Monday, August 14, 2023
Hometown Obituary
Sunday, August 13, 2023
Annals of Numerology: “Hey, Ninety-Eight Point Six”
This post is in memory of a "photographer of socialites and artists."
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Manic Pixie Song*
* For the title and the color, see last night's "Drunkard's Dream" post.
Happy birthday, Cara Delevingne.
Friday, August 11, 2023
Art Conflict: Wall Moss versus Line of Beauty
The New York Times on an artist who reportedly died yesterday —
The background wall art below is not unlike Marden's Moss Sutra …
Some will prefer the fore ground of the above image,
which is closely related to the art term "line of beauty."
Entertainment for Escher
Other Amalfi Coast scenes —
"Dabo claves regni caelorum" — 1986 Cullinane poem
And for Jamestown New York's National Comedy Center —
The Latin Club Gang: "We put the 'sex' in sextets!"
Drifting
… in his book “Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican’s Challenge to His Party,” Mr. Whalen detailed his disappointments with Nixon, including his pledge in March 1968 to end the Vietnam War, presumably swiftly, if President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t end it by the end of the year. “This promise, implying a plan to fulfill it, splashed across the front pages and brought the reporters and TV crews rushing back to the Republican side of the New Hampshire campaign, eager for details,” he wrote. “There weren’t any. Nothing lay behind the ‘pledge’ except Nixon’s instinct for an extra effort of salesmanship when the customers started drifting away.” |
For the late Brice Marden, Painter . . .
From a Log24 post of March 19, 2019 —
Caption for the National Comedy Center —
"Getting a little behind in your reading?"
Dimensions for a Coachella Valley Girl
Like Decorations for Strange Fruit
The title combines phrases from Wallace Stevens and Billie Holiday.
Illustration, from an image linked to in the previous post —
Related images . . .
See June 19th of this year.
Beechwood Aged
"The lost lane-end into heaven" — Thomas Wolfe
"Come on . . . ." — Cristin Milioti
Some Cartoon Graveyards are Better than Others.
Lyrics for Damnation Morning*
"I viewed the morning with much alarm;
The British Museum had lost its charm."
* Vide that phrase in this journal.
"A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."
Garden Party
"Pardon me. J'adoube."
— The Consul as he fastens his fly in Malcolm Lowry's classic
novel, Under the Volcano , the Garden of Eden scene.
I, on the other hand, adobe.
Musical accompaniment . . .
"Sleight of hand and twist of fate . . . ." — "With or Without U"
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Lines and Shadows (title taken from Wambaugh)
Lines
"Listen to the wind blow, down comes the night
Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies"
— Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain"
Shadows
Related YouTube and Log24 date: Sept. 27, 2018 —
“Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me…” — Robbie Robertson
"Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one"
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Arty Facts Meditation: Not So Together.
Commentary on the "Yellow Submarine" song "All Together Now" —
Related tune from The Pretenders —
Saturday, July 27, 2019
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Related reading for posh toffs —
Waiting for the Low-Hanging Fruit
How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.
Mary Gaitskill's latest substack meditation —
"I am thinking of Susan Sontag, writer, philosopher,
political activist and some-time pain in the ass;
she went to Sarajevo during the siege in order to
put on a theatrical production of Waiting for Godot.
She didn’t get paid and none of the actors did either.
They rehearsed in the dark and performed by sparse
candlelight . . . ."
"How many bananas ?"
"Drei . . . or else Vier ."
See also the comedy writers of Elsevier —
Ethical Barbenheimer:
The Junction Function
A function (in this case, a 1-to-1 correspondence) from finite geometry:
This correspondence between points and hyperplanes underlies
the symmetries discussed in the Cullinane diamond theorem.
Academics who prefer cartoon graveyards may consult …
Cohn, N. (2014). Narrative conjunction’s junction function:
A theoretical model of “additive” inference in visual narratives.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society, 36. See https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2050s18m .
Getty Images
J. Paul Getty and Minotaur, according to Hollywood —
Getty Images and the "Cubic Stone" —
Getty Images —
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See also the previous post and . . .
“The Seed Crystal” — Plan 9 from Science Direct
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Seven-Year Aches
Dates for comparison . . .
March 10, 2012 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=22893
March 10, 2019 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=79862
May 4, 2014 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=41784
May 4, 2021 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=94458
The Favicon
A Midrash For Friedkin — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=SXSW .
Monday, August 7, 2023
Exorcist Director Dies
Los Angeles Times today BY CHRISTI CARRAS, STAFF WRITER
"William Friedkin, a master of suspense and leading figure of the 1970s New Hollywood movement who was known for directing films such as 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' has died. Friedkin died Monday in Los Angeles, his widow, Sherry Lansing, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. CAA, which represents Lansing, said Friedkin died at home from heart failure and pneumonia. He was 87." |
Update at 8:42 PM ET —
A French Connection for Friedkin, from
the SXSW opening date of one of his films —
Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Huichol Swordfish
This suggests some art that reflects aspects of
my own teen space, which was many years ago . . .
