"From the age that is past to the age that is waiting before . . . ."
"We must hail an ambulance." — Rolls Royce owner
to Society wannabe in West Palm Beach, 1969.
From the Apple TV+ series "Palm Royale," Season 1 Episode1 . . .
On the right: Kristen Wiig, executive producer, plays Maxine (not Maxxxine).
"Say the secret word . . ." — Groucho Marx,
"You Bet Your Life" TV game show
See also "ambulance" in this journal.
An image from the previous post —
The W image at lower left above suggests a variation —
Vogue — Promotion photo for "Bombshell."
* Title suggested in part by a post of Dec. 11, 2022 —
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on July 20 —
"Barbie has a male chum, Ken (Ryan Gosling), though
he wishes he were more than that. 'We’re girlfriend-boyfriend,'
he tells her, running the words together into a single unit.
Smooth. They can’t have sex, although a showing of
'Team America: World Police' (2004) might give them some
handy tips."
Yes, it might. This journal on September 2, 2020 —
"Smile, you're being candid."
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Team America: The Metadata
“The crystal was a sort of magnifying glass,
vastly enlarging the things inside the block.
Strange things they were, too.”
" Once he opens these gates, Harry will flood his audience
with his redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world
was saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow
Not to mention the MILF of human kindness.
But more, much more than that …
… She did it side ways.
In some earlier news from Development Hell —
See as well this journal's report of a death on that date.
Screenshot of a tweet by space writer Shannon Stirone
posted at 10:57 PM ET October 12 —
See also NASA + Wiig.
Stirone has an opinion piece in today's online New York Times promoting NASA.
Discussing the Hubble Space Telescope, she claims that . . .
"Hubble peers deep into space, patiently collecting the universe’s traveling light,
then delivering it to us in never before seen images: galaxies, supernovas and
nebulae. It is a time machine. And without it we wouldn’t know we are inside
a galaxy that is just one of possibly trillions."
Kristen Wiig leaving bookstore in
"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," S9E1 —
A Windows 10 lockscreen image — "Spooky Moonrise Over Lake":
The previous post suggests a media review.
Doppelgangers from the wonderful world of entertainment —
“We have a clip.” — Kalle (Kristen Wiig on SNL)
"Heuristic evaluation is a well established method for quickly evaluating
the efficacy of new media solutions to interface issues."
— Neil Gordon et al. , University of Hull
Related material:
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 . . . ."
See all related posts.
From an obituary in this afternoon's online New York Times —
"Mr. Morris published his autobiography,
Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism , in 1998."
The obit suggests a review of posts mentioning the film
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," starring Kristen Wiig.
See as well Wiig and the Louvre Banquet Hall in L.A. —
The book title Get the Picture above suggests a review of
a different Louvre picture, starring Audrey Hepburn —
For the title, see Icon Parking in a search for 54th in this journal.
For related iconic remarks, click on either image below.
.
This post was suggested by the Dec. 30, 2016, date of the
death in Nuremberg of mathematician Wolf Barth. The first
image above is from a mathematics-related work by
John von Neumann discussed here on that date.
See also Wolf Barth in this journal for posts that largely
concern not the above Barth, but an artist of the same name.
For posts on the mathematician only, see Barth + Kummer.
"At a visual level a trick is played" —
Or: Annie Hall Revisited —
Air date: January 5, 2017.
For other philosophical remarks from the first eight days of 2017, see
posts now tagged Conceptualist Minimalism.
Related material: See March 14, 2017, and the 2007 film Waitress .
This post was suggested by today's National Prayer Breakfast,
the 1990 film Total Recall , and a post of July 20, 2015.
Detail from that post —
IMAGE- Kristen Wiig in 'Cock and Bull Story' —
See also some Saturday Night Live comedy in
"The Sound of Music" (a post from March 6, 2011)
and Kristen Wiig in a new "Zoolander 2" promotion.
* As does every release date.
From Kulturkampf for Princeton (Jan. 14, 2015) —
| A sequel to Princeton Requiem, Gesamtkunstwerk , and Serial Box — Fearful Symmetry, Princeton Style:
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* Wiig. See Dancer (June 10, 2013). Happy birthday.
The title refers to actress Kristen Wiig. (See Getcha.)
For Wiig, a scene from a 1968 Ingmar Bergman parody…
… and parts of a post from Saturday night, July 18, 2015 —
Some related material from pure mathematics — Design Cube (July 23).
