I’m joking, of course. (I was already dead inside!) 😀 But, seriously, Season 7, Episode 1 was some heartrending stuff.
This show could give “The Last Of Us” a run for its money and there’s not a fungal-brain zombie in sight.
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I actually learned *THREE* new words recently, including the one in the meme.
The second word was “diaspora” and the third was … I forgot. Which admittedly is not a good sign.
A “The Last of Us” portmanteau.
Fungal + zombies = Funzies.
(Have a blast, kids.)
Spring in Crystal Spring.
Roanoke, Virginia, April 2025. Pictured is the First Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
No, I can not hold a phone or camera steady. It will never happen.
O. Henry would be proud.
Read through to the very end.
Get a Loder this.
Damn.
(I am a bit of a flake …)
The heavily accented guy at the bodega cheerfully informs me that “NEW CEREAL SHIPMENT COMES *TOMORROW,* SIR!”
So evidently they know me as “that cereal guy.” Not sure how I feel about that.
[Update — now all my Facebook friends are cracking the various requisite “serial” jokes. I should have seen that coming.]
There is a new page here at the site for 2025 poetry publications.
And check out the photo there of a creepy tree out in Salem, Virginia. Seriously, that thing is straight out of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'” (1937) haunted forest.
No, there was no escaped tiger running around Cave Spring yesterday.
That was an April Fool’s joke.
I’ve gotta hand it to you people — you’re sharp. There were verrrry few people who fell for my ruse this year. (You distinguished believers know who you are.)
Maybe I went too far in naming the fictional “Jowicker” zoological agency. Or maybe my citing of witness “April Flanagan” was a little too on the nose.
Oh, well. I can still reminisce with pride about last year’s gem of a hoax. That one actually worked a little too well — I spent days afterward clarifying for people that I had not joined a traveling dance company for middle-aged performers.
Escaped tiger in southern Roanoke.
People, 2025 could not get any weirder than this. There is now an escaped tiger in the vicinity of Cave Spring/southern Roanoke. Check the local news. The radio station is doing better than TV in keeping up with the story, I think, even if there isn’t much detail yet.
Supposedly the animal escaped from its temporary enclosure on Mill Mountain — it was being transported by Jowicker Large Game Farm between Knoxville, TN and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. It apparently a “juvenile,” which means it isn’t full-sized, but the news is saying it could easily kill a person. So don’t mess with it.
There is a Cave Spring resident, April Flanagan, who told the radio that she spotted the animal walking north alongside North Jefferson Street.
I will keep you posted when I learn more. Please be safe.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 