From Princeton Public Library (65 Witherspoon St., on map above)—
Songs and Fingerplays—
Fingerplay— See this morning's 10:30 AM post.
Song— Paul Robeson sings "Summertime."
See also the Harvard version.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Monday, July 9, 2007
Monday July 9, 2007
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Mystic River Song
continued from June 18: From the Harvard
A Stone for Mystic River, 2003
Related material: Human Conflict  This album contains
"Planned Obsolescence": any modern man can see piety Folk are humpin' "By all means accept the invitation to hell, should it come. It will not take you far– from Cambridge to hell is only a step; or at most a hop, skip, and jump. But now you are evading– you are dodging the issue…. after all, Cambridge is hell enough." — Great Circle, a 1933 novel by Conrad Aiken (father of Joan Aiken, who wrote The Shadow Guests)
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Monday June 18, 2007
Yesterday, Father's Day, was also the
anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Bunker Hill Community College
was the site yesterday of the
New England Fine Arts Fair.
A 2006 collage from Log24:
Sources: Log24 on 12/31/02 and 10/30/05,
and wainscoting from "Mystic River."
Meanwhile in Cambridge we have,
at Harvard's math department,
Noam Elkies's "Slummerville"—
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Folk are humpin' |
"By all means accept the invitation to hell, should it come. It will not take you far– from Cambridge to hell is only a step; or at most a hop, skip, and jump. But now you are evading– you are dodging the issue…. after all, Cambridge is hell enough."
— Great Circle, a 1933 novel by Conrad Aiken (father of Joan Aiken, who wrote The Shadow Guests)
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Wednesday May 31, 2006
Clint Eastwood
is 76.
is 76.
In honor of his birthday,
a three-part meditation
on quality:
Part I —
From The Quality of Diamond,
Log24 entries from Feb. 2004:
The Quality
with No Name
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And what is good, Phaedrus,
and what is not good…
Need we ask anyone
to tell us these things?
— Epigraph to
Zen and the Art of
Motorcyle Maintenance
Part II —
From Log24 on
Dec. 7, 2003:
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Eyes on the Prize Dialogue from “Good Will Hunting” — Will: He used to just put a belt,
Location, Location, Location
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Part III —
From the website of
Noam D. Elkies,
Harvard mathematician:
| SLUMMERVILLE |
| Somerville, |
| Where the livin’ is sleazy: |
| Folk are humpin’ |
| And the chillun is high. |
| Oh yo’ daddy’s rich, |
| ‘Cos yo’ ma is good lookin’ |
| So hush, ugly baby, |
| Or I’ll make you cry. |
[“Parody by Noam D. Elkies;
not the original lyrics,
of course.”]
Related material
from Log24 on
April 10, 2006:
Noam D. Elkies