Jon Rombach: January 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

I want the best

Got my new insurance coverage details. Doesn't provide laughter at all and there's a copay for the worse medicines. Great.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Gooses and deers

Frosty one around these parts today. Ungulates and waterfowl hunkered down next to the writer shack.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

When leaving it off is just not enough

Rombach's Pizzeria is pleased to announce our new recipe: Garlic Haters Pizza.

It's not just pizza with no garlic. After you order Garlic Haters our staff is trained to say, "f@&% garlic," and then you say, "yeah."

I can't believe nobody besides vampires has ever thought of this.

Gearboat Chronicles

I worked for years as a radio announcer and dj inside a small, soundproof room. Loved radio, but talking at that microphone in the teeny-tiny booth finally brought on the stir crazies. Shifting to newspaper reporter brought on the just crazies. I needed some outdoors and river guiding in Hells Canyon certainly took care of that. The Gearboat Chronicles are dispatches from the river, updated every Monday. Click that picture up there to connect with the Winding Waters River Expeditions site.

Nice things people say

Moonshine Ink should be spilled on every community. This independent monthly is published by Mayumi Elegado and her band of freedom fighters in Truckee, CA. See for yourself at moonshineink.com.

I moved some words around for them a while back, and Mayumi slipped this in an issue:

"Copy editor Jon Rombach is adept and freaking funny. In one of his recent emails, he had this to say about chopping up copy: '...added the new ones and took a machete to the previous ones. It's at 620 words. I can amputate something else to get to 550 but they might begin reading like fortune cookies...this 'asap' hasn't been very 's' – but I've been attacked by a string of people who interpret ‘busy’ and ‘no-time-right-now’ as their cue to tell a long yarn about how other people interrupt them when they're trying to get [stuff] done. I'm now cloistered in a dark remove, and will push ahead.'"
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Former Chieftain editor Michael Burkett may or may not cheat at Scrabble. I'm not saying he does. The following is from his farewell Chieftain column:

"...I'm going to miss being the first human being on the planet to read the latest column by Jon Rombach. Lest you've somehow failed to notice, this local fellow is a national-level talent. By the way, if you're a fan of easy money, challenge Jon to a game of Scrabble. Even if you've lost half your brain in a tragic...."

well, he starts rambling after that so I'll just cut it there.

Jon Rombach