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Moon Traveler Year in Review 2021

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Jan 21 2021 Happy Days Are Here Again   Tic Toc version of Happy February 05, 2021 - Edison Electric Illuminating Co.  It is kind of where he got his first real start - tho he was in New York in a few months [~] more or less. Some of his co's were HQ'd here. I think that is the case with Edison Electric Illuminating Company which still has its residue - as seen in this sign on an old power plant on Boylston St, just west of the Buckminster Hotel and Kenmore Sq and Northwest of Fenway Park near the Pike and remnant railroad yards I use to climb through on my way to work at BU. Pretty sure I had a cosmic moment meditating upon this power plant one night in time.   READ THE REST OF THE STORY.  (appearing on ProgressiveGauge blog] March 01, 2021 - Up and into the Poet Realm, you go, boy-o THE METAPHYSICAL POETS could upset you to waking sleep Set you to moanin’ all night long Secret Catholic and Anti-Catholic messages All in the service of love Flighty ruminants that fou...

Looking out my window

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  I can't for the life of me understand how people can walk around saying Donald Trump won the election. Some of these people are people I thought were normal. Some of them I even thought of as nice and even a few I thought were extra intelligent friends. All I thought basically OK. Yet now they think they can cloud the minds of America in the spirit of their black guard Trump. But there it is: Imagine a person who disliked Hillary Clinton, and so voted for Trump, and who enjoyed the experience, and is now gone, who is now   forever in a death hold of the monster. It’s not imagination – it’s what’s happening. It’s your fellow citizens in line at the grocer or gas station. You know it. They look for chance to start conversation and revel.  Smug they are with the ever warmer pleasure of lying.  Reading Landslide by Michael Wolfe. Dumbstruck at the delusional cabal that arose around him. Where you had to be expert in inflation of all numbers in the telling to Trump...

Mystery Ice Station

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This was posted first in 2009 or so. But those were blogger days before I learned YouTube was better. So the thing was lost until I found a great helpful how to fixer. [You got to go into Google Web tools and find the kabob and then walk around your desk counter clockwise and find a widget and so on.] - Jack This is the new explanatory email I put to YouTube: I read a book on flying by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry when I was a lad. I grew up with the narration and the lazy radio drawl of pilots in my head. That and Republic serials. This is how it came out. Y ouTube transcribed it for me: the plane bumped about slightly off its trolley as it gathered speed and lifted the lights of the field arched and streaked in tracy's view these were great candle-powered lamps the lights parallel and dance recall the teacher's musical staff chalk contraption he would as a youth play with on the blackboard after school supposed to be being punished [Music] then tracy was in the air and he saw the...