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It’s that time when the night and the day are equal in length. Take this as a model of equilibrium. Balance on the flagpole.
It occurs at 17:18 EDT, 21:18 UTC.
Some gleanings from Wikipedia:
The traditional harvest festival in the United Kingdom was celebrated on the Sunday of the full moon closest to the September equinox.
The September equinox marks the first day of Mehr or Libra in the Persian calendar. It is one of the Iranian festivals called Jashne Mihragan, or the festival of sharing or love in Zoroastrianism.
The September equinox was “New Year’s Day” in the French Republican Calendar, which was in use from 1793 to 1805. The French First Republic was proclaimed and the French monarchy was abolished on September 21, 1792, making the following day (the equinox day that year) the first day of the “Republican Era” in France. The start of every year was to be determined by astronomical calculation, (that is: following the real Sun and not the mean Sun as all other calendars).
You may see some objects hover slightly off the ground every so often today. Don’t be alarmed, this is normal. Just leave them alone and let them do their thing.
Flagpole sitter pic courtesy of Duke Yearlook.
Posted on September 22, 2009
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I used to lay on my bedroom floor in high school coming down from acid with my fingers stuck in a Dairy Queen ice cream cake with Life cereal poured into it like a real bowl of cereal and just cry my eyes out while listening to “Tin Man” or “Lonely People.” There was a phase in my life where I was exploring the more psychedelic side of life, and man, the nighttime would be filled with wild whipping metal music and pure-grain fruit punch and chaos and metal jaw-biting, spine-tingling mental confusion, and I remember so very clearly one morning laying in some shitty hotel room bed covered in applesauce, and the sun was starting to come up and I felt like I had just killed a baby seal…and I had lobsters crawling all over me and laying their eggs in my intestines…and somebody put on a mixtape that had “Tin Man” and “All the Lonely People” and then went into “Harvest” by Neil Young and I remember all the lobsters stopped laying their eggs and they sat up and looked at me and I looked at them and we all went “ahhhhhhh” and breathed a big sigh of relief…and crawled off the bed to lay on the floor next to the stereo to hear that pure, pure sound even purer in our ear holes…and that’s when I knew I dug the folk rock.
Catching Up With… My Morning Jacket’s Jim James :: Features Music :: Articles :: Paste via my ninja, MarkPosted on September 16, 2009
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First of all, if you come to my show knowing I’ve got a song called “Boob Scotch” and you get offended, I’m sorry but I’ve got to say just get out.
Posted on September 14, 2009
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Since money, as the existing and active concept of value, confounds and exchanges everything, it is the universal confusion and transposition of all things, the inverted world, the confusion and transposition of all natural and human qualities.
Karl Marx, via Integrity is being obsoleted, examples 467 and 468 | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERSPosted on September 6, 2009
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In past times, people used to walk from eastern Tibet all the way to Lhasa, in central Tibet. Some types wanted to get there really fast, so they’d walk as quickly as they could. They’d tire, or get sick, give up and have to return. But other people, they would just walk at an easy pace, and they’d sit down, take breaks, pitch camp for the night, have a good time. And then, the next day, continue. And in that way they would actually reach Lhasa quite quickly. Thus the Tibetan proverb, “If you walk with haste, you do not reach Lhasa. If you walk at a gentle pace, you will make it there.
Posted on September 6, 2009
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dream 7.21
I dreamed that I was hanging out at someone’s apartment, and I was drinking whiskey on the rocks from a tall glass. The conversation turned to movies. Johnny Depp, who was present at this gathering, said, “I want to see Dead Man.” “Dude, you were in Dead Man,” I replied. Incensed, Mr. Depp yelled, “I HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET!!!”
Posted on July 21, 2009
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Muscles used to wrap around my leg in a record session and crawl across the console. I was never comfortable with that. It was a choice between that and Bubbles—you know, the chimp.
Posted on July 2, 2009
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I think the Great Hanshin Earthquake in January 1995 and the Aum sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in March that year made many Japanese experience a sense of dissociation from reality before people of other countries.
Posted on June 25, 2009
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God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing-pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don’t try to end it.
Be your note.
I’ll show you how it’s enough.Posted on June 25, 2009
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He also said that it was really about his friend Edward Thomas, who when they walked together always castigated himself for not having taken another path than the one they took. When Frost sent “The Road Not Taken” to Thomas he was disappointed that Thomas failed to understand it as a poem about himself, but Thomas in return insisted to Frost that “I doubt if you can get anybody to see the fun of the thing without showing them and advising them which kind of laugh they are to turn on.” And though this sort of advice went exactly contrary to Frost’s notion of how poetry should work, he did on occasion warn his audiences and other readers that it was a tricky poem. Yet it became a popular poem for very different reasons than what Thomas referred to as “the fun of the thing.” It was taken to be an inspiring poem rather, a courageous credo stated by the farmer-poet of New Hampshire. In fact, it is an especially notable instance in Frost’s work of a poem which sounds noble and is really mischievous.
Posted on June 3, 2009
Mike Janssen's tatters and thread-ends
