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.
That Hussy Edutainment
When I went to college back in the Dim Ages (the 1970s), a mobile device was a bicycle, a text was a book you bought, blackboard was what it sounded like (not an “electronic education […]
Jury Doody
If you have a choice between shoveling horse manure and serving on a jury, go with the manure mucking every time, nolo contendere. The two jobs pay about the same, and being a juror involves […]
Baby, I Was Born to Pun
I’m a humorist. But it’s not my fault. It wasn’t a choice. I was born that way. People have exhorted me for years to tell my story. “You oughta write about it,” they said. “You […]