Photo credit: By Alexander Z. (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
“Elizabeth Blaney,” by William McGregor Paxton, 1916
Oil on canvas.
Washington, D.C., Summer 2017
“America Calling” Civil Defense Poster, Herbert Matter, 1941
Soooo …
America’s new plans for the War in Afghanistan were announced yesterday by a man who was also photographed yesterday staring into the solar eclipse without protection.
Do I have that right?
“Epitaph for a Waiter,” by David McCord
“Epitaph for a Waiter,” by David McCord
By and by,
God caught his eye.
“May the shadow of the moon fall upon a world at peace.”
I was a second grader in 1979. I don’t think I have any recollection of people talking about the eclipse. And that’s odd, because I do remember the Blizzard of 1978 quite well.
“Turn around, Bright Eyes.”
My new gangsta rap name is E-Clipz.
Also, one of you guys has to check me for ticks now.
Okay, so my photos of the eclipse itself didn’t turn out so hot. But they are kind of interesting in that you can view the eclipse via a weird lens flare effect in these photos.
Look at the first two shots. If you look past huge, blurry, distorted image of the sun, and look just above and to the right of it, you can see a smaller, better image of the entire eclipse. It looks like the top portion of a glowing ring. In the third photo, the effect is all the way toward the bottom of the shot.
Cover to “Eclipso: the Darkness Within,” Bart Sears and Mark Pennington, 1992
DC Comics.
I’m doggone hilarious.
Friend: “Gotta love Facebook. Less than 6 hours to find my dog. 🙂 )
Me: “Your dog opened a Facebook account?! That’s amazing!”
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 