Tired of Being Alone

I first heard this 2005 Schiller track back in the late 2000's and immediately fell in love with it. It was through this track that I first encountered Finnish operatic rock chanteuse Tarja Turunen (former lead singer of Finnish symphonic metal opera band Nightwish). I didn't like the video of the sole version of this track on Youtube and thus until tonight did not post it here. However, having found this wonderful video accompaniment to it I now share it here.

Picture of the Day - Sayonara Car

This morning I had my mortally-wounded 1994 Volvo 850 towed away by Timos Autowrecking who paid me $125 for it in addition to hauling it away. I could have gotten more for it via other avenues but those options had their costs in time and effort and in come cases risk of bringing people to my house whom I'd rather not know where I live given their sketchiness.
Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Pre-Dawn Blood Moon

This image was taken at Griffith Observatory but this is how the moon appeared at 5 a.m. as viewed from Paso Robles albeit perhaps a bit darker-looking. I set my alarm at that time to catch a glimpse of this morning's blood moon lunar eclipse before summarily returning to bed for more sleep. Watch the entire event from the observatory HERE.
Image courtesy of Griffith Observatory (all rights reserved).

Pillar of Dark Light By Night

My friend Linsis Tweeted a link to a Daily Mail article online which featured this image of Colima in Mexico. I was very much taken with it as it embodies so many thematic elements relevant to my psyche and soul such as volcanoes (especially ash clouds and glowing avalanches), lightening, volcanic lightening, the cosmos, and nocturnal scenes with eerie lighting effects. Photo by Hernando Rivera Cervantes of SWNS (all rights reserved).

Picture of the Day - Dark Mushroom

 This past weekend Scott Carson posted on his Twitter account a series of great images relating  to Cold War Era nuclear tests, especially those of the French. The best one was this one of the French Dragon Test, Fangataufa, balloon test, 945 kilotons, 1970. Courtesy of Scott Carson on Twitter (all rights reserved).

Scripture of the Day - Jesus Christ (Mark 14:27)

In church this morning (I visited Sold Rock Christian Fellowship in Templeton with a friend) the pastor read Mark 14:27. I have always found this passage to be rather ominous be it Zechariah's original proclamation of the concept or Christ's invoking it centuries later. Usually the way it strikes me is not in its original context of that specific circumstance to which Christ referred when He uttered those words nor Zechariah's specific object of that action. Rather, I find myself thinking about it in the more general context of it that timelessly applies to how followers respond when their leadership is removed from command. It is not only ominous but equally useful to remember if one is ever in a conflict where smiting shepherds is both within the rules of that time and place as well as useful towards achieving resolution of said conflict.

 "... for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered." 

~ Mark 14:27 (Kimicus ad Absurdum translation)

Disaster Girl

I have previously never revealed on this blog that I am an utterly unapologetic internet meme-whore on social networking sites. One meme I encountered some time ago and immediately fell in love with is Disaster Girl. The real-life story of her is surprising and just about as funny as the memes are that have found genesis from an impromptu sidewise glance from a little girl observing a real fire. No, she and the residential fire are not Photoshopped together. When she appears with that same wicked glance with a different background it is courtesy Photoshop and people with too much time on their creative hands. The first image below is the original photograph that North Carolinian Dave Roth shot of his daughter Zoe at a house fire in 2004. Following it are some of the evolutions of the image into internet meme hall-of-fame renown by various anonymous bored contributors over recent years. Initially the Disaster girl memes were of the original image with some sort of dialogue humorously attributed to the girl in that situation. Later, some wags got even more clever and started Photoshopping her into various historic and even prehistoric disasters.

This one is a private joke with my mom... although any PK would get it.

Note: this is Archduke Ferdinand whose assassination sparked World War One.

I believe that is the carnage of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Famous Vietnam War image... and she was there apparently.

Most of us remember this Photoshopped image after 911 purporting to show a tourist getting photographed atop the World Trade Center as American Airlines Flight 11 approaches behind him. Disaster Girl was there, too.

2011 Japanese tsunami.

The Miracle on the Hudson

Random forest fire

Random tornado damage

Random winter storm damage

Random sink hole

Random rioting.