Howard Hughes and the Phosphorescent Octopus

[greygirlbeast]

The smoke came back this morning, and we awoke to the stench of distant fires. Behind the cut is a photo of downtown Atlanta taken sometime this morning. My eyes burn, my nose is running, and I'm coughing. Clearly, we have to stop sleeping with the windows open until the fires at last burn themselves out, whenever that might be.

Comments

[ebourland]

Dang, what are you all burning in Atlanta?

Are the Yankees burning Savannah again?

[greygirlbeast]

Are the Yankees burning Savannah again?

It's "only" the Okefenokee (though the Yankees never did burn Savannah, just everything else in their path).

[ebourland]

I thought they burned Savannah. I know they went down there and burned the hell out of everything else. =)

It's like Georgia is Mordor now.

Hey do you know the origin of the word Mordor?

[greygirlbeast]

I thought they burned Savannah. I know they went down there and burned the hell out of everything else

Nope. Savannah was spared by Sherman and made an "Xmas present" to Lincoln.

Hey do you know the origin of the word Mordor?

This from Wikipedia"

Mordor actually has two meanings: "Black Land" in Sindarin, and "Land of Shadow" in Quenya. The root mor ("dark", "black") also appears in Moria. Dor ("land") also appears in Gondor ("stone-land"), Eriador, and Doriath ("fenced land"). The Quenya word for Shadow is "mordo

[ebourland]

I'm really fascinated by the idea of a society in which people practice evil without knowing it.

Hmmm ... America?

I'm enjoying your ongoing story.

Eric

[greygirlbeast]

I'm enjoying your ongoing story.

I am glad.