Bang. Splat.
(See previous entry.)
Click for larger version.
-- Source: The Nation online,
Robert Scheer column of Feb. 3, 2004
containing movie ad of Sept. 30, 2005 "This place ain't doing me any
good.I…
Bang Splat
From Forever Dylan, USA Today, 5/17/01:
"'He's still a great songwriter,' Aimee Mann says. The sentiments in
'Things Have Changed,' from last year's 'Wonder Boys' soundtrack, are
'brutal, r…
Mathematical Narrative,
continued:
There is a pleasantly discursive treatment of Pontius Pilate's
unanswered question "What is truth?" -- H. S. M. Coxeter, introduction
to Richard J. T…
Mathematical Narrative
Gwyneth Paltrow is said to be 33 today. Mathematics Narrative …
Hint
Yesterday was
F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday.
(See previous entry.)
"There is a place for a hint
somewhere of a big agent
to complete the picture."
-- Notes for an unfini…
Parable
From this week's New Yorker
and from Eight is a Gate: May 20, 2004, 7 AM:
Parable: "A comparison or analogy. The word is simply a transliteration
of the Greek word: parabolé (literally:
'what is thr…
For Serge Lang
"Get the aggressively mediocre Yale Daily News obituary here ('he is
remembered for his significant academic contributions'?? give me a
break...)" -- Tom So far, the Yale Daily News obit is the …
Google News this afternoon:
The Randomness
In yesterday's New York Times, science writer George Johnson quoted a
Buddhist:
"Though he professes to accept evolutionary theory, he recoils at one
of
its most basic tenets: that the mutations that …
Barging In "It's been a brutal seasonin the
culture wars...." -- George
Johnson intoday's New York Times "Some fearless outside refereehad to
barge in and try to adjudicate the culture wars...." -- Frank Rich
intod…
Time Fold,
continued
From Matt Glaser, Satchmo, the Philosopher: "... the luminosity and
perpetual freshness of Armstrong's music. These
qualities, as well as his essentially abstract ability to affect our
pe…
From www.ams.org:
Serge Lang, 1927-2005"Serge Lang passed away on September 12 at the age
of 78. Lang was
a professor at Yale University from 1972 to 2005. He received his Ph.D.
from Princeton University in 1951 under…
Square Wheel, continued
For director Robert Wise,
who died yesterday on
The Feast of The Holy Cross: The Maltese Cross
From Cabaret
Mechanical Theatre
See alsoSept. 8, 2002,Sept. 12, 2002,
an…
Multimedia
"... the quality of life as of death and of light as of darkness is
one..."
-- Robinson Jeffers
(See previous two entries
and Dante, Paradiso, 25.054.)
Lutheran Rhythm, continued: Square-Wheel
Rhythm
(See previous entry.)
"This is a sane and sensible interpretation, deeply musicianly and
devoid of eccentricity. Her attitude, rather like Toscanini’s, is to
ac…
Holy Cross Day The Cross and the Wheel:
"... the quality of life as of death and of light as of darkness is
one,
one beauty, the rhythm of that Wheel,
and who can behold it is happy
and w…
Lutheran Rhythm,
continued:
Death on 9/11
Al Casey Dies at 89;
Early Jazz Guitarist
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005
Al Casey, a guitarist whose playful acoustic rhythms and solos…
Final arrangements, continued:
Justice at Heaven's Gate
"Gate --- Early term for a Jazz musician. Armstrong is the original
Swing Jazz player that's why they call used to call him 'Gate.'"
-- All About Jazz
…
x I need a photo-opportunity. I want a shot
at redemption.Don't want to end up a cartoon In a cartoon graveyard. —
Paul Simon
Related material:
Nine Gates to the
Temple of Poetry
and
Law Day 2001…
Rhythm of the Saints, continued:
"When asked which words in the English language are the most
difficult to define precisely, a lexicographer would surely mention
funky."
-- Answers.com
Lutheran Rhythm, contin…
Rhythm of the Saints
(Background: the two previous entries.) Alicia Keys and Paul Simon
on last night's Katrina telethon
Related material:
Readings for St. Patrick's Day,
Log24.net, March 17, 2005,
…
Photo Finish
Why is this man smiling?
R. W. Funk
From today's New York Times:
Robert W. Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar...
died on Sept. 3...
From the First Amendment Center: Chief Justice Willia…
Lutheran Rhythm
"A family of musicians took shelter for the night
In the little harbor church of St. Cecilia"
-- Paul Simon, Rhythm of the Saints
"The canonized go on."
-- Philip Roth in
today's New Y…
For Your
Listening Pleasure
"Raw blues straight from Hell"
Soap
Faith
Faith is an island in the setting sun
But proof, yes
Proof is the bottom line for everyone
-- Paul Simon, "Proof"
This morning's bottom line:
From Polya-Burnside Counting (…