I actually auditioned for a role as a monster on “The Last of Us,” but I didn’t get it.
I’m disappointed. I thought I was a pretty fungi.
Roanoke River near Franklin Road, February 2023
Roanoke, Virginia.
Small pleasures.
I’m pleased with the cheese,
the toast is the most,
and hot DAMN that is tasty ham.
Poster for “The Last of Us” Season 1 (2023)
HBO.
Portmanteau of the Day.
Caffeine-induced audacity = caffindacity.
It’s totally a real thing. Drink enough caffeine and you feel like you could take on the world.
Or have a heart attack.
Possibly both.
Cover to “Doctor Fate” #2, Sonny Liew, 2015
DC Comics.
Name-calling.
“The Dream Ends in Death,” Odilon Redon, 1887
Lithograph. From the series “The Juror.”
Let’s get physical.
That awkward moment when the doctor shines that light in your inner ear, and you take your glasses off so he can better see in there.
Also … it makes me feel really old when they give me that cheery thumbs-up and say “Stay active!!” I liked it a lot better when I was a young man and they were all like, JESUS, SLOW THE F*** DOWN.
Fun fact — I actually broke those very same glasses when I got home by sitting on them. So that’s sort of an O’Henry ending for our story today.
“Apartment House,” Ödön Vaszkó, 1932
Oil on canvas.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 