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Sign outside downtown Roanoke restaurant: “NEAT DRESS REQUIRED.”

I don’t own ANY dresses.

Seriously, though — I actually stood there for a second pondering what sort of sort of slovenly dresses women had worn in order to prompt management to make the rule. (Was it a wild Saturday night?) Because I am slow on the uptake.



Hey, in fairness, they aren’t actually “pandas” either.

True fact — I didn’t really know what red pandas were at one point and I kept referring to them as “those cinnamon raccoons,” and there are still people who laugh at me about it.



Photo credit: Mathias Appel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Throwback Thursday: these little ice cream cups!

These were a treat for special events when I was in grade school (both public and private).  We used to get them on field days and such.



“Live, Laugh, Loathe”

Gonna make me a t-shirt with that slogan and get filthy rich.



Update — Hey!  My friend Laney made a meme out of this just now and it’s pretty cool!



Shine On, You Crazy Mountain.

One of those moments when clouds cast shadows over the valley while the mountain remains sunlit.  It looks so surreal when that happens.  (This picture doesn’t really do it justice.)

Roanoke, Virginia.



Spillwords Press names Lisa H. Owens as Author of the Month for June 2024.

I hope you will all join me in congratulating Lisa H. Owens for being named Spillwords Press Author of the Month for June 2024.  (Thanks  also once again to those of you who voted for me.)  🙂

And while we’re at it, let’s also congratulate Joni Caggiano for winning Post of the Month for her poem, “Worn Slap Out.”



Happy Fourth of July, Folks.

Have fun and be safe.

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

(I’m sorry. I know this is the pun that nobody assed for.)

Suppose you had a colonoscopy completed, but someone burglarized your doctor’s office and stole all the imagery.

Would you report a … stolenoscopy?