I'll see you on the dark side of the moon...

Did Arcturus stay up and get eclipse photos for you?

Arcturus is too busy vacationing to act as our science advisory liaison so I will do my best to fill in for him and explain how a lunar eclipse really works. First off as the goddess of the night, Luna, and Quetzalcoatl race around the sun in their eternal struggle for predominance of the night time heavens every now and then he catches up to her. As Quetzalcoatl catches up to Luna he begins biting off pieces of the Goddess until he has swallowed her up. Now, the light of the moon is strong with feminine energy and she eventually proves too much for the tender stomach of the masculine Quetzalcoatl. Her divine light shows through the belly of great one until he is ill with the effects of her glory and he vomits her out into the nighttime skies once again.

Yes, its true! (I read it on the Internet somewhere...)

Where was the Wizened Wizard?

Yeah, like anyone was awake at the Wizened Wizard's forest of brotherly love at five in the morning. I 'll bet there was no one watching the eclipse at her place except for a couple of antelopes and a raggedy old looking Bigfoot. That's what you get when you hang out eating mushrooms with a pack of hippie gnomes. Why I'd bet good money the gnomes are in the forest illegally doing jobs that used to be performed by decent hard working American fairies.

H-m-m-m-p-h... Don't even get me started.

I was there for you, gentle readers.

Thats right, I was there for the whole experience with my entire family. As Felicia prepared the traditional breakfast of Quetzalcoatl corn cakes and Chihuahua sausage, Micah observed the event through a makeshift telescope I jury rigged for him using nothing more than an old kaleidoscope and three pencils. The dogs looked so cute in their lunar garb. We invited Michael Vick over to join us but he said he's kind of lost his taste for dog for a while.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this small taste of astronomical home cooking and be assured if anything else happens in the skies worth noting I'll be there to capture the moment while the rest of you are sleeping.