YO! Look Up!

Wednesday, 2/20... Americas...






I'll be diggin out Valyna's telescope and plopping down on the back patio...

cross your fingers for clear skies...

Carousel

design, function, absence
aspiration, reality, fantasy
super ego, ego, id

a return to typing with ltlmke

a room for the making,
ventilation is important

paths to glory,
getting new teeth,
only a thousand bucks

'i firmly believe this...
if i don't owe,
i can be honest;
that's a great thing'

shat that redlight,
you'll lose your tourism

can you imagine?

'i was reading a story today'
bought house and left.

general public doesn't understand paperwork

fat fucks have no claim

on that note,
every morning i wake
is an experiment

they're asking for logon information twice

the fucked up thing about it is they don't allow it

they don't try to make it easy for ya

that carousel,
i tell you what,
the capability to glue up
twentyfoot board

someday I'll jump to the level
where i can talk to people

i'm taking america back,
where i take pride in
the people i talk to

i let you into my world
and who are you gonna vote for?

lifeforms thrive on that type of situation;
not only is it fun, it tastes good

roger's going to Mongolia for three months
to work on heavy equipment

it's the basic things you deal with
that you learn upon

who's looked at the pacific ocean lately?

it's a great vehicle to oil now and again

if the language is gonna cross,
know the translation

'reading is fundamental'

Revisiting The Cool Corner

Acquire some sheep?

PHEW!

damn,

it's rather consuming,
plotting world domination...

I'll get back to ya.

Double Einstein Ring

Somewhere far, far away...

a rude "little" boy is chuckling to himself
how the ants have just now noticed the magnifying glass
pointed in their direction...



This is an image of gravitational lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 as photographed by Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The gravitational field of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two galaxies exactly behind it. The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances.

...Or Maybe, A Cool Down

Hat tip to Urban.

Today, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida announces that it has confirmed the recent web announcement of NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in the sun’s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of a long lasting cold era.

LINK

hmmmm, maybe they should take back that Oscar,

and that Nobel too.


(Friggin self-aggrandizing Charlatan)

The Laboratory

From
Too many gods
Too many dreams
Too many bills
Too many seams

Time to scrimp
Time to prune
Time to lay away stock
Before the turning time of June after May I

Design the mad plan
Assemble the infrastructure
Test the kit
Tweak the fit, turn the granite to glass

Devilish palms rub each other
Brooding eyes cast over the clutter
More design, more accidents penciled out
Transmutation begins...
Bringing forth that seen inside
Becoming outside

Art thou Art dangerous love
Illustrate why fingers have their nails
Under glove
Why hammers their claw
Why teeth together saw
What I do

Art life Art death Art depth
From uncolored emergence to
Invisible breath
The shape of the lip
The sound
The sigh

In the laboratory, Aye!
I scheme tonight
Turning my tools
Templing my sight

Art crash Art wand Art set
Memes made flesh
Visions beget
What you see

Begin, end, renew
Bring your human hands
Your fluttering thought machine
Red shifting blue

Let us to tinkering
Beneath the year’s lowest time
Of cold and black

Let us to wandering
With questioning hands and
Thumbind guesses

Let us to secret room play
To
Making some thing fun today

Requesting Information

I’m meaning to apply.

I’m outing myself to find about
Why the Red Sky’s I.

Trying to give time,
To the subscrivener,
To the heart’s circulation.

It is the evening
Of our tomorrow.

Striving not to fear
The scarecrow’s wizened grimace,
For the world’s singed wings beat a straight line
From me to where your breath hangs still.

Beseeching you to dream yourself
In light,
Held gently
In a sea of suns.

Old Einny knew the aether
Holds all separation
As one.

We can feel faster than photons.

And with the flick of ash,
Our trials have begun,
2007, 2008, 3, 2, 1

Embrace the noble face,
And name what you will.

A Wish By Request

I like how our love is falling...

Like slow, beautiful snow flakes
On the surface of a secret lake

Like strong, steady sunshine
On our burning bright smiles

Like warm midnight rain
Soaking us through as we walk home together

A constant, patient irresistibility,

A funny truth I dare not name completely,

Yet fear more than fearlessness to ever let go

Fleshed Out

a landmark dinosaur find...

"Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of a dinosaur that has much of its soft tissue still intact."

Grit, Grit, Grit

I be
Therefore I see
Therefore I see you

You be
Therefore you see
Therefore you see me

See we see
You be me
I be you

-and the rock goes "Grit, Grit, Grit..."

It Rides Upon Us

"We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us"

Truth And Entertainment

... a rare occurrence.



funny-haha-oh-shit

... enjoy... and if you don't,
don't come cryin' to me about it.

Twilight Fires

Mourning faces in the street,
Two, the many faces I meet,
Too conscious of
Too few today.

My shaven hairs bristle
In electronic reception,
Receiving every breath and twitch
Of their restless penchants resting.

A day for fighting my way back home,
To girl and glow,
To love wrapped in shinny bows,
To the she and me serenity.

And all the while
The invisible dragon smile
Waits for his grinning hour,
His gnashing advance upon history.

Tonight, tomorrow,
26 days hence,
Now,
Hear the screeching hinge
Of a forgotten fence.

Dire matters, and comforts familiar.
Drama’s death, boxed and sold,
As we to our solid leaning pillar hold.

No new subjects to reveal,
No new kings to flay and peel
Of our eyes and their sightless clothes.

Bathed in twilight fires,
Just kiss me softly hard
And stay with me waiting
For the first falling stars.

Proximity

Holmes

What up, holmes?

What Up, indeed.



Hat tip to Urban, once again, for keeping tabs on
what stories don't make the 11 o'clock news.

Here's some interesting language.

A article in New Scientist tells us that Comet Holmes has brightened by a factor of a million in 24 hours and according to David Morrison, senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute in Moffett Field, California, "This is equivalent to the planet Saturn suddenly becoming as bright as the Full Moon."

Science tells us that the comet is heading away from us, but cannot explain why it has suddenly brightened. Although there are many theories of why we can't see the tail of the comet, many are speculating that we can't see the tail because the comet is heading towards earth. Most do not believe it will hit earth, but think we may be due for an amazing sky show as the months pass. Others feel that this close encounter will change us as a society and that the comet has been brought to us because we are war hungry.

While reading as much as I could on Comet Holmes the most interesting thing I discovered is how little coverage this anomaly is receiving. Although this comet is not new, its explosion of light is unusual and I am confused as to why the major news outlets have yet to report this story. Could it be that since the experts don't understand what is ocurring, the decision makers don't want to cause fear? Whether Comet Holmes continues to grow and brighten or simply fades out of sight and mind, no one seems to know, including the experts, so take a look and be amazed.

I say, WTF?


...the BBC report

...the SpaceWeather gallery

...the SkyandTelescope gallery

...the map

UPDATE (11/1/07):

a nice close up of Holmes...



continuing updates...