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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...

Shroud picnic

    When I was a boy at family picnics while moms were making the fixing the boys would to to the car sit at the steering wheel, punch radio buttons, and go in imagination to space. The mnemonic master: Flash Gordon - and his world with Zharkov, Dale, Prince Berrin. Yes, one time we end up in a '30s Hollywood serial. Another time we end up in an Italian futurist artist's atelier. Yet another time in a '60s Lockheed skunkwork's Airstream.

Small poems day

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  Flash, Dale, Aura and Thun escape from the underwater city, but are are captured by King Vultan and the Hawkmen. Dr. Zarkov befriends Prince Barin, and they race to the rescue! The girl in my garden has grey fractious hair Silver radiation signaling.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Uneven world Uneven the distribution of pork Uneven the path of dogfood Uneven the rebirth of commerce Uneven the availability of vaccines.                          -Nov 26 2021 ___ the magenta purple dawning sky ahead - it lights the foggy green salt marsh and its pools as the new england corridor train grunt-grouches east at sunrise - on connecticut shores a' dewing as the train crew talks about geography - and drinks morning black coffee. - 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sweet Sunny South Song I dreamed I was ported in a teletime stream to the sweet sunny south i did ride where toxic ill will  spreads like a swill and the snakes dont bother to hi...

Purple Mountain Majesty

 In 2020 exponential growth of a virus met exponential growth of social networking. The communal human brain  generally failed to keep up with the flow of information and disinformation. Voice of reason https://t.co/6vGthZuHQx pic.twitter.com/cCN0cam1cv — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) November 21, 2021

The Red Smith Stakes

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The Red Smith Stakes at 1.5M on the turf for 2021 finds a brisk, sunny fall day at Acqueduct.  Chad Brown's incredible statistic for layoffs, on turfs, in stakes make Serve the King an instant favorite (3-1 ML) A horse with possibilities that has some excuses for recent median runs is Correlli (at 12-1 ML). Someone I see as an outsider (5-1 ML), but in fact a solid second choice at post time is Clement's Soldier Rising. Channel Cat (4-1 ML) by English Channel has had a few long campaigns but is a board hitter or more at this distance. Johnny V on Channel Cat takes to the front as expected, without much pressure, leads the first quarter at a moderate 24 and 4/5ths, followed by Price Talk and Tide of the Sea... in the middle ranks are Serve the King ridden by Irad Ortiz, Value Engineering ridden by Dylan Davis and others. And trailers were Manny Franco on Corelli and Jose Ortiz on Soldier Rising. The half was 50 sec at which point Castelano on Shamrocket made a brief run at the f...