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Friday, March 27, 2026
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Venice for Mann: Allusions to Illusions
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Summer Reading
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Some stories within the above "unending net" of nonsensical narratives
suggested a post related to earlier work of the actor who plays Principal Dort
in Wednesday Season 2 and to the Venetian Ball in that Netflix series . . .
and, slightly more seriously, to the Venice Film Festival of 2025 —
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Numberland: Watson Gets Her Groove Back
Daily Mail headline yesterday . . .
Emma Watson dazzles in TWO
jaw-dropping designer looks
on the final day of Venice Film Festival
as she swaps a green Emilia Wickstead
mini dress for a Gucci number
The swap reportedly took place at
"the luxurious Hotel Excelsior."
Annals of interality —
Excelsior!
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Friday, September 5, 2025
For Go-cart Mozart — Abduction from the Academy
2:02 PM Friday, September 5, 2025 (GMT+2) . . .
Time in Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy
"Spirit birds that ride the night, stranger than dreams" — Point Omega
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Annals of Nevermore Academy:
For Principal Dort
"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo
Some cartoon graveyards are better than others.
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For Principal Dort
For Principal Dort
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Bartender Art
“Art, being bartender, is never drunk.” — Peter Viereck
Today is reportedly Lifton's day of death —
in sacerdotal jargon, his dies natalis.
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7/11 Flashback* for Cairo Sweet
* Suggested by the 7/11 birthday of a recently deceased fashion designer
and by the opening of Wednesday, Season 2, Episode 7 —
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Bar Exam: Elements and Qualities
Related artistic concepts . . .
Buddhist —
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" The Four Elements are used in Buddhist texts to both elucidate the concept of suffering (dukkha) and as an object of meditation. The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility; their characterisation as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction – instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.[24] " 24. Dan Lusthaus, "What is and isn't Yogacara." He specifically discusses early Buddhism as well as Yogacara. "What is and isn't Yogacara". Archived from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2016.. |
Christian —
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Milton’s Paradise Lost :
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Graphic —
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
Vibe Coding
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Mass Communication
Suggested by the phrase "graphic resonance"
in last night's post—
From Type and Image: The Language of Graphic Design,
by Philip B. Meggs, published by Wiley, 1992,
"Chapter Four: Graphic Resonance"–
"In Chapter One, graphic resonance was defined as a term borrowed from music. It means a reverberation or echo, a subtle quality…. Graphic designers bring a resonance to visual communications through… color, shape, texture, and the interrelations between forms in space. Mass communication is given an aesthetic dimension…."
For instance…
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Elaine Woo in today's LA Times on the death yesterday of a famous teacher–
"Escalante's dramatic success raised public consciousness of what it took to be not just a good teacher but a great one. One of the most astute analyses of his classroom style came from the actor who shadowed him for days before portraying him in 'Stand and Deliver.'
'He's the most stylized man I've ever come across,' Olmos, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance, told the New York Times in 1988. 'He had three basic personalities– teacher, father-friend and street-gang equal– and he would juggle them, shift in an instant. . . . He's one of the greatest calculated entertainers.'"
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Eightfold Symmetries
Harvard Crimson headline today–
“Deconstructing Design“
Reconstructing Design
The phrase “eightfold way” in today’s
previous entry has a certain
graphic resonance…
For instance, an illustration from the
Wikipedia article “Noble Eightfold Path” —
Adapted detail–
See also, from
St. Joseph’s Day—
Harvard students who view Christian symbols
with fear and loathing may meditate
on the above as a representation of
the Gankyil rather than of the Trinity.
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Lie Groups for Holy Week
Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics, by Bruce A. Schumm, Johns Hopkins University Press, hardcover, Oct. 20, 2004, pp. 94-95–
"In the early 1960s, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology by the name of Murray Gell-Mann interpreted the patterns observed in the emerging array of elementary particles as being due to a symmetry….
Gell-Mann's eightfold way was perhaps the first conscious application of the results of the pure mathematical field of group theory and, in particular, the theory of 'Lie groups,' to a problem in physics."
From the preface–
"I didn't come up with the title for this book. For that, I can thank the people at the Johns Hopkins University Press…. my only reservation about the title is that… it implies a degree of literacy to which I can't lay claim."
Amen.
Remedial reading for those who might have fallen for Schumm's damned nonsense–
"Quantum Mechanics and Group Theory I," by Dallas C. Kennedy
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