Humor

It’s Time to Decide Where You Stand

Wally Bobblenic
 
 Chaffee County, CO
June 11, 2009
 
 Have you all heard about this new fangled development in Buena Vista? I believe they’ve dubbed it “South Main.” I haven’t spent any time there, but I hear tell they’ve got all the hoity toity accouterments you’d expect in a New Urban, apocalyptic, survivalist cult: right down to an outdoor… »

“Yesterday, All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away”

Wally Bobblenic
 
May 19, 2009
Buena Vista, CO
 
Well, here comes summer and the children will soon be unleashed upon us.  While for the last nine months we could count on seven undivided hours of peace, five days a week, we now need to accept the inevitable.
 
I’m gonna miss those winter afternoons when I could glide down the… »

Ask Your Uncle Rocco

Dear Uncle Rocco
 
While I have a lot of friends in town, I sometimes wonder why there aren’t more young adults that live in Buena Vista year-round?
 
Signed,
 
Tom the Dancing Bug
 
Dear Tom,
 
Small towns all over the country are having a tough time retaining their young people. With the corporate takeover and mechanization of agriculture, there have been… »

Brother Deer

Wally Bobblenic
 
As a relative newcomer to Buena Vista, I am constantly perplexed by the abundance of deer in this small town. How the town’s foliage can sustain such a massive number of them is mind-boggling in itself. No doubt it has, in part, to do with so many of our kindly residents graciously exposing their… »

Ask Your Uncle Rocco

Dear Uncle Rocco,

I have a problem. There are so many interesting things to do, places to go, people to meet, and not enough hours in the day, days in a year, years in a lifetime. Please advise how I should do all these things and not become a complete beeatch in the process.

Signed,
Not Sleeping in… »

Ask Your Uncle Rocco

Dear Uncle Rocco,

My husband of 10 years and I have always had a fairly intimate marriage. I’ve noticed, however, that about the time the current recession took hold, our intimacy, in and out of the bedroom, started to wane. The recession looks like it could be protracted. Should I expect the same of our… »

Long Live the Car

Wally Bobblenic
 
I want to say something that I think a lot of my townsmen have been thinking for a long time:  I believe bicycles and those who ride them are a nuisance and an impediment to the smooth, orderly flow of our town’s daily transport!  Boy, it feels good to get that off my chest. … »