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Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Sweet Smell of Avon

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:48 am

IMAGE- NY Times on 'Narrowing the Definition of Autism'

The twin topics of autism and of narrowing definitions
suggested the following remarks.

The mystical number "318" in the pilot episode
of Kiefer Sutherland's new series about autism, "Touch,"
is so small that it can easily apply (as the pilot
illustrated) to many different things: a date, a
time, a bus number, an address, etc.

The last 3/18 Log24 post— Defining Configurations
led, after a false start and some further research,
to the writing of the webpage Configurations and Squares.

An image from that page—

IMAGE- Coxeter 3x3 array with rows labeled 287/501/346.

Interpreting this, in an autistic manner, as the number
287501346 lets us search for more specific items
than those labeled simply 318.

The search yields, among other things, an offer of
Night Magic Cologne  (unsold)—

IMAGE- Online offer of Avon Night Magic Cologne- 'The mystery and magic of the night is yours.'

For further mystery and magic, see, from the date
the Night Magic offer closed— May 8, 2010— "A Better Story."
See also the next day's followup, "The Ninth Gate."

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Sweet Smell of Success

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:29 pm

For Hillary Rodham Clinton

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111210-Wiig-Perfume.jpg

Announcer:    Red Flag Parfum, by Chanel.
                           The only perfume that warns men:

                          [ she turns to leave the party ]

Woman:         I'm fucking crazy!

                          [ she runs from the party ]

Announcer:   Red Flag.

IMAGE- Kristen Wiig for Red Flag Perfume on SNL

Another version of Running from the Party

IMAGE- Red Flag in Moscow

"Words are events." — Walter J. Ong, Society of Jesus

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Smell

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:01 pm

See also Sweet Smell in this  journal.

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Fire and Ice

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:40 pm

Organic Symmetry

"Benzene is a natural constituent of petroleum 
and is one of the elementary petrochemicals.
Due to the cyclic continuous pi bonds between
the carbon atoms, benzene is classed as an 
aromatic hydrocarbon. Benzene is a colorless
and highly flammable liquid with a sweet smell,
and is partially responsible for the aroma of gasoline."

Wikipedia

Anti-Organic Symmetry —

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Modern Muse

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

From a 1987 review of the Stephen King novel Misery :

"In other words, for all her craziness, Annie Wilkes
becomes Paul Sheldon's literary muse, and as muses go
she probably isn't too much worse than average,
her main fault being a tendency to punish more literally
than most muses do."

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times

From the Estée Lauder website :

"Who is a Modern Muse? The description of
our iconic fragrance says it all . . . ."

A rival product

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111210-Wiig-Perfume.jpg

See all related posts.

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Chinese New Year 2013

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:42 am

Item from the New Orleans Times-Picayune 
in January 2013:

Chinese new year celebrated

Welcoming the Chinese New Year, 4710, the Academy of Chinese Studies will hold a celebration Feb. 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Dixon Hall, at Tulane University.  A student talent show, and lucky "Red Envelope" will be featured.

See also this  journal on the reported* date
of the above celebration, Feb. 6, 2013:

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

A Bus Named Desire

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM 

Act I:

Current Validity for Erlangen…?

… MathOverflow question dated March 28, 2011

Act II:

Erlangen

… Starring Elke Sommer, former Erlangen student

Act III:

The Sweet Smell of Avon

… See also Bus 318 and 3/18 in 2012.

Act IV:

Desire

… Log24 post dated March 28, 2011

* The reported celebration date was later changed to Feb. 3 , 2013.
   For a New-Orleans-related Log24 post from that  date, plus backstory,
   see posts now tagged Trophy.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

A Bus Named Desire

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

For Kiefer Sutherland, Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, 2013

Act I:

Current Validity for Erlangen…?

… MathOverflow question dated March 28, 2011

Act II:

Erlangen

… Starring Elke Sommer, former Erlangen student

Act III:

The Sweet Smell of Avon

… See also Bus 318 and 3/18 in 2012.

Act IV:

Desire

… Log24 post dated March 28, 2011

Monday, February 6, 2012

Beach Boy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:18 pm
 
Cached from artnet.com
     
Artist   Daniel Simon
Title   Yves Montand et Catherine Deneuve
dans Le Sauvage, Bahamas
Medium   gelatin silver print
Size   11.8 x 15.7 in. / 30 x 40 cm.
Year   1975 –
Edition   1/10
Misc.   Signed, Stamped
Sale Of   Ader: Monday, October 20, 2008
[Lot 140]
Paris – Célébrités II
Estimate   300 – 400 EUR (USD 403 – 537)
Sold For   *
* Complete data is available for subscribers.

In memory of a dealer in artists' ephemera, 
Steven Leiber, who died on January 28, 2012
a link to a post from the date of Leiber's death—

The Sweet Smell of Avon.

See also Me and My Shadow, a post from
the date the above photo was offered for sale.

Related ephemeral art— a post titled, with irony,
Introduction to Harmonic Analysis.

Related non -ephemeral art—
Mathematical Imagery.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Office Visit

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:03 am

From the screenplay of "The Number 23"—

INT. NATHANIEL'S INSTITUTE, STAIRWELL – NIGHT

Agatha climbs a dark staircase. Layers of dust

testify to years of neglect.

INT. 3RD FLOOR CORRIDOR – CONTINUOUS

Agatha finds ROOM 318. A rusting door plaque reads,

"DR. SIRIUS LEARY, M.D. PSYCHIATRY."

For related material, see "Leary + Cuernavaca" and "Prime Cut."

Happy belated 2/3 birthday to Walter Sparrow.

Related material— Two other occurrences of "318" in this journal—
in another horror story, "The Sweet Smell of Avon,"
and in a quote from the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2010

"When Novelists Become Cubists," by Andre Furlani—

"A symbol comes into being when an artist sees that
it is the only way to get all the meaning in.
Genius always proceeds by faith" (312).

The unparaphrasable architectonic text
"differs from other narrative in that the meaning
shapes into a web, or globe, rather than along a line" (318).

[The references are to page numbers in
 Guy Davenport's The Geography of the Imagination .]

Friday, October 10, 2008

Friday October 10, 2008

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:14 am
The Fury
Comes Later

Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column, “Sound, but No Fury,” on the September 26 debate at Oxford, Mississippi–

“Who would have dreamed that when socialism finally came to the U.S.A. it would be brought not by Bolsheviks in blue jeans but Wall Street bankers….?”

Perhaps Ernest Lehman, author of screenplays for “The Prize” and “From the Terrace.” (See recent Log24 entries.)

Paul Krugman’s column in today’s online Times, “Moment of Truth“–

“The consequences of Lehman’s fall were apparent within days, yet key policy players have largely wasted the past four weeks. Now they’ve reached a moment of truth: They’d better do something soon– in fact, they’d better announce a coordinated rescue plan this weekend– or the world economy may well experience its worst slump since the Great Depression.

Let’s talk about where we are right now.”

Related material:

The Sound and the Fury
(Log24, June 8, 2003)
and Lehman’s
Sweet Smell of Success.”

Song of Songs 8:8–
We have a little sister,
and she hath no breasts:
what shall we do for our sister
in the day when she shall
be spoken for?


Burt Lancaster in 'Sweet Smell of Success'


“In Lehman’s fall
We sinned all.”

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