Michael Frasca
Retired doc, but still teaching. Taping live music. Movies. Reading SF/fantasy. Playing gowf. Fishing with wife. 3 grown kids. He/him.
Live Music Archive page: archive.org/details/@frasca
- Backyard #Astrophotography (1/2) ❓A 'questionable' sunspot group has erupted in the past two days with several massive Class X flares. It also belched out one coronal mass ejection (CME) which just skimmed the Earth yesterday. Will it belch out more?.
- Backyard #Astrophotography (2/2) Here is a link to an article about the solar flares.
- Reposted by Michael FrascaThe Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.
- Reposted by Michael FrascaOnce in a while, even a blind squirrel finds a passageway to an underworld dimension.
- Everything Trump touches, he destroys. @talkingpointsmemo.com
- I just finishing uploading the nine Phish shows I was lucky enough to get taper tickets for from 1996 to 2000. This includes the epic 1998-07-29 (Riverport) Bathtub Gin. Here is the link to that show. #Phish
- > what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long? Up On the Hill Where They Do the Boogie
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Backyard #Astrophotography M 79 in Lepus is another distant globular cluster may have been part of the Gaia Sausage, a small dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way billions of years ago. Gaia Sausage is also a great name for a funky jam band.
- Reposted by Michael FrascaThe Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
- Reposted by Michael FrascaHappy book birthday to @justinkey.bsky.social , whose first novel comes out today! The Hospital at the End of the World is thrilling, but it's also a thoughtful character-based meditation on AI and medicine and the human costs. And also makes it clear that I could never have handled med school.
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- Backyard #Astrophotography Globular cluster NGC 2419 in Lynx is known as the "intergalactic wanderer" because it orbits a long way from the center of our Milky Way. It is 300K light years from Earth and appears as a tiny granular globe in small telescopes.
- Which raises the question of how long will it take for Trump to finish his ballroom.
- Everything he touches he destroys.
- Backyard #Astrophotography Continuing with open clusters during full moon, here is the gorgeous Double Cluster (NGC 869 NGC 884) in Perseus. The two clusters are actually close to one another in space.
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- It's winter in Texas and goodbye to an old friend to long time readers of Field Notes. "Ice dogs,"by Christopher Brown. @christopherbrown.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michael Frascagranular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
- #LiveMusic tonight. Midwest #GratefulDead cover band #SunshineDaydream will be playing at The Castle Theatre in Bloomington, IL. Tonight is to be a tribute to Bob Weir Doors at 7 PM. See you there!
- 2026-01-30 - The Castle Theatre #LiveMusic #GratefulDead #BobWeir #SunshineDaydream One hour until doors.
- 2026-01-30 - The Castle Theatre #LiveMusic #GratefulDead #BobWeir #SunshineDaydream I: Sugar Magnolia
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View full threadAll Bob. All the time. Here is the link to my audio recording of last night's Sunshine Daydream show in Bloomington IL. All the songs--except for Attics--were Bobby tunes. Check out Cassidy which featured an extended Jack Straw jam in the middle. #LiveMusic #SunshineDaydream #GratefulDead #BobWeir
- A brutal, and sometimes funny, review of Melania.
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- Backyard #Astrophotography When the moon is almost full, the moonlight washes out nebula and galaxies, but star clusters still look really nice. M 103 is a small open cluster in Cassiopeia. The star in the middle is a red giant.
- Reposted by Michael Frascaare we kidding us
- President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- I'm from Peoria, but I liked it better when songs about Minneapolis were about Jazz88.
- Reposted by Michael FrascaThe terrorists are the ones without masks. They’re the ones yelling “No!” or “Stop!” or “Shame!” or blowing whistles. Sometimes they brandish cameras at federal agents. These are just some of their diabolical tactics.
- Since we have all seen how awesome it is, here is a link to how to speak Minnesotan. wanderlustinreallife.com/minnesotan-p...
