This is Longwood High School in New York, circa … 1988? 1989?
No, I have no idea why my pants are pulled halfway up my chest.
Thanks to alumna Carrie Harbach Schor for passing along this news clipping.
Update: I never got high in high school, but my pants sure as *&^@ did.
Dear Kevin Feige:
Please bring Jessica Jones into the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.
You could balance things out, Thanos-style, by killing off Star-Lord or something! Maybe Groot too, for good measure.
Sincerely,
Eric Robert Nolan
Near Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kyiv.
I’m still getting into the spirit of Halloween with my television viewing. I caught the newest episodes of “The Walking Dead,” and predictably was quite pleased. (I still maintain that the show has returned to fine form for its final episodes.)
I was somewhat less enthusiastic about Marvel’s new special, “Werewolf By Night,” which was too campy and corny for my taste. (I don’t think I am this show’s intended audience … I can hardly remember the eponymous 1970’s horror comics to which it is an homage.)
What I absolutely loved was episode one of “Let the Right One In” — which looks like it might even compete with the new “Interview With the Vampire” as the best new show with the fanged baddies. It’s less like the 2008 Swedish original independent film and more like the 2010 American remake. It’s a grounded, deliberately paced, atmospheric thriller that manages to be scary right from its opening scene. I love it.
DC Comics.
I’m delighted to share here that three of my poems were included in Impspired Magazine Volume 9. The anthology is a print collection composed of writing from Impspired Issues 17 and 18, and includes work from more than 100 writers from around the world. You can find it at Amazon right here.
The pieces authored by me are as follows: “A Churchgoer Passes My Yard on Sunday Morning,” “The Secretary” and “The Bureaucrat.”
Thanks once again to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work published in such an outstanding literary collection! I really am honored.
“Moonrise.” Oil on canvas.
Here’s another early milestone from the legendary animator Winsor McCay — 1918’s “The Sinking of the Lusitania.” (I am linking below to the Under the Spreading Oak Tree Youtube channel.) At 12 minutes long, this silent propaganda film was the lengthiest of its time. It chronicled the sinking of the eponymous British civilian ocean liner three years prior that propelled America into World War I. (It is also regarded as the oldest animated film with a serious subject matter.)
McCay himself supported America’s entry in to the war. His employer, William Randolph Hearst, however, did not. So while McCay was required to produce anti-war editorial cartoons on the job, he financed and and worked on “The Sinking of the Lusitania” independently.
It is a striking film. The artistry is absolutely impressive, and you can tell that McCay worked hard to convey the horror of the event. The final image of a woman with a baby sinking below the waves is unsettling indeed.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 