I found this praying mantis on one of my Autumn walks, up north of downtown Roanoke. He looked like he was hastily leaving the city. Maybe he was fed up with pesky people taking his photo.
“La Grappe,” Odilon Redon
Charcoal.
Yikes, Crumbles! That’s a hell of a Halloween display!
The Bates Motel sign is an especially nice touch.
(Kirk Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia.)
Holst your horses.
A spammer named Inger Holst keeps sending me messages.
I can’t train my mind not to notice because that name sounds so much like a severe, minimalist German film director who wants to adapt my writing.
Update — maybe she IS a German director. I dunno. When it comes to foreign film, I’m pretty Ingerant.
Throwback Thursday: this 1985 Halloween ad for Carvel Ice Cream!
Here’s another television commercial for Carvel Ice Cream, with the … unique vocal talent of owner Tom Carvel. (I’ve written about Carvel Ice Cream here at the blog before.) I am linking here today to Steve Herold’s Youtube channel.
These are obviously Halloween-themed cakes. But listen … what are the names of the characters? There is another voiceover guy here (not Carvel), and I swear it sounds like he’s saying “Dumpy the Pumpkin” and “Ricky the Witch.” Those can’t be right, can they?
Have a safe Halloween, guys!
Poster for “Doctor Sleep” (2019)
Warner Bros. Entertainment.
“Hello, Darkness, my old friend.”
“A Golden Eve,” Benjamin Leader, 1875
This kind of thing is gonna get old real fast.
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