These are just a couple of more old Roanoke, Virginia snow pics I found chilling in my hard drive. Look at the size of those flakes. There are times when the snow falls out of the sky here in clumps.
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Cover to “Rogue” #3, Rodolfo Migliari, 2004
Marvel Comics.
That sounds like some damn good candy.
Although, technically, terrible candy could also be “peerless,” because no other candy sinks to its level of mediocrity — like those “Good-n-Plenty” candies I got as a kid.
People say I think too much.
Anyway, we can safely mock the name because the Peerless Candy Company here in Roanoke is long gone. The Internet informs me that it was established in 1916 and lasted for about 35 years.
Poster for NBC’s “Hannibal” Season 1 (2013)
Found on Facebook.
“The Ancient Pine,” Anne Brigman, 1912
Photograph.
Railway bridges outside Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
June 2021.
“White and Pink Mallows in a Vase,” Henri Fantin-Latour, 1895
Oil on canvas.
Throwback Thursday: “The Last Dinosaur” (1977)!
I remember being pretty excited as a tot about “The Last Dinosaur.” I was probably too young to enjoy it when it debuted on ABC on February 11, 1977 — I’m betting it picked me up as a fan a few years later, when I would have been around the age of a first- or second-grader. Here are a few quick, weird facts:
- “The Last Dinosaur” was originally intended as a theatrical release. It hit television after it failed to find a distributor (though it was later successfully marketed to theaters overseas).
- As you can tell from the clips below, the special effects are strictly man-in-a-suit, with no stop-motion photography. (Hey, if you’re feeling charitable, you could say the split-screen works pretty well.)
- This was co-produced by Rankin-Bass, the company better known for those well made classic Christmas specials.
- The character played by Richard Boone is named the unintentionally porntastic “Maston Thrust, Jr.,” because apparently the screenwriters decided they needed a heroic, masculine-sounding name, but only had a couple of seconds to think of one. (Or maybe … they were unconsciously conflating the name for the prehistoric mastodon?)
Green Lantern goes shopping.
CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO WE WILL NOT MENTION made a wealth of humorous comments about how unprecedented this was, because my friends apparently all know me as a homebody. WHATEVER.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 