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Bad Joke Friday (space joke edition)

This is actually a good joke. And for a bonus, it’s a two-fer!

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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

I didn’t know this until I saw it online today, but The Hobbit was first published 80 years ago today. At no point have I not loved this story (except for the handful of years I was unaware of it), … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

This is weird. I never knew this song existed until the other day when I heard it as part of the soundtrack to one of The Daughter’s video games. It’s a peppy, zippy pop song from the 1950s…singing the praises … Continue reading

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On ‘ownership’

In the course of a long post about Twin Peaks (of which I know nothing and cannot comment), Sheila O’Malley says this: In today’s day and age, where every fan feels a sense of “ownership” over the thing they love … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Got a spare two minutes? Give this a listen, then. It’s a very short bit of tone painting, in the form of a folk dance, by Percy Grainger. Here is “Shepherd’s Hey”.

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Something for Friday: Farewell, Cassini

The Cassini mission has ended with the space probe’s final plunge into the Saturnian atmosphere. We learned a great deal from Cassini — and we will continue to do so as more and more analysis of its data is done … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

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Sky at morning, sky at night

Taken the same day:

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Tone Poem Tuesday

It’s increasingly clear that this feature is really “Whatever piece of one-movement classical music I want”, because this isn’t a tone poem but rather a selection of ballet music from an opera. Specifically, the opera is La Gioconda by Amilcare … Continue reading

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Sixteen years….

I wrote this story not long after the events of 9-11-01. It is not the story I would write today. How could it be? I was on the cusp of turning thirty, and at that point the scope of an … Continue reading

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