Eleanor Arnason's Blog, page 106

I Just Love These Pictures

On top is another volcanic plume photo. Below is the "glacier leap" flooding.

Eruption

The eruption is looking less fun to me. It's gone from being a Hawaiian-style photogenic lava fountain to being explosive. That's steam and ash and maybe poison gas you are looking at. The plume rises more than 30,000 feet.

The Icelandic government has evacuated farm families in the area and there has been some rescuing of sheep. But no one in the country seems very worried by this particular volcano. It's the next one over, which usually erupts at the same time, that makes people uneasy. Let...

The Current Eruption Seen from Above

I need to take a walk, have breakfast and get to work on writing. I am wasting my life on volcanic eruptions...

But only Icelandic eruptions, though I also like the ones in Hawaii. The US Geological Survey posts awesome photos...

New Eruption in Iceland

It turns out the volcano was not winding down. A new eruption began yesterday, this time under the glacier.

Water from the melted glacier flowing across Highway One, the ring road that goes around Iceland.

Thought

I am starting -- very slowly -- to feel like a writer again.

There is a wonderful Robert Graves poem titled Mid-Winter Waking, that begins:

Stirring suddenly from long hibernation,
I knew myself once more a poet,
Guarded by timeless principalities
Against the worm of death, this hillside haunting;
And presently dared open both my eyes.

It's sort of like that, though it's spring here, not winter -- an early spring with trees leafing out and the magnolias blooming; and I am not much of a poet. But s...

A Short But Sweet Review in Publishers Weekly...

Tomb of the Fathers Eleanor Arnason Aqueduct (www.aqueductpress.com), $15 paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-933500-36-2

Lydia Duluth—interstellar traveler, holovid location scout, and star of several of Arnason's short stories—explores the purported lost home world of the matriarchal, lizardlike Atch in this stand-alone adventure. She's joined by her occasional lover Olaf Reykjavik; Vagina "Gina" Dentata, a modified pseudo-ape; Precious Bin, a male Atch; and several artificial intelligences (one of...

April 10 Photo of the Volcano

April 10 Photo of Volcano

Oh What the Heck...

The volcano...

Avatar

I just saw the movie in 2-D, since that is what is available now. More than anything else, it reminds me of Miyazaki. The floating mountains are like the floating island in Laputa. The forest is like the forest is Nausica. The amazing flying warships are like the warships in Laputa and Howl's Moving Castle. The amazing flying animals are like Kiki on her broom and the dragon in Spirited Away. Saving the environment is a key theme for Miyazaki.

And it reminds me of Star Wars, though in Avatar ...