It’s overcast … but with intermittent sunset-orange tints that turn it occasional shades of burning silver.
Like someone splashed thin veneers of tapered fire across a fading, opal-toned tombstone at dusk.
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I am on a comic fan’s cloud nine right now.
Hey, guys — remember I told you how I just discovered that Dark Horse Comics quoted me in promoting its amazing 2019 “Grendel” series (right under Alan Moore, no less!)?
It turns out that some major entertainment news sites featured the entirety of the company’s promotional materials, so the quote was carried in tripwire magazine, Broken Frontier and Pastrami Nation.
I’m still honored that I was even quoted at all, in connection with an iconic comic character that I’ve loved since I was a kid. This is a fan’s dream!
VADER’S ON THAT SHIP. I CAN FEEL IT.
Anyone ever notice that the top of the Taubman Museum of Art looks like a lot like an imperial star cruiser?
Looking north to downtown Roanoke, VA, from South Jefferson Street, October 2021
I just like how all those boxlike squares juxtapose themselves with one another.
The celebratory Big Mac.
So with a poem just published in Peeking Cat 40, that makes 10 anthologies where one of my poems or stories have appeared — plus two chapbooks on top of those. (The first anthology would have been Dagda Publishing’s Threads eight years ago.) When I received my copy of Peeking Cat 40 today, I promptly celebrated with MacDonald’s. (We eat healthy at my house.)
The book is superb. I’m thrilled to join so many talented writers from around the world in such an outstanding showcase of prose and poetry selected by Peeking Cat Literary over the past year. Thanks once again to Editor Sam Rose!
Workers up on the Wells Fargo Tower, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
I believe I used the word “perch” here several times when I should have said “scaffolding.” What can I say? I’m not very good with words. [Update — a pal of mine just told me the preferred term is actually “cradle.” But she’s British, and they’ve got some funky linguistic differences with us — with their “flats” and their “chips” and their “bangers” and their consistently correct grammar and all that.]
The guys on the right side of the building (near the very top) are about 20 stories up.
Seen from Campbell Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
Pictured after the first photo are the rears of buildings that face Rorer Avenue to the north.
That building you see in the distance in the last photo before the video is the Wells Fargo Tower.
Regarding the black-and-white shots here — Roanoke is actually a very cheery place, and a clean and well kept city. I just like draining the light and color from photos and then boosting their clarity through the roof.
Elmwood Park today.
The leaves are starting to turn.
I enhanced the color on the second picture — of the sky over The Patrick Henry building. I couldn’t resist bringing out the blue of that sky.
It wouldn’t be heart to pull off.
I saw this sign on Luck Avenue. If I leased a space from Poe & Cronk, I’d call them up, demand to speak directly to Poe, and complain about “THE BEATING OF THAT HIDEOUS HEART” under the floorboards.
I’d be joking, though. (It would be just a Cronk call.)
Trains passing beneath Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
Vicinity of Jefferson Street SW and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
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