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* ''[[Eraserhead Nevsky]]'' | |||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | |||
* ''[[Scannery Row]]'' | |||
* [[Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue)]] | |||
* ''[[Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance]]'' | |||
{{Selected anniversaries/ | |||
File:Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance.jpg|link=Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance|'''''[[Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance]]''''' is a self-discovery travel and body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Robert Pirsi | |||
File:Eraserhead Nevsky.jpg|link=Eraserhead Nevsky|'''''[[Eraserhead Nevsky]]''''' is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch. It depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky. | |||
File:Scannery Row.jpg|link=Scannery Row|'''''[[Scannery Row]]''''' is a science fiction horror-romance film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. | |||
File:Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue).jpg|link=Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue)|'''''[[Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue)]]''''' is a musical noir thriller film directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, David Lynch, and the Carpent | |||
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Ely Minnesota, population 3200, a hour's drive from a larger city (Virginia, pop. 8900). | |||
Not much happens here. Once or twice a year I read about a drug bust or an overdose. Rumor of arson last summer. Amazon packages stolen from steps. | |||
Nights are quiet, I don't worry. | |||
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1687163459731951616 Post] @ Twitter (3 August 2023) | |||
== "The Big News" email to AirVuz == | |||
From the email announcement I sent to AirVuz a few minutes ago (September 18, 2019): | |||
<blockquote> | |||
Hello AirVuz, | |||
The big news is that I have purchased property in Ely, Minnesota, and I am in the process of moving up there right now. | |||
The property is a residential/commercial space on the main street in the heart of downtown Ely. It's been an art gallery and framing service (the Kess Gallery) for thirty years. The artist couple that own it are retiring. The building needs a lot of work, but the price is low so I can afford to fix it up. | |||
Most of the property is taken up by the gallery / retail space, with very cramped living quarters at the back, but that's okay for now. Next year I will rehab the entire residential area, tear down the old garage and back porch, and build out more living space in back including maybe a separate small residential unit for AirBnB. | |||
Closing is scheduled for September 30, but the owners handed me the keys right after I signed the purchase agreement and said go ahead and move in. (They have a house nearby.) | |||
So, I will be busy moving for the next couple of weeks, but then I will settle down and get back to work. | |||
Drive time from Ely to the AirVuz World Headquarters is about four and a half hours, and I want to get into the metro about weekly, so I will attend at least some staff meetings, maybe all of them. | |||
You are all invited (once I get settled in) to visit me in Ely: | |||
130 East Sheridan Street | |||
Ely, MN | |||
55731 | |||
I will rename the place the Karl Jones Gallery and continue to show and sell art, mainly by my Twin Cities friends and myself, also by local artists. I don't expect the gallery to make much money, that's not how galleries usually work. But I'm sure it will be great fun. | |||
The former owner, who has an established clientele base for framing services, is setting me up with all of his stock and training me how to do framing, which will be a nice little sideline business. | |||
That's about it for now. I will keep you posted as things progress. | |||
Your Man in Ely, | |||
Karl Jones | |||
</blockquote> | |||
== If I ever disappear == | |||
If I ever disappear like I occasionally threaten to, just think that I was on Art of Darkness, published by Apocalypse Confidential, I created The Forest of Symbols. I had a good run. | |||
Forest of Symbols @AldousAsterion | |||
== == | |||
That's one small step | |||
for gpt, | |||
one giant leap | |||
for chatkind | |||
== == | |||
Four strong winds that blow Sherbrooke | |||
Seventeen Seventy-Eight runs high | |||
How I wish all those things come what me | |||
But our letter of marque has come | |||
And I'm bound for movin' on | |||
I'll look for the scummiest vessel I’ve ever seen | |||
O the year was Seventeen Seventy-Eight | |||
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now | |||
A letter of marque came from the king | |||
To | |||
God damn them all | |||
I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold | |||
We’d fire no guns, shed no tears | |||
Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier | |||
The last of Barrett’s Privateers | |||
Four strong winds that blow lonely | |||
Seven seas that run high | |||
All those things that don't change come what may | |||
But our good times are all gone | |||
And I'm bound for movin' on | |||
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way | |||
== == | |||
Don't know why<br> | |||
There's a gun up in the sky<br> | |||
Heavy weather<br> | |||
Since my government ain't together<br> | |||
Keeps raining bullets all the time | |||
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgVCU19pjg | |||
The lunatic I said you'd call | |||
The lunatic I said you'd call | |||
Remembering rings and Doctor Robert's laugh | |||
Got to be there any time at all | |||
The lunatic will pick you up | |||
The lunatic will pick you up | |||
The paper hold he's folded everything he can | |||
Got to keep the loony's special cup | |||
And if the dam breaks open for the National Health | |||
