“The ‘Torch of Knowledge’ was phased out in 1957.” Reading that gave me a strange feeling. Looked it up & there’s a “time slip” case right there from 1957, when the Torch of Knowledge was discarded. A trio of 15-year-old Royal Navy cadets entered an abandoned medieval village.

I’ve started & abandoned some Norm Macdonald appreciation posts in recent weeks, and then it turns out this archival documentary is coming out, and it was just the five-year anniversary of his death. NORM looms large in our minds. He’s got a wisdom proverb for every outrage.

Menacing triangular UFO appears tonight, right over the Marine Corps desert-training base where we often see these mysterious lights in late summer / early Fall. (They are parachute flares illuminating the war-training desert terrain below.)

Farewell, Bruce Springsting.

I’ll do this but only for country shows: 1. George Jones 2. Buck Owens & Dwight Yoakam 3. Merle Haggard 4. Loretta Lynn 5. Tammy Wynette 6. Waylon Jennings 7. Johnny Cash w/ June Carter, Marty Stuart 8. Lucinda Williams 9. Steve Earle 10. Chris Hillman/Desert Rose Band (I opened)

Happy Autumnal Equinox! Today marks the first day of astronomical Fall, and is one of two days a year when there is a "nearly" equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes. The word equinox is derived from two Latin words - aequus (equal) and nox (night). 🍁🍂

Tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox!

My fellow flying-saucer-history friends will note similarities to the Hudson Valley / Westchester Boomerang, seen low over the river for 5-odd years in the 1980s. Like old-school John Keel reports, too. We all say “my God!” in one form or another, when we’re under one of them.

This is what it looked like, walking back down the mountain.

Dear friends, there’s a new episode of DESERT ORACLE RADIO out now, wherein we deal with GILA MONSTERS, “A.I.,” and local sightings of YUCCA MAN. ⬇️

The Telegraph’s attack on *Sunday Dinner* reminded me of @hikingshawty many posts from English countryside walks that end with a delicious-looking English Roast. I’ve begun making Yorkshire Pudding at Thanksgiving & Christmas, because of these pictures.

«He visto al emperador -esta anima mundi- saliendo de la ciudad en tareas de reconocimiento. Qué maravillosa sensación ver a este hombre que, concentrado en este punto concreto y a caballo, se extiende por el mundo y lo domina.» G.W.F. Hegel, 13 de octubre de 1806.

The bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

Did Greta Gerwig’s movie “Barbie” predict 9/11?