It looks like they’ve started constructing the framework for the next set of buildings on Campbell Avenue where the former bus station was razed. This picture doesn’t quite do it justice — but it has a postindustrial, otherworldly look to it around twilight. I thought it was neat.
I almost wrote “infrastructure” instead of “framework” in the first sentence above. But I’ve read that engineers roll their eyes at the word, because laypeople invariably use the term incorrectly.
These commercials were ubiquitous in the early 1980’s in the New York metropolitan area. Here’s the weird thing — I grew up in New York, and I didn’t know a single person who actually dialed this number.
But there was evidently a market for this. There have been a few pay-call services like this since the 1970’s. Weird world — one of the first was operated as a hobby by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
DC Comics.
I’m very happy to see that The Roanoke Star has featured my latest letter to the editor — about people who draw a comparison between the January 6th attack on the Capitol and protests by Black Lives Matter. You can find it right here.
Thanks, as always, to Publisher Stuart Revercomb for allowing me to share with my neighbors in Roanoke via The Roanoke Star.
Disneyland Records.
I’m quite happy tonight to see that the Bristol Herald Courier published my latest letter to the editor — about people trying to rationalize the January 6th attack by pointing at Black Lives Matter protests. You can read it online right here.
Thanks once again to Managing Editor Roger Watson for allowing me to share my thoughts via this first-rate news provider for Southwest Virginia.
Oil on canvas.
“You’re upset about January 6th? WHAT ABOUT THE BLM RIOTS?!?!”
Translation: “If some Black person, somewhere in America, has committed a crime, then whatever crime I wish to commit should be considered equally acceptable.” (Brought to you by “the party of law and order.”)
This is arguably the worst “whatabout.” You sound like a kid demanding the exact same amount of ice cream as your brother. Except … you’re not a kid. You’re an adult. And we’re not talking about ice cream. We’re talking about political violence — something that imperils our common Republic and endangers the innocent everywhere on the political spectrum. The sane will ever condemn it, whether it originates from the right or the left.
You don’t sound like a citizen who wants the best for America. You sound like a psychopath with a blood-stained scorecard.
Fuck off.
“Medicine.” Made by an anonymous sculptor before 1745.
Photo credit: Szczebrzeszynski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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