Atmosphere is everything.

Setting the right tone for some October horror movies and shows.

Last night, I watched “Talk to Me” (2022), which was surprsingly good, despite its gimmicky supernatural setup.  And I am assiduously following Season 3 of “From,” Season 2 of “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon,” and Season 1 of “Agatha All Along.”



Cover to “The New Yorker,” Edna Eicke, October 31, 1953

“I have never found the limit of my capacity for work.”

“I have never found the limit of my capacity for work.” 

— Naploeon Bonaparte, attributed



Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Paul Delaroche, 1838

The Piker Press publishes another photo of mine.

I’m so happy to see The Piker Press publish an additional photo of mine today — this time of some incandescent leaves near Roanoke’s border with Salem.

Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski!



“The Count” from “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, 17th Century

AI dunno.

The problem with AI is that it looks so much like “Al” (short for “Albert”).

I keep worrying over this one mysterious prick who apparently steals everyone’s creative work and then coldly plots to kill us all.



Photo credit: mikemacmarketing, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Poster for “The Matrix Resurrections” (2021)

Warner Bros. Pictures.

The Little Gallery on Market Street, Roanoke, Virginia

October 2024.

“Geese,” Kyriak Kostandi, 1913

Nope, no northern lights for Nolan.

Why do these things never work out for me?

I have friends in Charlottesville who posted a bunch of really nice pictures — and I’m seeing posts from elsewhere in Southwest Virginia too.  It’s just too overcast here in Roanoke, maybe … and then there are the lights from the city which would diminish the effect.



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