So do our eyes just get progressively worse as we get older? Does the world just get blurrier and blurrier until it becomes only shapes and colors, like a lame-ass version of Predator-vision?
[clicks feebly in Yautja]
International Poster for “Alien: Covenant” (2017)
20th Century Studios.
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(And miles to go before I sleep.)
Got my first rejection letter from a publication in China.
Hey — it’s a “trying milestone.” I failed, but I tried something new for the first time.
Like when submitted to The New Yorker or to The Irish Times.
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Oil painting by Eva Sköld, circa 2008
Anderspe10, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Throwback Thursday: The Thompson Twins’ “Hold Me Now” (1984)!
Play this song with your eyes closed, and it transports you right back to the 80’s. Hey, it’s a lot easier than what they did in “Avengers: Endgame” (2019).
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(Like you give a crop.)
Just experimenting with cropping and filters.
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“L’hiver,” from Adolphe Willette’s “Les Quatre Saisons,” 1901
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“The mind is its own place …”
Source: the “English Literature” Facebook page.
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(I might be a one-percenter.)
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“Flora,” Max Nonnenbruch, 1892
Oil on canvas.
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