Log24

Fantasy:  Moment by Stella

Reality:  A Death on October 25

Intersection:

For related British humor, see a Venn diagram by
Alexander Matthews.* I prefer the Venn intersection
in Object Lesson continued, a Log24 post from
July 1, 2007.

* The Matthews diagram is from July 31, 2012.
For less-facetious remarks from that date
see Rowling Birthday in this  journal.

Relevant material:

• The title of this weblog,
• "24 Hour Psycho," and
• the theme from "Blackboard Jungle."

Or: Chinny-Chin-Chin .

This post will be meaningless unless you
have seen the recent film "R.I.P.D.," starring
James Hong and Jeff Bridges.

(In that film, two deceased lawmen appear to 
the living in disguised form— as Hong, and 
as Bridges in the guise of a major babe.)

From the AP Today in History  page
for October 29, 2013 —

On this date in:
1967 The musical "Hair" opened off-Broadway.

This, together with the Halloween season and
"R.I.P.D.," suggests a bizarre show:

"And there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space…"
– Don McLean, "American Pie" 

The show would star Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges
as, respectively, Jackie Chan and Nicole Kidman in…

V.I.P.D.

See also some related posts with Jeff Bridges.

Backstory: Sermon (Nov. 18,  2012) and
Eternal Recreation (Dec. 24, 2012).

"We've lost the plot!" — "Slipstream."  Small wonder.

"Frank actually makes the moment.
He captures it and helps to define it."

— Architect Robert Kahn on artist
Frank Stella, as quoted by
Nancy Wolfson in "Rings of Art,"
Cigar Aficionado , Autumn 1995

Related material: A review of a work
by Stella quoted here on Friday,
October 25, 2013 (Picasso's birthday,
and the date of death for art theorist
Arthur C. Danto).

See also this journal on July 13, 2003.

See August 9, 2009 at Haaretz and in this journal.

For Mike Nichols…

Scene I:

"Pinter's particular usage of reverse chronology 
in structuring the plot is innovative…."

— Wikipedia on the play "Betrayal," a version of which
    opens tonight

Scene II:

Reverse Chronology in Wikipedia —

"As a hypothetical example, if the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk 
was told using reverse chronology, the opening scene would depict
Jack chopping the beanstalk down and killing the giant. The next
scene would feature Jack being discovered by the giant and climbing
down the beanstalk in fear of his life. Later, we would see Jack running
into the man with the infamous magic beans, then, at the end of the film,
being sent off by his mother to sell the cow."

Scene III:

Dialogue for Scene III — 

"Sell the damn cow, Jack."

Epilogue:  Jack + Jill.

"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."

The New Yorker , May 13, 2002

See also Log24 ,  January 8, 2012.

"                          … Had they deceived us 
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?"

— Four Quartets

Good question.

Rhetorical questions by art critic Michael Glover—

"Has this kind of abstraction to do with ideas
of the spiritual? Are we supposed to see behind
what we have here some kind of evidence of
superhuman energies at work in the universe?
Is this some kind of manifestation of the force
that through the green fuse drives the flower—
to quote a line from Dylan Thomas?"

Rhetorical answer —

See also St. Stephen's Day, 2012.

See also "Where Madness Lies."

Vigil for a teacher slain yesterday —

"Another student tweeted today to bring a candle
to Danvers High School at 8 p.m. tonight."

"How many miles to Babylon?"

From today's online New York Times —

The performance was on Wednesday evening.

See also an echo of Ovid.

  Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes
— Ovid, Metamorphoses , VIII, 188,
     epigraph to Joyce's Portrait

Log24 last month —

Paul Hertz, alias "Ignotus the Mage" —

"When we're doing the fortunetelling, as soon
as we finish capturing the face and the voice,
they get sent right over to the table." — Paul Hertz,
"Ignotus" video, 2013

Commentary:

"… ignotus  has faint connotations of lowness,
baseness, vulgarity"

— "International Eyesore: Joyce the Pornographer,"
by S. J. Boyd, pp. 31-60 in Troubled Histories, 
Troubled Fictions , ed. by C. C. Barfoot et al.

Or not so faint.

Related material:

The villanelle from A Portrait , and
a Log24 post of St. Stephen's Day, 2011.

This post was suggested by the business card
scene in American Psycho .

See also a post of May 20, Church Logic. The link to that
post was suggested in part by the death on September 23
of the artistic director of a 1960s church theater, and in part
by a Log24 post on September 23, "For Danny Boy."

… On the night of the October 18-19 full moon.

Related material for Richman from
the date of Hinds's death …

Knock, Knock, Knockin'.