Author Archives: Roger

B.C.

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Roger

I’m not sure why I originally put the B.C. comic strip on my Pop Culture list, but as long as it was there …  Johnny Hart was born in 1931. He sold his first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post … Continue reading →

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Toothday Morning

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Roger

It began a little over a week ago with an on-again-off-again niggling pain in the tooth nearest the gap created when I had my wisdom tooth pulled in October. I thought nothing of it — those type of small discomforts … Continue reading →

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Never In My Life Have I Needed a Bathroom So Badly

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Roger

It had taken us an hour and 50 minutes to get to Dillon from our house. We figured it would take a little longer to get home. For the entire 40 miles from Idaho Springs to Dillon, eastbound traffic had … Continue reading →

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Ice Castles

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Roger

Somebody has figured out how to make icicles and fuse them together to make walls and towers and other formations. The company looks for places — Minnesota, Utah, Alberta —where it stays cold long enough to build a castle. This … Continue reading →

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ProRodeo Hall of Fame

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Roger

I knew the rodeo HOF was in Colorado Springs, but I also knew it wouldn’t be terribly exciting, so I saved it for a bad-weather day. Saturday dawned snowy and messy with more snow promised later. I was the only … Continue reading →

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