woman—an artistic, multitasking, husband-helping, spouse-supporting woman. And it seems to me that gender might play […]
Humor Bites
What’s that Funk? Even at the age of five, my stepson was sensitive to idioms. Once when there was a musty smell in the car, I asked him, “Have you been petting a wet dog?” […]
Get out of My Head, Psychic Spouse!
I don’t think anyone would describe me as overly woo-woo or inclined to superstition. I’m also not taking any prescription drugs or ingesting any controlled substances of any kind. Finally, I don’t remember anyone ever […]
My Wife’s Death-Dealing Slippers
First off, I don’t at all mean to imply anything about the smell of my wife’s slippers. Don’t think for a second I’d stoop to implying, even in jest, that Carolyn’s slippers are so stinky […]
Bad Reflexes
Back in the early 1970s, my father bought an old camper that we could electrify by plugging it in to a very long string of extension cords. If we joined all the cords correctly, the […]
