Cover to “House of Mystery” #78, Jack Kirby, 1958

DC Comics.

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The Roanoke Star features my latest letter to the editor.

I’m very happy to see that The Roanoke Star has featured my latest letter to the editor — about people who draw a comparison between the January 6th attack on the Capitol and protests by Black Lives Matter.  You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Publisher Stuart Revercomb for allowing me to share with my neighbors in Roanoke via The Roanoke Star.



Photo of East River Drive in Manhattan, by Chester Higgins, Jr., 1973

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Album cover to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (1963)

Disneyland Records.

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The Bristol Herald Courier prints my latest letter to the editor.

I’m quite happy tonight to see that the Bristol Herald Courier published my latest letter to the editor — about people trying to rationalize the January 6th attack by pointing at Black Lives Matter protests.  You can read it online right here.

Thanks once again to Managing Editor Roger Watson for allowing me to share my thoughts via this first-rate news provider for Southwest Virginia.



“Kama Near Yelabuga,” Ivan Shishkin, 1895

Oil on canvas.

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Arguably the worst “whatabout.”

“You’re upset about January 6th? WHAT ABOUT THE BLM RIOTS?!?!”

Translation: “If some Black person, somewhere in America, has committed a crime, then whatever crime I wish to commit should be considered equally acceptable.” (Brought to you by “the party of law and order.”)

This is arguably the worst “whatabout.” You sound like a kid demanding the exact same amount of ice cream as your brother. Except … you’re not a kid. You’re an adult. And we’re not talking about ice cream. We’re talking about political violence — something that imperils our common Republic and endangers the innocent everywhere on the political spectrum. The sane will ever condemn it, whether it originates from the right or the left.

You don’t sound like a citizen who wants the best for America. You sound like a psychopath with a blood-stained scorecard.

Fuck off.



“Medycyna” in the Saxon Garden of Warsaw, Poland

“Medicine.”  Made by an anonymous sculptor before 1745.

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Photo credit: Szczebrzeszynski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Throwback Thursday: Awkward, Awkward, High School Me.

This is Longwood High School in New York, circa … 1988?  1989?

No, I have no idea why my pants are pulled halfway up my chest.

Thanks to alumna Carrie Harbach Schor for passing along this news clipping.

Update: I never got high in high school, but my pants sure as *&^@ did.



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JUSTICE FOR JESSICA.

Dear Kevin Feige:

Please bring Jessica Jones into the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.

You could balance things out, Thanos-style, by killing off Star-Lord or something! Maybe Groot too, for good measure.

Sincerely,

Eric Robert Nolan



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