Kurt G
@kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social
• indy Minnesota historian
• celestialmonochord.org
• degreed in astronomy & lit
• funny but you have to be there
• celestialmonochord.org
• degreed in astronomy & lit
• funny but you have to be there
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
Down By Law at the Trylon tonight.
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Down By Law at the Trylon tonight.
Reminds me of a “Bussard ramjet” — a method of interstellar space travel first proposed in 1960. Carl Sagan talked about them in his Cosmos series.
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reminds me of a “Bussard ramjet” — a method of interstellar space travel first proposed in 1960. Carl Sagan talked about them in his Cosmos series.
You’re supported by no less an authority than Bob Dylan himself, who says in Tombstone Blues, “The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken!”
October 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
You’re supported by no less an authority than Bob Dylan himself, who says in Tombstone Blues, “The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken!”
Beautifully ruined by fungus as they are, I still passed on buying these binoculars.
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Beautifully ruined by fungus as they are, I still passed on buying these binoculars.
Finally noticed this sign today. Now I don’t know if unsafe behaviors are okay up here or down there.
October 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Finally noticed this sign today. Now I don’t know if unsafe behaviors are okay up here or down there.
Every Venetian blind is a hundred solar telescopes.
October 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Every Venetian blind is a hundred solar telescopes.
Every tree is a thousand solar telescopes.
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Every tree is a thousand solar telescopes.
Young men, though … not … exactly the … greatest generation.
From yesterday, just a couple miles from me in Minneapolis.
From yesterday, just a couple miles from me in Minneapolis.
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Young men, though … not … exactly the … greatest generation.
From yesterday, just a couple miles from me in Minneapolis.
From yesterday, just a couple miles from me in Minneapolis.
Did I ever tell you that thing about why dapples of sunlight tend to be perfect circles?
September 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Did I ever tell you that thing about why dapples of sunlight tend to be perfect circles?
Okay sure, but he’s a really, really, REALLY good poker player. So, I mean — hey!
September 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Okay sure, but he’s a really, really, REALLY good poker player. So, I mean — hey!
So, here’s FDR (seated), Joseph Cotton (center), and Harlow Shapley (far right, who was nonetheless pretty far left). Shapely was the astronomer who established the shape of our Milky Way Galaxy and our location within it.
August 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
So, here’s FDR (seated), Joseph Cotton (center), and Harlow Shapley (far right, who was nonetheless pretty far left). Shapely was the astronomer who established the shape of our Milky Way Galaxy and our location within it.
Okay, but I mean … why Charles Grodin?
August 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Okay, but I mean … why Charles Grodin?
Photo by me, taken on the outskirts of Bluegrass
July 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Photo by me, taken on the outskirts of Bluegrass
There’s an event at 825 Arts — formerly Victoria Theater in Frogtown. I’ll be there to sling hash or whatever they’ll have me do.
That’s probably it.
That’s probably it.
July 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
There’s an event at 825 Arts — formerly Victoria Theater in Frogtown. I’ll be there to sling hash or whatever they’ll have me do.
That’s probably it.
That’s probably it.
Photo by Steve Shapiro, as in:
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Photo by Steve Shapiro, as in:
So far, anyway, not a death camp or prison camp but indisputably a concentration camp, with the US Japanese internment camps during WWII being the best analogy, it seems to me.
July 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
So far, anyway, not a death camp or prison camp but indisputably a concentration camp, with the US Japanese internment camps during WWII being the best analogy, it seems to me.
Hang on — stop the presses.
July 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hang on — stop the presses.
For convenience, here’s the WRONG graph
June 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
For convenience, here’s the WRONG graph