Month: March 2022

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL 2022 – Live this Weekend in New Orleans

 
 
 
I’m looking forward to participating in the Tennessee Williams Festival again this weekend at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans.
 
Sunday morning, March 26, I’ll be speaking with writers Mahyar Amouzegar, Tom Cooper, Louis Edwards, and Roy Hoffman about “Character and Setting.”
 
It’s an all-male panel, so you can bet there’ll be lots of drinking and cussing. Come join us if you’re in town. More info below and in link.  Get your Tennessee on.
 
 
OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO: CONNECTING CHARACTER AND SETTING
Sunday, March 27, 11:30 AM—12:45 PM—Literary Discussion
Placing a character in a particular setting opens up so many narrative choices—how the characters engage with that landscape, how to authentically create life in a specific place. Sometimes the setting itself becomes a character. These writers have set their work in places as diverse as Florida and Syria during wartime, and they will discuss powerful relationships between people and places. Panelists include Tom Cooper, Louis Edwards, Roy Hoffman, and Mahyar Amouzegar. Moderator: George Bishop, Jr.
Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom, $10 or Literary Discussion Pass or VIP Pass

Worm Moon Tonight!

From CNN:

One of the brightest heralds of spring makes its appearance this week.

The March full moon, known as the worm moon, will be at its peak at 3:18 a.m. ET on Friday, March 18, according to NASA. It will appear full through Saturday morning.

(See more below for, er, how it got its name.)

 

 

 
This moon will appear larger to viewers because of the “moon illusion,” according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. This occurs when the moon is near the horizon and our eyes compare the moon’s size to trees, buildings or other earthly objects. By comparing these reference points to the moon, our brain tricks us into thinking the moon is bigger.
 
Southern Native American tribes named the worm moon after the earthworm casts — essentially feces — that emerged as the ground thawed at winter’s end, according to NASA.

The Comet Book (1587)

THE COMET BOOK (1587)

(Images and text from THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW.)

“This stunning set of images come from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. Commonly known as The Comet Book (or Kometenbuch in German), its full title translates as “Comets and their General and Particular Meanings, According to Ptolomeé, Albumasar, Haly, Aliquind and other Astrologers.””