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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Raiders of the Lost Chord

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:05 am

A Chronicle of Higher Education website, "Arts & Letters Daily," 
links as above to an American Scholar article of Dec. 18, 2025,
"The Enigma of Ur," by Joseph Horowitz.

That article concludes with a blurb for Horowitz himself:

Joseph Horowitz’s forthcoming book is a novel about
Anton Seidl and Wagnerism in America, The Disciple:
A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age.
His books-in-progress
are Bearing Witness: The American Odyssey of
Leonard Bernstein
and Why Ives? A Celebration of
Cultural Memory.

There are, of course, less academic approaches to cultural memory.

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Hollywood Backstories

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:18 pm

The above dies natalis — Dec. 19, 2025 — suggests a flashback . . .

Friday, December 19, 2025

Who’s Afraid of the Red Lighthouse?

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:13 pm

Excerpts from this journal on the dies natalis  weekend of the author's late husband, 
a UC Berkeley "environmental design" professor

Sunday, October 9, 2022

To the Lighthouse

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:00 am Edit This

Saturday, October 8, 2022

For Fans of Religious Lunacy … The Firebird Date

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:01 pm Edit This

("Raiders of the Lost Spell" continues.)

The above flashback to a 2002 post was suggested by a search in
this journal for "Firebird" that yielded, as the only result . . .

http://www.amazon.com/
Witch-Seldom-Firebird-Nancy-Springer/dp/0142302201/.

That URL connects to The Hex Witch of Seldom  at Amazon.com.

That book was reportedly published by Firebird on September 16, 2002,
the date of the above Log24 post.

Chandler Davis, 1926-2022

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:04 am Edit This

Log24 art (colored Unicode symbols) from the above date of death:

"Click the red symbol, and"

— Adapted from "The Matrix."

Understanding Media … Outer Spice

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:12 pm

Related media note
from The Daily Beast . . .

"The Story Behind the Plot Twists on Netflix’s Best Drama:

The creator and showrunner of 'The Diplomat' talks to Obsessed
about the biggest twists in the new season."

By Sophie Brookover
Published Oct. 27 2025 11:12 AM  EDT 

Deep Blue Game

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:12 am

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Entanglement Tale

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:31 pm

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Somewhere Between Red and Blue

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 4:20 pm

The above image appeared here on May Day, 2016, the reported date
of death (and end of story) for mathematician Solomon W. Golomb.

But if you go chasing rabbits and you know you're going to fall . . .

There is deep  blue  (Hurray, Hurray, the First of May!) . . . 

Some may prefer Watson's Wonderland to Golomb's Science Maze.

Friday, October 18, 2024

The Laughing Stock-Car Rally

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:42 pm

The phrase "the laughing stock of the rally" suggests a flashback . . .

Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)

Gerald’s Party … The Dr. Seuss Version

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:57 pm

The boingboing.net news story in the previous post suggests
a rather infantile version of the novel Gerald's Party  by the late
Robert Coover . . .

Those not wanting to be infantilized may prefer the red  pill.

In Memory of Al Smith

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:29 pm

See as well "The Fandom Thread."

Friday, December 29, 2023

A Wrinkle in Logic

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:17 pm

Also on March 8, 2018

Barbara Johnson, Nothing Fails Like Success, detail

This post was suggested by the word "entanglement' in the previous post.

See as well "Galois (Xor) addition."

Which entanglement… Threads or laces?

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:58 pm

The Fandom Thread

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:46 pm

A post of Dec. 27  featured the internet threads.net logo below . . .

"In American English the @ can be used to add information about
a sporting event. Where opposing sports teams have their names
separated by a "v" (for versus), the away team can be written first –
and the normal "v" replaced with @ to convey at which team's home
field the game will be played." — Wikipedia

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