Roanoke, Virginia, November 2018 (2)

It’s a sleepy Southern city, but it’s nonetheless easy to love — especially on an encroaching Autumn morning.

 

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Cover to “The Walking Dead” #19, Charlie Adlard, 2005

Image Comics.

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Roanoke, Virginia, November 2018

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Cover to “The Walking Dead” #100, Charlie Adlard, 2003

Image Comics.

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Rockin’ in the UK! (Skybald to play at Metal Xmas Mayhem on December 23rd.)

If you are in the vicinity of Derby in the United Kingdom, then do stop in to The Hairy Dog around 7 PM on December 23rd for some Metal Xmas Mayhem.  Among the featured bands will be none other than Skybald — which a lot of folks in the indie lit community will recognize as that of Philippe Atherton-Blenkiron.

The event’s details are featured in the poster below; for more information on Skybald, check out the band’s Facebook page.

 

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That’s “C” as in “can’t do $#*+.”

Somehow, somewhere, my name has inadvertently wound up on a list of cancer researchers.

I am receiving polite queries from researchers all over the world about my “work.” I keep having to apologize for being a poet and wishing people in Europe and Asia the best of luck in their studies.

I got a “C” in freshman level biology, people. I didn’t always listen well.  And, during experiments, I kept spillin’ stuff.

 

 

 

 

Nerd Nolan’s November Verse

“November, Blue Ridge Mountains, 1992.”

 

Cover to “Wytches” #1, JOCK, 2014

Image Comics.

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Easy like Sunday morning

I have resolved to greet November’s increasing cold with poetry — this morning, that means the Peeking Cat Anthology 2018.   I am therefore sipping black coffee and reading a poem by R. J. Davey — those are two things that ought to wake my ass up.  (I also just noticed a great illustration by Preeti Singh entitled “The tamed wilderness.”)

 

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Illustration in “Through the Year with Birds and Poets (Poems),” 1900

Boston, Lee and Shepard.  The artist is listed as B.G.D.

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