21 Last week
Ken, Bill and Bob stand in front of a replica Mercury space capsule.
Gemini Titan II (L) and Mercury Atlas (R) rockets in the Rocket Park. (A replica F1 motor from a Saturn 5 rocket is partially in shadow at left.)
If you know anyone who still thinks the #FILIBUSTER makes sense in a democratic system, ask them to listen to this short talk by @AJentleson https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1381246406908768257
Mitch McConnell says the filibuster is ‘the essence of the Senate.’ Other Republicans say it’s how the framers envisioned the Senate and that it has a noble place in governing.
That’s all BS, says @AJentleson
160 yrs ago today, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, launching a war to secure the ugly principle that some people are created to be dominated by others. Thankfully the Confederacy was defeated, though at unfathomable cost. Today’s insurrectionists want to refight that war
This is a truly wise and lovely essay, about both dogs and writing. Brava. https://lithub.com/leaning-into-mystery-on-the-inner-life-of-an-aging-shelter-dog/
America in a nutshell. http://wondermark.com/c1526/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wondermark+%28Wondermark+by+David+Malki+%21%29
I think your timeline probably needs this bluegrass cover of "Take On Me."
https://youtu.be/QxSaNc8LFPM
steelbrassnwood
Yes, yes, that’s all very nice, but can we see the pictures now? Seriously, no images loading here.
admin
You checked while I was changing the images. Try again, Mousetro.
mckitterick
Great to see you again, if only digitally! It’s been too long since we saw one another in the flesh.
Sounds like a really cool trip. But Queens? Seriously, this is in Queens? Wow.
Chris
shunn
Site of the 1964 World’s Fair. Crazy but true.
shunn
That was a good time, despite the fact that I couldn’t get anyone in the Iowa science museum to virtually arm-wrestle me over the Internet.
Great pictures! It looks as though we’re visitors to this strange planet, just emerging from our vessel.
couscous1021
Nice photos! I knew of the Hall of Science, but despite being born in Queens I’ve never been there. It looks pretty promising, but for the Preschool place. Yeesh.
Is it better than the Planetarium??
keikaimalu
Something else to do next time we waft eastward. 🙂
Glad you had fun.
steelbrassnwood
And also the 1939 World’s Fair.
chernobylred
This inspires me to get and ‘s butts down to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson.
shunn
And you might want to help them avoid the new Creation Museum coming soon to Kentucky.
chernobylred
Oh. Dear. God.
chernobylred
…or not, as the case may be.
shunn
LOL.
Oh. Dear. Big Bang.
Yeah, just doesn’t have the same ring.
shunn
Ah, yes, I had forgotten that. Very cool.
You know, they also make Steinway pianos in Queens.
admin
Hey, thanks!
Yes, Queens. New York is a surprising place—my next post will be of a salt marsh less than a mile from my house.
admin
Thank you.
Is it better than the Planetarium?
Well, to me the American Museum of Natural History (including the Hayden Planetarium) is the museum: the standard by which all others are judged (and found wanting). But there are a handful of museums that I’m told eclipse AMNH: the Imperial War Museum in London; the Smithsonian, especially the Air & Space Museum, in Washington; and the Chicago Field Museum. I plan to see those before I die, and make the comparison myself.
admin
Thanks. Yes, there are several class trips I’d recommend (including the American Museum of Natural History, as I mentioned above): hot dogs and french fries at Nathan’s in Coney Island; a ride on the Cyclone (dubbed “the bunny killer” by, the oldest wooden roller coaster in the U.S., also in Coney Island; The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan; the Staten Island Ferry; and the beaches of Rockaway, to name but a few.
admin
Wow, that looks VERY cool. I’m adding that to my class trip itinerary.
admin
What said.
admin
Oddly enough I don’t remember that one. But I DO recall the ’64 World’s Fair, of which my strongest memory was getting a green plastic brontosaurus still warm from the injection mold (sponsored by Sinclair Oil Company). Boy I wish I still had that.
admin
That was a good time, despite the fact that I couldn’t get anyone in the Iowa science museum to virtually arm-wrestle me over the Internet.
Yes it WAS a good time, as was lunch afterward at the City Line Diner and Lonelyhearts Guitarist Cafe. You couldn’t get any of those red state pussies to arm wrestle because they’d heard of Shunn the Eskimo and feared his hypertrophic right arm.
Great pictures! It looks as though we’re visitors to this strange planet, just emerging from our vessel.
Hah! Thank you. Yes, it was a cramped trip, and the teenager who took our picture had shaking hands not just because of the cold, but because this was her first close encounter of the third kind.