Quick note.

I’m in a big rush today, so I’m going to have to make a few hasty generalizations.

You understand.



“L’Averse, Place de la Concorde,” Alfred Smith, 1888

Oil on canvas.

Then he got run over by a bandwagon.

We thought its front wheel sheared him right in half, but it turns out it was only a false dichotomy. He was fine, but we still had to appeal to authority to make him be more careful.



“In the Bedroom,” Peter Ilsted, 1901

Source: Lindita Odjoska on Facebook

Quiche Lorraine

Lorraine must be a fine woman indeed for having so splendid a dish named for her.



Cover to “House of Secrets” #130, Ernie Chan, 1975

DC Comics.

Thunderstorm fun.

Either the lights are flickering or I am having a stroke.

Admittedly, neither possibility excludes the other.



“Abelard and His Pupil Heloise,” Edmund Blair Leighton

The Piker Press publishes a photo of mine.

The Piker Press published a photo today that I took of a hungry butterfly in Warrenton, Virginia.  You can find it right here.

Thanks to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share it!  🙂



“Forest Before the Storm,” Ivan Shishkin, 1872

Oil on canvas.

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