Cover to “Slumber” #6, Nathan Fox, 2022

Image Comics.

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Source: Lynn Miclea on Facebook

My friend Jesse Rooney’s Donald Trump / “Clerks” joke:

Everyone:  “34”
Gen X:  “In a row?”



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“The Butterfly Enchanter,” Aldo Muzzarelli, 2021

Iron, resin and stoneware.  Seen in Elmwood Park, Roanoke, Virginia.  Photo by Eric Robert Nolan, 2024.

“It’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.”

Source: Poetic Journeys

“Release Me — The Original Love Mix,” by ScorpioStatic!

Just another kickass techno track from one of my greatest friends from my college days — ScorpioStatic!  (His secret identity is Jason Buckland.)



Reblogged: “Updated directory of current Irish literary journals (2024)”

“Tarde de Primavera,” Manuel García y Rodríguez, 1907

“Late Spring.”

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Enjoy this short story.

So I finally located that cache of shorts in storage that I was looking for.  Now I can finally dress for the hot weather.  Sorry about my blinding white legs, Roanoke.

How white are they?  Let’s just say I hope you didn’t throw out your eclipse-viewing glasses.



“The Favourite Poet,” Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888

Oil on panel.

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