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“When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves
that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act.”

— Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions , Step Six

For  Ben and Jerry

The previous post suggests a review of remarks by Adam Gopnik
in The New Yorker  on February 27, 2017 on "The Matrix" hypothesis—

"The thesis that we are in a simulation is, as people who
track such things know—my own college-age son has
explained it to me—far from a joke, or a mere conceit.
The argument, actually debated at length at the
American Museum of Natural History just last year, is that
the odds are overwhelming that ours is a simulated universe.
The argument is elegant."

No, it is not. 

See as well my own remarks on the date of the above museum debate —
Tuesday, April 5, 2016.

From those remarks, a Halloween 2014 image that provides a
companion-piece to the "Easy E" of today's previous post —

In memory of an author who reportedly 
died on Wednesday, May 24.

"Do you know what he called this place? A museum."

Update of 11:06 PM ET —
A search for background on the "Holiday" screenplay leads, 
via a useful historical website, to …

Other Hollywood material —

Hail, Caesar!

Plan 9 Resurrection

in memory of a labor leader who reportedly
died Sunday evening —

Or:  The Long, Long Trailer

See also a Log24 post from the date of the above tweet: Welcome to the Ape Stuff.

A figure I prefer to the "Golden Tablet" of Night at the Museum —

The source — The Log24 post "Zero System" of July 31, 2014.

* For the title, see The New Yorker  of Sept. 22, 2014.

See also Anti-Christmas.