Out of the Blue

Author: theazureshadow

  • The Midnight Summons Retrospective

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    And he said it was very well done. He liked the structure, and said that my enjambments worked well. We talked a bit about the form as opposed to other forms, and what form is to poetry. I walked home with a grin on my face. I couldn\’t help it. I will show it to…

  • The Midnight Summons

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    That\’s the title of my first terza rima poem. I don\’t know whether I\’m going to share it with you. I\’m glad it\’s finally in a state of completion, though. I\’ve had something of a block on it for a few days. In a few minutes I\’ll go see if my professor is available to…

  • Storm!

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    There\’s an amazing rain/slush/hail storm going on right now. It is glorious.

  • Random Music Post

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    I usually listen to music song-by-song. I\’ll go through a bunch of music and throw whichever songs appeal at the time, trying to place them in a pleasing order. But for the past few days I\’ve been listening primarily to full albums. It\’s not unprecedented, but it is atypical. Here\’s a list: Decemberists – Picaresque…

  • Making galaxies shiny with Photoshop

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    I was using a Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1309, a perfectly-formed spiral galaxy, as a background image. But it was a square image, and it had a watermark, and I didn\’t like the colors. So I found a higher-quality image that didn\’t have a watermark, and set to work. Transformation: I made a…

  • The Golden Strangers, by Henry Treece

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    I\’m currently reading a book called The Golden Strangers, by Henry Treece. It is set in Britain during the Bronze Age, at the time of the first coming of the Aryan horsemen. Here is an excerpt from the introduction. It was written by Rosemary Sutcliffe, who was a British writer of historical fiction. \”We tend…

  • Minus, by Ryan Armand

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    Paff sent me a link to a comic yesterday. It made my night. I quickly read through the archive, with weekly comics stretching back to February of 2006. Minus, created by Ryan Armand, follows a girl who is unequivocally magic. She can change her hair color at will, go back in time, and even spin…

  • Ontbijtkoek and Old Amsterdam

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    I\’m back from Amsterdam. I brought with me two packages of ontbijtkoek (a Dutch spice cake), only one of which is for me. I promise I won\’t eat yours, Anne, no matter how tempting. I really need to find somewhere that sells it, or figure out how to make it myself. In other culinary news,…

  • Picnic and Peach

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    I had a picnic lunch in a Dutch park today with some Danish guys whom I met this morning. Then we climbed trees for an hour or so, and talked to a Dutch mother who was watching us (and her kids) climb trees. I leave in a couple minutes for the Peach Premiere. I am…

  • Mystical Windmills and Midnight Canals

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    I\’m safely and happily in Amsterdam now. It was an interesting trip, despite my sleep deprivation. The walk to the airport was great. I wasn\’t quite dead tired, so I was able to enjoy the cold morning air, the blue light and silhouetted clouds, the birdsong, and the sun as it peeked over the horizon.…