tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4156231307849606705..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: I saw a fishpond all on fireUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40409133765026482712012-05-22T07:42:17.974-07:002012-05-22T07:42:17.974-07:00After looking at very many pictures of this eclips...After looking at very many pictures of this eclipse, the judges have ruled that the #1 prize in the Uniqueness category (not to mention the Aesthetic as well) has to go to <a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--b5cBlynMok/T7remZnk9mI/AAAAAAAAFwg/xsfz7anIIMI/s806/20120520_184203.jpg" rel="nofollow">Nora's genius shot</a>, notable for its chromatic spookiness, weird comedy and above all -- taken on a boat!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59564667873876093602012-05-22T03:20:25.105-07:002012-05-22T03:20:25.105-07:00I thought we'd missed this ring of fire but th...I thought we'd missed this ring of fire but then you came along and tossed us into it! Sizzling--especially that wall of voodoo but for me, there was nobody like John--what's his name? Cash?vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36159632062581190802012-05-21T19:14:15.212-07:002012-05-21T19:14:15.212-07:00This is, I think, my favorite video of the eclipse...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DtkoAlwIpWY" rel="nofollow">This</a> is, I think, my favorite video of the eclipse. The A's game put me to such a sound sleep that I missed the event entirely. My wife said it was quite something, but that I looked far too peaceful to rouse.Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303975097082135649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4019604700480798892012-05-21T17:34:58.968-07:002012-05-21T17:34:58.968-07:00I didn't get any good photos of the eclipse, a...I didn't get any good photos of the eclipse, as I lack even the most basic planning skills. But I did enjoy watching the faces made by the shadow of my spoon. <br /><br />https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--b5cBlynMok/T7remZnk9mI/AAAAAAAAFwg/xsfz7anIIMI/s806/20120520_184203.jpgNorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70021981659000148982012-05-21T12:34:30.486-07:002012-05-21T12:34:30.486-07:00Tom,
Great "eclipse coverage" as Curtis...Tom,<br /><br />Great "eclipse coverage" as Curtis says.<br /><br />Here's my "coverage" (in words at least, photos not included). I took a hike up the ridge above Stinson in the late afternoon, looking out across the bright blue sea w/ sky above it, all so blue and when I got to the top there was two people sitting in the tall grass, their glasses of white wine in their hands, bottle in ice bucket beside them, and the man sd "the first bite!" and when I came back by them they said they were eclipse followers, had seen them all over the world, and they had a "17x welder's glass" (something like that) and when I took a look there it was, a little black shadow of moon in lower right quadrant of the circle of the sun (took a photo through the glass, but the "bite" didn't show up). Then I ran back down (the ocean and sky getting strangely darker blue, midnight blue, very strange, almost not true but it WAS true) and drove back to Bolinas to watch it from Mesa Park, w/ my pin hole in cardboard -- and when I got there there were a few people standing around looking at what was going on, and they had 'solar glasses' (made out of cardboard) and you could look at the sun through them & see half the 'ring of fire' -- and as the sun went further down the moon appeared to climb higher across it -- the little pin hole cardboard didn't showed it on my hand but the glasses showed it to the eye, and camera too. <br /><br />5.21<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />plane of ridge, blue jay on pine branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> seems evident, relationship<br /> made in blue and pink <br /><br /> not having been, think what<br /> becomes, through this<br /><br />silver edge of sun rising above ridge,<br />line of pelicans gliding toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79971102969254223902012-05-21T11:21:00.558-07:002012-05-21T11:21:00.558-07:00The eclipse coverage is SO much better here than i...The eclipse coverage is SO much better here than it was on the evening news. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71162486604613989662012-05-21T08:41:43.756-07:002012-05-21T08:41:43.756-07:00Hazen,
It seemed weirdly almost... sacrilegious? ...Hazen,<br /><br />It seemed weirdly almost... sacrilegious? to put up Johnny next to Stan Ridgway. <br /><br />The early live versions by JC are consistently lip-synched, alack-a-day.<br /><br />But imagining the burning fishpond to be brimming with radioactive magenta dye might help out with <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmzxM_XvQA" rel="nofollow">this</a> 1994 live version from Montreux.<br /><br />(4862 years old by then, right up there with Prometheus.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19154023515812346292012-05-21T08:22:50.714-07:002012-05-21T08:22:50.714-07:00Tom, We missed this one on this side of the contin...Tom, We missed this one on this side of the continent. Great pictures though. Wall of Voodoo has some good instrumental riffs on the Ring Of Fire but Mr. Cash remains my fave.<br /><br />Celestial fire, burning water . . . (Well, the Detroit River once caught on fire).Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38686586698842810602012-05-21T06:54:32.045-07:002012-05-21T06:54:32.045-07:00Oh but the fire went wild!<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yd0Uc7bI7w&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Oh but the fire went wild!</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69244886110545778582012-05-21T06:33:44.352-07:002012-05-21T06:33:44.352-07:00Manik,
I think perhaps the sun looked more kindly...Manik,<br /><br />I think perhaps the sun looked more kindly upon us all back in that golden day before evolution (with all its attendant bother) set in. <br /><br />A parson twelve feet high would be a useful fellow to have around the premises of your cottage near the sky, in case your kitten, in trying on its hat, got caught stuck up in a tree, above your burning fishpond.<br /><br />So... test question for the day, what was it, then, that caused the curious conflagration? <br /><br />Had the reactor overheated?<br /><br />Or was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JegJYlZ7UQE" rel="nofollow">the fishpond on fire</a> because the haunted-house pet scorpions, in a test of the new waterproof sacred underwear, had doused themselves with lighter fluid and somebody had thrown in a match?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61927354046536067552012-05-21T05:39:30.292-07:002012-05-21T05:39:30.292-07:00Tom,
reminded me of the time when i was a kid and ...Tom,<br />reminded me of the time when i was a kid and would watched a couple of eclipses through the corner of an x-ray print of either of my grandparents..Life was a simple thrill...My mother would tell me not to stare at the sun until three..I didn't believe her for another 5 years i guess...Dicovering was believing...Now it has become the opposite...A very sweet post nonetheless..manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.com