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The new building facing Campbell Avenue is coming along nicely.

This video was shot from Salem Avenue to the north.  (Roanoke, Virginia.)



Depiction of “The Ninth Plague: Darkness (Exodus 10:21-23),” Gustave Dore, 1866

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(My teacher friends will like this one.)

Today’s portmanteau:

Slacker + academic = Slackademic.



“At our age we know that nothing lasts forever.”

“At our age we know that nothing lasts forever. We fall in love but we know it won’t be forever. That’s why we take risks, that’s why we give ourselves until we are empty.”

—  Alejandra Pizarnik



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Photo credit: Rachel Samanyi from Seattle.WA, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Image from the opening title sequence of “The Outer Limits” (1995-2002)

Showtime, SyFy.

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“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn …”

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I see Christmas trees.

Franklin Road in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Variant cover to “Batman” #130, Jock, 2022

DC Comics.  Foil variant.

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Nolan needs Dairy Queen.

Nolan needs Dairy Queen.

Don’t make fun and don’t be mean.

I really need to make the scene

Near that fabulous shake machine.



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Photo credit: Mbrickn, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

The times they are a-changin’.

The former Roanoke Times building is now the administration offices for Roanoke City Public Schools.

It feels so weird to me — maybe because the building was one of the first landmarks I remember seeing when I first came to Roanoke.



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