10 Signs you’re doing well in life.

Dorm room at Mary Washington College (then “The Normal School for Women”), 1920

Throwback Thursday: when you could watch Halloween specials only ONCE a year.

If you were a kid in the 1980’s and you wanted to see ANY holiday special … you snooze, you lose.  It was a Darwinian pop-culture childhood consumer jungle.

Alright, alright — yeah, I guess VCR’s were first appearing.  Whatever.

By the way … check out the old TV Guide-era fonts for channel numbers.  🙂



Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, 1872

Oil on canvas.

Outside the Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia.

October 2024.

Cover to “Blackcross,” Colton Worley, 2016

Dynamite Entertainment.

A New Yorker walks into a Chick-fil-A. (Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.)

It’s those damn weird ketchup packets!  They’re too hard to open!  Squeezing them as hard as I could always worked out well before!!

Not today.

It looks like I had lunch with a certain former president on one of his bad days.  (And you know he’d dodge the bill.)

Just once I’d love to leave the house without embarrassing myself in public.



Retail Ruins.

The Sears people were a proud mercantile empire that dominated much of the 20th Century.  The civilization’s ruins still evoke the opulence of a past age.

Cover to “X-Men Red” #17, Stefano Caselli, 2023

Marvel Comics.

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