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Jul 07 2012

New at Rosetta Stones: Blue Flamer

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by Dana Hunter

That’s an FBI term, by the way. An ambitious person is said to have blue flames coming out of their arse. That’s neither here nor there, but is the sort of free-association that happens when you haven’t had enough sleep, and you’ve just been writing up a several week extravaganza of phreatic eruptions at Mount St. Helens.

I’m going to go drink to Dave Johnston, who first saw the blue flames dancing within her craters, and Dwight Crandell, who called the conclusion very nearly perfectly. Join me in raising a round to their memory.

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    Fizzing thru da Fizzics

    July 7, 2012 at 6:01 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    To them, and to the utter awesomeness of volcanoes. Fizzics is great, but I *heart* volcanoes

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    F

    July 7, 2012 at 12:42 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    But volcanoes is physics! Just more complex and messy than what straight physics deals with.

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    Trebuchet

    July 7, 2012 at 12:53 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Awesome post Dana. I have a feeling we’re building up to something big…

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    F

    July 7, 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    It must have been mesmerizing, that pas de deux of those cerulean volcanic fires, glowing in the cold and dark of a wintery Cascades night.

    Shit, Dana. Prosewright and wordsmith, you are.

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      rq

      July 8, 2012 at 7:30 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

      I hope she posts some of her fiction, too, once she has the time for it…

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    rq

    July 8, 2012 at 8:19 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    And that post is a dreadful cliffhanger – dreadful in the sense that I hope the next installment is up soon, because my suspense level is at unhealthy levels. Even though I KNOW what (sort of) happens next. Please turn this series into a book.

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    janeymack

    July 9, 2012 at 5:30 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    David Johnston resides in my memory as a doomed hero, living and working at the heart of the danger zone and giving the warning to Vancouver with what must have been nearly his last breath. Always happy to drink a toast in his honor.

    And I’m with rq–can’t wait to read the next installment of this, even though I also know what happens next.

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    Jane

    July 13, 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    A geology professor sent me, Don Mullineaux and another retired geologist down at CVO in Vancouver the link to this article. Great piece and accompanying photos. RQ is right – you should turn it into a book! Very nice tribute to my Dad, Dwight Crandell. Thanks Dana.

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