Winter storms. Plague year.
February night. Dull light.
Fading Republic.
Photo credit: Helgi Halldórsson from Reykjavík, Iceland, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
“Invictus,” Anne Brigman, circa 1924
I don’t know if Brigman’s photo is a reference by William Ernest Henley’s 1888 poem of the same name.
I dino why this keeps happening.
I got teased a little for eating scrambled eggs and ketchup yesterday; a couple of friends of mine opined that it was a kids’ meal.
Today I discovered that the chicken tenders I bought are in dinosaur shapes.
If the universe is trying to send me a message here, I’m not sure what it is.
Update: if you melt cheese over them they look like they’re stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits.
Cover to “House of Secrets” #81, Neal Adams, 1969
DC Comics.
“What I tell kids is, don’t get mad, get even.”
This has been circulating on Facebook and Twitter. As always, I’ll cheerfully credit the meme-maker if am notified.
Untitled short poem, January 31, 2022
Through all of this world’s noise,
its augurs
and its clamor
and all of its iniquitous, ugly voices,
your memory is ever
a gentle refrain in my heart.
Photo credit: Takkk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
“Night Shadows,” Edward Hopper, 1922
Etching. From the October 1922 issue of Shadowland.
(I swear I thought they were Tetris at first.)
This is the only response of which I am capable in response to those … Wordle things that people keep posting.
An “Ozark” Season 4 prediction — Ben there, done that.
l think that I can predict what will help finally bring down “Ozark’s” Wendy Byrde (the priceless Laura Linney). Then again, I am almost invariably wrong in my predictions for TV shows, so maybe you should take this with a grain of salt. Either way, various Seasons 3 and 4 SPOILERS after the jump below …
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Variant cover to “Catwoman” #1, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, 2018
DC Comics.
