My Cousin Elmo says, “We are a sad generation with happy pictures.”

Running late Friday morning, still needing to deliver the Dayton Valley Dispatch to the farther reaches of Lyon County, I was merrily speeding along U.S. 50, coming to the hill that drops into Stagecoach, when I saw it. That ‘it’ was a bright, silvery figure running across the sagebrush-strewn landscape. Stepping hard on my old…

My Cousin Elmo says, “Counting to ten only makes it premeditated.”

caught in the rat race asphalt mazes everywhere smith and jones and cheese

wild billy baggens in one shot, fell from the skies earning angels wings On Friday, August 19, 2022, shortly after noon, law enforcement officials confirmed that a man who had holed up in a home adjacent to a burning garage in El Cajon was found dead. The incident prompted the callout of a SWAT team…

My Cousin Elmo says, “The Earth is neither round or flat. It’s fucked.”

“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white–then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place…” Tam o’ Shanter, Robert Burns, 1790 The press machine hummed and thrummed as I…

Since the weekend, I have been experiencing problems with my truck’s left blinker. I turn it on, and then it fails to turn off, unlike my right blinker, which works perfectly. After this morning, I know I need to repair it. Turning off Pyramid Highway and into the Walmart parking lot, I noticed a silver…

My Cousin Elmo says, “People who hate capitalism know it gives their job skills a value far below their sense of entitlement.”