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City Kid

Dryness*

* See the previous post's link Against Dryness.

A Shot at Redemption

(Continued.) “I need a photo opportunity,  I want a shot at redemption. Don’t want to end up a cartoon  in a cartoon graveyard.” — Paul Simon Photo opportunity for the late…

John Bayley

High Concept:

The Dark Fields  Meet  The Big Seal . Recall the punchline of Tuesday afternoon's post on the 2012 film "Travelling Salesman" — "What am I, the farmer's daughter?" For background from…

State of the NOW:

The Malfunctioning TARDIS continues… The New York Times  this evening claims that this is a photo from the Year of Our Lord 1970: It clearly is not.  [See…

The Big Seal

On Alice K. Turner, fiction editor at Playboy  magazine for two decades, who reportedly died on Jan. 17: "To have Alice publish a science-fiction story of yours was a…

Purely Coincidental

"The character and events depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental." — Ending credits of the 2012…

The Great Gilberts

The New York Times  Sunday Style section (online three days ago): As for the elder Mr. Gilbert, he could have leapt out of a novel by Louis Auchincloss…. According to…

Shema

In memory of a mathematician who reportedly died on Dec. 16, 2014: "Four dimensions is where things change a lot." Backstory:  Or Only Die.