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Saturday, March 2, 2024

Eden for Emma

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:50 pm

… And for Aaron Webman:

Search this journal for "Eden Express."

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Aaron

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:01 am

See earlier Log24 posts now tagged Aaron, about
the clash of Aaron Swartz and JSTOR, as well as
JSTOR in today's previous post, and an enthusiastic
post by @marrific yesterday on a different Aaron.

See also "A Tale of Two Intersections," about Venice,
CA, and St. Augustine's Church, New Orleans, LA. 
For a connection to the phrase "Where Madness Lies,"
used recently as a podcast title by Aaron Webman,
see the life of St. Augustine's parishioner George Herriman,
creator of "Krazy Kat."

“Where Madness Lies”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 1:00 am

See the title in this journal.

Monday, January 28, 2013

PEP Talk

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Review: A page linked to here on Jan. 25
psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut on the "nuclear self"—

IMAGE- Kohut, 'Restoration of the Self,' p. 182

The Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) website has a 
paper on Kohut's concept— "Nuclear Conflict and the Nuclear Self"—
to which access is restricted:

IMAGE- Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) access statement

Perhaps the late Aaron Swartz (below) now has freer access
to this and other restricted reading.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

On the Road

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 pm

(For Your Consideration  continued)

Today's New York Times  story on Jacobin  magazine
suggests the following sequel to a Jan. 10 post on
Spielberg's Lincoln .

The magazine has, the Times  says,

"earned [its creator] Mr. Sunkara, now a ripe 23,
extravagant praise from members of a (slightly) older
guard who see his success as heartening sign that
the socialist 'brand'— to use a word he throws around
with un-self-conscious ease— hasn’t been totally
killed off by Tea Party invective." —Jennifer Schuessler

Jacobin  magazine, summer 2012 double issue—

A related trinity of the Left:

Playwright Tom Stoppard, his son actor Ed Stoppard
(shown below in the 2012 film Branded ), and the late
activist Aaron Swartz

Monday, January 14, 2013

Quicksilver vs. Bat-Crazed and Moony

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

The Acceptance Speech Award

"A humble master with a quicksilver imagination"

— Daniel Day-Lewis on Steven Spielberg, acceptance speech
at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards

"Robert [Downey Jr.], I want to thank you for everything, for your
bat-crazed, rapid-fire brain, the sweet intro."

— Jodie Foster accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award Sunday night

And the acceptance speech award goes to

IMAGE- Robert Downey Jr. and Jodie Foster exit the stage at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards

Presenter Robert Downey Jr. and Accepter Jodie Foster

Related material—

Also from Jodie Foster's DeMille Award speech:

"I can’t help but get moony, you know. This feels like the end
of one era and the beginning of something else. Scary and
exciting, and now what?"

A tweet from Aaron Swartz on Dec. 9, 2012:

See as well three posts from this  journal on that same date.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Puzzles

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:01 am

The late Aaron Swartz on a 1978 psychological study

"But the puzzles kept coming—
and they kept getting harder. 'This isn’t fun anymore,'
the kids cried. But still, there were more puzzles."

Related material from Log24's Mathcamp —

"…Heaven and Hell relays. your team starts in hell,
when you get one right, one person can go to heaven
and work on heaven questions, but first they have to
pass through purgatory. aka this means entertain
the people running purgatory." 

Imaginary Thoughts and Irrational Ideas weblog

See also Swartz on philosophy:

"I’ve just been finding little bits and pieces
in all sorts of strange places: psychology experiments,
business books, philosophy, self-help, math, and
my friends. But since there’s no community around it,
it’s hard to discuss it with anyone…."

From the date of  these weblog posts by Swartz,
a post from this  journal—

Crown Heights Story

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 am

See yesterday's post "There Will Be Aaron"
(about a death in Crown Heights, Brooklyn)
and earlier posts now tagged "Sorkin."

Related material— Delphic.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

There Will Be Aaron

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:48 pm

I learned this afternoon of a significant death:

See a NY Times  obit and "RIP, Aaron Swartz."

The latter quotes Swartz himself:

"Obviously shades of Sinclair here…"

Related material: 

Not so related:

  • This journal on the date— Feb. 23, 2010— of
    Shellie Branco's post, linked to above, on Bakersfield,
    Upton Sinclair, Taft CA, and "Blood"

     

    A post titled Fish Story 
    on secular vocabulary and San Diego.

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