February 20, 2018: Dark Site Disappointment and Mount Mastery

Ugh. Just ugh. As the eight long-time readers of this blog may remember (although they probably won’t), one of my absolute pet bugaboos is the complete and utter inability of weather forecasts to get it right. They just can’t. Not even frickin’ close. But they give the illusion that they can, this illusion of supreme […]

December 4, 2015: The Stupidmoon, The Urban Starfest, and The Nethermead

If you weren’t living in a cave at the time, you probably remember that there was a lunar eclipse in September. But, oh, not just any lunar eclipse. No, this was the SUPERMOON, the BLOOD MOON. Actually, I like to call it the STUPIDMOON. It really chaps my ass when the media hypes some astronomical […]