Was wondering who the hell “Susan Lilly” was.
Then I put my glasses on and saw that caller ID was just telling me “Scam Likely.”
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Variant cover to “Carnage: Black, White & Blood” #4, Stephen Mooney, 2021
Marvel Comics.
2025’s first snow in Roanoke, Virginia
Well … it WAS snowing in Roanoke a little while ago. And it was coming down pretty hard too. Then the sun came out and it vanished completely.
Campbell Avenue at Market Square.
Framed Face Autostereogram by Dominic Alves, 2009
Yes, this is indeed one of those “magic eye” images popularized in the 1990’s. (I still think these things are neat, even if I am pretty hit-or-miss at being able to see them.) “Autostereogram” is a new word for me, but it makes sense if you break the word down.
Incidentally, the “Mallrats” (1995) scene to which I’ve linked above is a blooper. The image contained by the poster at the mall is not a sailboat; it’s a pattern of different geometric shapes. None of the characters could have seen a sailboat. (Seriously, pause the image on a laptop and look.)
If the below image is inscrutable to you, you can check out (or share) the larger image over at Wikimedia Commons.
Future Tense.
BritBud last night: “Happy New Year from the future!”
Me: “Happy New Year from the shameful and sordid past!”
© Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New Year’s greeting card illustrated by Kate Greenaway, circa 1900
Photography, 2024
I was lucky enough to get a few photos published this past year. If you’d like to take a gander at them, all of my published photos can be found in the section below:
Photo of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Mikhail Evstafiev, 1994
Russian writer and Nobel prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn looks out from a train, in Vladivostok, summer 1994, before departing on a journey across Russia. Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile.
