"Now put the foundations under them." — Thoreau
Monday, July 31, 2023
Documentation
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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 —
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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
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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 . . .
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For Connoisseurs of the Bottom Line
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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
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Friday, July 28, 2023
To Phrase a Coin
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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.
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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 .
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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 —
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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?"
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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
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Kevin, Kate, and Carl . . . Continued
See posts now tagged Kevin Kate Carl.
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Gathering
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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
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Eliot Illustrated
T.S. Eliot and
the music of poetry
Durham theses, Durham University, 1999
"Taking into consideration the Symbolist influence,
together with his preoccupation with language
and his interest in the musical quality inherent
in verse, one finds that Eliot's verse contains
a rhythmic movement that tends to sweep across
the whole line and links lines and stanzas together.
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."
"Where past and future are gathered" — T. S. Eliot
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Centerpiece
"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland,
quoted here on May 18, 2017
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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
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“Is there sex in heaven?”
“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—
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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 .
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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 .
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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 —
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