“Landscape With Old Oil Truck,” Jaime Prosser, 2008

Image credit: JAIME PROSSER, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And, in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

—  William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2”



The Crown of Simon Bolivar.  Image credit: Anfecaro, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mary Washington College friends are the best.

My alumbud Rick Slagle: “My Mary Washington friend has been published again and I am enjoying my 2nd Eric Nolan book!”

Thanks, man!



Variant cover to “Batman: One Bad Day,” Jim Lee, 2022

DC Comics.

I swear I am not making this up.

Irony is when you exit the dry cleaner and a HUGE flock of birds IMMEDIATELY takes flight and poop-bombs you like you were Dresden — which could NECESSITATE A SUBSEQUENT DRY CLEANING.  (I actually do need to throw my jacket in the washer now.)

This is collusion.  That lady feeds the birds with a portion of her profits.  I’ll bet there are rows of feeders on the roof.



Cover to “Horror From The Tomb” #1, 1954

Premier Magazines.  I am unable to ascertain the cover artist.

Apocrypha Now.

This quote is often attributed online to a letter from Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law, Catherine May Scott.  But that might be apocryphal — and the felicitation might date as far back as Plato.

Ali Jane Smith gives us an excellent breakdown here at the Sydney Review of Books.



Cover to “The Red Mother” #2, Jeremy Haun, 2020

BOOM! Studios.

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world …”

1408?

Is this the haunted Nail Salon & Spa?  It’s even named for NYC, which is where Stephen King’s dooming eponymous hotel room tormented poor Mike Enslin.

That’s some synchronicity worthy of The Dark Tower.  FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE BEAM.




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