I am occasionally asked how many cows I have, or where my cows are, or something along those lines. It occurs to me that such folks are trying to be smartasses, implying that I shouldn’t be wearing a cowboy hat if I don’t have cows — which they, apparently, consider necessary to be a cowboy. […]
Jim Duke
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The poop scoop
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column repetitiously employs a single expletive. Reader discretion advised. I tried to write this narrative in my head while picking manure this morning. That is when and where I always have the greatest clarity of thought. I should try to write or record while shoveling shit because I can never reproduce that […]
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Senior X Games
Editor’s note: This column was originally printed in the short-lived Roaring Fork Weekly Journal. Watching X Games always keeps me cringing in anticipation of the next serious wreck. While everyone enjoys and appreciates extreme feats of strength and agility, it’s hard to watch healthy young people take such dangerous risks with someone inevitably sustaining serious, […]
