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Twaddle

“There exists a considerable literature devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle met with in Feng Shui.” — Lee…

At 11:59*

“Fantasy and the Buffered Self.” *For the title, see Enormous Changes.

The Missing ART

Back together, but missing an article. “An article (abbreviated ART) is a word (or prefix or suffix) that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.” — Wikipedia Perhaps Tommy Lee…

The Crosswicks Curse…

Continues. There is  such a thing as an MBTI Tesseract. See a thread at http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/ from August 17 and 18, 2010. See also this journal on those dates: The…

Working Backward

(Continued) “This setting of the Ave Verum Corpus  text was composed to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi .” — Wikipedia “Ave Verum Corpus .”— Madison in the BBC America TV…

Dark Fields…

Continues. From the first of previous Log24 posts tagged “Dark Fields”— “A link in memory of Donald G. Higman, dead on Feb. 13, 2006, the day after Lincoln’s birthday: On…

Plan 9 Continues…

A link to “Nine Tailors” in this journal may serve as a memorial to the late David M. Abshire, who reportedly died at 88 on Halloween. See also…

Wisconsin Death Trip*

Courtesy of Mira Sorvino. Enter Madison : From "Intruders," BBC America, Season 1, Episode 2, at 1:07 of 43:31. "You sure know how to show a girl a…

Gods and Giants

A weblog reports Chris Rock's remarks on Saturday Night Live this past weekend: "It’s America, we commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas.  Christmas is…

The Rhetoric of Abstract Concepts

From a post of June 3, 2013: New Yorker  editor David Remnick at Princeton today (from a copy of his prepared remarks): “Finally, speaking of fabric design….” I prefer Tom…