Green Comet

Here is some space new for anyone who may be interested. Maybe the rain will let up enough for us to have a gander.

Beginning Monday February 23, stargazers will have the opportunity to view the comet as it will be fairly easy to locate next to brilliant Saturn sometime after 10pm. With clear skies Saturn which is located in the Southern sky about halfway up from the horizon should be visible to the naked eye. Look for a cream-coloured star. The comet will hopefully remain visible for several days before the moon starts to interfere beginning February 28.

It may be necessary to use binoculars to ensure finding Comet Lulin which should be to the right of Saturn. To the naked eye, Lulin may only appear as a 'fuzzy' star. However, the timing is perfect for looking at the comet since there is no moon in the sky this week!

This is the first time that Lulin has visited the inner solar system and its first exposure to intense sunlight so surprises are possible. At its closest approach, Lulin will still be approximatly 60 million kilometres from the earth, roughly 160 times farther than the moon.

Called the “green comet,” Lulin’s colour comes from the gases that form its Jupiter-sized atmosphere. First discovered in July 2007, Lulin is the highlight comet of this astronomy season and is unique for its discovery. The comet was discovered through a collaboration between Taiwanese and Chinese astronomers.

Source: NASA

madge's vag.

Oh, V-Day. Now, I'm not talking about the Victory in Europe Day (which you can learn more about here), I'm talking about February 14th, day of the heart and chocolate. Every Valentines Day I am reminded of a very special time in a girl's life. It was the early 1990's and one Christmas I was one of many lucky pre-teens to receive New Kid's On The Block tickets. The concert date? February 15th. My BFF and I (and our Mom's) were pretty pumped for this epoch night and so got our first perfume to go along with our first concert. The fragrance? "February 14th." It came in a glass tube with a red lid and though I cannot remember the scent I remember the feeling of thinking that I was growing up. The feeling of being of some importance. Man, I wish I could recall the smell of that perfume though I'm sure it is along the lines of "Sunflower" or "Vanilla Fields".

Anyhoo, Check This Out.

the wild west.

There seems to be a surplus of peter pans and yahoos around lately.

Good grief Charlie Brown.

Good grief.

sometimes.

Sometimes you fuck up and eat too much dinner and then drink half a pitcher of rum punch in a restaurant that cranks the heat so you'll think your on holidays in Cabo or some shit.

And sometimes its a Monday when this happens.

Then when you come home to a dog who is sporting a new hair cut thanks to you and your roomate is blasting the The Stones you are stoked.

Even if Kurtis did take the Lord Of The Rings you were planning to watch when you got home.

lunacy eclipse

So February 9th is the day for the lunar eclipse. Check it out.

i'm feeling romantic

He walked through a open gate and into the garden of an aging senile woman. She could hear him coming but even in the deep recesses of her mind the glimmer of hope had gone out and she did not even recognize the soft voice he had once used to tell her all the dreams he had for them. Nor did she smell the scent of starched linen and musky aftershave that had once been her aphrodisiac. All the former light had gone out of her eyes and what was left behind was the constant welling of tears she could no longer cry. Her broken heart reflected in her cracked and failing mind, filled with thoughts of half remembered evenings at a cabin on the lake or a summer spent driving through the country for no other reason than to find the most delicious honey. Even in that quiet, wild flower garden with nothing but the birds chirping and the breeze stroking the leaves on the poplar trees, the old woman could not hear the man's desperate pleas for forgiveness. His straining voice trying to will her mind into the present. But the woman's heart had closed and she could no longer grasp at the tiny morsels of love he had come to offer. The only way that she could see to face each sunrise was to allow her mind to remember a time that was not so complicated, a time when her heart had burst wide open and was bleeding for all to see. The denial of a present reality had taken a toll however and for that tears welled in her eyes. Tears for all the lost time and for the life she had once found such delight in. It seemed, for the man, that she was suspended in her grief and that if only he could remind her of some small detail of their past love, some small token he had given her or the name of a neighbour's cat she had once fed that she would fall away from her despair and come back to him. It was this blind hope that had led him into her garden. For it was this common blindness that bound them, the woman's blind denial that this man would ever love her again and his blind refusal to believe that she was all but lost to her memories. And so theirs was a blind love that waded through time each waiting for the other to recover their sight.

things are getting kinky

So, American Apparel is now in the business of selling vibrators.

I wonder if they let you take that shit into the change room with all those sexy teenage Polaroid pictures and that smut rag also known as Vice Magazine.