USPS 13-Cent Christmas Stamp, 1977

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Christmas tree at the corner of Market Street and Salem Avenue.

Roanoke, Virginia.

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“I will die. You will die.”

“I will die.  You will die.  We will all die and the universe will carry on without care.  All that we have is that shout into the wind – how we live.  How we go.  And how we stand before we fall.”

― Pierce Brown, Golden Son



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Photo credit: J Carlos, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

“At the First Touch of Winter, Summer Fades Away,” Valentine Cameron Prinsep, circa 1897

Oil on canvas.

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Source: Jenny Hayut

Today’s portmanteau:

Snacks + accident = snacksident.

Why did I inhale those peanut butter M&M’s?  It was a SNACKSIDENT.



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

1869 illustration from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”

I’m puzzled by this piece — I think this is the work of Gustave Dore, but I can’t seem to confirm that.  My neophyte’s experience with art has shown me that some of Dore’s contemporaries appeared to illustrate with the same style.

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New-Haircut Nolan sez hello.

I’m kinda like Herman Munster crossed with Conan O’Brien.

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The new building facing Campbell Avenue is coming along nicely.

This video was shot from Salem Avenue to the north.  (Roanoke, Virginia.)



Depiction of “The Ninth Plague: Darkness (Exodus 10:21-23),” Gustave Dore, 1866

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