“Let Your Dim Light Shine”
From FB: “Two songs off this classic ’95 album just came up on iTunes. Whenever we’d go into the field I’d take a bunch of CDs with me to listen to on my knockoff CD Walkman. This was always one of them and I’d listen to it from beginning to end. I can still remember…
Vienna, Virginia (2010)
From FB: “Middle-aged hippieish woman sitting outside a Starbucks in a maroon Subaru Outback replete with an Obama bumper sticker and one that read: “Yellow Ribbons Don’t Save Soldiers – Peace Does!” Me: “Nice bumper sticker.” Her: “Oh, thanks!” Me: “Yeah, I was being sarcastic.” Her: “Oh. Thanks.”
“Cloven Hoof-Prints in the Stone”
“Where for aught any man knows lies the locality of Hell? For the Earth is a globe in the void and truth there’s no up nor down to it and there’s men in this company besides myself seen little cloven hoof-prints in the stone clever as a little doe in her going, but what little…
Shoggone
From FB: “I always found that one of the major ways that Lovecraft has wrapped its leathery tentacles around popular culture was through a deluge of faux memorobelia: Arkham newspapers, Miskatonic diplomas and the like. This is my humble contribution, a 20’s to 30’s era fold-out road atlas of Lovecraft County based on old gas-station…
Decoration Day
From FB: “Originally called Decoration Day, when Americans took time to decorate the graves of soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War, today’s national holiday of Memorial Day honors all American soldiers who died in defense of the nation. While several towns claim to be the site of the first Memorial Day celebration,…
“What Can We Do?”
From FB: “[Jackson] rode through the early-morning darkness with his aide James Power Smith to visit [mortally wounded Confederate Brigadier General Maxcy] Gregg [with whom he had recently quarreled]. When Jackson arrived he found Gregg fully conscious and in great pain. Jackson took Gregg’s hand, and in a voice filled with emotion said, ‘The doctor…
“The Institute Will Be Heard From Today”
“VMI Cadets at The Battle of New Market – May 15th, 1864” by Don Prechtel
Der Löwendenkmal
From FB: “The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Mark Twain praised…
“THIS is THIS”
From FB: “While in college, I had a part-time job in the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) section of Virginia Tech’s school library. Every afternoon, I’d show up between classes and box up books to be sent to other libraries within the ILL system. It paid minimum wage, but I liked it as I was surrounded by…
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