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Throwback Thursday: Mary Washington College Spring Break 1994!

This is a shot of me and my alum Dave at the site of the “Lost Colony of Roanoke” during Spring Break 1994.  A bunch of the seniors at Mary Washington College’s New Hall trekked down to North Carolina’s Outer Banks that year; this is one of the places we stopped along the way.

Dear God, that was one of the most enjoyable trips of my life.

What the hell were Dave and I doing below?   Performing a skit?  I can’t remember.  I was a really, really weird kid, and Dave was also pretty out there.

 

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“Elegy for JFK,” by W. H. Auden (read by Irene Dailey)

Cover to “Amazing Stories,” Frank R. Paul, May 1929

Experimenter Publishing.

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The sandbox is filled with gasoline.

And somebody handed lighters to the two aggressive, petulant, tantrum-prone toddlers on either end.

Should something terrible come to pass, don’t blame the people of North Korea. They didn’t elect their toddler.

 

 

 

“A MAN HAS NO NAME.”

Except when a cheesy marketing gimmick causes a grown man to ransack the Dunkin’ Donuts cooler in search of a novelty plastic bottle.  Then a man has a name.

 

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Alec Guinness reads T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”

Help us, Poemy-Wan Kenobi.  You’re our only hope.

 

“The Letter,” William McGregor Paxton, 1908

Oil on canvas.

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“Seated Nude With Sculpture,” William McGregor Paxton, 1941

Tempura on panel.

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34 Calls for Submissions in August 2017 – Paying markets

This looks like another good list from Erica Verrillo’s blog:

The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County fountain There are nearly three dozen calls for submissions in August. Every genr…

Source: 34 Calls for Submissions in August 2017 – Paying markets

 

 

 

 

“Morning Light,” William McGregor Paxton

Date unknown.  Am I nuts if this piece reminds me a little of Matt Wagner’s work?

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