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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

“I need a photo opportunity” *

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Caption from Getty Images (Wikipedia links added) —

"Philosophers James O Urmson (1915 – 2012, left), a fellow of
Christ Church, Oxford, and Professor James** Langshaw Austin
(1911 – 1960) of Magdalen College, Oxford, at a joint session of
the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birmingham
University, August 1952. Original publication: Picture Post – 6001 –
It All Depends On What You Mean – pub. 
16th August 1952
(Photo by George Douglas/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"

Paul Simon song lyric

** Getty Images error. Should be John  Langshaw Austin.

Friday, July 8, 2022

“I need a photo opportunity” — Paul Simon

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:30 pm

Monday, August 26, 2019

“I need a photo opportunity” — Paul Simon

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:01 pm

Photo Opportunity , courtesy of Leni Riefenstahl — Click to enlarge.


 

From Paul Simon's dreaded Cartoon Graveyard

 

The Riefenstahl publication above was suggested by . . .

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Macbeth and the Black Arts

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:51 am

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon

Rhymin' Simon's lyrics seem particularly appropriate
in the case of the actor below, who reportedly died
on October 31 — Halloween — last year.

Earlier last October . . .

Monday, July 17, 2023

Harry G. Frankfurt, May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:38 pm

See as well this  journal on the morning of July 16,
and also "Cartoon Graveyard."

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon

Monday, May 23, 2022

A Long March

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:24 pm

"'Night Sky' is an absorbing series with an interesting premise
that marches to its own drummer…."  — NY Post , May 18.

See as well posts tagged "Bedrock" in this  journal.

"I need a photo opportunity . . . " — Paul Simon

Friday, January 28, 2022

Escape from a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:55 am

I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Carthago

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:58 am

Augustine Confessiones 3 3.1.1

veni Carthaginem, et circumstrepebat me 
undique sartago flagitiosorum amorum.

  venio, venire, veni, ventus  
come
  Carthago, Carthaginis F  
Carthage
  circumstrepo, circumstrepere, circumstrepui, circumstrepitus  
make a noise around; surround with noise; shout/cry clamorously around
  undique  
from every side/direction/place/part/source; on all/both sides/surfaces
  sartago, sartaginis F  
frying pan; mixture/medley/jumble/farrago; stove
  flagitiosus, flagitiosa -um, flagitiosior -or -us, flagitiosissimus -a -um  
disgraceful, shameful; infamous, scandalous; profligate, dissolute
  amor, amoris M 
love; affection; the beloved; Cupid; affair; sexual/illicit/… etc. etc. etc.

Related meditations —

A more straightforward image —

"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Song lyric, Paul Simon

For those who are
less than thrilled
by St. Augustine:

See also Margaret Qualley's "Kenzo World" dance.

Those less than thrilled by Qualley's highly energetic,
but very unclassical, dance may review the Log24 post
Raiders of the Lost Images (Feb. 27, 2018).

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Multiversity News

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:08 pm

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon

See also Lawrence, Kansas, in a Log24 search for August 2, 2002.

Related material: Text Tiles  posts and, also from Lawrence, Kansas . . .

 

Friday, October 18, 2019

Vibe for Ray Bradbury

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:22 pm

On writer Kate Braverman, who reportedly died on Sunday, October 13:

" She wears floor-length black skirts, swirling black coats,
and black stiletto boots;  the San Francisco Chronicle  once
described her vibe as 'Morticia Addams gone gypsy.' " 

Katy Waldman in The New Yorker , Feb. 22, 2018

"I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"

— Paul Simon, song lyric

For a Braverman photo opportunity, see the dark corner
at lower right in the previous post.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

The Toronto Plot*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

* A title for Harlan Kane, suggested by obituaries
from The New York Times  (this afternoon) and from
CBC News (on May 14, below) . . .

. . . as well as by illustrations shown here on May 13 and by
a screenwriter quoted here on May 12 —

“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”

— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times

Another quote that seems relevant —

I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

Friday, May 17, 2019

A Shot at Redemption

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:45 pm

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon

Monday, April 29, 2019

Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:24 pm

(Continued.)