Buie reportedly died on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
Image from this journal on that date —
"In the cool of the evenin'
when everything is gettin'
kind of groovy
I call you up and ask you if
you'd like to go with me and
see a movie…."
1985 — Church window in "Broken Wings" music video —
For Kristen Wiig, whose performances
give a new meaning to the phrase "flying fuck."
2015 — NASA video of June 28 Falcon 9 launch —
See also "Welcome to Me" in Log24 and recent posts tagged Grindhouse.
Update of 9 PM:
The book that "The Martian" is based on is by Andy Weir.
A somewhat Hindu (or Socratic) religious meditation from
Weir's earlier story "The Egg" —
“Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic
than you can possibly imagine."
From The Harvard Crimson , April 19, 2015 —
1. Serenade them with an Acapella Group
Nothing is more romantic than a group of students
showing up at your door and singing to you
for three minutes. The gesture is simple enough
to pull off. Ask one of your friends in an acapella
group for a quick favor. With so many acapella
groups on campus, you’re bound to find someone
to help you woo your potential date with the hot fire
of four part harmonies.
This suggests …
A Song for Kristen
Click image for the song.
From an interview by Glen Duncan with author
Susanna Moore published on January 29, 2013 —
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When did you first realize that you wanted to write fiction? Was there an epiphanic moment? I was a voracious reader as a child, clearing out the local library (my mother had given me a letter for the librarian, attesting that the books that I borrowed were for her reading alone), and I began to write plays, usually starring myself, when I was 9 or 10. There were years of bad poetry. I was features editor of the Punahou school newspaper. But at no moment did I clearly decide that I was going to be a writer, nor did it feel as if I had always been one. I left home for the mainland (I grew up in Hawaii) when I was 17 with no money or education beyond Punahou and the books that I’d read, and knew that I had to earn my living. I had a fantasy that I’d be a reporter and was sent by an equally naïve friend to Walter Annenberg, the owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer , who promptly sent me to the classified ad room, where I became an ad-taker. I’ve always thought that it was very good training: A man would call to place an ad in the hope of selling his used bed, and I would have to write a convincing few sentences on his behalf. I later read scripts for Jack Nicholson and oddly enough had to do the same thing – condense a complicated proposal into a statement of a dozen words. We’ve talked before about how feeling different from the people around us – “mutant” was the word you used – informs or underpins the burgeoning writer’s mentality. Could you expand on that? By mutant, I mean that state in childhood and adolescence of isolation, sometimes blissful, often bewildering, when you realize that you have little in common with the people closest to you – not because you are superior in intelligence or sensitivity, but because you perceive the world in an utterly different way, which you assume to be a failing on your part. It was only through reading and discovering characters who shared that feeling that I realized when I was about 14 that I wasn’t insane. And yes, I think that the sensation, the awareness and then the conviction that your perception of the world is not what might be called conventional, is essential to the making of an artist. It is a little like speaking a different language from the people around you – it affords you solitude, but it also means that you are sometimes misunderstood. |
Related material:
Midnight Politics, X-Woman, "Welcome to Me," and
the following meditation on the word "binder"—
From a Jan. 8, 2015, review of the 2013 Dutch film "App"—
"It is sort of like the old cult favorite 'Electric Dreams'…."
"Digital security is not static."
— Statement today from the Dutch SIM card maker Gemalto
For Kristen Wiig, a 10 if ever there was one.
“To be is to be the value of a variable.”
See also "Ten'll Getcha."
Kristen Wiig, Girl Reporter…
.. in The Skeleton Twins—
"I've got news for you."
Co-starring Bill Hader as Her —
1 2 3 4 5 9 8 6 7
220 * (1/4) = 55 = A1
220 * (2/4) = 110 = A2
220 * (3/4) = 165 = approximately E3 (164.8)
220 * (4/4) = 220 = A3
220 * (5/4) = 275 = approximately C♯4/D♭4 (277.2)
220 * (6/4) = 330 = approximately E4 (329.6)
220 * (7/4) = 385 = approximately G4 (392.0)
220 * (8/4) = 440 = A4
220 * (9/4) = 495 = approximately B4 (493.9)
Exact frequencies (such as 277.2) are from Wikipedia’s Piano key frequencies.
“It may be quite simple, but now that it’s done….“
“The film captures the offbeat time warp of the present-day
desert cities around Palm Springs, with the movie being
partly filmed in Palm Desert.”
See also posts on College of the Desert.
See also Christmas Eve, 2012.
“It’s going to be accomplished
in steps, this establishment
of the talented….”
