X-Men.

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“En Forårsdag,” H. A. Brendekilde, 1890’s

“A Spring Day.”

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Fakespeare

“The last whisper of your transaction, success is the vow we avow.”

These fake-invoice e-mail scams are really getting poetic.

Not gonna fall for the scam itself, but I just might fall for you, oh Internet trickster.



“De Første Anemoner,” H. A. Brendekilde, 1889

“The First Anemones.”

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I don’t understand the new “Walking Dead” preview.

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“Boulevard Montmartre, Spring,” Camille Pissarro, 1897

Oil on canvas.

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The Piker Press publishes “Iphigenia’s Womb”

I’m so pleased today to see The Piker Press feature my poem “Iphigenia’s Womb.”  You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this great creative community.  🙂



Illustration from “Die Gartenaube,” 1894

Publisher —  Ernst Keil’s Nachfolger. Leipzig, Germany.

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A sure thing.

I noticed this last night.  Ridley Scott is a Cinema God, and I should be cast out for nitpicking his genre-defining masterpiece.  (If you need to ask which movie I am talking about, I’m not sure we can be friends.)

But the word nerd in me needs to point out that the computer here probably meant “ensure” instead of “insure.”



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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, All!!

Wishing you the luck of the Irish.  (And better luck, generally speaking, than this Irishman, because holy shillelagh.)



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Photo credit: Saint Patrick Catholic Church (Junction City, Ohio), Nheyob, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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