I noticed that none of my six plum trees have more than a few fruits on them this year! The late rains must have knocked off all the blossoms...

Listened to the entire 6/23/77 show last night, alone, in total darkness, at volume, with no breaks or interruptions! EPIC!

These shows (Europe '73) always make me think that Page and Bonham are playing at another level to cover for Plant...

And all the Monty Python references: JPJ's intro: "Giving you a chance to play Spot the Looney". At the same show (6/23/77) introducing JB : "John, two Bonhams, Looney, Bonham."

Earl's Court May 25, 1975 Happy 43th Anniversary!

Have you read Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy ? It's the book that brings together all conspiracy theories and unites them under one great conspiracy, The Illuminati! But, to me it seemed like an inside joke for everyone who studies this kind of stuff, a satire. Now everyone has taken it as truth and run away with it. Get the book and see for yourself what you think...

Hmmm, Good points here! Confirmation Bias plays a roll... https://www.fs.blog/2017/05/confirmation-bias/

https://www.livescience.com/62558-parallel-universe-aliens-survive-dark-energy.html

No fossil evidence for a previous race on intelligent beings on this planet, our most ancient ancestors are only 1.8 million years old. However there is good evidence of a civilization in Egypt before the Old Kingdom. My degree is in geology and the weathering on the limestone of the Spinx suggests that it is either older than the Old Kingdom, or that the environment was much wetter in the past.

UFO's are real! It just means Unidentified Flying Object, if you can't identify it then it's a real UFO. Have we been visited by "aliens"? I haven't seen any convincing evidence. If we have, they must have figured out some different technology because the Universe is so darned LARGE. One "Conspiracy Theory" that really bugs me is the "Faked Moon Landing". Almost every bit of so-called evidence has been debunked, yet people continue to use "Were you there?" as "proof". I'm getting worried that we are living in the new "post-facts" era. This push for equality and inclusion has resulted in my hackneyed, un-researched spoutings being given equal merit compared to your, well researched, long term studies! No one benefits from us being less informed!

"It's a conspiracy!" 😆

Yeah, "chemtrails", the list is long: vaccines, fluoride, area 51, flat earth, Taco Bell illuminati lizard aliens... Thank God for sites like Factcheck.org, Politifact, Snopes, etc. Too bad so many people are immune to facts...

Frank Zappa

Earth and Jupiter will be very close together tonight. It's a great time to observe the giant planet, a pair of binoculars will reveal the four huge moons. The inner most makes an orbit around the 88,000 mile wide planet every 12 hours! By contrast, the Earth's moon takes over 28 days to orbit out 8,000 mile wide planet. A small telescope allows you to see the shadow cast on the gas giant's surface by the moons as they traverse the visible side of Jupiter. https://www.yahoo.com/news/jupiter-opposition-planet-brightest-tuesday-134000107.html

I can't stand waiting for 6/22/77, it is one of my absolute favorite shows.

One of the only Zeppelin songs I disliked from the first time I heard it...

I got a new telescope! It's an Orion Starseeker IV, with an 150mm primary mirror and a focal length of 750mm. It gives a very clear image at high or low powers, I'm impressed! With a 32mm lens, It makes 23.5 x which gives a huge field of view, all of Pleiades fits at once! With my 9mm lens and a 2x barlow, it makes 160x which is about the highest power that the sky can stand up to around here. It has "Go To" controls which means that it is computer controlled and can be made to point at thousands of pre programed objects. This is very useful in the light polluted SF Bay Area. And it weighs less than 20lbs. so I actually use it! Jupiter rises at sunset and show four fast moving moons. Venus has been visible until about two hours after sunset and shows a cresent rightnow, Saturn, with its spectacular rings, rises at about midnight.

Wow! 6.9! Pele is angry...

Two main reasons: 1. Page and Plant don't want their legacies tarnished with less-than-perfect performances. 2. There's just not that much that was recorded. Thank goodness for all the bootlegs we have access to!

"In the End Times, bullets will be worth more than food."

The Obelisk...

My next door neighbors are nice enough but... They are in some Christian survivalist cult and are prepping for the "End times". They have a bunch of like minded folk living with them in trailers on their property, the kids are "homeschooled", they are "vaccine free",and raise cows and pigs in a suburban neighborhood. Every once-in-a-while, they have a "Farm Day" when the guy comes and shoots a couple of their animals, skins and butchers them. Yea! Family fun! On the other hand, I'll bet they think we're the weirdo neighbors! We've had some pretty wild parties with my oddball friends, there's constant BBQ smoking, an ouddoor ceramics studio and even a few Druid rituals. Add in the constant blasting Led Zeppelin Devil Music and I could see their point of view... In the end of it all, we get along great! When I first moved in 25 years ago, the neighbor's father, who was living there told me when we met "In this neighborhood we don't tell each other what to do." I've been living by that philosophy ever since!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2771410-the-worlds-best-athletes-smoke-weed-heres-proof-what-now