A friend of mine here in Roanoke gave me this awesome illuminated moon for Christmas. (I’d actually seen these around, and really, really wanted one.) He might have picked up on my weird preoccupation with the moon.
“Les Merveilles de la Nuit de Noël”
“Christmas Eve Wonders.” Engraving. Donated in 1844 with the work Le Foyer Breton by Emile Souvestre to the Brittany Museum, Rennes, France.
To all of the various good people that I am fortunate to know …
To all of the various good people that I am fortunate to know, Happy New Year. Our past year may have been difficult, and our days ahead may be more so.
But you are here, with me now, and we are friends. Those are three things that matter — three things without which this life would be a far lesser one.
We begin together.
Greeting card circa 1909. Source: Missouri History Museum.
“Kodak,” Anne Brigman, 1908
Poetry and Commentary, 2021
If you happen to enjoy my mad scribblings, all of my poetry and commentary for 2021 can be found right here.
Have a safe and happy New year!
Cover to “House of Secrets” #88, Neal Adams, 1970
DC Comics.
“Whoa.”
I really want to see that “Matrix Insurrections” movie where thousands of would-be “patriots” fight for their carefully constructed, shared artificial reality …
… but in the real world they’re actually terrorists having their minds controlled by machines and the Internet. And they’re a fully disposable resource to the system that uses them to retain power.
Photo credit: Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
I survived #Whamageddon 2021!
Can I social distance or what?
Yeah, I do realize that Wham!’s “Last Christmas” is the least of 2021’s existential threats, but it’s an existential threat nonetheless. Take your victories where you can.
It’s a replicant Christmas!
Hot damn, my best friend gave me the coolest presents for a writer! What you see are “Poe-ka Dots” socks, sculpted raven bookends from the New York Public Library and the piece de resistance …
… a lapel pin fashioned after the origami unicorn from “Blade Runner” (1982). I didn’t even know such a thing existed, so I wouldn’t have even known to ask for it. I can’t believe she found it!
“‘MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN’ IS OUR MOTTO.”
“Glade Jul,” Viggo Johansen, 1891
“Joyful Christmas.” Oil on canvas.
