See as well Time Enough for Countin’.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Imperial Requiem
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The Screwtape Bishop
“Patrick Joseph McKinney is the 10th Bishop of Nottingham.
His appointment was announced on 14 May 2015 by Pope Francis.”
— Wikipedia
Related material from this journal on the date the Pope
appointed the Screwtape Bishop —
Obit et Orbit continues.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
More Academic Ugliness
The Boston Globe on the dead architect of the previous post —
"Mr. McKinnell, who was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the
Royal Institute of British Architects, taught for many years at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology School of Architecture and Planning."
Some ugly rhetoric to go with the ugly architecture —
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Annals of Ugly Design
The Boston Globe Saturday on Friday's death of one of
the two architects of Boston City Hall —
A gifted storyteller, Mr. McKinnell liked to recount
the response of renowned architect Philip Johnson to
City Hall. “ ‘Absolutely marvelous. … I think it’s wonderful.
… And it’s so ugly!’ ” Mr. McKinnell told Pasnik, adding:
“We thought that was the greatest praise we could get.”
See more ugliness from this journal on Friday —
See also this journal on the death of the other City Hall architect.
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Metatextuality at Yale
See also this journal on the date — February 19, 2009 —
of the above Ibsen opening, as well as today’s previous post.
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Plan 9 from Yale
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
Notes towards the Definition of Dylan
From yesterday morning —
“Play the numbers, play the odds
Play ‘Cry Me a River’ for the Lord of the gods”
— Bob Dylan at
https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-lyrics
This suggests . . .
Polydor 2001 566 —
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Nobel Literature Lyrics
“Play the numbers, play the odds
Play ‘Cry Me a River’ for the Lord of the gods”
— Bob Dylan at
https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-lyrics
See also “Cry Me a River” in this journal.
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Annals of Literature
Recent posts now tagged Paycheck suggest . . .
Related material —
See too “The Bond with Reality” in posts tagged Voids.
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The Lottery Midrash
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
Line for a National Comedy Center
Log24 last Sunday:
Two years earlier —
Saturday Night Live on March 24, 2018 (a repeat) —
Related literature: The 1953 Philip K. Dick story
“Paycheck” —
A punchline for Saoirse —
“Manly, yes, but I like it too.”
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Spectral Evidence
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Sunday in the Park
Some notes suggested by recent posts now also tagged Three Days —
Sporkin in 1975, according to his obituary in this morning’s print edition
of The New York Times —
He reportedly died at 88 of natural causes on Monday, March 23.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The Amsterdam Connection
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No Ordinary Venue
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Sunday, March 22, 2020
Three Days of the Breakthrough Institute
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Sermon
See also, for a child of Hell’s Kitchen, a New York Times
quote from this morning’s print edition:
“A version of this article appears in print
on , Section SR, Page 6 of
the New York edition with the headline:
My Grandma on Art and Sex.” —
“Above all, she was unfailingly true to herself.”
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Putting the “Arch” in Architecture:
An 1132 for James Joyce — (Click to enlarge)
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Eightfold Site
A brief summary of the eightfold cube is now at octad.us.
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Saturday, March 21, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
Father Flynn’s Walpurgisnacht
Father Flynn in this morning’s post “Hollywood Interpretation
of Quantum Mechanics” suggests a flashback to Tron: Legacy —
A search for the above blogger “hilbertthm90”
yields some of his remarks from April 30, 2008
in his weblog “A Mind for Madness.” See as well
this journal on Walpurgisnacht 2008.
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Going Viral with Doctor WHO
“After consulting with medical experts and receiving guidance from
the World Health Organization, CNN has determined that the term
‘Chinese virus’ is both inaccurate and considered stigmatizing.”
— March 19 coronavirus news
By Jessie Yeung, Helen Regan,
Adam Renton, Emma Reynolds and
Fernando Alfonso III, CNN,
Updated 10:42 p.m. ET, March 19, 2020
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The Hollywood Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
Class
In memory of Stephen Schwartz, a member of
the Harvard College class of 1963 —
Synchronology check —
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Spring Awakening
In memory of a University of Washington pathologist
who reportedly died on Tuesday, March 17 —
Cezanne’s Greetings.
See as well . . .
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Arch vs. Pyramid
This morning’s online New York Times has news of Glastonbury:
Glastonbury Woo in this journal features the arch, not the pyramid.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Geometric Theology
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