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!”
Do NOT view the solar eclipse tomorrow without the special glasses.
Guys, please do not view the solar eclipse tomorrow without the ISO-certified eclipse-viewing glasses. You could go blind.
Do not allow any children to view the eclipse without the special glasses. (Wouldn’t a lot of kids just ignore adults’ advice and watch an eclipse unprotected anyway, especially if their eyes don’t hurt when they first look at it? I was that kind of kid.)
Sunglasses are not a substitute. I’m a little confused by what I’ve read so far online about taking pictures, but I understand you should not be looking at the eclipse through a camera or a smartphone camera either.
I don’t know why this whole thing has me acting like such a mother hen on the Internet, seriously. But here we are.
If your eyes aren’t protected, MARION, DON’T LOOK AT IT.
A plague of locusts today, a total eclipse tomorrow.
If it doesn’t start raining frogs on Tuesday, I’m going to be very disappointed.
And the apocalypse will be especially depressing given how happy and unified our country is today.
Who invented pumpkin spice latte? Gonna tear that mother****er’s statue down.
The Powers that Bee.
If you haven’t visited the The Bees Are Dead recently, then why not stop by this weekend? There is some terrific poetry from Wren Tuatha, Allison Grayhurst and Randall Rogers, as well as some truly amazing “Masters of the Universe” fan art by celebrated film art concept designer Paul Gerrard. (80’s kids will love it.)
The newest item featured over at B.A.D. is an official response by Beth Fukumoto, who is a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, to a racist hate letter that she recently received. Fukumoto, who switched her party affiliation earlier this year from Republican to Democrat, has been a target of racially motivated antipathy since then. (Fukumoto was actually interviewed by B.A.D.’s own Dennis Villelmi in April.)
“Hate in America” Cover to TIME Magazine, Edel Rodriguez, August 28, 2017
The upcoming issue of TIME:
Summer thunderstorm, Salem, Virginia, 2017 (2)
These were taken from a moving car — my friends and I were headed for dinner in Salem. As I’ve explained before, I have a weird thing about blurry pictures taken from a moving vehicle. And the foreboding and colorless quality of these shots makes them extra trippy.
The disembodied black blurs that you see are actually trees close to the roadway; I thought the effect was pretty damned cool — especially in that last shot. The second-to-last shot would be great to accompany a haunted house story.
