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Your 80’s joke for today.

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Poster for “Jessica Jones” Season 2 (2018)

Netflix.

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Great piece over at Winedrunk Sidewalk today

There’s a great poem up today over at Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland.  Check out John Grochalski’s “e.j.’s bar & grille is defiant in the face of the plague.” 


“The Writer” appears in Scars Publications’ Newest Anthology

I have an extra reason to be thankful this holiday — Scars Publications again selected a poem of mine to appear in its newest anthology. “The Writer,” which Scars published in the May 2020 edition of Down in the Dirt magazine, was included in the Inside the Box anthology that Scars released yesterday. (The anthology includes creative works selected from over the past year from both Down in the Dirt, and its sister publication, cc&d magazine.)

You can order Inside the Box right here over at Amazon.

I’m once again grateful to Editor Janet Kuypers for allowing me to contribute to an outstanding literary collection.

 

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“Procession near Ploumanach,” Léon Augustin Lhermitte, 1879

Oil on canvas.

Happy Thanksgiving, All!

We all know that 2020 has been a difficult year, to say the least — and that this Thanksgiving, for many of us, will be unlike those in the past.  Let’s each be thankful for what we do have — whether it is our health, our homes, our hopes, or one another.

Pictured — lead-glazed glass painting depicting the potato harvest and Thanksgiving in the Hippolit Church in Amelinghausen, Germany.

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Photo credit: Oxfordian Kissuth, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Romero knew.

Maybe it’s a lifetime of zombie movies that’s done it to me (along with the books, short stories and comic books), but somehow I always knew that there would be hordes of imbeciles getting themselves and other people killed during a horrifying viral pandemic. (There’s always the crazy guy who leaves the gate open.)

It’s like these @$$+)*%$s exist to hasten the plot along to its high-casualty conclusion.

DAMMIT, MIGUEL.

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“Brooklyn Bridge Blue,” Fredverillo, 2018

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Don’t be like Casey this holiday season!

COVID-19’s incubation time is 14 days with a median time of 4-5 days from exposure to symptom onset.

97% of persons with COVID-19 who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days of infection.

Source: Licking County Health Department (OH)

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