Mississippi Skeeters
Mosquitoes in the Mississippi Delta, where I lived for 25 years, were so bad that you’re not going to believe me when I tell you. They were so bad that when they covered the two […]
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.
World’s Biggest Fan
I’ve been in love with the same woman for 45 years. Please don’t tell my wife. Actually, my wife knows. At the age of 15, I remember being mystified by classmates who acted gaga over […]
Home-Cooked Turkey
When I walked in the door, my heart fell into my stomach. Not literally. That would be a condition known technically in medical circles as “death.” I wasn’t dead; I was just dying inside. Again, […]
Role Model in Reverse
Back when I was a young, naive lad of 35, I embraced as my role model an author famed for his language-humor columns and books. He was doing what I loved—punning and word-playing—and, amazingly, he […]
Human Sexuality 101
I feel so fortunate that I got sexed in college. (Sorry, that should read “fortunate that I got Sex Ed in college.”) Yes, I got lucky. I took Human Sexuality 101 at Mercer University and […]
My Body & Organized Labor
My body has unionized. Every year I’m presented with more and more demands. When I was young, I was able to exploit and abuse my body—make it work overtime without compensation. And I could make […]
Even More Anecdotes Not Taken
This is my third post composed of anecdotes I submitted to Reader’s Digest that were not accepted for publication. Five new ones: Unclear on the Concept When I lived in Mississippi, the local news […]
New Name for the Far Wrong
Extreme conservatives or those on the alt-wrong (I refuse to call them the alt-RIGHT) have settled on certain derogatory slang terms to describe Democrats, including butt-sore liberals, libtards, snowflakes, and cucks (this last term derived […]
