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(I could be just pareinoid.)

Seems like everyone online is talking about pareidolia.

I see a pattern developing here.



“Forest,” Ivan Shishkin, 1880’s

Oil on canvas.

(Either way, it stinks.)

I’m not sure which is more tragic — when people go bad or when pork chops do.



Atmosphere is everything.

Setting the right tone for some October horror movies and shows.

Last night, I watched “Talk to Me” (2022), which was surprsingly good, despite its gimmicky supernatural setup.  And I am assiduously following Season 3 of “From,” Season 2 of “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon,” and Season 1 of “Agatha All Along.”



Cover to “The New Yorker,” Edna Eicke, October 31, 1953

“I have never found the limit of my capacity for work.”

“I have never found the limit of my capacity for work.” 

— Naploeon Bonaparte, attributed



Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Paul Delaroche, 1838

The Piker Press publishes another photo of mine.

I’m so happy to see The Piker Press publish an additional photo of mine today — this time of some incandescent leaves near Roanoke’s border with Salem.

Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski!



“The Count” from “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, 17th Century

AI dunno.

The problem with AI is that it looks so much like “Al” (short for “Albert”).

I keep worrying over this one mysterious prick who apparently steals everyone’s creative work and then coldly plots to kill us all.



Photo credit: mikemacmarketing, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Poster for “The Matrix Resurrections” (2021)

Warner Bros. Pictures.