Classic Cover: Dune Messiah
This is a classic magazine cover from Analog SF magazine in 1965. It features art by the late Hugo-award-winning artist John Schoenherr, whose covers helped […]
A Little Inspiration
Inspiration: Earthrise
Earthrise, compliments of NASA and Apollo 8, on December 24, 1968.
Spirit Rover: A 1-Page Story
This is a powerful one-page graphic story published by the XKCD webcomic. I’m guessing it came out some time in 2010 since that’s when the […]
Ashburn Wildlife Sighting
Long thought extinct, residents of Ashburn, VA, a suburb of Washington D.C., were stunned to find a lone mastodon roaming the streets during a recent […]
Family Heirloom
My maternal grandfather, Robert Hjort, was a Danish immigrant born in 1908. He came to the United States with his family when he was two […]
Virtual Vacation: Star Trek Enterprise
For this week’s virtual vacation, I took a tour of NCC-1701, the Enterprise, under the command of Captain Kirk. This is a picture snapped by […]
Monday Mashup: Times Person of the Year
Found this on the InterWeb and it tickled my fancy. This is Sauron from The Lord of the Rings…on the cover of Times magazine as […]
Inspiration: Burning L.A.
This is a great image from the back of a departing yacht as a group of survivors leaves Los Angelos behind during a zombie apocalypse. […]
Inspiration: T-Rex
It’s been an awful day. Insurrectionists wreaked havoc in the capitol and the Confederate flag was raised in DC for the first time in the […]
Inspiration: Venice
I’ve never been to Venice, though I hope to visit sometime in the post-COVID-19 era. I’ve always been fascinated by its prominence in history, first […]