Here is the sky on Palm Sunday evening.
Guy’s Blog
Said a journalist, Mr. Clee Shay
“I’m never unsure what to say.
Why bother to strive
For a phrase that’s alive
When a dead one will do, any day?”
Clock clatter
Clock-clipping time comes on Sunday, March 28, for Europe. Clap the clock’s hand forward an hour and (as for the American date two weeks earlier) clap your eye on our page in which we cluck about this whole clumsy clutter of clock cacophony.
Clicking on the topic of clocks reminds me of Click and Clack the Tappet brothers and their clever Car Talk show on National Public Radio, which even I, clueless as to cars, used to get fun out of every week. And of clichés, about which I shall send you a clot, cloud, or clamor of claims immediately after this.
Turkey new edition – and conspiracy theories
This is another publication announcement.
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Through the gates of spring
Here’s the sky on this first evening of northern spring.
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Red gateway, doubled daytime, troubled clocktime
Red Mars is passing red Aldebaran, and the Moon will sweep between the two on Friday March 19.
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Mad as a March Hare
Sunday March 14 is the second Sunday in March, so Americans are directed to twist their clocks forward by an hour, into a long summer of Daylight-Shifted Time. Continue reading “Mad as a March Hare”
Vesta, vests, and the fallibility of poets
Everyone’s favorite asteroid, Vesta, is taking its apparent retrograde path, across the hind leg of Leo the lion, as we pass nearest to it.
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What is a remhurl?
Tilly and I just now finished publishing another remhurl – “remhurl” is our abbreviation for Continue reading “What is a remhurl?”
Mercurial appearances: not what they claim
Mercury is at its greatest distance out into the morning sky (its greatest western elongation).
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