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"Take the Skinheads Bowling" and ”If I Only Had a Brain" -- quintessential campy songs, or the second lowest form of humor? Camper Van Beethoven, MC 900 Foot Jesus.

020321

 

Lou Reed

rearranged all his best songs

 new every few years

083019b

Calcite cement (pale pink) dissolving feldspar and quartz in a very fine sandstone, Rodessa Formation, Citronelle oil Field, Alabama, about 11,000 feet below the surface, thin section, scale bar 100 micrometers, crossed polarizers.

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Mixed-particle grainstone cemented by well-developed pore-rimming calcite cement (probably altered from original marine aragonite cement). Deposited in a high-energy shallow marine environment. Jurassic Smackover Formation, Alabama. Stained with alizarin red S. Thin section photomicrograph. Field of view 2.5 mm wide.

040119

Even the rocks are different here
crystals hundreds of meters tall
glow in colors only birds can see
yesterday, I saw crystals
growing out of the captain's back
and now my shirt is feeling tight

the big question is
do we dare go home?

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Crinoid columnal (center of image) in partially dolomitized skeletal packstone, Bangor Limestone, Mississippian, Alabama. Thin-section photomicrograph stained with Alizarin Red S, which stains calcite pink.

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Cross laminae of mica (bright colors and shades of brown) and quartz (gray and white). Thin section photomicrograph. 2.5 mm wide field of view.

091518

Section 8 oldies
but no band t-shirts
I knew every song

122117c

on Enceladus

"rocks" of frozen methane
slide on the underside of its ocean's icy lid

slow currents
mimic the effect of wind
on terrestrial deserts

100817c

Mick Ralphs wrote "Ready for Love" when he was with Mott the Hoople (on the album "All the Young Dudes"). After he joined Bad Company, they recorded it too. The first version was better, partly because of the long instrumental part at the end. Listen to both and see if you agree.

022817

And in the death
Mold sprouted from liquescent corses
Recycling in the greening thoroughfare
Cockroaches the size of roaches scuttled through
Rusty weak spots in cans tumbled from the shelves

Well, a work in progress. I've always loved the intro to Diamond Dogs.

30 days in the hole

Or in this case, more like 30 billion days, but who's counting?

Feat of clay

Crystals of clay fill small void in sea-floor sediment. Scale bar 10 um (0.01 mm).

Rock

Been tweeting these beauties for days. This one is pink calcite & zoned dolomite cement in a crack in Cambro-Ordovician Knox dolomite. 1/2 a billion years' non-stop fun.

new article about Jurassic rocks in Alabama

http://eoa.duc.auburn.edu/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2926

It needs a little tweaking, but it's basically ready to be read we will be adding one or two more illustrations. Of course, if you find any errors, please let me know immediately.