Corner of Williamson Road and Wells Avenue. In the background, you can see Wells Fargo Tower downtown. At right is the fountain in Entranceway Park.
Tag Archives: Virginia
Construction at the site of the old bus station is looking pretty auspicious.
Campbell Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia. September 2024.
“I survived a nail trim.”
This item at a Roanoke pastry shop reads “I survived a nail trim.”
There’s a lesson here for writers, though – if you’re unsure of your font or word spacing, ass a friend.
If there is an emblem for bachelorhood, I’m pretty sure this is it.
It’s like the Westerosi sigil for House Unmarried. (A delicious sigil.)
But, damn, I miss the baked mac-and-cheese served at Mary Washington College. I know I’m not the only one.
Some cool artwork inside Benny Marconi’s.
Campbell Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia.
Move over, pineapple pizza. It’s time for OCTOPUS PIZZA.
I am a man who is loathe to tamper with a classic. And every slice of pizza from Benny Marconi’s in Roanoke, Virginia is a damned artwork.
Still … they did not offer octopus as a topping. (I searched their website pretty thoroughly.) And then I realized that I had NEVER seen the most sublime of foods offered as a pizza topping.
Innovation built this country, and I have a flair for the culinary. So I went home and concocted the brilliance you see below.
Update — Damn. I just realized I wrote this whole post ignoring the potential for an “octupie” pun.
Throwback Thursday: Wista-SHEER Sawce.
Flashback to the early 1990’s. I worked the cafeteria at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. (It was a work-study program.) Southern kids would line up at the counter for me to serve them Worcestershire sauce, because they laughed at the way I pronounced it.
It’s “wista-SHEER sawce.” Years of seeing it passed around my New York Irish dinner table could not have misinformed me. It was the Southerners and their adorable “WAR-is-to-Shire” pronunciation that deserved laughter.
I’m glad we had this talk.
Ikenberry Orchards!
Daleville, Virginia. Look at the SIZE of those peaches!
It’s a “Gathering” Gathering! (August 27th in Chantilly, VA)
Hey, gang, I just wanted to help spread the word about Poets Anonymous’ August 27th launch event for the second annual Gathering poetry anthology. The event will take place at 7:30 at Courtyard Dulles Airport Chantilly, 3935 Centerview Drive, Chantilly VA 20151. (The door opens at 7.)
Admission is $5. You can purchase the book at the event, if you wish; preorder information is right here. The poets whose work will appear in the anthology have been invited to read their work (though I am sadly unable to attend due to a prior commitment.)
I hope you are all having a terrific summer. 🙂
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.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 