Devil Comet

For the next couple of days, around sunset in the Northern Hemisphere, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka Devil Comet, will be visible to the naked eye down and left from Jupiter. If you miss it, Devil Comet will be back in 2095.

OJ

Expired.

The Day After the Eclipse

Yep.

 

All Shook Up

"Did you feel that?"

If you live in the New York metropolitan area, your iPhones lit up yesterday morning.

Then the earthquake jokes rumbled on for several hours.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

This week's game between the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils began with all 10 skaters squaring off in a line brawl at the opening face-off. The fans expected heavyweights Matt Rempe and Kurtis MacDermid to mix it up. Still, when eight additional players fought simultaneously, it led to ten major penalties and eight game misconducts.

The Rangers won the game 4-3 and swept the season series 4-0.

Casting Call! “January 6th: The Movie”!

Haul The President's Men. The Insurrection Movie.

Barry Blitt always cracks me up.

Will he ever apply his biting wit and sharp pen to Democrats?

Pretty please!

HIS STORY SHOULD BE HERE

Effective art direction and hard-hitting reporting on the front page of today's Wall Street Journal. 

Bye-ku for Nathan Wade

Slappenheimer

Will Smith's slap on Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars continues to inspire the critics!

Cupid's Hits and Misses

Beavers at Cross River Reservoir

A visit to Cross River Reservoir last week along Croton Lake Road in Katonah revealed something new, or so I thought.

On similar walks over the last 33 years, I'd never come across a fallen tree like this one, and then another, and then several more.

Their pattern and location on the water's edge made me realize I had encountered something very old – beavers building a dam. And a beaver lodge. 

Beavers are not only busy; they're very patient.

66th Grammy Awards

Yep.

Complaints about 2024, (So Far)

More incisive perspective from Barry Blitt at The New Yorker.

But nothing about the looming election?

Webb Space Telescope's Latest Look at 19 Spiral Galaxies

NASA's Webb Space Telescope continues to amaze with its latest images of 19 spiral galaxies.

World Economic Forum

Starman

In 1984, NASA's Bruce McCandless was the first astronaut to venture untethered into space. McCandless used a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) to navigate from and to the Space Shuttle Challenger for 6 hours and 17 minutes. Far out, man!

Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve . . . in 2024 and 1949.

Over the last 75 years, the single issue price of The New Yorker magazine has risen from 20 cents to $8.99, with the cumulative rate of inflation of 1190% accounting for just $2.38 of the increase.

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