Observations in brief Time to write is quite light (not to mention time to rhyme). Nevertheless, a couple of quick observations from the land of money-grubbing churches and ink-pen fancying assassins. So, is it...
The Man in the Green Jacket In my line of work, you are forced to listen to a lot of hooey. A woman calls up: “DSS took my kids away. You really should put...
Bachelor Otis Married Man jokes. He sits around in bars with his buddies and talks about the Marriage Reserves. One weekened a month, two weeks out of the year we’ll be bachelors. Then Bachelor...
Ringing phones In the last few months, and especially in the last few days, we have flinched each time the phone rang. Life and our slippery grip on it has been a major topic...
Terry Tate, Willard Scott, and the Great Felcher Conspiracy Some of RER’s readers might have thought me a little odd. After all, what right-thinking journalist takes time out of his day to point out...
Steamship Earth The world politic is a slow moving engine. It grinds against itself on intricate gears, threatens to overheat, and operates in a way few people understand. Most of its citizens couldn’t draw...
Felcher and Sons … you’ve gotta be kidding me… Okay…a useless catch near the end of the third quarter cost me $125 in Superbowl pool winnings, so I might be a little bitter right...
Well, guess what? Uh-huh. All penis jokes aside…my pipes exploded. In two places. I was going to shower at work today. On my way out the door I heard the river. After a mad...
My penis froze and fell off I hate to be graphic. I really do. I would really prefer if RER were a place your children could learn to read. But this has been one...
He’ll take you where…you wanna go… On a warm spring night, under a stacatto acoustic rhythm, a few slightly inebriated guys chanted that line over and over again. And when it came time for...
The Great Equalizer Those who lament the fate of trailer parks during tornado season have more than likely never been in California during mudslide season, Charleston during hurricane season, or on Paris Mountain during...
Fire on the Mountain Mt. Willis actually sits at the base of another much larger mountain… That much larger mountain, Paris Mountain, is on fire. One homeowner has already lost their house. At this...
Talk about Hazard County On those perfect Springfield, Missouri evenings, those when the crickets started to chirp a little early despite the sun’s insistance on hanging a little bit longer, the only thing that...
Yep As the snow slips softly in and out of town, work slides slowly to the south, and warm times with friends seem far too far in the past… I found a little comfort...
