October 29, 2005
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Flux Redux
“I remember how the darkness doubled
I recall lightning struck itself
I was listening, listening to the rain
I was hearing, hearing something elseLife in the hive puckered up my night
The kiss of death, the embrace of life
There I stand neath the Marquee Moon
Just waiting”– Tom Verlaine, “Marquee Moon”
In memory of Michael Gill,
producer and director of the
1969 TV series “Civilisation,”
who died on October 20:
Two descriptions of “Aeon Flux,”
a story featured in the Log24 entry
on the day that Gill died –
“The title character is a tall, sexy, scantily-clad secret agent
from the country of Monica….
Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country
of Bregna, which is led by her sworn enemy, and sometimes lover, Trevor
Goodchild. Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society while
Bregna embodies a centralized scientific planned state.”“After Aeon is done, Trevor decides that she knows too much,
so he has a underling propose a plan to kill her. The plan, quite
strangely, is to implant a bunch of nanites (microscopic robots)
in Trevors seminal duct so he has sex with Aeon and the nanites
tear her apart from the inside. But Aeon was prepared because she had some weird, mean, spiky,
device in her uterus(!?!!) that eats the nanites (that part is
kinda weak), she blows up a wall then and escapes leaving Trevor
standing there naked and confused.”In memory of Richard Smalley,
advocate of nanotechnology,
who died yesterday at 62:
(Wired Magazine, October 2004)
See also yesterday’s entry on Scientism.
In memory of
Thomas Wootton Masland,
brother of
Richard Harry Masland, Harvard ’64,
the Log24 entries of October 25.Funeral services for Masland will be held Sunday, Oct. 30, at 5
p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 113 Engle Street, Englewood, N.J.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to the Jazz
Foundation of America, 322 West 48th Street, New York, N.Y. 10036. The
group helps elderly and ailing jazz and blues musicians with medical
care, housing and other services.
