"… his greatest creation was Archie Bunker, the focus of that show
and one of the most enduring characters in television history."
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Bunker Bingo …
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
From the New URL “Matrix.Bingo” —
Image from Matrix.Bingo —
Commentary added on June 8, 2022 —
"First we'll show and tell
'Till I reach your pony tail"
— Song lyric
Another image from Matrix.Bingo —
From a more recent Sandra Bullock film —
The times are still a-changin'.
(Remark adapted from a webpage of Halloween 2020.)
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Women’s Night Bingo:*
Resonant Date
The above image is from a post of Dec. 14, 2016, titled "Outer Sanctum."
See as well an Esquire magazine, UK, article in the Jan/Feb 2017 issue
. . . with the issuu.com date Dec. 14, 2016 (pp. 140-141 ff.) —
* Title from a scene in "The Net."
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Bunker Bingo
See as well 5×5, The Matrix of Abraham, and Deutsche Schule Montevideo .
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Bunker Bingo Continues.
From a post of October 16, 2017, "Halloween Meditation" —
Friday, April 25, 2014
Bingo
For John Milton at the Cervecería XX —
- Bingo in this journal, as well as
- Black Mass and
- “The Platonic Heritage in Under the Volcano“
(Studies in Canadian Literature, v. 3, no. 1, 1978)
Related material: Peter J. Cameron on Bertrand Russell
in A Midnight Exorcism.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Bunker Bingo*
Mathematics and Narrative continues…
Steiner's version of "classical functional analysis"—
"Mein Führer… Steiner…"
* See the story by Kilgore Trout. See also On Linguistic Creation,
The Matrix of Abraham, and The Thoreau Foundation.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
A Square for the Circle
The new URL matrix.bingo forwards to
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=5×5 .
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Annals of Numerology
From that opening date — June 25, 2021 — in this journal:
"We have much to discover." — Saying attributed to Midrash for Doctorow — |
The Fraction 25/24 —
Numbers Revisualized —
25
24
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Kierkegaard Revisited
“Kierkegaard is imagining a society where
people’s identities are robbed
under the disguise of modern liberation.”
Friday, December 4, 2020
German Lesson: Untergang
The recent posts "Bunker Bingo" and "Here's to Efficient Packing!"
suggest a review.
Alex Ross in The New Yorker on Dec. 2, 2020, on the German
word "Untergang " —
"The usual translation is 'downfall,' although
the various implications of the word—
literally, “going-under”—are difficult to capture
in English. In some contexts, Untergang simply
means descent: a sunset is a Sonnenuntergang .
Lauren German in a 2005 film —
See as well . . .
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Game
Another game featured in the above film —
“In Wolfenstein 3D , the player assumes the role of an American
soldier of Polish descent… attempting to escape from the Nazi
stronghold of Castle Wolfenstein.” — Wikipedia
… See also this journal’s Wolfenstein.
Friday, December 28, 2018
Blackline Master
From a Log24 post of September 4, 2018, "Identity Crisis" —
From the 2011 Spanish film "Verbo" — (Click to enlarge) —
From a Blackline Master —
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Thursday, July 26, 2018
The Bible of the Field
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Folk Answer
(A sequel to "Folk Question ," the previous post)
See also Alexandra Bellow's "Flashbacks of a Mathematical Life"
in the September 2016 Notices of the American Mathematical Society .
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Launched from Cuber
Continued from Nobel Note (Jan. 29, 2014).
From Tradition in Action , "The Missal Crisis of '62,"
remarks on the revision of the Catholic missal in that year—
"Neither can the claim that none of these changes
is heretical in content be used as an argument
in favor of its use, for neither is the employment of
hula girls, fireworks, and mariachis strictly speaking
heretical in itself, but they belong to that class of novel
and profane things that do not belong in the Mass."
— Fr. Patrick Perez, posted Sept. 11, 2007
See also this journal on November 22, 2014…
… and on Bruce Springsteen's birthday this year —
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
|
Saturday, November 22, 2014
The November 22 Candidate
Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim
"A journalist with a literary bent, Mr. Eder wrote with an easy grace
and a practiced eye for detail. In 1974, he assessed a cultural
malaise in England during an economic downturn.
'In the West Country town of Hereford,' he began, 'the president
of a women’s club told a year-end meeting that the January bingo
game would be canceled to save electricity. Then she proposed a
New Year’s resolution. "Let us all work to get England back on her
dear old feet," she said and bumped down pinkly into her chair,
overwhelmed by applause.'" — Bruce Weber, NY Times
See also Bingo in this journal.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Friday November 14, 2008
Riverrun
(The first word in Finnegans Wake.
See also the Log24 entries following
the death of Pope John Paul II.)
At Inside Higher Ed, Margaret Soltan ("UD") discusses…
"moments of clarity [cf. related essay (pdf)] that seem, when you look at all of them together late in the day, to disclose our life’s otherwise hidden pattern, meaning, and flow.
'Not far downstream was a dry channel where the river had run once, and part of the way to come to know a thing is through its death. But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory. In death it had its pattern, and we can only hope for as much.'"
— A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean, a story about trout fishing and grace
Related material:
Maclean's fellow author Kilgore Trout and the story he is said to be most proud of, about Bunker Bingo.
