Views from Gainsboro Road Overpass, Roanoke, VA

One look at that bright air and you can tell how hot it is here in my little Bible Belt city.  Those townhouses remind me of Charleston, South Carolina’s “Rainbow Row.”  Or maybe an Edward Hopper painting — I may have said so before, but this entire city is indeed Hopperesque.

I think the final frame of that second video is really nice, with the American flag appearing before the sunset over the mountains.  I certainly didn’t plan it that way — that was just the spot where I happened to stop running to shoot video.



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Poster for “The War of the Worlds” at The Pavilion Theater, 2021

Australia.

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New Glasses Nolan Sez Hello

I actually went to some trouble to get these glasses.  It’s a long story that I won’t bore you with — but it involved a late night road trip with a fellow writer and seizing discount Twizzlers.

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Found on Facebook:

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Cover to “Harrow County” #16, Tyler Crook, 2016

Dark Horse Comics.

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Here’s the news.

I am right now listening to Bauhaus while eating salami-and-mushroom pizza. Because you’re never too old to discover awesome new things.

Gonna hit a new walking route today too.

Not every new discovery is pleasing. I pulled up some deep-cut REO Speedwagon that I hadn’t heard. I was pretty non-plussed by the songs I found. Once you get past their greatest hits, some of their singles were kinda sorta bad — like elevator music, seriously.





“Chieu Hoi Mission,” Craig L. Stewart, U. S. Army Vietnam Combat Artists Team IX, circa 1969

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Vicinity of Williamson Road around downtown Roanoke, VA

July 2021.

Roanoke used to be called “Big Lick,” of all things.

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This second one I’m a little proud of — that’s the Mill Mountain Star that you see in the background at left.

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Looking southwest.

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I found Area 51!!!  And it was taken over by the Black Oil Alien from “The X-Files.”

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“Allegory of Vanity,” Antonio de Pereda, circa 1636

Oil on canvas.

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Pal of mine just told me this one:

What’s the difference between COVID-19 and Romeo and Juliet?

One’s the coronavirus and the other is a Verona crisis.




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