Thursday, May 12, 2022
“All the Old Knives” for Doctor Strange Fans
Monday, March 11, 2019
Ant-Man Meets Doctor Strange
The 4×4 square may also be called the Galois Tesseract .
By analogy, the 4x4x4 cube may be called the Galois Hexeract .
Thursday, January 18, 2024
True Detectives at the Hometown of
Matthew McConaughey and Dale Evans
Matthew McConaughey and Dale Evans
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
After the Pinnacle
"Where there used to be a pinnacle, there’s now a crater."
— Bret Stephens in The New York Times yesterday on Harvard.
Related entertainment —
Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —
For a crater, see a search in this journal for Asteroid.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Reality as a Third-Rate Joke
For Sean Carroll, author of . . .
See also Carroll in this journal.
Related humor for Doctor Strange —
Windows Lockscreen at 12:43 AM ET tonight —
I prefer the non-humor of Cold Mountain .
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Strange Fiction
"You can work in the undercroft." — Doctor Strange
A related geographical note —
See also "Swiftly Tilting Planet" in this journal.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
“Interality” as a Metaverse Term
See also "Interality" in this journal.
Update of 8:56 AM ET
Friday, May 6, 2022:
“You have to all have a shared language of all this stuff,
otherwise it can get pretty confusing,” Waldron said.
The Waldron quote is from . . .
Later, at 9:29 AM ET . . .
See as well other posts now tagged Strange Change.
Friday, March 18, 2022
Annals of Literary Analysis
On Doctor Strange in Spider-Man: No Way Home —
"This all-powerful wizard really used 'Scooby-Doo' as a verb
meaning 'successfully pull off a series of physical challenges
against monsters who are real.' What in the dad-trying-to-
relate-to-his-distant-son hell? That's like pumping someone up
to kick a game-winning field goal by saying 'Charlie Brown this crap.'"
— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider , November 17, 2021
But seriously . . .
From posts tagged Frankfurter —
"Scooby-Doo this ."
Friday, September 24, 2021
“Cool Enough For Ya?”
From "Nature Hike," a post of June 15, 2019:
“We have to restore the role of reason and logic and rational debate,”
Gore said. “Every night on the news is like a nature hike through the
Book of Revelation.” — Harvard Gazette reporting Class Day 2019
Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Nature Hike
"Tilda Swinton is Zelda, the undertaker who worships a gold statue
of Buddha and collects samurai swords. She seems to know
what’s going on, but she’s too busy acting weird to tell."
“We have to restore the role of reason and logic and rational debate,”
Gore said. “Every night on the news is like a nature hike through the
Book of Revelation.” — Harvard Gazette reporting Class Day 2019
Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —
Monday, May 27, 2019
But Seriously . . .
I prefer the simple "four dots" figure
of the double colon:
For those who prefer stranger analogies . . .
Actors from "The Eiger Sanction" —
Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —
See as well this journal on the above Strange date, 2016/12/02,
in posts tagged Lumber Room.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
The Grossman Chronicles* Continue
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Art Space Paradigm Shift
This post’s title is from the tags of the previous post —
The title’s “shift” is in the combined concepts of …
Space and Number
From Finite Jest (May 27, 2012):
The books pictured above are From Discrete to Continuous ,
by Katherine Neal, and Geometrical Landscapes , by Amir Alexander.
For some details of the shift, see a Log24 search for Boole vs. Galois.
From a post found in that search —
“Benedict Cumberbatch Says
a Journey From Fact to Faith
Is at the Heart of Doctor Strange“
— io9 , July 29, 2016
” ‘This man comes from a binary universe
where it’s all about logic,’ the actor told us
at San Diego Comic-Con . . . .
‘And there’s a lot of humor in the collision
between Easter [ sic ] mysticism and
Western scientific, sort of logical binary.’ “
[Typo now corrected, except in a comment.]
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Not Strange Enough?
Peter Woit today discusses a book by one Zeeya Merali:
Some earlier remarks by Merali:
Zeeya Merali in Nature on 28 August 2013 —
"… a small band of researchers who think that
the usual ideas are not yet strange enough.
If nothing else, they say, neither of the two great
pillars of modern physics — general relativity,
which describes gravity as a curvature of space
and time, and quantum mechanics, which governs
the atomic realm — gives any account for
the existence of space and time.
