* Scholia for 12-Steppers —
"Climb a mountain and turn around" — Song lyric
"You've got to pick up every stitch" — Contrapuntal lyric
Monday, March 9, 2026
From the Cape of Good Hope*
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Saturday, February 28, 2026
Seeking the Path:
Pataphysics and String Theory
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Pataphysics and String Theory
Pataphysics and String Theory
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Snark for Mark
W. Blaschke and K. Reidemeister (1922).
"Über die Entwicklung der Affingeometrie" (PDF).
Jahresbericht DMV. 31: 63–81 —
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Things of August
A January 22 death and
Shadowcraft Backstory suggest a
May Tricks review . . .
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Annals of Cultural Appropriation:
Waymark for Erewhon
260127-Elliott_Smith-memorial-mural-in-LA.jpg
In 2004 —
See as well this journal on the above upload date, 7 August 2010 —
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Waymark for Erewhon
Waymark for Erewhon
Cultural Waymarks: In the Fold
"the reflection in the water showed an iron man"
is the line of verse by Elliott Smith that lay hidden
in a fold of cloth on the breast of Soundwavesoffwax
in an Instagram post yesterday.
Related meditation —
Tony Stark in The Avengers , May the Fourth, 2012
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Monday, January 26, 2026
For Your Consideration:
Multispeech Illustrated*
* Related material — The black shirt above, and Elliott Smith.
From https://genius.com/artists/Elliott-smith —
" Smith is best-known for 'Miss Misery', his Oscar-nominated
contribution to the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, and XO’s
addictive and gorgeous family tension meditation, 'Waltz #2'."
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Multispeech Illustrated*
Multispeech Illustrated*
Friday, January 9, 2026
Technology Entertainment for Elon:
Removing Shorts
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Removing Shorts
Removing Shorts
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Annals of Edgelord School:
An Obelisk for Asterisk🟎
🟎 See as well Asterix and Cleopatra .
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An Obelisk for Asterisk🟎
An Obelisk for Asterisk🟎
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Edgelord School: Graphic Design Note
Some will prefer a more abstract Edge . . .
For further context, see other posts tagged Screw Theory.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023
For E. Lily Yu* — Devs Setting
Friday, July 11, 2014
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* Author of Jewel Box: Stories ( Erewhon Books, Oct. 24, 2023).
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Body Saint
The following image is in memory of a woman who reportedly
died at 70 on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 —
Bruce Chatwin on Lisa Lyon, the woman who died —
“The photographer and his model have conspired
to tell a story of their overlapping obsessions.
Their glorification of the body is an act of will,
a defiance of nihilism and abstraction, a story of
the Modern Movement in reverse.”
See as well Working Backwards.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Edgelord School
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Monday, May 8, 2017
New Pinterest Board
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The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
A product of that edgelord's school —
See a design by Prince-Ramus in today's New York Times —
Remarks quoted here on the above San Diego date —
A related void —
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Monday, September 11, 2023
Cool Kids’ Vocabulary… Edgelord!
Jill Lepore of Harvard in The New Yorker today —
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"In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the Year: 'This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.' Right about when Time was preparing that giddy announcement, three women whose ovaries and uteruses were involved in passing down the madcap man-god’s genes were in the maternity ward of a hospital in Austin. Musk believes a declining birth rate is a threat to civilization and, with his trademark tirelessness, is doing his visionary edgelord best to ward off that threat." |
Some vocabulary background —
See also this journal on that date —
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Monday, May 8, 2017
New Pinterest Board
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The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
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Saturday, September 9, 2023
Edges
"Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find"
— Song by Crosby, Stills & Nash
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