My Cousin Elmo says, “I’m a ten, but on the pH scale.”

When I first met Tina, she wore a beautiful Victorian-style gown with a corset and bustle underneath. I know this because I asked, which is not being rude as Virginia City reenactors want and like such notice. Tina is her real name, but I only knew her reenactor name, Trixie. Out of costume, makeup, and…

It began as an innocuous posting on social media about an 1872 Nevada-California boundary marker made of cast iron near Verdi, Nev., being added to the National Register of Historic Places on Aug. 27, 1981. Things quickly spun out of control as someone replied, “‘Cast Iron Obelisk’ for when you want something durable, cheap, and…

He was what they were looking for in a subject. His deoxyribonucleic acid was perfect, and he had withstood the various probes they had put him through in their last three visits. For his part, he believed he had been suffering from nightmares. It was the last time, with the full-body paralysis and blue-green lights,…

My Cousin Elmo says, “The last time I had any faith in the News, it was Huey Lewis.”

Hell-Betty and I were walking down from Penelope Pennyworth’s Photographs, where she works, to the Washoe Club to meet her brother Bert the Hurt for a beer. We were chatting about our day, paying little mind to the visitors that filled the wood boardwalk. As we passed the open doorway to the Silver Queen Hotel,…

From Reno’s Radio Row and the Studios of EASY 104.1…

Sitting in the back of Virginia City’s Union Brewery Saloon by myself, I watched a man and woman enter with their dog and take a seat at the bar. Carol Sisco took their order as their pit bull sat down facing me. Every once in a while, the dog would prance his front paws and…

My Cousin Elmo says, “Doctor Jill went up the hill to get her fake diploma then came home to find old Joe in an ice cream coma.”

A few years back, Tonya Ramos and her late husband, Rich Irvin, reached out to me through social media to say ‘hello’ after I wrote my first spiritual encounter in Six-Mile Canyon. The couple wanted to visit Virginia City and that place. Near the beginning of 2022, Rich passed away, leaving Tonya a widow. Then…