Update for fans of Nevermore Academy:
Teen-related art from loisvb —
Consensual Twilight
The previous post (on "Come Swim") suggests a Sunset Boulevard review —
From a search in this journal for "consensual" —
"Yet if this Denkraum , this 'twilight region,' is where the artist and
emblem-maker invent, then, as Gombrich well knew, Warburg also
constantly regrets the 'loss' of this 'thought-space,' which he also
dubs the Zwischenraum and Wunschraum ."
— Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images ,
Christopher D. Johnson, Cornell University Press, 2012, p. 56
Snark Hunt
The removed Wikipedia passage —
"In 2017, Stewart coauthored a computer science preprint about the use
of neural net techniques in the making of her short film Come Swim,[82]
which led to her achieving the Erdős–Bacon number of 7.[83]
82. Joshi, Bhautik; Stewart, Kristen; Shapiro, David (2017).
'Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer
in Come Swim'. arXiv:1701.04928 [cs.CV].
83. 'Natalie Portman Answer | RASHI, RAMBAM and
RAMALAMADINGDONG'. Archived from the original
on May 3, 2023. Retrieved May 3, 2023. "
Background, and the preprint as officially published —
Fiction related to Kristen Stewart's reported Erdős–Bacon number, 7 —
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Annals of Iconography: The Dark Center
At the National Comedy Center —
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
For the Latin Club Gang
The Latin word "Contra " in the previous post will suggest to
many readers some related political concepts. Related reading:
Contra Gombrich
A search in this journal for Cornell + Warburg suggests
a review of the concept "iconology of the interval " . . .
Ikonologie des Zwischenraums —
"Yet if this Denkraum , this 'twilight region,' is where the artist and
emblem-maker invent, then, as Gombrich well knew, Warburg also
constantly regrets the 'loss' of this 'thought-space,' which he also
dubs the Zwischenraum and Wunschraum ."
— Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images ,
Christopher D. Johnson, Cornell University Press, 2012, p. 56
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Hospitality
Friday, August 4, 2023
Kinbotean Annotation (Continued)
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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For some illuminating remarks on Kinbotean annotation, see
Chapter 6 (Nabokov, Lowry, Orwell) of The Wreath of Wild Olive ,
by Mihai Spariosu.
(Published by State University of New York Press,
© 1997 State University of New York.)
The Bridge
"Finite groups of the same order are sometimes
related by a nontrivial identity."
— Steven H. Cullinane,
Groups related by a nontrivial identity
(a note on universal algebra).
See as well a related note written 40 years ago today.
A related webpage —
The Roc’s Egg
"Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler." |
Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road — “What did I want? I wanted a Roc’s egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist, and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get up feeling brisk and go out and break some lances, then pick a likely wench for my droit du seigneur – I wanted to stand up to the Baron and dare him to touch my wench! I wanted to hear the purple water chuckling against the skin of the Nancy Lee in the cool of the morning watch and not another sound, nor any movement save the slow tilting of the wings of the albatross that had been pacing us the last thousand miles. I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, 'The game’s afoot!' I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and to eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be the way they had promised me it was going to be, instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is. I had had one chance – for ten minutes yesterday afternoon. Helen of Troy, whatever your true name may be – and I had known it and I had let it slip away. Maybe one chance is all you ever get.” |
Thursday, August 3, 2023
For Nevermore Academy:
Through a Class, Darkly
Through a Class, Darkly
For Nevermore Academy:
Fia on the Four Elements
Fia on the Four Elements
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Terminator Zero: Rise of the Chatbots … Continues.
Quale (Rhymes with Folly, not with Tale)
Analogy . . . When A/B = C/D . . .
Illustration from a Log24 post tagged Quale —
— and related material from the date of the above Quale post …
… as well as, from July 31, a version for the institutionalized —
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Adventures in Story Space
Season 2 Teaser of "The Peripheral" —
Non-fiction —
Monday, September 20, 2021
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I did not attempt a solution of the above red-dot problem, but others
have done some related work —
Some related Log24 remarks: "The Dotted Line," Sept. 21, 2021.
The Spelling
A search in this journal for "ilich" yields some interesting results.
And then there is the version with two l's.
Monday, July 31, 2023
Sunday, July 30, 2023
The W Omen* Continues . . .
An image from the previous post —
The W image at lower left above suggests a variation —
Vogue — Promotion photo for "Bombshell."
* Title suggested in part by a post of Dec. 11, 2022 —
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Tips
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on July 20 —
"Barbie has a male chum, Ken (Ryan Gosling), though
he wishes he were more than that. 'We’re girlfriend-boyfriend,'
he tells her, running the words together into a single unit.
