And I am here now and I am staying put

[sovay]

derspatchel helped me make the charoses for tonight's seder. My brother had to leave early, but not before doing the voice for Pharaoh. He and Audrey alternated the Four Questions, in Hebrew and English; she found the afikomen where he had hidden it. The telling is different every year, but we always open the door for Elijah: let all who are hungry come and eat, let all who are thirsty come and drink, let all who are enslaved be free. My mother's Christmas cactus bloomed.

Right before we ran out the door to catch the 87, Rob spotted the package from Seattle in our mailbox and handed it to me. It turned out to be my contributor's copy of Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books, edited by Bryan D. Dietrich and Marta Ferguson. It's huge. It has an amazing cover and interior art and an excellent foreword and it reprints my poem "A Find at Þingvellir," about Mjölnir. They even got the thorn in the right dialogue font.

I don't know if we're going to be able to see the eclipse. Rob stuck his head out the window a moment ago and reported, profanely, that it's overcast out there. Where the hell is my box of Magic cards? Maybe if I play Blood Moon, the sky'll get the idea.

[edit] Solid cloud-wall. We went out twice. We knew where in the sky the moon should be, but all we saw was light pollution. Boston sky, I am disappointed. You could have showed us something mythic for the spring.

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[phi]

Boston sky, I am disappointed. You could have showed us something mythic for the spring.

I know. Luckily we'll have three more chances to see a blood moon this year.

[sovay]

Luckily we'll have three more chances to see a blood moon this year.

I am very comforted by that!

[rax]

Only because you made the joke first:

You could have showed us something mythic for the spring.

Blood Moon's not a mythic, just a regular rare.

(It was gorgeous out here, I hope it's clearer for you for the next ones.)

[sovay]

Blood Moon's not a mythic, just a regular rare.

In the immortal words of Bill the Cat: Thptpth! (Hee.)

(It was gorgeous out here, I hope it's clearer for you for the next ones.)

Thanks. I'm glad someone enjoyed this one!

[spatch]

When it comes to eclipses in one's area, overcast is the fourest four-letter word you can utter.

[sovay]

When it comes to eclipses in one's area, overcast is the fourest four-letter word you can utter.

An actual dragon devouring the moon would have been cooler.

(frozen comment)

[anishenko-v-v.livejournal.com]

Про водные процедуры не забудь

more lunar chances

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

There are a bunch of them within the next year.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/27mar_tetrad/
I predict overcast for most of them in the Boston area, based on past experience.

[sovay]

I predict overcast for most of them in the Boston area, based on past experience.

Selfishly, I will hope your experience is unfounded. The last lunar eclipse I can remember seeing was October of 2004; I watched it through a telescope on Yale's Cross-Campus with a diehard Red Sox fan in New York City screaming down my cellphone about Game 4 of the World Series. That was awesome, but it's been too long since.

[gwynnega]

I had to get up early today, so missed the eclipse, though my friend Eileen took amazing photos.

[sovay]

though my friend Eileen took amazing photos.

Any of them online? I hope you can sleep late for the next one!

[gwynnega]

She posted some photos on Facebook, but they're not public, alas.

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

It rained all night here in Montreal. So I watched the eclipse on NASA TV (on UStream). The video was a shot from Griffith Observatory, and on the soundrack they fed through a web radio station I'd not heard of previously, Third Rock Radio, which is affiliated with NASA in some way. "New Rock, Indie, Alt" -- not terrible music, but I could detect no particular thematic connection to aerospace or science, except for the regular promos for NASA and station IDs by the likes of Bill Nye. You'd think if you were netcasting coverage of a total lunar eclipse via NASA TV, you'd want to pick stuff that was thematically connected to the moon, eclipses, "blood red" colors, etc. But no. It was just their usual selection of New Rock stuff.

So I turned off the audio feed and put on "Apollo" by Brian Eno. Much more appropriate.

[sovay]

So I turned off the audio feed and put on "Apollo" by Brian Eno. Much more appropriate.

Indeed.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Socked in solid, damn it. The next one better be spectacular.

Nine

[sovay]

The next one better be spectacular.

Well, it's another total lunar eclipse. I think the chances are good!

[selidor]

Plenty more coming, fortunately - and then the next tetrad of lunar eclipses is 2032 or thereabouts. Eclipse clustering is kinda weird that way. (Perfectly predictable, which is always pretty awesome. But still, huh.)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Chag sameach!

I'm sorry ye didn't get to see the eclipse. I didn't, either, as it was solidly overcast. If only it'd been tonight, it would've been fine. But if wishes were horses nobody would ever need to buy fertiliser.

I'm glad for your contributor's copy, complete with proper thorn!