The leaves are starting to turn.
I enhanced the color on the second picture — of the sky over The Patrick Henry building. I couldn’t resist bringing out the blue of that sky.
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Variant Cover to “Batman” #99, Jorge Jimenez, 2020
DC Comics.
“Oooooooh, I got a live one here!”
For any millennials reading this, the above headline is another one of my awesome 80’s references.
Pal of mine got me these bat Halloween decorations; they’re all over my house. Here’s the thing, though — they look so much like Batman’s bat symbol that I might leave them affixed at key locations in my home after the holiday, the better to confer superhero lair status. The second picture below is my bedroom door, for example.
I could go nuts. I could have a bat-lamp. A bat-coffeemaker. A bat-dishwasher. A bat-garbage can. Can’t afford the butler, though.
Cover to “Child Life,” October 1923, Hazel Frazee
Rand McNally.
It wouldn’t be heart to pull off.
I saw this sign on Luck Avenue. If I leased a space from Poe & Cronk, I’d call them up, demand to speak directly to Poe, and complain about “THE BEATING OF THAT HIDEOUS HEART” under the floorboards.
I’d be joking, though. (It would be just a Cronk call.)
Cover to “Crime On My Hands,” Carl G. Hodges, 1951
Hanro Corporation.
Cover to “The Unexpected’ #145, Nick Cardy, 1973
DC Comics.
Trains passing beneath Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
Vicinity of Jefferson Street SW and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Norwegian poster for “Blade” (1998)
New Line Cinema.
