Tonight's is a special dusk. A narrow beach where the moonlit waves of sleep meet the sunny beaches of your waking mind. As we pass through the vernal equinox, take note of the sights and sounds that swirl before you where the water meets the sand in this hypnagogic episode of Astronomical Dusk.

If it looks like a snake, and it crawls like a snake, and if it buzzes like a bee, and it buzzes like a fly, then you might have a 9 foot tall mantis on your hands. Are they here to control us? clone us? rob our graves? or perhaps they only wish to help us realize our true potential as galactic beings. No matter the aim, their destination is Earth.

This here? This is the place. The real action. Get turned on. Make the scene. Surrender your dignity and depth perception as you shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville.

Take a trip across the open arms of a spiral galaxy as you ponder the existence of mathematically inclined pineapples, fruit flies that produce eyes from their legs, the thunderous rage of the tornado, and the calm, calculated rotation of an observatory telescope at the command of a lone night assistant.