— To Ride Pegasus , by
Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe ’47)
“Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high,
and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western
summit is called the Masai ‘Ngàje Ngài,’ the House of God.
Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcass
of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking
at that altitude.” — Ernest Hemingway, epigraph to a story
Some background —
Kristen Wiig and a mountain in the recent film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
and Wiig in a Log24 post of Sunday, March 6, 2011.
"Marissa, we picked up an unencrypted signal
below the Arctic Circle." — Hanna (2011)
"We have a clip." — Kalle (Kristen Wiig on SNL)
The first story of "The Snow Queen, in Seven Stories"
by Hans Christian Andersen (1845) (see yesterday morning)—
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Story the First, You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon. One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked increased in size and worse than ever. The most lovely landscapes appeared like boiled spinach, and the people became hideous, and looked as if they stood on their heads and had no bodies. Their countenances were so distorted that no one could recognize them, and even one freckle on the face appeared to spread over the whole of the nose and mouth. The demon said this was very amusing. When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it was misrepresented in the glass; and then how the demon laughed at his cunning invention. All who went to the demon’s school—for he kept a school—talked everywhere of the wonders they had seen, and declared that people could now, for the first time, see what the world and mankind were really like. They carried the glass about everywhere, till at last there was not a land nor a people who had not been looked at through this distorted mirror. They wanted even to fly with it up to heaven to see the angels, but the higher they flew the more slippery the glass became, and they could scarcely hold it, till at last it slipped from their hands, fell to the earth, and was broken into millions of pieces. But now the looking-glass caused more unhappiness than ever, for some of the fragments were not so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about the world into every country. When one of these tiny atoms flew into a person’s eye, it stuck there unknown to him, and from that moment he saw everything through a distorted medium, or could see only the worst side of what he looked at, for even the smallest fragment retained the same power which had belonged to the whole mirror. Some few persons even got a fragment of the looking-glass in their hearts, and this was very terrible, for their hearts became cold like a lump of ice. A few of the pieces were so large that they could be used as window-panes; it would have been a sad thing to look at our friends through them. Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those who wore them, for they could see nothing either rightly or justly. At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook—it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done. There were still a number of these little fragments of glass floating about in the air, and now you shall hear what happened with one of them. |
"Was there more to come? Was I done?
I wondered if I had dreamed
the connectedness of Being
the night before, or if now, awake,
I dreamed distinctions.
I didn’t know where I was for an instant."
— "Alethia," by Charles Johnson, as
quoted by Eve Tushnet on Aug. 22, 2013
Tushnet on Johnson —
"Somebody–I hope a commenter will remind me who it was–
has suggested that the Left typically thinks in terms of an
opposition between oppression and liberation, whereas
the right typically thinks in terms of an opposition between
civilization and barbarism. I would reframe the latter opposition
as order vs. chaos; if we do that, it’s obvious that both
oppositions are unrelentingly relevant, yet few thinkers or artists
are able to hold both conflicts before our eyes at once.
I just finished Charles Johnson’s 1986 short-story collection
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations ,
a bag of broken glass which is equal parts liberationist and
reactionary, yearning for freedom and knuckling under to fatalism."
Related material —
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Saturday Night Live, Dec. 11, 1976 Consumer Reporter: Alright. Fine. Fine. Well, we'd like to show you another one of Mr. Mainway's products. It retails for $1.98, and it's called Bag O' Glass. [ holds up bag of glass ] Mr. Mainway, this is simply a bag of jagged, dangerous, glass bits. Irwin Mainway: Yeah, right, it's you know, it's glass, it's broken glass, you know? It sells very well, as a matter of fact, you know? It's just broken glass, you know? Consumer Reporter: [ laughs ] I don't understand. I mean, children could seriously cut themselves on any one of these pieces! Irwin Mainway: Yeah, well, look – you know, the average kid, he picks up, you know, broken glass anywhere, you know? The beach, the street, garbage cans, parking lots, all over the place in any big city. We're just packaging what the kids want! I mean, it's a creative toy, you know? If you hold this up, you know, you see colors, every color of the rainbow! I mean, it teaches him about light refraction, you know? Prisms, and that stuff! You know what I mean? |
Tommy Lee Jones perhaps knows what Mainway means.
Kristen Wiig (see Aug. 22, 2013, in this journal) perhaps does not.
See also Tushnet on The Man in the High Castle as well as
Tommy Lee Jones and Hexagram 61.
(Continued from last Sunday)
For some background, see Permutahedron in this journal.
