Tag Archives: Virginia

Moon over Roanoke.

Virginia.

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Intersection of Kirk Avenue and Second Street, Roanoke, VA

Looking north.



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Take a look at Pie & Chai Magazine!

It’s a creative nonfiction mag launched today by none other than Steve Watkins, my creative writing professor at Mary Washington College.  And it’s a great read!

You can find it right here:

https://pieandchaimagazine.com/



The Ministry of Power?

Seriously, though, has anyone ever noticed that the building for Appalachian power has some goddam Stalinist architecture?

It’s like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four.



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A black cat on Brandon Avenue.

Or maybe it’s just a catbird.

Roanoke, Virginia.



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Leavin’ Las Vegas?

I found this praying mantis on one of my Autumn walks, up north of downtown Roanoke.  He looked like he was hastily leaving the city.  Maybe he was fed up with pesky people taking his photo.

 

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Yikes, Crumbles! That’s a hell of a Halloween display!

The Bates Motel sign is an especially nice touch.

(Kirk Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia.)



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The Internet — ALWAYS a source of reliable information.

[singing to the tune of “My Sharona”]:

“FRIED BALONEY!!!!”

It’s good stuff. Thanks, Internet!

Might have to try that “fried green tomatoes” thing next, I dunno.

Update: I’m in the middle of watching “Doctor Sleep,” so YOU wash the frying pan.



Concrete forest.

It looks like they’ve started constructing the framework for the next set of buildings on Campbell Avenue where the former bus station was razed.  This picture doesn’t quite do it justice — but it has a postindustrial, otherworldly look to it around twilight.  I thought it was neat.

I almost wrote “infrastructure” instead of “framework” in the first sentence above.  But I’ve read that engineers roll their eyes at the word, because laypeople invariably use the term incorrectly.



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The Roanoke Star features my latest letter to the editor.

I’m very happy to see that The Roanoke Star has featured my latest letter to the editor — about people who draw a comparison between the January 6th attack on the Capitol and protests by Black Lives Matter.  You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Publisher Stuart Revercomb for allowing me to share with my neighbors in Roanoke via The Roanoke Star.