Cover to “Spider-Man 2099” #29, Joe St. Pierre & Jimmy Palmiotti, 1995

Marvel Comics.

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“In the stainless southwest sky, a great crystal-white star was shining like a lamp of guidance and promise.”

“She opened her eyes and looked about her. They were on the crest of a hill. The sun had set some time since, but the landscape was still clear in the mellow afterlight. To the west a dark church spire rose up against a marigold sky. Below was a little valley and beyond a long, gently-rising slope with snug farmsteads scattered along it. From one to another the child’s eyes darted, eager and wistful. At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods. Over it, in the stainless southwest sky, a great crystal-white star was shining like a lamp of guidance and promise.”

— from L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables



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Taste Test = Toaster Strudels

This just in — Toaster Strudels are goddam wonderful.

Update — somebody just told me that there is icing in the box — and that you put it on yourself.  I did not know that!!

Update 2.0 — I suppose that the “ICING INLCUDED” proclamation on the front of the box should have been my first clue.



“Nothing” included in the Casting Off poetry collection.

I got some nice news today — my short poem “Nothing” was included in Down in the Dirt’s newest poetry collection, Casting Off.  (The poem originally appeared in the magazine’s August 2023 Issue.)

You can purchase Casting Off in paperback format here over at Amazon.

Or you can read it for free online right here.

Thanks yet again to Editor Janet Kuypers for choosing to feature my work in this exemplary literary magazine!



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“A soul that had been wandering afar, star-led.”

“She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with the dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wondering afar, star-led.”

— from L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables


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Shepherd Gate Clock at Royal Observatory in Greenwich, UK, 2007

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

“The problem is …”

The problem is,
We look for someone to grow old together,
While the secret is to find someone to stay a child with!

—  Charles Bukowski



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Throwback Thursday: “The Adventures of Superman” (1952-1958)!

No, I was not alive when “The Adventures of Superman” first aired in the 1950’s.  But I could swear that I remember seeing reruns on local New York broadcast TV when I was a tot in the 1970’s.

I could be wrong!  It’s possible I’m remembering some other iteration of the character in film or television.  My instincts are telling me that this is the show, though.

Comic book fans will recognize George Reeves in the iconic title role.

I am linking here, by the way, to Steven Brandt’s Youtube channel.  Thanks, Mr. Brandt.



Today’s portmanteau.

Neuromaste — the neurotic in me greets the neurotic in you.

(There’s something to be said for dysfunctional spiritual symmetry. )



Cover to “The Joker: The Greatest Stories Ever Told,” Alex Ross, 2008

DC Comics.

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