Seen from the Fredericksburg train station.
Photo of Princess Anne Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 2009
Tag Archives: 2009
Framed Face Autostereogram by Dominic Alves, 2009
Yes, this is indeed one of those “magic eye” images popularized in the 1990’s. (I still think these things are neat, even if I am pretty hit-or-miss at being able to see them.) “Autostereogram” is a new word for me, but it makes sense if you break the word down.
Incidentally, the “Mallrats” (1995) scene to which I’ve linked above is a blooper. The image contained by the poster at the mall is not a sailboat; it’s a pattern of different geometric shapes. None of the characters could have seen a sailboat. (Seriously, pause the image on a laptop and look.)
If the below image is inscrutable to you, you can check out (or share) the larger image over at Wikimedia Commons.
Poster for “Moon” (2009)
Sony Pictures Classics.
“Sunrise Over Montalet, Seen From Molières sur Cèze,” Thierry Peseux, 2009
Oil on canvas.
Photo of Falco Tinnunculus, 55129 Hechtsheim, Germany, by Vera Buhl, 2009
Photo of Roanoke, VA by Bckdraft911, 2009
Bckdraft911, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Ticking off the Halloween watch list.
I do realize the bizarre, preposterously first-world narcissism of bragging online about which TV shows you’ve watched. I’m doing it anyway.
Hey, I’m trying to get into the spirit of Halloween. And it’s my blog, I figure.
This is how I’ve marked the season so far:
- “Midnight Mass” (2021). Outstanding!
- “The Walking Dead” Season 11 mid-season finale (2021). Predictably quite good.
- The start of “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 7 (2021). The sets and special effects are still top-notch — but Episode 1 was disappointingly confusing and weird.
- “Suck” (2009). Really funny and surprisingly engaging. Even the music was really good.
- The start of “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” Season 2 (2021). Yeesh. It started off confusing — then turned vaguely unexciting. I thought all its unprecedented exposition for this fictional universe would be exciting, but it curiously is not.
- The start of “What We Do in the Shadows” Season 3 (2021). Hilarious!
A cannon on the Chancellorsville battlefield, photo by Bryant Midura, 2009
Chancellorsville, Virginia.
BLM Platinum / Public domain.
Photo of Molbekktjernet, Norway, by Edmund Schilvold, 2009
I have a dear, wise friend whose eyes can turn any of the varying shades of blue that you see in this photo — depending on the day’s light and her day’s fortunes.
Someday we’re going to get to see Norway.
Photo credit: Edmund Schilvold, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cover to “Justice Society of America” #26, Alex Ross, 2009
DC Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 
