“Petr Chelčický at Vodnany: Do Not Repay Evil with Evil,” Alfons Mucha, 1918

Oil on canvas.

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Wow. 40.

Hey, gang — thank you for all of the kind, funny and thoughtful well wishes for my birthday yesterday! You guys are the greatest!!

40 is a big year — and a big milestone — but you all made it a little easier for me to process. Love ya!!

[Update: Certain nefarious actors are perpetrating the HOAX that I am 48. This is FAKE NEWS. SAD!!]

Photo of a racecar (#48), Roger Rossing, 1951

Leipzig, Germany.

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Photo credit: By Deutsche Fotothek‎, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6542513

(Yeah, it’s a contiguous states joke.)

Since I’m 48 years old now, I can start referring to my pot belly as “the lower 48.”

Cover to “Grendel: Devil’s Reign” #4, Tim Sale, 2004

Dark Horse Comics.

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“Losing one’s self can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.”

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. — is sure to be noticed.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Photo credit: By Kaushik1801 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81761639

The Piker Press features “Bumblebee”

I’m so happy today to see my short nature poem “Bumblebee” appear over at The Piker Press! Thanks, as always, to Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of The Piker Press community.

You can find the poem right here.

Cover to “Heavy Metal” #298, Phil Cohen, 2020

Cover C.  Heavy Metal Media, LLC.

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NAILED IT.

I’m starting The Ferris Bueller Challenge here today to ameliorate pandemic-related long-hair malaise.

Here are the rules — if you post a picture like this, you get to name your Cameron and your Sloane. You should tag them, if they don’t mind. (I tagged mine on Facebook, but I won’t embarrass them here.)

You also get to give yourself the day off. Obviously.

Cover to “The Punisher Annual” #1, Dustin Weaver, 2019

Marvel Comics.

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