See also…
* Jews may prefer to retitle this post "Sunday Shul with Josefine"
and stage it as a SNL sketch, "Norwegian Disco," with
The Sunshine Girls. (For the Norwegian part, see Kristen Wiig,
of Norwegian ancestry. For the disco part, see Amy Adams,
who stars in a new disco-era movie.)
Some random thoughts suggested by the Norwegian ice hole
in the opening scene of the 2012 film Kon-Tiki .
From a Log24 post of August 2, 2013—
See, too, the secret life of Marsden Hartley :
"When an irresistible force such as you
meets an old immovable object like me…"
— From one whose name was writ in water*
* Scholia: Art Wars, Conceptual Coffee, and Day of the Tetraktys
Related material: Weiner news
Update of 3:30 AM:
A meditation on the above
headline phrase "widely published."
Part I
Part II
"I Am a Dancer" — NY Times, "The Stone," 9:07 PM ET
Sunday, June 9, 2012 (Tony night)
Part III
The title is from today's noon post, Core.
It also appears, quoted from Popovič, in Susan Bassnett's
Translation Studies (third edition, Routledge, 2002)—
"It is an established fact in Translation Studies that if a dozen
translators tackle the same poem, they will produce a dozen
different versions. And yet somewhere in those dozen versions there
will be what Popovič calls the ‘invariant core’ of the original poem.
This invariant core, he claims, is represented by stable, basic and
constant semantic elements in the text, whose existence can be
proved by experimental semantic condensation. Transformations, or
variants, are those changes which do not modify the core of meaning
but influence the expressive form. In short, the invariant can be
defined as that which exists in common between all existing
translations of a single work. So the invariant is part of a dynamic
relationship and should not be confused with speculative arguments
about the ‘nature’, the ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’ of the text; the ‘indefinable
quality’ that translators are rarely supposed to be able to capture."
"A writer hopes to leave behind a work no one forgets…."
— Song sung on NBC's Smash tonight
Fulsere vere candidi mihi soles….
— André Weil, The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician
nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae
donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque….
— Catullus, quoted in Bassnett's Translation Studies
The title is a reference to a scheduled SNL.
Related material:
Cooper Union Borg, Master Class, and…
See also today's noon post and The Sunshine Girls.
(A post suggested by an ad in this evening's online New York Times )
"After being brought to the village's Patriarch… Mick learns
the intent of the colony and how they operate."
— Summary of a story by Orson Scott Card, a Latter-Day Saint.
For some context, see Saints Have Powers in this journal.
Related material —
The Saturday Evening Post and tonight's Saturday Night Live .
From a review of the film "Wild Palms" in The New Yorker by James Wolcott
(issue dated May 17, 1993, pages 104-106)—
"The MacGuffin that will determine the outcome is a piece of
software [sic ] called the Go chip, its name taken from the
strategy board game. (There's a nod in the script to the Japanese
novelist Yasunari Kawabata, author of 'The Master of Go.')
Whoever possesses the Go chip possesses the
'techno-shamanistic key to eternity'…."
"In tomorrow's techno-pop tyranny, reruns are the basis of order."
"As Kreutzer's mistress, Kim Cattrall has excellent posture."
From Saturday Night Live on December 10, 2011, a portrayal of Kim Cattrall—
See also "Sex and the City" fans in The Crimson Passion.
For other keys (perhaps related to the Wild Palms "image sickness"),
see "Claves Regni Caelorum (Escher)" — Images, 1.9 MB.
For Hillary Rodham Clinton
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.
Another version of Running from the Party —
"Words are events." — Walter J. Ong, Society of Jesus
From the author of The Abacus Conundrum—
Harlan Kane's sequel to The Apollo Meme—
THE KRISTEN EFFECT
"Thus the universal mutual attraction between the sexes is represented."
— Hexagram 31
"Center loosens, forms again elsewhere…"
— Zelazny, quoted here for Women's History Month.
"I know it's not much but it's the best I can do.
My gift is my song and this one's for you."
— Elton John song. John hosts SNL tonight.
|
Blue Jean Baby… |
LA Lady… |
For the cast and writers of Saturday Night Live ,
a word from Charlie Sheen's sponsor—
"Gracia," as in…
"una poca de gracia."
Google Search on March 6, 2011—THE HYPE: New stuff…….pay attention!Feb 12, 2007 … You're not going very far…. |
Related rather personal material—
Memories of Mason's Mobile City in 1959,
the music of the late Johnny Preston,
and Kristen Wiig as last night's SNL Rock-A-Billy Lady.
eBay image of Johnny Preston 45
* Update of 10:22 PM EST March 6—
A video of the SNL sketch from which the title was taken
is now available.
