Friday, February 16, 2024
A Mad Day’s Work . . . Continues.
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
“Are you shining with a real Barbie?” (1984 version)
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Spring Break Song
"There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews"
— Leonard Cohen lyric, "Take This Waltz" *
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
What Lies Beneath
From the previous post —
Lily Collins in a more recent mattress meditation —
See as well Plaid in this journal.
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The Quarantine Midrash
Illustration for a New York Times July 15 “Tech Fix” piece:
“You’re Doomscrolling Again.“
One possible antidote:
Related fiction: “Quarantine Story.“
“Show me all the blueprints.” — Attributed to Howard Hughes
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Milking the Sixteenths
“In the main belly cabin he discovered the reason
for the tropical heat; a naked woman was sweating
and swearing over the maintenance gear surrounding
a transparent incubator. She was tinkering and crawling
over and under the complications like an octopus.
It was his assistant, Dr. Cluny Decco, and Krupp had
never seen her nude before, but his controlled voice
did not betray his delighted amazement.”
— Alfred Bester, The Deceivers . Kindle Edition.
From a post, Dharma Fabric , of January 7, 2020 —
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Also* from the Early 80’s
See Corinne Wahl in an adaptation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde.
Compare and contrast the 4×4 square of the Wahl presentation
with that of the July 26 post Dirty Dancing Disco.
* A reference to the previous post.
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Monday, March 31, 2003
Monday March 31, 2003
Divine Right of Empire
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Operation James From The Glasgow Daily Record:
Commando raiders tightened the Allies’ grip on Basra yesterday by storming a key suburb of Iraq’s besieged second city. The raid was named Operation James, after James Bond. Targets were codenamed Goldfinger, Blofeld and Pussy Galore. |
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Operation Playmate From Yahoo News: Friday, March 28, 2003 – During the Gulf War, Playboy magazine’s celebrated Centerfolds reached out to U.S. military men and women… with their “Operation Playmate” project…. Those… efforts… had their roots in the Vietnam War, when 1966 Playmate of the Year Jo Collins traveled to the combat zone and flew aboard a helicopter gunship…. Now, in light of the war in Iraq, “Operation Playmate” has returned. |
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