I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

A death on the date of the above New Yorker piece — Oct. 15, 2018 —

See as well the Pac-Man-like figures in today's previous post
as well as the Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, post "History at Bellevue."

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

A Shot at Redemption

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:26 pm

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Song lyric

See also Dead Reckoning and Lizabeth Scott.

Friday, March 8, 2019

Photo Opportunity

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:30 pm

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon

Friday, February 22, 2019

Desperately Seeking Comedy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:24 pm

"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Paul Simon

Thursday, July 19, 2018

A Shot at Redemption

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:07 am

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

From a cartoon graveyard on yesterday's date in 1957 —

For the photo opportunity of the Paul Simon song, see
my former sixth-grade teacher on that same 1957 page.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Nieve

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:18 pm

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon

Thursday, January 4, 2018

For T. S. Eliot

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:01 am

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

 — Paul Simon

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Sequel (In Memory of Tobe Hooper)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:05 pm

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

 — Paul Simon

See also John Collier's short story "The Lady on the Grey."

Note that the title of the previous post was "Black Well,"
almost the same as that of Tanner's graphic novel above.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Mystery Woman

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:45 am

From a book review quoted here in yesterday’s post
of 12:41 PM ET, “Special Topics” —

“That teacher, Hannah Schneider, has the magnetism of
Miss Jean Brodie and the film-noir mystique of Lauren Bacall.
When Blue meets her, in a ‘Hitchcock cameo,’ by the frozen-food
section at a grocery store, she falls under her spell. ‘She had an
elegant sort of romantic, bone-sculpted face, one that took well to
both shadows and light,’ Blue recalls. ‘Most extraordinary though
was the air of a Chateau Marmont bungalow about her, a sense
of RKO, which I’d never before witnessed in person.’ Hannah
teaches a course on cinema in a room lined with posters . . . .

From a Facebook page related to the death yesterday morning at
Webster University of the teacher of a course on cinema —

“I need a photo opportunity . . . .” — Paul Simon

The title of the film in the cover photo above is not without relevance.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Versatile Figure

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:37 pm

"I need a photo opportunity " — Paul Simon

NYT 'distinctive cultural tang' obit

Click image to enlarge.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Redemption

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(Continued)

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

A portion of the above photo appeared on the cover of
a German edition of a book by the winner of the 2015 Nobel
Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich. The German title, 
Der Krieg hat kein weibliches Gesicht , is closer to the Russian
original than is the title of an English translation, War's Unwomanly Face .  
Further book and photo information —

Thursday, January 22, 2015

A Shot at Redemption

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:00 pm

(Continued.)

“I need a photo opportunity, 
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon 
in a cartoon graveyard.”

— Paul Simon

Photo opportunity
for the late John Bayley and Iris Murdoch —

From a cartoon graveyard, in memory of
a British artist who reportedly died yesterday: 

Against Dryness —


Cartoon by Martin Honeysett

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Photo Opportunities

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:50 pm

I need a photo opportunity….” — Paul Simon

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Photo Opportunity

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:02 pm

"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
– Paul Simon

Pinocchio: 'Multiplane Technicolor'

"The theory of poetry, that is to say, the total of the theories of poetry, often seems to become in time a mystical theology or, more simply, a mystique. The reason for this must by now be clear. The reason is the same reason why the pictures in a museum of modern art often seem to become in time a mystical aesthetic, a prodigious search of appearance, as if to find a way of saying and of establishing that all things, whether below or above appearance, are one and that it is only through reality, in which they are reflected or, it may be, joined together, that we can reach them. Under such stress, reality changes from substance to subtlety, a subtlety in which it was natural for Cézanne to say: 'I see planes bestriding each other and sometimes straight lines seem to me to fall' or 'Planes in color…. The colored area where shimmer the souls of the planes, in the blaze of the kindled prism, the meeting of planes in the sunlight.' The conversion of our Lumpenwelt  went far beyond this. It was from the point of view of another subtlety that Klee could write: 'But he is one chosen that today comes near to the secret places where original law fosters all evolution. And what artist would not establish himself there where the organic center of all movement in time and space– which he calls the mind or heart of creation– determines every function.' Conceding that this sounds a bit like sacerdotal jargon, that is not too much to allow to those that have helped to create a new reality, a modern reality, since what has been created is nothing less.

