dream & vapour

The Call enjoyed some respectable airtime on the good ol' AOR station in my neck of the woods back in the day.  'Everywhere I Go' and 'I Still Believe' reside on my workout iPod.

Damage Control (Petrucci, Portnoy, LaRue) Live from a couple nights ago (Nov. 4).  A little Bond, James Bond, thrown in near the end:

Ged's memoir is scheduled to be released in Spring of '23.  It will be published by HarperCollins, which also offers his Big Beautiful Book of Bass.

Are you interested in photographs, eh?  Know what I mean?  'Photographs', he asked them knowingly: Photos: A Night for Neil | StCatharinesStandard.ca

'Running on Empty', as David Lindley's playing is golden.

Ladies and gentlemen.  This is truly a most auspicious occasion.  We have been informed Sir Alex will at some point today log on to this forum to thank his birthday well-wishers.  Unfortunately, we do not know with any specificity when this may occur.  Sir Alex is currently engaged with prior commitments.  (We've been informed he is now watching the gripping story of an errant butterfly hunter trapped in no man's land during the Battle of Passchendaele.)

His equerry has requested you stand when he logs on, but otherwise do feel relaxed and carry on normally.  Remember!  Do not address Sir Alex unless he first addresses you.

Thank you.

On 8/24/2022 at 4:31 PM, blueschica said:

Quite a difference on the Hemispheres cover! It looks like a whole different brain!

When Hugh Syme began preparations for the new 40th anniversary artwork, Canada's Centre for Occupational Health & Safety said, "Naked guy can't be placed that close to the longitudinal fissure.  He might fall into that crevasse."  So, naked guy was positioned further down the cerebral hemisphere, nearer the junction of the central sulcus and the lateral fissure (but not too close!).  Correspondingly, Hugh zoomed out from the brain a bit, and took a more lateral perspective.

You mention it looks like a whole different brain.  Well, you're on to something there.  The brain employed for the original photo shoot met with an unfortunate tragedy at the brain repository.  (It belonged to some fellow named Delbrück, I believe.)

A bit of ORFie trivia:  Gary's mother worked at the Willow Run bomber plant during WWII (while also raising his two older brothers).  Clearly his penchant for building aircraft models was an inherited trait.

Her needlepoint work was highly regarded (blue ribbons at fairs, etc.).  In fact, a piece she created to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial was exhibited at the Smithsonian for a year.

On 8/15/2022 at 10:42 AM, Laurabw said:

I kinda feel like they just need to show up. I guess not to play after all, that would probably be really rough for them, but to at least SAY something about him. Don't they??

Have either Geddy or Alex publicly mentioned any affiliation, endorsement or intentions associated with this memorial event?  At any point in the past 2+ years?

This seems doubly appropriate, as the Cubbies and Reds are playing in Dyersville, Iowa this evening, with a big, beautiful full moon rising.

(Ha!  Just as I was writing this, they played this during the game's TV coverage when going into a commercial.)

4 hours ago, blueschica said:

RIP, Mr. McCullough.   He was from Pittsburgh,  and such a great writer.  If you are not interested in his presidential books,  The Great Bridge and The Johnstown Flood are wonderful reads. I stayed up late reading The Great Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge construction) one night and I told my husband the next day, we must go see this! The book was that well written. (We went shortly after that.) RIP, your writing will be missed!

Here's David fuming eloquently about the past prospect of an 18-story building being raised adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge (it wasn't built): 

Hart Crane would have certainly agreed.

Well heck.  An American treasure and historical literature promontory.

His last completed work, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, is a fine note upon which to finish.  I recall watching his discussion of this work on C-SPAN during a Sunday morning in the summer of 2019: https://www.c-span.org/video/?460340-1/david-mccullough-discusses-the-pioneers

See also: David McCullough - The Pioneers | Marietta College

On a side note:  Another book on this historical subject which you might consider if so inclined is A Journey to Ohio in 1810: as recorded in the journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight.  It's a travel diary written by the teenage Margaret, presenting a straightforward account of her experience.  It's a quick read, being under seventy pages.  (Edited by historian Max Farrand, who was husband of Beatrix Jones Farrand, pioneering woman in the world of landscape architecture.)

Somebody wrote the audio of this scene sounds like a TIE fighter.  

It seems the pitchers often prefer to defer in such instances, but a diffusion/confusion of responsibility arose there.  Luckily for the Brew Crew, Ashby was able to hold on even while his hilltop position was subject to frontal assault.  Meanwhile, the 3-way battle for last place in the NL Central continues apace.

This photo was snapped at the Classic Rock Awards in London, November 2010.

Here we go again.  Everyone's wishing Happy Birthday to a guy who hasn't visited the forum in years.

It was during War Paint when the giant white bunnies first arose from the top hats on the Presto tour.  That should count for something, right?

Then they'd start bopping around during Tom Sawyer.  Ah, the peoples loved da bunnies.

9 hours ago, Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios said:

Chemistry - very under rated track IMHO 

I rate this song quite highly.  Therefor with this, my lordly imprimatur, Chemistry shall no longer be considered underrated.

The figure played at the 12th fret which Alex repeats throughout the song (first appearing at the 45 second mark) sounds like chemistry--you can sense the photons radiating off those electrons.  It's a great fingers/pick coordination exercise as well.  You'd better have your chops in order to play that figure cleanly for relatively lengthy passages.  It's a bit reminiscent of The Spirit of Radio opening figure.

Geddy's spirit of leniency has been exhausted.  He made the call to the Blue Jays front office.  Charlie Montoyo has been dismissed.

3 hours ago, tangy said:

Too funny. I can hear Phil saying that.  Phil is great imo. Talk about old school.

 

Great stage yesterday. Way to go Magnus.

 

Hoping that Jonas Vinegegaard gets a stage soon.

Your hopes for Vinegegaard were obviously realized, and then some.  He'll be in yellow tomorrow.  Much pain yet ahead.

The French will be energized by Bardet's move to 2nd overall.

4 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

What is it about a telescope thread that has people posting f-bombs?

Presumably it's the tried-and-true 'when thoughtful commentary fails or can't be summoned, interject with a labiodental fricative profanity' rule.  Of course, I've never resorted to such crass behaviour.  Heavens no!

A couple years ago, while listening to/watching the TdF, I wondered, "Why does Phil [Liggett] keep mentioning focaccia?!"  It soon dawned upon me this was how Phil's (and other race announcers) pronunciation of 'Pogačar' initially struck me.  Now my jokes about focaccia being in the yellow jersey, etc., have become a potentially irksome pattern.

A link to a good, related article at Sky & Telescope*: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/what-will-the-james-webb-space-telescope-reveal/

“We have seen galaxies 97% of the way back to the Big Bang,” says Dan Coe (Space Telescope Science Institute). “I am most excited to finally see objects that existed during that missing first 3%, the first 400 million years of the universe.”

*Clicking on this link in, say, the year 2031, may not lead you to the desired story.  Clickveat emptor!

This platform will be able to reach further out (or rather, further back in time) than the Spitzer Space Telescope, with much greater resolution.  It'll be exciting to learn what this will yield.

The more we think we know about
The greater the unknown

6 hours ago, Rush Didact said:

 

Ask Pye Dubois.  While you're at it, ask him what "the river" means.

That bit [the river] was not part of the lyrics initially.  It was added after the track was first laid down at Le Studio.  It was determined a little something of the vocal sort was needed to season that portion of the song.  Eyes turn to Neil for the solution.  Neil thinks further about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  And what is a central feature of this story?  Why, the mighty Mississippi, of course.  The river!