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Cover to “Out of the Shadows” #11, 1954

Standard Comics.  I’m uncertain of the cover artist — but I have seen Ross Andru credited.

“Evening Reading,” Georg Pauli, 1884

Sign outside downtown Roanoke restaurant: “NEAT DRESS REQUIRED.”

I don’t own ANY dresses.

Seriously, though — I actually stood there for a second pondering what sort of sort of slovenly dresses women had worn in order to prompt management to make the rule. (Was it a wild Saturday night?) Because I am slow on the uptake.



“A Finch (Siskin?),” James Sowerby

Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Source: Philosophaire21 on Facebook

Hey, in fairness, they aren’t actually “pandas” either.

True fact — I didn’t really know what red pandas were at one point and I kept referring to them as “those cinnamon raccoons,” and there are still people who laugh at me about it.



Photo credit: Mathias Appel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sculpture of Roger Ebert by Rick Carney, 2014

Outside the Virginia Theater in Champaign, IL.  Photo by “Bordwall,” 2015.

Roger_Ebert_Statue,_Virginia_Theater_(Champaign)

Source: University of Arizona Poetry Center

Found on the Soul Expansion Facebook page.