25 11 / 2011
Galileo’s Moon Phases
Today
New Moon in Sagittarius
0% of lunar illumination
14 days to full moon
29 days to new moon
08 5 / 2011
A spread collar makes room for one’s tie’s larger knot, like a windsor. Or, in this case, accomodates a full ruffle and wide tie.
08 5 / 2011
The Starry Night
Anne Sexton That does not keep me from having a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars.
—Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother
The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.
It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons
to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die:
into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.
08 5 / 2011
Constellation Scales and Gliese 581, the star where an earthlike planet has been found.
