Gonna pretend to be a Greek mythology professor; gonna tell people my name is Hugh Briss.
Right. My jokes are so funny, even the Gods can’t top ’em.
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“Apocalypse,” Albert Goodwin, 1903
Weird weather.
I just got back from downtown Roanoke — you could easily get away with a t-shirt. It was like this last night too, and earlier this week. This is the mildest winter I can remember.
This is the end of February, people. I honestly wonder if we will not get snow in Roanoke this year at all. I can remember being surprised just a few years ago that I could wear a t-shirt outside at the end of October.
It’s just so striking.
Being a d**k to strangers with my puns.
Poster for “The Boogie Man Will Get You” (1942)
Columbia Pictures.
Throwback Thursday: Bazooka gum!!
It was always the cheapest candy at the store — it cost a nickel in the 1980’s, if memory serves. And you got a free comic strip too, along with a fortune!! We had an unwritten rule on the street I grew up on — you had to pass the comic around to whatever kids you were with so that they could read it too.
It tasted pretty damned good too.
They actually stopped including the comic strips in 2012, and now there are puzzles in the wrapper. (Rome burns.) But now, confusingly, you can buy a “wallet pack” of the gum in which they do include the comics?
I got a bunch of it in my Christmas candy. That was awesome.
Photo credit: Parka Lewis at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
He wants you to scratch his belly here, I think.
I just found this picture cleaning out some computer files. It’s from … 2017, I think? Was that when we had the locusts? I don’t know. I’m losing track of all the various portents and apocalyptic events.
I know the whole raining frogs thing hasn’t happened yet. That I would have remembered.
“After the Rain,” Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1879
Oil on paper mounted on canvas.
The old Raj Food Mart on Shenandoah Avenue, Roanoke, VA
This is from a few years ago, before the bodega was remodeled (and maybe under previous ownership?). This is a stone’s throw from Peters Creek Road.
“Le pont de l’Europe,” Louis Anquetin, 1889
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