Saturday, May 30, 2026
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Raiders of the Lost Chord
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:
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Joseph Horowitz’s forthcoming book is a novel about |
There are, of course, less academic approaches to cultural memory.
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Hollywood Backstories
The above dies natalis — Dec. 19, 2025 — suggests a flashback . . .
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Friday, December 19, 2025
Who’s Afraid of the Red Lighthouse?
Excerpts from this journal on the dies natalis weekend of the author's late husband,
a UC Berkeley "environmental design" professor —
Saturday, October 8, 2022
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Understanding Media … Outer Spice
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
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Somewhere Between Red and Blue
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.
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Friday, October 18, 2024
The Laughing Stock-Car Rally
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)
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Gerald’s Party … The Dr. Seuss Version
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.
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Friday, December 29, 2023
A Wrinkle in Logic
Also on March 8, 2018 —
This post was suggested by the word "entanglement' in the previous post.
See as well "Galois (Xor) addition."
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The Fandom Thread
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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