— Wallace Stevens, Harvard College Class of 1901, "The Relations between Poetry and Painting" in The Necessary Angel   (Knopf, 1951)

For background on the planes illustrated above,
see Diamond theory in 1937.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Through the Vanishing Point*

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Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" —

"You know nothing of my work."

Related material — 

"I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"

— Paul Simon

It was a dark and stormy night…

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110420-DarkAndStormy-Logicomix.jpg

— Page 180, Logicomix

A photo opportunity for Whitehead
(from Romancing the Cube, April 20, 2011)—

IMAGE- Whitehead on Fano's construction of the 15-point projective Galois space over GF(2)

See also Absolute Ambition (Nov. 19, 2010).

* For the title, see Vanishing Point in this journal.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Sunset Limited

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:28 pm

“I need a photo opportunity…” — Paul Simon

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

To a Stand-Up Philosopher

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:28 am

Simon Says

I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.

— Paul Simon

NY Review of Books 2010 David Levine calendar cover with cartoon of James Joyce

See also the page linked to on
Becket’s Day last year,
as well as…

University Diaries on the Kennedy Center Honors televised Dec. 29, 2009-- with photo of James Joyce on stamp

Friday, September 5, 2008

Friday September 5, 2008

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:45 am

For Mike Hammer

Block That Metaphor

“Michael Hammer, an engineer and author on management who helped popularize the ‘re-engineering’ movement in the 1990s, died Thursday [Sept. 4, 2008].

A spokesman for Mr. Hammer’s consulting firm, Hammer and Co., said Mr. Hammer died from cranial bleeding that began Aug. 22 while he was vacationing in Massachusetts. He was 60 years old.

Mr. Hammer was the co-author of the bestselling management book Reengineering the Corporation and founder and president of Hammer and Co., Cambridge, Mass.”

The Wall Street Journal

“An engineer by training, Hammer focused on the operational nuts and bolts of business.

Hammer’s relentless pursuit of ‘why?’ drove his entire career. ‘My modus operandi is simple,’ he once wrote, ‘though not always easy to carry out. I take nothing at face value. I approach all business issues and practices with the same skepticism: Why?’

A funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5 in Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, 1668 Beacon St., Brookline. Interment will follow at the Shaarei Tefillah Section of the Chevra Shaas Cemetery at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in West Roxbury.”

web.mit.edu

Related material:

From Feb. 12:

Shoe: 'Mort's Mortuary,' Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008

From today:Outside the Box

The late Michael Hammer, engineer: 'Outside the Box'

“I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard…”

Paul Simon

Bill Melendez, Peanuts animator, in NYT obituaries Friday, Sept. 5, 2008

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Thursday July 3, 2008

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am
Highs and Lows

From today’s New York Times:

This week, we the people of North America are staging two celebrations. The Fourth of July is the 232nd birthday of the United States….

In Canada, today, another ceremony will mark the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, the first permanent settlement in New France.

Paul Simon on religion:

“I need a photo opportunity,      
I want a shot at redemption….”

Log24 on August 8, 2002

The cast of “Some Girls,”
a film set in Quebec City:

The cast of 'Some Girls'

“Don’t want to end up a cartoon
in a cartoon graveyard.”

Sally Forth on the Bicentennial and the Starland Vocal Band: 'Well, the mid-70s were a period of highs and lows.'
Amen, sister.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Wednesday January 3, 2007

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:32 am
The Wanderer:
 
11:32:56

“What on earth is
a concrete universal?”
Robert M. Pirsig  

Hexagram 56

“James Joyce meant Finnegans Wake to become a universal book. His universe was primarily Dublin, but Joyce believed that the universal can be found in the particular. ‘I always write about Dublin,’ he said to Arthur Power, ‘because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world’ (Ellmann 505). He achieved that goal in Ulysses by making Bloom a universal wanderer, the everyman trying to find his way in the labyrinth of the world.” —The Joyce of Science

Related material:

From A Shot at Redemption

The Past as Prologue:
Grand Rapids Revisited

Constantine (cartoon) and Donald Knuth

John Constantine,
cartoon character, and
Donald E. Knuth,
Lutheran mathematician

“…. recent books testify
further to Calvin College’s
unparalleled leadership
in the field of
Christian historiography….”

