A really nice alumna of mine supplied a few more pictures of the destruction of Alvey Hall, after I posted about it yesterday. (Thanks again, Shelby!)
As I mentioned then, the Mary Washington College dorm was actually torn down in 2021.
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Variety is reporting that actor Paul Reubens died from cancer at age 70.
“The Young King of the Black Isles,” Maxfield Parrish, 1906
Oil on canvas.
They leveled my old dorm at Mary Washington College.
No, it wasn’t due to the infamy of me having once lived there. I have not yet fully scandalized a building.
This article is from two years ago — but I just saw this today when an alum shared it.
WOW, the memories I have of that place.
Alvey Hall Demolition at University of Mary Washington
French advertisement for “Secret Invasion” (2023)
Marvel Studios.
“Check yourself before you wreck yourself?”
I’ve got a better one for ya.
EDIT yourself. Before you Eric yourself.
“A Grã-Bretanha, Defensora da Liberdade,” British World War II poster, circa 1945
Poster is in Portuguese language.
Welp. The TV just turned itself on.
AREN’T I ALREADY HAUNTED ENOUGH BY MY OWN DEMONS?
What do I do? Turn it off? That would require that I acknowledge that it happened.
Plus maybe Ghosthomeboy is watching it now.
Update — now there is a thunderstorm brewing as night begins to fall. I am half-convinced that I am still asleep with my nap and dreaming this.
“Portrait of Helene Klimt,” Gustav Klimt, 1898
Oil on cardboard.
I did NOT see Dad coming.
I told the nice young woman who cut my hair that I went to school in Fredericksburg. She said she thought I might have gone to high school with her dad.
For some reason, that made me feel SO old.
Update — people on Facebook have now informed me that the phrase “nice young woman” is employed only by old people.
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