Month: August 2006

  • Cleavage Term

    "... a point of common understanding between the classic and romantic worlds. Quality, the cleavage term
    between hip and square, seemed to be it. Both worlds used the term.
    Both knew what it was. It was just that the romantic left it alone and
    appreciated it for what it was and the classic tried to turn it into a
    set of intellectual building blocks for other purposes."

    For such building blocks, see

    A Trinity for Rebecca

    (4/25/06)

    and yesterday's lottery
    in Pennsylvania:
    mid-day 713, evening 526.
    These numbers prompt the
    following meditation
    on the square and the hip:
    In memory of
    Kermit Hall,
    college president,
    who died Sunday,
    August 13, 2006:

    Square
    7/13:
    Carpe Diem

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    President Hall
    (SUNY Albany)
    meets with
    Wenzhou University*
    delegation, 4/25/06.

    		 In memory of
    Duke Jordan,
    jazz pianist,
    who died Tuesday,
    August 8, 2006:

    Hip
    5/26:
    A Living Church

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    Jazz clubs
    on 52nd Street
    on a summer night
    in 1948, pictured in
    Log24 on 4/25/06.

      Square and hip may each have a place
    in heaven; for a less pleasant destination,
    see the previous entry.
    __________________________________

    * Update of 3 PM 8/14/06:

    See Forrest Gump on God
    in an Aug. 11 entry and
    the related paper

    Renegotiating Chinese Identity:
    Between Local Group
    and National Ideology,

    by Kristen Parris:

    Center and Locality in China

    The Roots of Group Identity in Wenzhou

    Wenzhou as a Negative Identity

    The Wenzhou Model as a Positive Identity

    The New Wenzhou Narrative

    Wenzhou Identity and Emergent Class Interests

    Conclusion: Local Group Identity and National Transformation.

    The paper is found in
    The Power of Identity:
    Politics in a New Key    ,
    by Kenneth Hoover et al.,
    Chatham House, 1997.

    Related material
    may be found
    by a search on
    "the Wenzhou model."







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    David
    Frankfurter,
    author of
    Evil Incarnate
    (Princeton
    Univ. Press)

    		 Via dell'Inferno

    "Most modern men
     do not believe in hell
     because they have
     not been there."
    -- Review of
       Malcolm Lowry's
       Under the Volcano

    The Death of Satan:
    How Americans Have
    Lost the Sense of Evil
    -- Title of book by
        Andrew Delbanco

    Song based on
    Delbanco's book:

    "The serpent's eyes shine
     as he wraps
       around the vine
     in the Garden of Allah."
    -- Don Henley

  • Happy Six

    (continued from
    New Year's Day, 2006)

    See David P. Roberts (1998)
    on Twin Sextic Algebras
    for a discussion of
    sextic twinning as an
    analogue of duality
    in vector spaces:

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    Related material:

    R.T.
    Curtis, 2001:

    "A Fresh Approach
    to the Exceptional Automorphism
    and Covers
    of the Symmetric Groups"
    in
    The
    Arabian Journal
    for Science and Engineering    .

  • Under God

    Adapted from August 7:

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    "Saomai, the Vietnamese name
    for the planet Venus, was the
    eighth major storm to hit China
    during an unusually violent
    typhoon season."

    -- AP online tonight 

    Memorable Quotes 

    Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:
    Where the Hell is
    this God of yours?
     
    Forrest Gump:
    [narrating]
    It's funny Lieutenant Dan
    said that, 'cause right then,
    God showed up.

     Wind and thunder:
    the image of Increase.
    Thus the superior man:
    If he sees good,
    he imitates it;
    If he has faults,
    he rids himself of them.

    -- Hexagram 42 

    For further details,
    see     recent entries
    (August 7-11)
    and also

    Symmetry and Change
    In the Dreamtime    .

    Update of 1:06 AM ET
    from KHYI:

    Mercy
    Now     
    Written by Mary Gauthier

    My father could use a little mercy now
    The fruits of his
    labor
    Fall and rot slowly on the ground
    His work is almost over
    It
    won't be long and he won't be around
    I love my father, and he could use some
    mercy now

    My brother could use a little mercy now
    He's a stranger to
    freedom
    He's shackled to his fears and doubts
    The pain that he lives in
    is
    Almost more than living will allow
    I love my brother, and he could use
    some mercy now

    My church and my country could use a little mercy now
    As they
    sink into a poisoned pit
    That's going to take forever to climb out
    They
    carry the weight of the faithful
    Who follow them down
    I love my church and
    country, and they could use some mercy now

    Every living thing could use a little mercy now
    Only the hand
    of grace can end the race
    Towards another mushroom cloud
    People in power,
    well
    They'll do anything to keep their crown
    I love life, and life itself
    could use some mercy now

    Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now
    I know we don't
    deserve it
    But we need it anyhow
    We hang in the balance
    Dangle 'tween
    hell and hallowed ground
    Every single one of us could use some mercy
    now
    Every single one of us could use some mercy now
    Every single one of us
    could use some mercy now


  • Catechism


    Q     - No more Mr. Nice Guy?

    A     - Seven is heaven.

  • Echoes

     
    Log24 on
    Wednesday,
    8/9/06    :

    Absinthe makes the
    heart grow fonder...

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    Log24 8/9/06:

    "Time disappears
    with Tequila.
    It goes elastic,
    then vanishes."