. . . .
'All our experiences tell us we shouldn't have two
dramatically different conceptions of reality —
there must be one huge overarching theory,' says
Abhay Ashtekar, a physicist at Pennsylvania State
University in University Park."
See as well Overarching and Doctor Strange in this journal.
Friday, February 17, 2017
The Unreliable Reader
Continued from "Religion at Harvard," May 7, 2010 —
"The warnings come after the spells." — Doctor Strange
Monday, August 1, 2016
Strange Love
Review of "Criminal," a recent Tommy Lee Jones film:
"The only problem is that the procedure requires
a certain type of mind, the mind of a psychopath."
Skip Hollandsworth in Texas Monthly, Feb. 2006,
discussing an interview wtih Texas actor Jones, mentions …
"Jones’ strangely mesmerizing performance as
a vicious psychopath who hijacks a battleship."
A sample of that performance suitable for Manic Monday —
"You have to reconsider your entire philosophy."
— Tommy Lee Jones in "Under Siege"
The New York Times Book Review yesterday advertised
such a reconsideration, for sale by a Smith College Buddhist —
(Click image to enlarge.)
For your consideration —
"And there’s a lot of humor in the collision between Easter [sic ]
mysticism and Western scientific, sort of logical binary."
— Benedict Cumberbatch on his new film "Doctor Strange."
Lead-balloon humor:
"Funny, you don't look Buddhist."
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Binary
"Benedict Cumberbatch Says a Journey
From Fact to Faith Is at the Heart of Doctor Strange"
— io9 yesterday
" 'This man comes from a binary universe where it’s all about logic,'
the actor told us at San Diego Comic-Con . . . .
'And there’s a lot of humor in the collision between Easter [sic ]
mysticism and Western scientific, sort of logical binary.' "
Related material — Strange Awards, April 14, 2016.
I prefer a different sort of journey. See Boole vs. Galois.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Strange Awards
From a review of a play by the late Anne Meara* —
"Meara, known primarily as an actress/comedian
(half of the team of Stiller & Meara, and mother of
Ben Stiller), is also an accomplished writer for the
stage; her After Play was much acclaimed….
This new, more ambitious piece starts off with a sly
send-up of awards dinners as the late benefactor of
a wealthy foundation–the comically pixilated scientist
Herschel Strange (Jerry Stiller)–is seen on videotape.
This tape sets a light tone that is hilariously
heightened when John Shea, as Arthur Garden,
accepts the award given in Strange's name."
Compare and contrast —
- A figure from yesterday's 1 PM post Black List:
-
The circular device of Doctor Strange on the cover of
Entertainment Weekly , Jan. 8/15 2016:
I of course prefer the Galois I Ching .
* See the May 25, 2015, post The Secret Life of the Public Mind.
Sunday, September 8, 2002
Sunday September 8, 2002
In honor of the September 8 birthdays of
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (The Killer Angels),
- Peter Sellers (“Doctor Strangelove”), and
- Patsy Cline (“Crazy”):
From a website on Donna Tartt‘s novel The Secret History…
“It is like a storyteller looking up suddenly into the eyes of his audience across the embers of a once blazing fire…
…the reader feels privy to the secrets of human experience by their passage down through the ages; the telling and re-telling. A phrase from the ghost in Hamlet comes to mind: ‘I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / |
This work of literature seems especially relevant at the start of a new school year, and in light of my remarks below about ancient Greek religion. One should, when praising Apollo, never forget that Dionysus is also a powerful god.
For those who prefer film to the written word, I recommend “Barton Fink” as especially appropriate viewing for the High Holy Days. Judy Davis (my favorite actress) plays a Faulkner-figure’s “secretary” who actually writes most of his scripts.
Tartt is herself from Faulkner country. For her next book, see this page from Square Books, 160 Courthouse Square, Oxford, Misssissippi.
Let us pray that Tartt fares better in real life than Davis did in the movie.
As music for the High Holy Days, I recommend Don Henley’s “The Garden of Allah.” For some background on the actual Garden of Allah Hotel at 8080 Sunset Boulevard (where “Barton Fink” might have taken place), see