“I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”

A photo opportunity —

Photo op for Gerald Ford

and a recent cartoon:

Cartoon of Gerald Ford with halo

History, said Stephen….

From Calvin College,
today’s meditation:

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Tuesday November 22, 2005

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:23 am

Cartoon Graveyard
(continued)

From yesterday’s New York Post:

By LARRY CELONA, JOHN MAZOR and DAN MANGAN

November 21, 2005 — The former tour manager for superstars Paul Simon and Billy Joel was stabbed to death yesterday by his prostitute girlfriend on his 57th birthday less than a block from Gracie Mansion, cops said.

“It looked like a horror movie in there,” said an NYPD detective after seeing the blood-drenched bed in the couple’s sixth-floor studio at 530 East 89th St., where cops say music producer Danny Harrison was stabbed twice in the chest with a long butcher knife by his live-in lover just before 1 p.m.

I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard

     — Paul Simon

Below: cartoonist Lou Myers,
who also died on Sunday, Nov. 20,
with a horse from yesterday’s entry.

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“... and behold: a pale horse.
And his name, that sat on him,
was Death. And Hell
followed with him
.”

Johnny Cash

Related material:
Log24 entries of
Sept. 15, 2003.

 

Monday, February 28, 2005

Monday February 28, 2005

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

The Meaning of 3:16

From The New Yorker, issue dated Feb. 28, 2005:

"Time Bandits," by Jim Holt, pages 80-85:

"Wittgenstein once averred that 'there can never be surprises in logic.'"

"Miss Gould," by David Remnick, pages 34-35:

"She was a fiend for problems of sequence and logic…. Her effect on a piece of writing could be like that of a master tailor on a suit; what had once seemed slovenly and overwrought was suddenly trig and handsome."

Suddenly:

See Donald E. Knuth's Diamond Signs, Knuth's 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated, and the entry of 3:16 PM today.

Trig and handsome:

Remnick on Miss Gould again:

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Miss Gould,
photo from
Oberlin site

 

"She shaped the language of the magazine, always striving for a kind of Euclidean clarity– transparent, precise, muscular."

Figure from           
3/16 2004:           
Intersecting altitudes
Einstein on Time cover

Einstein on his
"holy geometry book" —

"Here were assertions, as for example the intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle in one point, which– though by no means evident– could nevertheless be proved with such certainty that any doubt appeared to be out of the question. This lucidity and certainty made an indescribable impression upon me."

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   "I need a photo opportunity,   
      I want a shot at redemption…."

Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Tuesday January 21, 2003

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:42 pm

Cartoon Graveyard,
or Betty and the Third Eye

I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
     — Paul Simon

The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2003:

One of my favorite movie scenes is the entry into paradise, through a looking glass, of Kilgore Trout (played by Albert Finney) in “Breakfast of Champions.”  Trout encounters a beautiful (indeed, angelic) maiden on the other side of the looking glass and asks of her, “Make me young again.”  His wish is granted.  Those who wish to may imagine — through a glass, darkly — a great artist’s entry into heaven with the aid of the very popular website Betty and Veronica.

PARENTAL ADVISORY:

The “Betty and Veronica” link above is more suited to Kilgore Trout’s usual publisher,  The World Classics Library, than to, say, the Harvard Classics.  Since Betty and Veronica have been attending Riverdale High for about 60 years now, I think we can assume they are 18 by this time, and can appear in an adult website.  Their cartoonish appearance may be helpful to newcomers to paradise; it does not mean, as Paul Simon fears, that the afterlife consists only of cartoon characters. 

For further details, see I Corinthians 13:11-13.

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