And we are grateful to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Photo credit: Tom McClintock, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
On Memorial Day, we remember the fallen.
Allison’s Haiku
A portraiture of
heterochromia are
your rococo eyes.
Photo credit: Socrasal, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Portrait of Daughter Mary Stuck With a Wreath of Daisies,” Franz von Stuck, circa 1910
“To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived …”
Cover to “Batman” #1, Jorge Jiménez, 2025
DC Comics.
Poster for “Alien: Earth” Season 1 (2025)
FX, Hulu.
Today’s portmanteau:
Here at the Nolan household, we take our neologisms very seriously — especially the portmanteaus.
There is an individual important to us with a penchant for improvising some rather baroque cusswords — and often a string of them. (Holy shit.)
Let it be known that baroque cussin’ will hereafter be known as “baroqussin’.” And thata string of baroqusses shall be know as a “baroqcusstring.”
Illustration of a Cat Bird from “A History of North American Birds,” by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway, 1905
Boston: Little, Brown.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 