{"id":31327,"date":"2017-08-21T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31327"},"modified":"2017-08-21T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:31:07","slug":"macro-monday-brings-the-eclipse-watching-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/08\/21\/macro-monday-brings-the-eclipse-watching-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro Monday Brings The Eclipse-Watching Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4420\/35876550064_8d0dc90fe3_b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4420\/35876550064_8d0dc90fe3_b.jpg?resize=700%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, look, it&#8217;s me, trapped in a frog&#8217;s eye, all because I went ahead and upset some wizard. That&#8217;s what I get for messing with wizards again! Pesky wizards, always running around, with their magic. Also that&#8217;s what I get for misidentifying a toad as a frog!<\/p>\n<p>Poor toads.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, what&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>There be an eclipse today, avast ye scurvy eclipse watchers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some vital eclipse tips:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">a) stare at it<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">b) stare right at it<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">c) keep staring at it until you can see nothing but the glory of the sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">d) get mad at the grandstanding moon for unfairly maligning the sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">e) keep staring until all is light<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">f) resolve to kill the moon<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">g) kill the moon with your mind<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">h) become the moon<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">i) continue to prop up the sinister sun regime<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">j) begin to feel bad about your role in supporting the sun&#8217;s heinous activities against the Earth and the rest of the cosmos<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">k) go through a self-discovery of guilt and empowerment<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">l) form a revenge plan that consists solely of &#8220;eclipse the sun&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">m) eclipse the sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">n) never stop eclipsing the sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">o) watch the narcissistic sun die without the attention it truly needs to continue surviving in the sky, that glowing bastard<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">p) become the sun, but a variant of the sun called the shadowsun, just a dark glowing coin in the\u00a0endless expanse<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">q) oh no you killed the earth<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">r) now it&#8217;s just you<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">s) you and all the other stars<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">t) hey, the other stars are suns, too, right<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">u) fuck those guys<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">v) kill the other stars<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">w) they don&#8217;t understand you anyway<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">x) did you kill them yet? all the stars?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">y) now it&#8217;s just you all alone in the galaxy, the sole sovereign of the Milky Way cosmos, the shadowsun governing all the darkness, and there are no other stars and no other &#8212; wait, what&#8217;s that?\u00a0there are\u00a0<em>other<\/em> galaxies?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">z) yeah those gotta go<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure that&#8217;s what all the scientists recommend, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/08\/17\/invasive-and-zer0es-e-books-are-on-sale\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Invasive and Zeroes, still on sale<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So too are <a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/08\/04\/some-book-sales-to-sail-you-into-the-weekend\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Atlanta Burns and the Heartland trilogy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chuck_wendig\/?hl=en\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>I&#8217;m on Instagram now<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\/status\/899091319464787968\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mark Ruffalo thinks I am a right-wing MAGA-head<\/strong><\/span><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more I&#8217;m forgetting but fuck it.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday!<\/p>\n<p>HAVE A BUMBLEBEE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4349\/36711337915_429b6ad658_h.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4349\/36711337915_429b6ad658_h.jpg?resize=700%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, look, it&#8217;s me, trapped in a frog&#8217;s eye, all because I went ahead and upset some wizard. That&#8217;s what I get for messing with wizards again! Pesky wizards, always running around, with their magic. Also that&#8217;s what I get for misidentifying a toad as a frog! Poor toads. Anyway. Let&#8217;s see, what&#8217;s going on? 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