See also yesterday's entry, Bob's Country Bunker, and On Linguistic Creation.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Saturday October 25, 2008
The New York Times Book Review online today has a review by Sam Tanenhaus of a new John Updike book.
The title of the review (not the book) is "Mr. Wizard."
"John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters. His output alone (60 books, almost 40 of them novels or story collections) has been supernatural. More wizardly still is the ingenuity of his prose. He has now written tens of thousands of sentences, many of them tiny miracles of transubstantiation whereby some hitherto overlooked datum of the human or natural world– from the anatomical to the zoological, the socio-economic to the spiritual– emerges, as if for the first time, in the completeness of its actual being."
Rolling Stone interview with Sting, February 7, 1991:
"'I was brought up in a very strong Catholic community,' Sting says. 'My parents were Catholic, and in the Fifties and Sixties, Catholicism was very strong. You know, they say, "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic." In a way I'm grateful for that background. There's a very rich imagery in Catholicism: blood, guilt, death, all that stuff.' He laughs."
RS 597, Feb. 7, 1991
Last night's 12:00 AM
Log24 entry:
Midnight BingoFrom this date six years ago:
From this morning's newspaper,
a religious meditation I had not
seen last night:
Related material:
Juneteenth through
Midsummer Night, 2007and
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Sunday June 25, 2006
Chess and Bingo
Chess: See Log24, Midsummer Day, 2003. Happy mate change, Nicole.
Bingo: See a journal entry from seven years ago, On Linguistic Creation. Happy birthday, Willard Van Orman Quine.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Sunday February 19, 2006
But seriously…
(continued)
The Matrix:
Click on pictures for details.
In memory of George T. Davis,
who died on February 4,
a Hollywood ending:
“Santa Claus rides alone.”
— Clint Eastwood
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Tuesday April 5, 2005
Part I | On Linguistic Creation |
Part II | Saul Bellow |
Part III | Sequel |
“Call the Vatican.
Ask them if anything’s missing.”
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Wednesday September 15, 2004
11:59 PM: The Last Minute
For the benefit of Grace (Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute), here are the September 15 lottery numbers for Pennsylvania, the State of Grace (Kelly):
Midday: 053 Evening: 373.
For the significance of the evening number, 373, see Directions Out and Outside the World (both of 4/26/04). In both of these entries, and others to which they are linked, the number 373 signifies eternity.
The two most obvious interpretations of the midday number, 53, are as follows:
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As a famous number of tones in musical harmonic analysis (i.e., tuning theory), as opposed to mathematical harmonic analysis ( The Square Wheel, 9/14/04), and
-
as a reference to the year 1953– a good year for Grace Kelly and the year of the classic film From Here to Eternity (the latter being signified, as noted above, by yesterday’s evening lottery number in the State of Grace).
“Time and chance
happeneth to them all.”
Ecclesiastes 9-11
Monday, July 26, 2004
Monday July 26, 2004
Happy Birthday
to Kate Beckinsale
(star of Cold Comfort Farm)
and Kevin Spacey
(star of The Usual Suspects).
From a novel,
The Footprints of God,
published August 12, 2003 —
A tour guide describes
stations of the cross in Jerusalem:
"Ibrahim pointed down the cobbled street to a half circle of bricks set in the street. 'There is where Jesus began to carry the cross. Down the street is the Chapel of Flagellation, where the Roman soldiers whipped Jesus, set on him a crown of thorns, and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" Then Pilate led him to the crowd and cried, "Ecce homo! Behold the man!" '
Ibrahim delivered this information with the excitement of a man reading bingo numbers in a nursing home."
In keeping with this spirit of religious fervor and with the spirit of Carl Jung, expositor of the religious significance of the mandala,
Behold —
The Mandala of Abraham
For the religious significance of this mandala,
see an entry of May 25, 2003:
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Wednesday July 2, 2003
Three Days Late
and a Dollar Short
THE BOOK AGAINST GOD |
This is a book that attempts to recreate the myth of Saint Peter.
See the New York Times review of this book from today, July 2, 2003, three days late. The Feast of St. Peter was on June 29.
The price, $24, also falls short of the theological glory reflected in the number 25, the common denominator of Christmas (12/25) and AntiChristmas (6/25), as well as the number of the heart of the Catholic church, the Bingo card.
For all these issues, see my entries and links in memory of St. Peter, from June 29.
The real “book against God,” a novel by Robert Stone, is cited there. The legend of St. Peter is best described by Stone, not Wood.
Sunday, December 1, 2002
Sunday December 1, 2002
Milestones in Catholic History
From Dr. Mac’s Cultural Calendar:
- On this day in 1929, Bingo was invented
by Edwin S. Lowe.
The wording of this masterpiece of ecclesiastical history, apparently written by a Protestant (though not very Protestant), leaves something to be desired. See Bingo History for more details.
Shamrock Bingo Angel
“It never hurts to have an Irish angel on your team! This adorable red-headed fabric cherub, complete with sparkling golden wings and a shamrock necklace, just may be someone’s lucky charm.”
For a Jewish approach to this milestone of theology, see my note commemorating the death, on Christmas Day, 2000, of one of the twentieth century’s great Scrooge figures, Willard van Orman Quine:
As that note observes, we may imagine Quine to have escaped the torments of Hell. For some further adventures, see my note Quine in Purgatory.