An elderly W. H. Auden once joked that his face looked like “a wedding cake that had been left out in the rain.”
Well, I’m hopefully not there quite yet, But, still … look at those crow’s feet!
The Nerd at 54.
“Steppe. Cornfield.” Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1875
Remembering 9/11, 25 years later.
Never forget.
Photo credit: usembfinland, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
“The old world is dying …”
Nolan Family Gravestones in County Cork, Ireland
Photo credit: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cover to “The Savage Dragon” #159, Erik Larsen, 2010
Image Comics.
Cool shirt, Buk!
I happened across this meme on my hard drive just the other day. I don’t know who made it (though I will cheerfully give credit here if the individual steps forward). [UPDATE — the creator is none other than Brian Whitmore. 🙂 ]
That is, of course, Charles Bukowski wearing a t-shirt with the face of the late, wonderful Matthias Kruger.
Matthias founded Newington Blue Press in Germany. It was a platform that gave so many independent creators an opportunity to see their work featured in beautifully rendered chapbooks devoted to Bukowski. (I was one of them.)
Matthias is known to have had an excellent sense of humor. I think the meme below would have made him smile.
Cover to “The Red Mother” Volume 2, Jeremy Haun, 2020
BOOM! Studios.
Statue of Confucius at Beijing temple, photo by Mx. Granger, 2013
“When you see someone worthy, try to match them in their virtue. When you see someone not worthy, search yourself for their faults.”
— Confucius, Analects, Book 4:17
Dear Waffle House,
If lovin’ you is wrong, then I don’t wanna to be right.
Sincerely,
Eric Robert Nolan
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 