Saturday, August 22, 2026
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Not So Dark
A search in this journal for "Waukegan" yields . . .
“Through the unknown, remembered gate….”
— T. S. Eliot, epigraph to Parallelisms of
Complete Designs, by Peter J. Cameron
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Vocabulary from a Dark Corner
Related temporal clue . . .
Related cinematic phrase . . .
"the exact dimensions of Hell"
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Saturday, November 27, 2021
Cable
"SS refers to SuperSpeed,
a new transfer rate…"
And then there is USB,
the Universal Serial Bus . . .
From a post of 11/11, 2003.
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Friday, August 27, 2021
Special for the National Comedy Center
Newlove grew up in Jamestown, NY, a city which
appeared in his fiction. He reportedly died on Aug. 17.
Synchronology check: "Little Museum of Horrors."
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Thursday, July 29, 2021
Castling, or: A Dark Corner* for Cara
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Monday, June 29, 2020
Dark Comedy
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Perhaps another indication — De Palma's Body Double .
"Like a rose under the April snow . . . ." — Streisand
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Tune for a Dark Corner
"Like the castle in its corner
In a medieval game"
— Steely Dan, Dirty Work, 1972
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