Smooth. They can’t have sex, although a showing of
'Team America: World Police' (2004) might give them some
handy tips."
Yes, it might. This journal on September 2, 2020 —
"Smile, you're being candid."
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Team America: The Metadata
The Up Date
Dialogue from a poet's memorial —
– Exactly. Did you read my book?
– No, I’m sorry.
– That’s okay. This is marvellous.
– A first date like a game show.
– I didn’t mean to lecture.
– I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to call it a date.
Related documentation from my email today . . .
For Connoisseurs of the Bottom Line
Whistling Past Yankee Bush
"Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.” — Paul Simon
"Or tangled up in blue." — Steven H. Cullinane
Friday, July 28, 2023
To Phrase a Coin
Interspersed Language Game
The last line* of the previous post . . .
"See as well a search in this journal for Zettel ."
suggests another entertainment review —
"Interspersed with the surprisingly fruitful escapades
of these drunken detectives are a series of flashbacks
to Christmas 2007 . . . ."
— Rachel Aroesti in The Guardian ,
"Fri 29 Jul 2022 01.00 EDT,"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
2022/jul/29/the-resort-peacock-now-funny-
fast-paced-caper-the-white-lotus
* Added at about 7:20 this morning. The relevant material is in
the last post from that search — dated December 26, 2007.
Requiem for an Eagle
" 'Hotel California,' with its mysterious, allegorical lyrics,
became among the band’s best-known recordings.
It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977 and won
a Grammy Award for record of the year in 1978."
— The New York Times tonight on an Eagles founding
member who reportedly died on Wednesday, July 26.
"Mirrors on the ceiling, pink champagne on ice . . . ."
See as well a search in this journal for Zettel .
Thursday, July 27, 2023
The Meld
The New Yorker , review dated July 20 …
Anthony Lane on "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig —
"Nobody else would even attempt
to meld a feminist colloquium
with a plug for a chunk of plastic"
Voilà , the Barbie Walters meld —
Incipient Colorings
The above title was suggested by a Log24 post of Sunday morning.
"You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
One for the Kaku’s Nest
Related material
from Log24 on July 20 —
Remarks by Kai Bird, co-author
of the biography behind the July 21
film "Oppenheimer" . . .
Wormhole Science: The Kaku’s Nest
Filed under: General — Tags: Bullshit Studies — m759 @ 9:29 AM
Kevin, Kate, and Carl . . . Continued
See posts now tagged Kevin Kate Carl.
The Abstracting Which
"His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
— Durham University, 1999 Ph.D. thesis
As verse . . .
A harmonic resonance
And a certain distancing
And abstracting which
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Philosophical Investigations . . .
“Is there sex in heaven?”
"Do you remember All Souls' Day two years ago?"
"For ten years, we've been on our own . . ." — American Pie
“Is there sex in heaven?”
Monday, July 24, 2023
Remembering Burt Reynolds
In the spirit of "Boogie Nights" (1997), a scene from March 17, 2022 —
Related rhetoric from Harvard —
The Harvard math department's pie-eating contest—
Topdot Art
The new URL topdot.art refers to depictions of
the top dot (or point, or vertex) in a vertex-edge diagram
of a square, cube, or hypercube that has been rotated
so that the bottom dot (or point, or vertex), represented by
all-zero coordinates in a labeling, is at the bottom …
and the top dot (or point, or vertex), represented by
all-one coordinates in a labeling, is at the top.
See (for instance) the Log24 post Physicality (Oct. 5, 2022).
Related philosophical remarks: Einheit .
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Fresh Culls
"It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,
And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground."
— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .
Weir’d
Email Metadata —
Created at: | Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 12:25 AM |
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From: | Mary Gaitskill's Substack site |
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Email Excerpt —
"The interview starts out with a discussion of 'the weird,' and all of the meanings
contained in that word, from the uncanny to the easily dismissed . . . ."
Commentary —
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Friday, July 21, 2023
Lyric Philosophy
Friday, May 27, 2011
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The Domino Model: Tricksters in the Attic
For related material on the geometry of a 2×3 rectangular array —
a domino — see the previous post and also a search in this journal for attic .
Welcome to Club 21
"I'll have what she's having."
— Classic movie line from "When Harry Met Sally,"
suggested by the ending scene from "Grease."
Thursday, July 20, 2023
The Mitnick Book
From this morning's online NY Times obituaries —
“Anyone who loves to play chess knows that
it’s enough to defeat your opponent. You don’t
have to loot his kingdom or seize his assets
to make it worthwhile,” he wrote in his book.
— Kevin Mitnick, who reportedly died on
Sunday, July 16, 2023, at 59.
See as well the "where it belonged" link in today's 7:52 AM ET post.
