Log24 posts ending at midnight May 31, 2008

A short story
for the conclusion of
Mental Health Month, 2008:

752, 753, 286.

(Numbers courtesy of the
Pennsylvania Lottery,
evening of May 30-
evening of May 31)

Commentary on the
meaning of this
short story:

Countdown

Star of David in Washington Post death notice of Sophie B. Altman

Sophie B. Altman at Christmas 2006 dinner at DeCarlo's

Mother-in-law of
Wonder Woman
Lynda Carter
and founder and
producer of TV's
"It's Academic"

In Memoriam:

LOS TRES REYES MAGOS
Rubén Darío

—Yo soy Gaspar. Aquí traigo el incienso.
Vengo a decir: La vida es pura y bella.
Existe Dios. El amor es inmenso.
¡Todo lo sé por la divina Estrella!

—Yo soy Melchor. Mi mirra aroma todo.
Existe Dios. El es la luz del día.
¡La blanca flor tiene sus pies en lodo
y en el placer hay la melancolía!

—Soy Baltasar. Traigo el oro. Aseguro
que existe Dios. El es el grande y fuerte.
Todo lo sé por el lucero puro
que brilla en la diadema de la Muerte.

—Gaspar, Melchor y Baltasar, callaos.
Triunfa el amor, ya su fiesta os convida.
¡Cristo resurge, hace la luz del caos
y tiene la corona de la Vida!

THE THREE KINGS

I am Caspar. I bring with me the myrrh,
And have this to say: Life is pure and beautiful.
There is a God. His love is immense.
I can see all by the divine Star!

I am Melchior. My frankincense perfumes the air.
There is a God. He is the light of day.
The whitest flower has its stem in the mire
And in joy is also found sorrow!

I am Balthasar. I bring the gold. And I
Assure you: There is a God, great and mighty.
And I know this from the pure light
That radiates from the Diadem of Death.

Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar — say no more.
Love is triumphant, and beckons you to His feast:
Christ is born! The Chaos He has turned to light,
And he wears the crown of Life!

Midrash:

Wonder Woman and the Secret of the Magic Tiara

Wonder Woman and the Secret of the Magic Tiara

Wonder Woman and the Secret of the Magic Tiara-- The End

Tequila
Mockingbird

(November 5, 2002):

CelebritySexNews.com
on Kylie Minogue:

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

From a web page on
Malcolm Lowry's classic novel
Under the Volcano:

The day begins with Yvonne’s arrival at the Bella Vista bar in Quauhnahuac. From outside she hears Geoffrey’s familiar voice shouting a drunken lecture this time on the topic of the rule of the Mexican railway that requires that "A corpse will be transported by express!" (Lowry, Volcano, p. 43).

Kylie

Finney

Well if you want to ride
you gotta ride it like you find it.
Get your ticket at the station
of the Rock Island Line. -- Lonnie Donegan (d. Nov. 3)
and others The Rock Island Line's namesake depot
in Rock Island, Illinois

Related material:

Twenty-First Century Fox
(10/6/02)

Back to You, Kylie
(11/5/02)

Time, Eternity, and Grace
(11/22/02)

That Old Devil Moon
(1/1/03) and
The Shanghai Gesture
(1/3/03)

Whirligig
(1/5/03)

Harrowing
(4/19/03)

Temptation
(4/22/03)

Temptation
(4/9/04)

Tribute,
Train of Thought,
Drunk Bird, and
From Here to Eternity
(8/17/04-8/18/04)

Heaven and Earth
(9/2/04)

Habeas Corpus
(11/24/04)

X, continued
(12/4/04)

Birth and Death
(5/28/05)

Time Travel
(5/28/06)

Timeagain and
Two-Bar Hook
(8/9/06)

Echoes
(8/11/06)

Phantasmagoria
and Tequila!
(9/23/06)

From the
Cartoon Graveyard

Page from 'The Paradise of Childhood,' 1906 edition

The above is from
The Paradise of Childhood,
a work first published in 1869.

For the late Thelma Keane,
wife of "Family Circus"
cartoonist Bil Keane of
Paradise Valley, Arizona:

"I need a photo-opportunity,

Thelma Keane, real-life 'Family Circus' mother

I want a shot at redemption.*
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
-- Paul Simon
*

St. Barnabas on the Desert, Paradise Valley, Arizona

Mrs. Keane died May 23
(St. Sarah's Eve)
according to
The Washington Post.
Related material:
Log24 on May 23,
Saints in Australia.

For Sydney Pollack
(See last night's entry.)

"Now, gentlemen,
I give you
our latest acquisition
from the enemy."

-- Paths of Glory

Note the number, 701,
on the colonel's collar.

Adapted from Log24,
February 19-22, 2008:

"'This is the last call for Jaunt-701,'
the pleasant female voice echoed
through the Blue Concourse
of New York's
Port Authority Terminal....

Images of time and eternity in memory of Michelangelo

See 2/22/08,
      4/19/08,
and 5/22/08.

....'What happened?'

one of the scientists shouted....

'It's eternity in there,' he said,
and dropped dead...."

-- Stephen King, "The Jaunt"

Die Liebe nahm kein Ende mehr.

Mathematics and Narrative, continued:

Indiana Jones and...

Party Girl Turns 40:

Husbands and Wives, continued:

Husbands and Wives:

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