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Sunday, May 7, 2023

Windows Programming: The Postman

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:09 pm

From "The Postman," the most recent "Blacklist" episode —

Related material —

A Bosch Xmas

Cicely Tyson as the future Mrs. Davis … Mrs. Miles  Davis —

In Search of the Good: A Postman for Sunrise

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:51 am

The above title was suggested by the previous post.

Wikipedia on "Sunrise Semester" in 1976 —

Neil Postman taught a course, Communication,
The Invisible Environment
, in the Fall of 1976.[7]

The cited link —

See also a search for Postman in this journal.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Postman

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:13 am

But seriously . . . (Click Yom Kippur for related posts.)

Saturday, May 13, 2023

Multicultural Memorial:  Death and Venice

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:13 pm

Variety.com May 8, 2023, 1:45 AM PT —

“Pema Tseden, a famous Tibetan director, screenwriter and
professor at the Film School of the China Academy of Art,
died in Tibet in the early hours of May 8 due to an acute illness." 

"The news was reported by the China Academy of Art."

The time in Lhasa, Tibet, is 12 hours ahead of New York time.

From this journal in the afternoon of May 7 (New York time) —

For a relationship between the above image and classic Chinese culture,
see Geometry of the I Ching.

A memorial image from Variety

Tseden with the award for best screenplay at Venice on Sept. 8, 2018.

See also that date in this  journal . . . Posts now tagged Space Structure.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Marvelette Comics

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:29 pm

From a search in this journal for Postman . . .

Saturday, August 6, 2022

Metadata

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:29 am

Also on Aug. 2, 2019 —

Later that August —

Also on Aug. 6, 2019 —

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Welcome to Hollywood Homicide:  Bosch Greets Shaft

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:34 pm

Related material — Postman.

Friday, June 1, 2018

The Agent

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

From a 2003 obituary of author Neil Postman —

"In Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse
in the Age of Show Business
 
 (Viking, 1985; Penguin, 1986),
he indicted the television industry on the charge of making
entertainment out of the world's most serious problems.
The book was translated into eight languages and sold
200,000 copies worldwide, according to N.Y.U."

Postman reportedly died on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003.

Log24 on that date —

Art Theory for Yom Kippur and Ado.

See also today's obituary reporting the May 21 death of Postman's
erstwhile agent Elaine Markson.

This  journal on May 21, in a post titled "Crux" —

"Chance became tied to the liberties
of U.S. democracy, whereas its eradication
or denial became symptomatic of Soviet tyranny."

Google Books description of No Accident, Comrade:
Chance and Design in Cold War American Narrative
,
by Steven Belletto, Oxford U. Press (first published
in hardcover on Dec. 28, 2011

Midrash —

Being There, by Jerzy Kosinski

Click the image for related posts.

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