Red Mug, Blue Linen
Friday, February 1, 2019

Hitchcock discovers the extra man

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Who better, may one remark, than the world-class master of shock in cinema, discov- ering a floppy tuxedo hand- kerchief as early ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The temptations of Robert Mueller

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Believe me, I completely agree that it is a little sick-o to empathize with the trials of a prosecutor, especially for the th...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Jonas Mekas: Was it this week, or last?

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Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania 1922, died this week in New York. But may- be he died last week, depending on whether January 23rd...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Sunday nibbled sleeve iii: "We want immigration, based on merit"

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      Glad you could come.      Right this way, sir. W. Eugene Smith 1918 - 1978  American   family   undated
Friday, January 25, 2019

Suppose it were Friday clxviii: Tipping points for ransom

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Our ain't we got fun series has come to a veritable revival meet- ing of tipping points this week- end, in the manic p...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Now, voyager

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     Brussels after the Crash. Tintin      is off in the Land of the Soviets,      driving an Amilcar C6 (of course).      A...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Am I grateful enough for Kamala Harris?

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     I’m not able to be rushed this      fast. It makes me nervous. Word has it, that when pressed by Senator Harris to respond ...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Saturday commute clxiii: The walk

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Cynical counsel soiled the land again today, as the President of the United States teased the People with bon-bon treats of...
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Writing to a colleague in the 1930s, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli confessed, “I have done a terrible thing. I’ve postulated a particle that can not be detected.” Eventually, Pauli won the Nobel Prize for his Exclusion Principle, i.e., all material particles exhibit space-occupying behaviour - and could very well fall within the province of restaurants. I wonder if red mug, blue linen will be that terrible thing, a postulate without a particle - that a gentleman is only that creature whose nourishment occupies no space. But whether that is true, is less urgent to know than where it comes from.
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