Throwback Thursday: 1990’s Nerd Nolan!

This is from sometime in the late 1990’s.  I can’t remember which one of you guys sent me this photo, or its date.  But I’m running it primarily because of that old red t-shirt, which I loved so much that it nearly fell apart before I threw it out.

It was the “official” t-shirt of the Mary Washington College Department of Psychology, and I thought it was for one of the academic years I attended.  But … it looks like it says 1989-1990, and I feel like I even remember that.  (It’s a little hard to make out.)  I went to MWC just afterward, between 1990 and 1994.  I”m not sure what the story is here; maybe an upperclassman gave it to me?

The t-shirts were sold by psychology majors to raise funds for … something.  Was it a picnic at the end of the year, or a trip or something?  God, I’m getting old.

My only disappointment with that shirt was that I wore it for years without hearing a single relevant “Star Trek” joke.

 

 

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Illustration of mink in John Burroughs’ “Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers,” 1909

Houghton Mifflin Company.  I believe Burroughs is the artist.

I swear I’ve got these guys in my neighborhood.  Tuesday marked the third sighting for me.  Either what I am seeing are mink or another species that resemble them.  They’re a bit bigger than this picture would suggest — bigger than weasels, anyway.

 

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

— George Orwell, 1984

 

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Cover to “The Giving Tree,” Shel Silverstein, 1964

Harper Publishing.  The author is also the cover artist and interior illustrator.

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“A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate/ Predicts the ruin of the State.”

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.

— excerpt from William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence”

 

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“Every thing secret degenerates …”

“Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”

— Lord John Dalberg-Acton in an 1861 letter, published in Lord Acton and His Circle, 1906

 

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Poster for “Black Mirror” episode “Crocodile” (S4E3), 2017

Netflix.

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“Madness is terrific, I can assure you.”

“As an experience, madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.”

— Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Ethel Smyth

 

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Cover to “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man” #16, Jorge Molina, 2012

Marvel Comics.

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“There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.”

“There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.  They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities.  They will not bear discussion.”

— Lord John Dalberg-Acton in an 1861 letter, published in Lord Acton and His Circle, 1906

 

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