From "Deus ex Machina and the Aesthetics of Proof"
(Alan J. Cain in The Mathematical Intelligencer * of September 2010, pdf)—
Deus ex Machina
In a narrative, a deus is unsatisfying for two reasons. The
first is that any future attempt to build tension is undercut if
the author establishes that a difficulty can be resolved by a
deus. The second reason—more important for the purposes
of this essay—is that the deus does not fit with the internal
structure of the story. There is no reason internal to the
story why the deus should intervene at that moment.
Santa in the New York Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thanksgiving Day, 2010 (November 25), New York Lottery—
Midday 411, Evening 332.
For 411, see (for instance) April 11 (i.e., 4/11) in 2008 —
For 332, see "A Play for Kristen**" — March 16, 2008 —
"A search for the evening number, 332, in Log24 yields a rather famous line from Sophocles…"
Sophocles, Antigone, edited by Mark Griffith, Cambridge University Press, 1999:
“Many things are formidable (deina ) and none is more formidable (deinoteron ) than man.”
– Antigone , lines 332-333, in Valdis Leinieks, The Plays of Sophokles, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982, p. 62
See also the lottery numbers 411 and 332 in this journal on March 22, 2009— "The Storyteller in Chance ."
“… it’s going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47, To Ride Pegasus
* It seems Santa has delivered an early gift — free online access to all issues of the Intelligencer .
** Teaser headline in the original version at Xanga.com
Slouching
Towards Kristen
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Jerusalem Post Interview by Hilary Leilea Krieger, JPost Correspondent, Washington Krauthammer, a columnist for The Washington Post, is a winner of the Irving Kristol award. Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2009: Can you talk a little bit about your own Jewish upbringing and sense of Jewishness, and how that influences you? I assume it’s a factor in this particular project. I grew up in a Modern Orthodox home [in Montreal]. I went to Jewish day school right through high school, so half of my day was spent speaking Hebrew from age six to 16. I studied thousands of hours of Talmud. My father thought I didn’t get enough Talmud at school, so I took the extra Talmud class at school and he had a rabbi come to the house three nights a week. One of those nights was Saturday night, so in synagogue Saturday morning my brother and I would pray very hard for snow so he wouldn’t be able to come on Saturday night and we could watch hockey night in Canada. That’s where I learned about prayer. That didn’t seem to you to be a prayer that was likely to go unanswered? Yeah, I was giving it a shot to see what side God was on. And what did you determine? It rarely snowed. ************************************ More on Krauthammer’s Canadian childhood: “His parents were Orthodox and sent him to — “Charles Krauthammer: Prize Writer,” ************************************ Also in the Jerusalem Post interview: …. What, then, did you mean by a Jewish sensibility? “…. In literature it’s an interesting question, what’s a Jewish novel?” |
My Prayer:
Private Gomorrah lessons
with Kristen.
Background:
“Heaven Can Wait”
at Haaretz.com
Happy Rosh Hashanah
(and Gemara).
Update, 5:01 AM Sept. 19
Before becoming a writer,
Krauthammer was, his
Washington Post biography says,
a resident and then chief resident
in psychiatry at
Massachusetts General Hospital.
Related Metaphors
This morning’s New York Times:
MicheleBachmann.com this morning:
See also:
James Hillman’s “acorn theory“
of personality development
(yesterday’s entry).
(continued from
March 7, 2008)
A search for the evening
number, 332, in Log24
yields a rather famous
line from Sophocles…
Sophocles, Antigone,
edited by Mark Griffith,
Cambridge University Press,
1999:
— Antigone, lines 332-333, in Valdis Leinieks, The Plays of Sophokles, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982, p. 62
Continuing the search within Antigone for the mid-day number, 874, we find…
“Power (kratos), for one who is concerned with power (kratos), is in no way to be transgressed.”
— Antigone, lines 873-874, Leinieks, op. cit. p. 69
Both passages from Sophocles seem not unrelated to yesterday’s entry for the Ides of March and to last night’s opening routine on “Saturday Night Live.”
The above word deina (formidable, wonderful, awesome) in the latter context suggests the following meditation:
— Anne McCaffrey,
Radcliffe ’47,
To Ride Pegasus
Related material:
The Log24 Pi Day
mantra from
Roger Zelazny —
“center loosens,
forms again elsewhere.”
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