    -- Kylie Minogue

    on 8/9/06:

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    Log24 on 8/8/06:

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    New York Times
    today, 8/11/06    :

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    Wikipedia on
    Mel Gibson:

    "The arrest was
    supported by...
    an open container...
    75% full, labeled
    'Cazador [sic] tequila'"

    Related material:

    "Not the sound
    but the echo
    of a sound.
    Not the prophecy
    from God
    in its purest way,
    but in a less
    pure way."

    -- Abraham Mezrich,
    quoted in

    Log24 June 6, 2003:

    Beware of Jews
    Telling Stories

    See also...

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    For further details,
    click on Jesus.

  • Night Listener
     
    (See previous entry.)

    Thanks to Natalie at

    KHYI, 95.3 FM, Plano, Texas
    (hard country music),
    for just now playing
    A Fine Line, by Radney Foster:


    There's a curve in the highway, just south of town

    where a man has pulled over to figure life out

    with only his concience and the lonesome sound

    of diesels winding up grade

    he's got a wife and two kids, and they love him so

    he's got a woman down in georgia,
       and she's startin' to show

    he's damned if he leaves her,
       and he's sure damned if he don't

    and he wonders how life got this way

    cuase it's a fine line in between right and wrong

    yea he's been crossing over that border
       way too long

    he should've seen it coming at him
       right from the start

    now there aint' no escape from a broken heart

    now the call of the highway is a powerful thing

    like the pull of a lover, or a child in a swing

    gave his heart to two women
       only one wears his ring

    they're both gonna have his babies now

    so how do you confess,
       what words don't explain

    he never intended to cause this much pain

    now he feels like a farmer
       who went praying for the rain

    got more than he bargained from the clouds

    [chorus]

    he'll turn his car around tonight,
       go home and try to face the truth

    everyone involved's getting hurt,
       now there aint nothing he can do

    [chorus]

    Wind and thunder:
    the image of Increase.

    Thus the superior man:
    If he sees good,
    he imitates it;

    If he has faults,
    he rids himself of them.

    -- Hexagram 42

      (10:00:42 PM ET)

    Update of 11:08 PM ET...


    and, Natalie, for playing
    "Late Night Grande Hotel"
    just now, thanks big time.

  • Timeagain:
     
    3:57 Revisited
     

    Question

    (NBC Nightly News
    this evening)

    Who is minding the

    Internet liquor store?

    Answer


    The Green Fairy    :

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    Kylie Minogue
    in "Moulin Rouge"

    Online news today at 3:57 PM:

    Robin Williams in Rehab

    Williams's most recent
    film is "The Night Listener."

    Related material --

    For Your Listening Pleasure

    (Log24, 9/2/05 at 3:57 PM),

    and today's previous entry:

    "Time disappears with Tequila.
    It goes elastic, then vanishes."

    -- Kylie Minogue

  • Two-Bar Hook
     

    Wikipedia on Mel Gibson:

    "The arrest was supported by...
    an open container... 75% full,
    labeled 'Cazador [sic] tequila'
    (a strong type of mezcal)."

    Today's New York Times:

    Refined Tequilas,

    Meant to be Savored:

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    Photo by Lars Klove for
    The New York Times


    -- Essay by Eric Asimov,
     
    "Spirits of the Times"

    "Remember that we deal with

    Herb Alpert--

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    First album, 1962

    cunning, baffling, and powerful."

    (Adapted from Chapter 5
    of Alcoholics Anonymous)

    Related Material:

    "Tequila,"
    by The Champs
    (1958)

    The Spirituality of
    Addiction and Recovery

    Kylie on Tequila:

    "Turns out she's a party girl
    who loves Tequila:
    'Time disappears with Tequila.
    It goes elastic, then vanishes.'"

    Yvonne returns to the Bella Vista
    in Under the Volcano:

    "... a glass partition
    that divided the room
    (from yet another bar,
    she remembered now,
    giving on a side street)"

    David Sanborn
    (a reply to Alpert's
    Lonely Bull ):

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    "Just listen to how he attacks the two-bar hook of  'Tequila.' After
    planting it firmly in our brains, he finds new ending notes for each
    measure; then he drops half a bar by an octave; then he substitutes a
    new melodic detour for the first bar, retaining the second; then he
    inverts that approach. He keeps twisting the phrase into new melodic
    shapes, but he never obscures the original motif and he never loses the
    beat."

    -- Review of Sanborn's album "Timeagain"
        by Geoffrey Himes in Jazz Times,
        June 2003

    Update of 3:57 PM:
    Robin Williams in Rehab

    "It may be that Kylie is,

    in her own way, an artist...

    with a 357."

    -- Symmetry and Change

  • The Crimson Passion
    continues...

    From The Harvard Crimson today:

    Ned Lamont '76 faces voters
    today in Connecticut's primary

    "Lamont was a fourth generation legacy student
    whose great-grandfather-- Thomas W. Lamont, class of 1892-- was a partner
    at J.P. Morgan and the donor who gave Lamont Library its name."

    There was an article on
    that center of learning
    in The Harvard Crimson
    on May 18, 2006:

    Lamont Pick-up Lines

    That article suggests a caption
    for this excerpt from
    The Crimson Passion,
    Mardi Gras, 2004:

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    "What are you looking at, sugar tits?"

    (Courtesy of Mel Gibson,
    Malibu bon-vivant)