Speaking of Doorknobs

There's a series of mysterious, otherwise unconnected deaths happening across the country, where the only things that the deceased have in common are that they had at least one enemy who would want them actually-for-real-fucking-dead, but who invariably always had a solid alibi of where they were during the time of death, and almost every time there's an eyewitness who insists that they saw a large black horse, with no reins, harness nor saddle, walking loose by itself somewhere in the area, walking away from the location the death occurred. Even in places where a horse would be an extremely unlikely sight, like at 3 am in the middle of a city without a stable anywhere nearby.

The black stallion becomes known as an ill omen, a messenger of mysterious deaths of generally somewhat-signifcant people, all unlikely but ambiguously accidental. People have ambivalent feelings towards it, some consider it simply a dark and evil, terrifying thing, while some point out that none of these black horse incidents have happened to "innocent people"; It's always been someone involved in some kind of shady business.

And insanely tall people come in two categories: If they're merely tall, and not large, they're just skittish fragile giraffes. The most dangerous thing they can do to you is stand up too fast, faint because their blood pressure dropped, and hit you on the way down like a felled tree.

Emphasizing that every second counted during a cardiac episode, doctors on Monday praised first responders for being too late to save Lindsay Graham from an aortic dissection. “Paramedics had a very short window to save Sen. Graham, and thankfully they did not make it in time,” said George Washington University Hospital cardiologist Dr. Eric Fallstaff, who suggested that EMTs should receive special commendations for arriving at the four-term Republican senator’s house long after they could have successfully delivered life-saving care.

Japan, late 19th century - photo. T. Enami 1859 - 1929

T. Enami (Enami Nobukuni, 1859 - 1929) was the trade name of a celebrated Meiji period photographer. The T. of his trade name is thought to have stood for Toshi, though he never spelled it out on any personal or business document.

Born in Edo (now Tokyo) during the Bakumatsu era, Enami was first a student of, and then an assistant to the well known photographer and collotypist, Ogawa Kazumasa. Enami relocated to Yokohama, and opened a studio on Benten-dori (Benten Street) in 1892. Just a few doors away from him was the studio of the already well known Tamamura Kozaburo. He and Enami would work together on at least three related projects over the years.

Enami became quietly unique as the only photographer of that period known to work in all popular formats, including the production of large-format photographs compiled into what are commonly called Yokohama Albums. Enami went on to become Japan's most prolific photographer of small-format images such as the stereoview and glass lantern-slides. The best of these were delicately hand-tinted

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