Welp. My commitment to giving up candy is coming along swimmingly.
I’m willing to bet a lot of young people today wouldn’t even know what wax lips are. (They were considered vintage candy when *I* was a kid in the 1980’s.) Hell, I’m willing to bet a lot of young people wouldn’t get the “Karate Kid” (1984) reference in the headline.
To be honest, the appeal of this candy kinda hasn’t aged well? I’d swap them out for Nerds or Pop Rocks any day of the week.
I’d have gotten up earlier this morning if I were more of a responsible adult. I’d also get more done today, I’d stop eating sugary cereal and I’d feed my mind tonight with something other than cheesy horror movies.
But you know what they say — “Beware the I’d’s of March.” So I am at least a good Roman.
A few of you dendrological-type people might notice that there are actually two trees in this picture. (People on Facebook have pointed out that the one on the left looks like a maple or Bradford pear, while the one on the right is a crape myrtle.) So the meme is based on a falsehood.
But I wouldn’t have known. And the point remains important anyway.
Source: Other Perspectives on Facebook
Krispy Kreme.
Roanoke, Virginia.
I was at first taken aback by my need to seek (sigh) bifocals. But that feeling was mitigated entirely by the return of … the world!! It is rendered in such exquisite detail — even things that are far away!! (I had no idea that I needed glasses so badly.)
Roanoke’s sweeping wooded vistas are once again completely novel to me. It’s beauty times two for a transplanted New Yorker. 🙂
Went looking for info on “A Bridge Too Far;” I somehow arrived at info for “Bridgerton,” and those are two very different viewing experiences.
Hey, it’s as good as anything else.
Check out these awesome Christmas presents I received from some totally cool Roanoke friends — bookstands for displaying some of the publications that have featured my poems. 🙂
Also among the Yuletide goodies were an Irish coin and a piece of Connemara marble — ideal for setting up beside my copy of The Galway Review 12.
That’s “Grey” for the BritBuds.
Nobody tell me if the name is already taken. If it is, I don’t want to know.
I know that “Gentleman Ghost” is an obscure DC Comics supervillain, and he can keep his schtick because, seriously, look at that guy.
And then there was Dark Horse Comics’ “Ghost” from my college years; she at least had a great sense of style.
But “The Gray Ghost” is mine. I declare it.
UPDATE –I did not know at the time that I wrote this that it was the moniker of a Confederate General! I will have to come up with another name.
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