"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, January 3, 2024
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Babes in Tweeland
The New Yorker yesterday on a film director —
"Lest viewers become even briefly comfortable with
the enchantments of his staging and of his actors’
performances, Anderson jolts them alert with
ever more audacious contrivances."
"As you can see, we've had our eye on you
for some time now, Mr. Anderson."
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Friday, July 14, 2023
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Retro
See as well today's previous post and its excerpt from the
story "Pottage," by Zenna Henderson, first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept. 1955 —
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Friday, June 16, 2023
Opening on Bloomsday (in LA and NY)*
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Thursday May 18, 2006
Space Cadet
“They should have
sent a poet.”
You’d never know it,
But buddy, I’m a kind of poet…
Starring in tonight’s
New York Times obits:
|
One for
my baby  |
And one more for the road
Frankie Thomas, |
The “Coppertone girl” artist died at 88 on Monday, May 15. In her memory, here is a an entry from that day on a women-only mathematics program at Princeton that started on Monday. That entry opens with a quote from Robert A. Heinlein, whose writing inspired the TV series “Space Cadet.” The star of that series, Frankie Thomas, died at 85 on Thursday, May 11. In his honor as a member of the elite Solar Guard, here is a solar entry from Sunday, May 14. In honor of Jodie Foster, space explorer and Coppertone girl incarnate, here is a link to “Spare Oom.”
See also the
previous entry:
previous entry:
“My God, it’s
full of stars!”
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