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Friday, March 31, 2023

For Sixteen Vestal Virgins — Data and Metadata

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:03 pm

Data:

"The rockers said via their record label:

'It is with the deepest sadness that we must
announce the passing of the lyricist Keith Reid,
who died suddenly on 23 March 2023,
in hospital in London. He had been receiving
cancer treatment for the past couple of years.

Keith was the co-founder and lyricist for the band
Procol Harum, notably penning their biggest hit
A Whiter Shade of Pale, which contains some of
the most enigmatic lyrics of all time.' " 

— https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/
breaking-procol-harums-keith-reid-29586101

Metadata:

A note from Log24 on the above March 23 date

The above Del Shannon upload date
was November 1, 2021 — All Saints' Day.

Synchronicity check —

Putting the “Quale” in Quality

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:11 pm

Reaching No. 1

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:30 am

The previous post suggests a review . . .

Inflection Points and Doing It

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:07 am

Nima Arkani-Hamed, as quoted by Peter Woit yesterday —

"I think the subject has not been so exciting for many, many decades, and at the same time our ability to experimentally address and solidly settle some of these very big questions has never been more uncertain. I don’t think it’s a normal time, it’s an inflection point in the history of the development of our subject, and it requires urgency… The confluence of the technical expertise for doing so and the enthusiasm amongst the young people who are willing to do it exists now and I very much doubt it will exist in 10 or 15 years from now. If we are going to do it, we have to start thinking about doing it now."

See as well an inflection-point-related post in this  journal —

True Grid: "Rosetta Stone" as a Metaphor
in Mathematical Narratives
 .

The Beach

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:53 am

See also Doily in this  journal.

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Cognoscenti in Stitches

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:18 pm

Admit One to Twin Peaks University

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:31 pm

Latin for 30

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Data and Metadata:  High Road, Low Road

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:18 am

Data —


 

Metadata —

 

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Palette (Continued from March 21)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:21 pm

Matisse's Model
(The French Collection, Part I: #5)
Faith Ringgold  1991

A Pattern with Legs

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:35 pm

Despite a recent redaction

Applying to Bardo College

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:08 pm

And then there is Bardo  College . . .

For a young-adult novelist who reportedly died at 71 on March 21 —

Fun With Pretty Mama . . . Press Play!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:48 pm

Scene from a 1995 film —

The pretty mama above is from the earlier film "Cocktail,"
not from the 1975 song "One of These Nights."

An Earlier “Pretty Mama” Song, from a 1975 Album

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:54 pm

The previous post referenced the "pretty mama" of "Cocktail" (1988).

Earlier, in 1975, there was a more serious song to a pretty mama . . .

One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
We're gonna find out, pretty mama
What turns on your lights

 

See as well "Dreaming Jewels" and . . .

For Pretty Mama*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:13 am

The Bermuda Octahedron


* Song lyric reference . . .                     

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Painted Word: Booty Call

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:47 pm

The New York Times  reports  a March 27 death:

Ecosystem Study —
 

Booty Call  by Cullinane 

Industrial Heyday*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:48 pm

"Story continues below advertisement" . . .

What if the story is  the advertisement?

This  journal on the above dies natalis :

'Law Play' by Cullinane, 11 March 2023

* See also the previous post, "Language Drill."

Language Drill

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:01 pm

"Jigs are indispensable in the machining process.
They help guide and hold workpieces to a specified
location, thus ensuring that any drilling or tapping
will be accurate." 

See also, in this  journal, "the notation 'as' " …

A related image

"At the still point, there the dance is." — T. S. Eliot

Onestone Parable

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:45 pm

“You’re literally looking for like a one in a million thing.
You filter out the 999,999 of the boring ones, then
you’ve got something that’s weird, and then that’s worth
further exploration.”

— Quote from a mathematics story today at Gizmodo

A different "one in a million" mathematics story —

On Steiner Quadruple Systems of Order 16.

See also Galois Tesseract.

Monday, March 27, 2023

Lost Girls: The Redacted Version

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:29 pm

For Alan Moore

For Storyholics: Mug Shots

See also the source of the second mug shot.

The Naked Muse

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:53 pm

From a sort of sequel to Altman's "Nashville" —
"Welcome to L.A." … Geraldine Chaplin:

Reunification Ritual

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:54 pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF)

" 'We have mental health professionals at
the reunification site,' NFD spokesperson
Kendra Looney said."

Noon Fair

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:04 pm

Elementary Tune  for  My Dear Watson

"Cinderella's turnin' up with Snow White
It's where the wild things are
It's where the wild things are (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, woo)
It's where my heart's gon' start (Ooh, ooh-ooh)
It's where the wild things are (Ooh)
Put your fucking glasses up (Ooh-woo)"

Some will prefer a more classical group . . .
 

The f-holes —

("" for Fiona (Dourif) in "The Master")

Related bling:

See as well Emma Watson and the above bling date —
August 30, 2018 —in this  journal . . . "Perception of Space."

"It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you…." — J. K. Rowling

For Bad Cinderella

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:47 am

Mirror, Mirror . . .

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Adventures in Journalism: Burying the Lede

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:13 pm

Seen Coming?

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:31 pm

'Nobody saw ChatGPT coming.'

— Nobody? 
— Well, maybe Agatha.

A New City to Wrestle With

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:08 pm

This, and the sex shop at the former Hotel Bella Vista
in Cuernavaca, suggest another image . . .

Glow and Afterglow

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:41 pm

The March 20 date of a New Yorker  story by
Mary Gaitskill suggests a review of that date here

GLOW,” starring Alison Brie —

“In the bluish light emanating from the TV,
EE looked at him, her eyes veiled.”

— Being There , by Jerzy Kosinski

Agatha’s Question

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:37 pm

"It was my first job; I hadn’t yet turned eighteen."

— Mary Gaitskill, "Minority Report," short story
in The New Yorker , March 20, 2023.

Gaitskill's story also contains a film reference that
accounts for the story's title —

"Then suddenly, randomly, I remembered. I was watching
a movie with Jason, the man who, with time, became my
husband. It was a movie about imprisoned clairvoyants
who predict murders before they happen. Sexless and
obedient, the clairvoyants lay in artificial sleep, nearly
submerged in pools of water, connected to a huge machine
monitored by vigilant detectives."

That film  in this  journal —

For further background, see The New Yorker  piece
"Mary Gaitskill on Revisiting Her Story 'Secretary'."

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