“The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Toward Infinity.” Odilon Redon, 1882

Lithograph.

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“NSA teleporter, catastrophic malfunction.”

These are always fun.

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Newly vacant lot between Campbell and Salem Avenues, Roanoke, VA, July 2022

This is after the buildings facing Campbell Avenue (including the former Campbell Court bus station) were razed.  The latter two shots were taken from Salem Avenue, looking south.

“Raze” is a weird word. Its antonym is also its homophone (“raise”).



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“The Cook” from “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, 17th Century

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Lavender Outside Virginian Station, Roanoke, VA

Cover to Nolan Miller’s “Why I Am So Beat,” Cover Art by Bernard Barton, 1954

Ace Books.

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Intersection of Salem Avenue with Second Avenue, Roanoke, VA, July 2022

(Before Second Avenue becomes Gainsboro Road heading north at the overpass.)

I can’t emphasize enough what a quiet city this is.  What you see is what passes for a somewhat busy Tuesday morning.



Cover to “Venom” #4, Michael Mckone, 2011

Marvel Comics.

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Eric Robert Nolan reads “Haiku for a Coy-Eyed Girl”

Feign innocence, you
sly, lascivious dove, you
feral butterfly.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan



Variant cover to “Batman” #50, Alex Ross, 2018

Variant cover A.  DC Comics.

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