Elmwood Park, Roanoke, VA, June 2021

This is Elmwood Park and its amphitheater in Roanoke, VA. I apologize for the shaky-cam. I am also aware that “open-air amphitheater” is probably a redundancy, so I’m sorry for that too. I’m not even sure that I can spell “amphitheater” without autocorrect.



“Cynthia,” William Strang, 1917

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Tonight’s reading:

Wednesday Lee Friday’s Creepy, Stabby, and Mentally Odd.



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Detail of Gustav Klimt’s “Medicine” (depicting Hygieia), circa 1907

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Railroad tracks beside Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, VA

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“A woman feeds some geese.” Clarence Gagnon, 1908

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Check out Wednesday Lee Friday’s “Creepy, Stabby, and Mentally Odd”

Wednesday Lee Friday’s first horror short story collection dropped today — it’s entitled Creepy, Stabby, and Mentally Odd, and it looks damned awesome.  It includes horror, dark fiction, dark erotica and even comics.

I just read the first story, “Raja,” and it was unnervingly great stuff.  This looks like a hell of a treat for fans of scary stories.

You can find it right here on Amazon.  I say go for it.




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A cannon on the Chancellorsville battlefield, photo by Bryant Midura, 2009

Chancellorsville, Virginia.

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Ice, Ice, Maybe.

I just tried to order a Slushie without ice, because I am so used to ordering my sodas that way, and also because I am a f***ing imbecile.

“Well … they’re MADE with ice,” the polite high schooler explained apologetically.

This reminds me of that time in my 20’s when I ordered from the Taco Bell drive-thru but drove right through with getting my order, because reasons.



Jefferson Street Overpass, Roanoke, Virginia

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