"Similarities and parallels can be drawn between alebrijes
and various supernatural creatures from Mexico's indigenous
and European past." — Wikipedia on the subject of today's
Google Doodle.
"Today’s Doodle celebrates the 115th birthday of
a Mexican artist who turned his dreams into reality…."
Not always a good idea. See the novel in the previous post.
For Princess Leia, from donshewey.com—
REVISITING ‘THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE’
| Origin of the title: Harold Ross, founding editor of The New Yorker, was once asked to describe the average reader of the magazine. He said, “One thing I know, the magazine is not going to be written for the little old lady from Dubuque.” Naming his character after Ross’s imaginary small-town creature was typically whimsical of Albee. The play’s title character is extremely worldly and other-worldly at the same time. “If The New Yorker is written for anyone, it’s written for her,” Albee said. |
Related material: Butterfly in this journal.
(Continued… See "I need a photo opportunity…")
From the previous post's Yankee Puzzle link :
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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"And I'll try to please you ev'ry day."
— Feste's song in Twelfth Night , as memorably sung by
Ben Kingsley, star of the new film "Stonehearst Asylum."
Judy Davis in the Marabar Caves
The above image is from this journal on Sunday, April 13, 2008.
The preceding cover of a book by Northrop Frye was suggested
by material in this journal from February 2003.
See also Yankee Puzzle and Doodle Dandy.
… of background for yesterday's Log24 posts—
"Now that philosophy has become a scientific pursuit…."
leads to the following article from St. Patrick's Day—
See also this journal on St. Patrick's Day—
Doodle Dandy and The Purloined Diamond (scroll down).
Today's Google Doodle for the 100th birthday of Charles Addams—
A doodle from this year's Feast of the Epiphany—
A doodle based on today's previous post and on a post for Twelfth Night, 2003—
On April 19, 1775, troops under the command of Brigadier General Hugh Percy played "Yankee Doodle" as they marched from Boston to reinforce British soldiers already fighting the Americans at Lexington and Concord. Whether sung or played on that occasion, the tune was martial and intended to deride the colonials:
Yankee Doodle came to town,
For to buy a firelock;
We will tar and feather him
And so we will John Hancock.
(CHORUS)
Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Mind the Music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
There are numerous conflicting accounts of the origin of "Yankee Doodle." Some credit its melody to an English air, others to Irish, Dutch, Hessian, Hungarian and Pyrenean tunes or a New England jig….
"Yankee Doodle" was well known in the New England colonies before Lexington and Concord but only after the skirmishes there did the American militia appropriate it. Tradition holds that the colonials began to sing it as they forced the British back to Boston on April 19, 1775, after the battles of Lexington and Concord. It is documented that the Americans sang the following verse at Bunker Hill:
Father and I went down to camp,
along with Captain Good'in,
And there we see the men and boys
as thick as hasty puddin'.
"Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people.''
"It's not for me. For my children, for my brothers and sisters… I did it for them.''
Eureka!
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