Well poo.

lil m moses posted that she scored tickets to see Peter Murphy in Houston, and so on the off chance I bopped off to the toursite. If I stay here in Florida another six weeks, I can see him in Fort Lauderdale. After that, he swings up the eastern seaboard through Asheville, Norfolk, Richmond, NYC, Pittsburgh, Akron.... Belgium.

(Portland/Seattle folks who are ancient goths like me: He's opening the tour in March at Dante's on Burnside!)

Kirk Anderson helps me celebrate Reagan at 100

Themey! Parky!

Today was the trip out to Cape Canaveral to see the Kennedy Space Center. Yay! We saw displays and replics and replicas and videos... we watched people ride the shuttle simulator.
I spent a lot of time wandering around the Apollo/Saturn V center. Apollo is the one that is 'important' for me. Anything about Apollo I makes me sniffly. Apollo 11 landed two weeks after I was born. Apollo 13 just makes me go "Awww. Poor Lovell."
I was standing in the rocket garden, in front of the huge Jupiter, thinking "I should take a picture of this! This is the first piece of hardware we threw on the moon! Historic!"
And then I frowned. I couldn't see anything about this shot, aesthetically, that was all that interesting, and there are already plenty of pictures of this class of rocket out there. So... there were a bunch of pictures like that which I didn't take, and there are three pictures of starlings out on the snackery patio.