Wormhole Science: The Kaku’s Nest
In the Book
“Heaven was kind of a hat on the universe,
a lid that kept everything underneath it
where it belonged.”
— Carrie Fisher,
Postcards from the Edge
“720 in
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Data Location
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
An Obelisk for Stephen
From this journal on July 6, 2023 —
A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.
From The New York Times today, a different Stephen —
A Log24 flashback from the date of Silverman's reported death —
Going Beyond Wikipedia
Despite today's New York Times warnings about chatbot inaccuracy,
the above short summary is well-written, helpful, and correct.
In Memoriam . . .
"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light"
— Dylan Thomas, quoted in the final episode of "Blacklist"
Related material, in memory of Raymond Reddington and
Harry G. Frankfurt —
Monday, July 17, 2023
Harry G. Frankfurt, May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023
See as well this journal on the morning of July 16,
and also "Cartoon Graveyard."
“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
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Getting to Wow
D-Day Science Death
A New York Times obituary yesterday reported the
June 6 death, at 91, of a Harvard professor who dealt with
the relations between science and society —
“ 'Everett was one of a new generation of social historians
of science who insisted that it was not enough to pay attention
to the internal intellectual story of science,' Anne Harrington,
the Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science at Harvard,
said by email. 'The field needed to attend also to how science was
shaped by and also helped shape the conditions of the social world.' ”
Consider as well Scarlett Johansson on Alan Watts in "Her" (2013)
and Harrington on intellectual history in Cuernavaca . . .
By 1956, Fromm was dining at Suzuki’s part-time home in New York City, and talking with him about ways in which Zen could contribute to a wholesale reimagining of psychoanalytic therapeutics and theory (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). By this time, also, Fromm was himself spending considerable periods of time at a new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At one point he suggested that Suzuki consider moving in with him permanently. When Suzuki politely declined, Fromm conceived instead a major conference based in Mexico that would try to take stock of the entire current state of the conversation between Zen and psychotherapy (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). In 1957, some fifty psychotherapists—double the original expected number—participated in a week of presentations and discussions. Fromm later recalled the event as a magical time: what began as a traditional conference with the usual ‘over-emphasis on thoughts and words' changed over a few days, as people 'became more concentrated and more quiet.' |
A search in this journal for D-Day related material yields
posts tagged "Shadow Hacking."
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
Saturday, July 15, 2023
In memory of a San Diego artist
Friday, July 14, 2023
Ad Art
The artwork in an IG ad today caught my eye —
Related material in this journal — Magister Ludi and The Unity.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Plane Geometry for Reddington
From a New York Times report of a July 7 death —
My time has come. The water’s wide.
I’ll see you on the other side.
Related material —
Retro
See as well today's previous post and its excerpt from the
story "Pottage," by Zenna Henderson, first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept. 1955 —
Generative Preformed* Transformers
"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime
Structures from pure mathematics, by Plato and R. T. Curtis —
* See other "Preform" posts in this journal.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The Sunset of Dissolution
Dwight Garner today on the late Milan Kundera:
"Kundera’s novels, especially his later ones, could be abstract and
heavy-handed. His characters, at times, were little more than chess pieces.
Their author could be pretentious. His work is filled with observations such as:
'In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia,
even the guillotine.' But his best fiction retains its moments of sweep and power."
Illustration for Florence King's 1989 review of The Eight , a novel
by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4.
See also "Dissolution" in this journal.
Form and Subject
"Mr. Kundera told The Paris Review in 1983:
'My lifetime ambition has been to unite
the utmost seriousness of question with
the utmost lightness of form. The combination of
a frivolous form and a serious subject
immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas
(those that occur in our beds as well as those that
we play out on the great stage of History) and their
awful insignificance. We experience the unbearable
lightness of being.' "
The above is from The New York Times this morning.
The Times says that Kundera died yesterday in Paris at 94.
For another meeting of form and subject, see The Grid.
“Another Day, Another Couch”
A midrash on the current New Yorker "therapy issue" —
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Kinbotean Annotation
NB : The author of the report below is not the same person as
the author of this journal, who is known as Steven H. Cullinane.
See also this journal on the above Sunday at Little Gidding date.
Monday, July 10, 2023
Plan 9* from Toronto: Egalitarian Elegies
From the August 2023 Notices of the American Mathematical Society —
"He worked tirelessly towards a more egalitarian world…."
"Chandler’s egalitarian spirit infused the workshops."
— Memorial Tribute: Remembrances of Chandler Davis
* See yesterday's Log24 post "Egalitarian Plan 9."
Sunday, July 9, 2023
This Is Your Brain on Category Theory
Remarks by John Baez today suggest a flashback…
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Dead on the Third of July
Update at 9:06 PM ET . . .
Windows lockscreen this evening —
Related material in this journal: Weaveworld.