Sunday, March 8, 2026
LA Catch-22 Game
Related material . . .
An Earlier Catch-22 Game in My Hometown (Illustration) —
Game
A lovers' game of hide and seek
we play with time and space
Lost you found you then the peak
of passion and the downhill race
against the avalanche of fear
we'll lose what now we hold so dear
— SHC, March 8, 2026
This was suggested by one of 12 songs
in a Spotify playlist of Myrkia Maguire,
Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years."
"Even after all these years, I still manage
to stumble upon new spots."
Saturday, March 7, 2026
The Alexandria Triangle —
♫ “Turn, Turn, Turn”
"Every now and then, I get a little bit lonely . . ." — Song lyric
♫ "My love is a flame . . . ." — Sting
Note the mudra .
Author Susanna Moore,
photo by Paresh Gandhi
Types of Ambiguity . . . “How Bad Is It?”
Irrelevant Musical Response —
Some may prefer the also-irrelevant Elvis response —
Treat me nice, treat me good
Treat me like you really should
'Cause I'm not made of wood
And I don't have a wooden heart
My own personal version of "I got it bad and that ain't good" —
AI Frontiers: Plan 9 from Microsoft
♫
Little darlin'
It's been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darlin'
It feels like years since it's been here
Here comes Plan 9, doo-doo-doo
This journal on All Souls' Day 2025 —
Meanwhile, Back in My Hometown . . .
"Things got a little weird after the New Year's party."
Art Mashup
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"In Daniel Arsham’s world, nothing is what it seems."
Private thought from yesterday,
now not so private —
"We'll cross that bridge
when we come to it."
Friday, March 6, 2026
Thursday, March 5, 2026
WAY Beyond Politics
Another Letterman intro — "J. L., Austin . . . Austin, J. L."
For fans of the "LMAO" utterance —
Of course, words are not the only way to do things . . .
Did I hear someone say "louder than words"?
Culture Studies . . .
Edgelord School vs. Black Dove School
From the latter . . .
260305-Entertainment-mashup-F1.jpg —
"Backward ran references until reeled the mind"
— Adapted quote for the late Marshall McLuhan
Related Reading —
ANNALS OF LITERARY FOREPLAY
Some context for "White Lotus" fans —
https://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Pacific+Rimming"
Others may prefer a line from "The Diplomat" —
Cleavage Studies: Feeding The Daily Beast . . .
. . . "out of kindness, I suppose" — Song lyric
Image from a Beast story that was . . .
"Updated Mar. 5 2026 6:48 AM EST
Published Mar. 5 2026 5:30 AM EST"
Note the well-aimed mikes.
See also
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Facets+and+Labyrinths .
History by Torchlight . . . And an Alternative
I personally prefer a different light . . .
Midrash for Inquisitors —
“The ever-thickening narrative web”
Review by Lucy Mangan in The Guardian,
"Thu 5 Mar 2026 03.01 EST" —
"The power of students to decide adult fates not just through
complaints of sexual harassment but by enrolling in one class
over another forms another strand of the ever-thickening narrative web."
From a rather different narrative web . . .
Blackboard Jungle, 1955 —
The Louvre, 2026 —
Flashback
An instagram post of Feb. 5, 2026 suggests a review of a Log24 post
now pictured in the following image with filename —
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For Thalia the Muse
"It′s a little bit funny
This feeling inside . . . .
But the sun′s been quite kind
While I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on"
For Erato the Muse
The above provocative offer is from my "Midnight Narrative" post of
August 16, 2016.
The internet slang "LMAO" suggests some other material from that date:
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Three Little Words . . .
. . . From the cast of "Grease" and from the social site "passes.com" —
Tell Me More
Words from Alexandria, Egypt, in 1945 —
Greeting from the Late John Nash . . .
and the Guardians of the Galaxy
Adapted song lyric — "And the sailor said 'brand e'" . . .
PG Advisory: Beware of the Doggy Style Hickey!
From the website
https://kids-in-mind.com/n/nightbitch-parents-guide-movie-review-rating.htm —
"Nightbitch SEX/NUDITY 6
– A husband and his wife have sex: she leans forward over a table
and he thrusts from behind her, she pulls her shirt away from her neck
and tells him to bite her, which he does and she moans (we see her cleavage)."
Some may prefer the Hogwarts version . . .
Code Girl Rising
See as well Stacy Martin in today's previous post and in
the post of Dec. 15, 2020, "Lars and the Code Girl."
Views from the Bridge Song
From earlier posts in this journal tagged Story Architecture —
A view some may prefer . . .
Just uphill from Robert A. Heinlein's former home in Laurel Canyon —
♫ "Slow down, you move too fast . . ."
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
The Dangling Cock-Up . . . “See the Problem?”
From The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2024,
"I Sing the Electric Body: On Syntax,"
by Brian Patrick Eha —
"One of the most common syntactical cock-ups
is the misplaced or dangling modifier.
'Having been accused of taking bribes to steer research,
Harvard University has suspended Professor Jane Doe.'
See the problem?"
Monday, March 2, 2026
A Metaphor for Metamorphosis
Interesting question.
Also, how many lashes with
a wet noodle does it take to
turn you on?
Awards Show: “Last of the Precursors”
Update: The time of this post, 7:01, suggests . . .
