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Saturday, September 10, 2022

September Night Sky

photo credit NASA

In 2022 the September full moon is called the Harvest Moon.

The Harvest moon can occur in either September or October because it coincides with an astronomical event – the autumnal equinox. This month's moon is particularly early. The full Moon that occurs nearest to the equinox (September 22 or 23 depending-upon your time zone) takes on the name Harvest Moon rather than its traditional name – the Full Corn Moon or Barley Moon. The name comes from this moon’s ability to shine light when it is needed the most – to bring in the harvest. In the Northern Hemisphere and in our time zone the Harvest Moon rises tonight.

Friday, September 9, 2022

Notable Quotable

I got to know a lot of the foreign leaders, and let me tell you, unlike our leader, they’re at the top of their game. These are like central casting. There’s nobody that could play the role in Hollywood, all of Hollywood, nobody can play the role of President Xi China. Nobody could play the role. He’s a fierce person. Putin, fierce, is smart. A lot of times I’ll say somebody’s smart and the fake news will go, “He called President Xi smart.” He rules with an iron fist 1.5 billion people. Yeah, I’d say he’s smart. Wouldn’t you say he’s smart?

So I’m with President Xi and I got along with him very well. . . . I really had a great relationship with him. And then I asked him a question. I said, “President,” He’s president for life, by the way. So I call him King. I say, “King.” He said, “But I am not king.” I said, “You are to me. You’re president for life, it’s the same thing.” He will be very soon.

-Donald Trump, September 3, Wilkes-Barre, PA

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Friday Music

Paul Butterfield was a classically-trained musician who took a shine to blues harmonica following the influence of Muddy Waters and other blues artists in his hometown of Chicago.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band played a key role in spreading blues rock as a genre throughout the 1960s among a younger and broader following. The original band broke-up during my high school years while Butterfield soldiered-on as a solo artist. Tragically, he died of a drug overdose in 1987 at the age of 44.

What a waste.

Butterfield was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2006 and the original members of the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

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