“Be careful, when fighting muenster, that you yourself do not become the muenster. And stare not into the brie, because the brie also stares into you.”
— Friedrich W. Cheezsche, Beyond Good and Cheezil, 1886
All posts by Eric Robert Nolan
“Donauwellen,” Koloman Moser, 1901
Color lithograph.
Neologism needed.
If a group of cows is called a herd, and a group of crows is called a murder, then a group of nerdy reading glasses is called a … syllabus?
A calculus course?
An AV club?
(If anyone gets offended by this, it’s worth noting that these are MY reading glasses. Yeah, I buy ’em in bulk. I’m HARDCORE. ALL MY SONNETS ARE *GHETTO,* YO.)
Cover to “Grendel Tales: Devil’s Hammer” #3, Matt Wagner, 1994
Dark Horse Comics.
(You’ll get to Denver, at the very least.)
“Calinerie,” Leon François Comerre
Oil on canvas.
CAFFEINE IS A SUPERFOOD.
That is all. That is my advice for today.
Update — just try, if anyone should even touch you on the shoulder, not to FREAK THE #@$% OUT and start speaking in tongues.
Cover to “Grendel: War Child” Paperback, Matt Wagner, 2001
Dark Horse Comics.
“there is a loneliness in this world so great …”
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movements of
the hands of a clock
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it blinking in neon signs
in Vegas, in Baltimore, in Munich
there are people so tired
so strafed
so mutilated by love or no
love
that buying a bargain can of tuna
in a supermarket
is their greatest moment
their greatest victory
— from Charles Bukowski’s “the crunch”*
* There are multiple different versions of this poem in which the text varies.
Photo credit: By Theo Crazzolara – Waiting, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54570965
