"What were you expecting to see in here, Meeno?"
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Monday, November 16, 2015
Good Question.
YouTube —
Uploaded on Sep 17, 2009
Who'll love the devil?…
Who'll sing his song?…
Who will love the devil and his song?…
"The pictures are understood to have been taken
just a few minutes before three gunmen burst into
the venue at 9.40pm (8.40pm GMT) as the
Californian rock band were launching into one of
their favourites, Kiss The Devil."
Read more: DailyMail.com.
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Monday, December 1, 2014
Good Question
"A friend asked why I am saying kaddish.
A good question."
— Kaddish , by Leon Wieseltier, Chapter One
Scarlett Johansson
and Natalie Portman
See Scarlett in Lucy …
Barry Rudd at the end of John Hersey's
1960 novel The Child Buyer :
"Fascinating to be a specimen,
truly fascinating. Do you suppose
I really can develop an I.Q. of
over a thousand?"
… and Natalie in Black Swan .
Midrash :
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"12:30 pm we leave for the historic
Princeton Cemetery on Witherspoon and
Paul Robson Streets to assemble for
a service and burial at 2:00 pm."
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Good Question
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Sunday, December 29, 2013
Good Question
Amy Adams in the new film “Her” —
“You’re dating an OS? What is that like?”
— Question quoted in a Hollywood Reporter
story on the film’s second trailer
From the same story, by Philiana Ng —
” The trailer is set to Arcade Fire’s
mid-tempo ballad ‘Supersymmetry.’ “
Parts of an answer for Amy —
Nov. 26, 2012, as well as
Dec. 24, 2013, and
The Hollywood Reporter story is from Dec. 3, 2013.
See also that date in this journal.
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Sunday, April 19, 2026
Margo’s Got Narrative Troubles
"Do we fight to control our narrative or give it away to others
who may get it wrong and make a damaging misinterpretation . . . ?"
Good question.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Coppola Family Values for Auntie Wow:
The Vocabulary Lesson
Good question.
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The Vocabulary Lesson
The Vocabulary Lesson
Friday, February 28, 2025
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Deep Blue Burning Man
— https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/
2024/12/the-case-against-george-orwell
"Why drag in the stars?" Good question . . .
The sincerest form of flattery (BBC, Groundhog Day 2018) —
Related reading —
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Dance at the Still Point
Zip! My artistic taste is classic and choice –
Zip! Who the hell’s Rosita Royce?
— “Zip” by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
Good question. See Royce on the Web and . . .
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Sunday, November 17, 2024
Sunday, July 21, 2024
“Accentuate the Positive” — Song Lyric
— "Who can turn the world on with her smile?"
— Good question.
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Friday, June 14, 2024
Dreamcatcher Date . . . From the Portuguese
Good question. Not-so-virtual . . .
See as well a Log24 remark in an update . . .
from the above NYU thesis-week date.
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Sunday, December 3, 2023
Sunday Morning
A scene from "Charade" (1963) introduced by Jane Pauley today
at the beginning of "CBS Sunday Morning" —
Good question. Also on June 16, 2011 —
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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"Like three sides to the market square and a clock tower on the fourth"
— Nigel Dennis on The Alexandria Quartet .
See as well Star Brick Memories (Feb. 6, 2021).
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Robot Love (“Welcome to the new Bing”)
"What is the 16 puzzle?" . . . Good question.
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Monday, February 27, 2023
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
A New Yorker Child’s Progress
A New Yorker writer on why he wanted to
learn mathematics at an advanced age —
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"The challenge, of course, especially in light of the collapsing horizon, since I was sixty-five when I started. Also, I wanted especially to study calculus because I never had. I didn’t even know what it was—I quit math after feeling that with Algebra II I had pressed my luck as far as I dared. Moreover, I wanted to study calculus because Amie told me that when she was a girl William Maxwell had asked her what she was studying, and when she said calculus he said, 'I loved calculus.' Maxwell would have been about the age I am now. He would have recently retired after forty years as an editor of fiction at The New Yorker , where he had handled such writers as Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, John Updike, Shirley Hazzard, and J. D. Salinger. When Salinger finished Catcher in the Rye , he drove to the Maxwells’ country house and read it to them on their porch. I grew up in a house on the same country road that Maxwell and his wife, Emily, lived on, and Maxwell was my father’s closest friend."
— Wilkinson, Alec. A Divine Language (p. 5). Published |
See as well two versions of
a very short story, "Turning Nine."
Wilkinson's title is of course deplorable.
Related material: "Night Hunt" in a
Log24 search for the phrase "Good Question."
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Sunday, May 29, 2022
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Query:
"Why is this message in spam?"
Good question.
Image courtesy of Hollywood Jesus:
When you wish upon a star…
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Pullman’s Holy Office
Good question. From Philip Pullman's recent HBO version of
"His Dark Materials," The University of Oxford’s St. Peter’s College:
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Books at Perlego
" How small is the evil that may be safely ignored…? "
— "QBass" at Wikipedia, April 1, 2020
Good question.
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Visual Languages
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Friday, November 10, 2017
The Rogin Gambit
See today's New York Times Rogin obituary.
"What happens next?"
Good question.
See also this journal on November 4.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Grammar and Patterns
"May, / The months [sic ] of understanding" — Wallace Stevens
Saturday, May 21, 2016
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"If pure mathematics does spring from sub-conscious intuitions— already deep-structured as are grammatical patterns in the transformational-generative theory of language?— if the algebraic operation arises from wholly internalized pattern-weaving, how then can it, at so many points, mesh with, correspond to, the material forms of the world?"
— Steiner, George. Grammars of Creation |
Good question.
See Bedtime Story (Sept. 1, 2016).
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
The XYZ of Being
"The Stone" column in yesterday's New York Times :
"But where, exactly, is the border between
the private exchange of money or gifts
and the impersonal profit-making of the market?"
Good question.
Some background on the market —
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
Raiders of the Lost Windows
"Why is it called Windows 10 and not Windows 9?"
Good question.
See Sunday School (Log24 on June 13, 2010) —
.
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
Days of Future Past
"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."
The New Yorker , May 13, 2002
See also Log24 , January 8, 2012.
" … Had they deceived us
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?"
— Four Quartets
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Page 679
Good question. See also
Chern died on the evening of Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 (Chinese time).
From the morning of that day (also Chinese time)—
i.e. , the evening of the preceding day here— some poetry.
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