You shout and no one can succeed | |||
And if you must believe in everyone in need | |||
I'll see you pay the dark side of yourself | |||
The lunatic is on the grass | |||
The lunatic is on the grass | |||
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs | |||
Got to keep the loonies on the path | |||
The lunatic is in the hall | |||
The lunatics are in my hall | |||
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor | |||
And every day, the paperboy brings more | |||
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon | |||
And if there is no room upon the hill | |||
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too | |||
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon | |||
Ring, my friend I said you'd call | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
Day or night he'll be there any time at all | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
You're a new and better man | |||
He helps you to understand | |||
He does everything he can | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
If you're down he'll pick you up | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
Take a drink from his special cup | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
He's a man you must believe | |||
Helping anyone in need | |||
No one can succeed like Doctor Robert | |||
Well, well, well, you're feeling fine | |||
Well, well, well, he'll make you | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
My friend works for the National Health | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
Don't pay money just to see yourself | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
Doctor Robert | |||
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'''''Gnomon Chronicles''''' is a work of fiction and nonfiction by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)]]. Fresh content daily.<br> | |||
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== Better Than News == | |||
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== Are You Sure ... == | |||
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== On This Day == | |||
{{Selected anniversaries/{{#time:F j|now - 2 hours}}}} | |||
== Topic of the Day == | |||
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Latest revision as of 08:36, 31 May 2024
- Eraserhead Nevsky
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Scannery Row
- Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue)
- Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance
File:Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance.jpg|link=Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance|Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance is a self-discovery travel and body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Robert Pirsi
File:Eraserhead Nevsky.jpg|link=Eraserhead Nevsky|Eraserhead Nevsky is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch. It depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky.
File:Scannery Row.jpg|link=Scannery Row|Scannery Row is a science fiction horror-romance film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger.
File:Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue).jpg|link=Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue)|Velvet Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Blue) is a musical noir thriller film directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, David Lynch, and the Carpent
July 3
July 3
Ely Minnesota, population 3200, a hour's drive from a larger city (Virginia, pop. 8900).
Not much happens here. Once or twice a year I read about a drug bust or an overdose. Rumor of arson last summer. Amazon packages stolen from steps.
Nights are quiet, I don't worry.
- Post @ Twitter (3 August 2023)
"The Big News" email to AirVuz
From the email announcement I sent to AirVuz a few minutes ago (September 18, 2019):
Hello AirVuz,
The big news is that I have purchased property in Ely, Minnesota, and I am in the process of moving up there right now.
The property is a residential/commercial space on the main street in the heart of downtown Ely. It's been an art gallery and framing service (the Kess Gallery) for thirty years. The artist couple that own it are retiring. The building needs a lot of work, but the price is low so I can afford to fix it up.
Most of the property is taken up by the gallery / retail space, with very cramped living quarters at the back, but that's okay for now. Next year I will rehab the entire residential area, tear down the old garage and back porch, and build out more living space in back including maybe a separate small residential unit for AirBnB.
Closing is scheduled for September 30, but the owners handed me the keys right after I signed the purchase agreement and said go ahead and move in. (They have a house nearby.)
So, I will be busy moving for the next couple of weeks, but then I will settle down and get back to work.
Drive time from Ely to the AirVuz World Headquarters is about four and a half hours, and I want to get into the metro about weekly, so I will attend at least some staff meetings, maybe all of them.
You are all invited (once I get settled in) to visit me in Ely:
130 East Sheridan Street Ely, MN 55731
I will rename the place the Karl Jones Gallery and continue to show and sell art, mainly by my Twin Cities friends and myself, also by local artists. I don't expect the gallery to make much money, that's not how galleries usually work. But I'm sure it will be great fun.
The former owner, who has an established clientele base for framing services, is setting me up with all of his stock and training me how to do framing, which will be a nice little sideline business.
That's about it for now. I will keep you posted as things progress.
Your Man in Ely, Karl Jones
If I ever disappear
If I ever disappear like I occasionally threaten to, just think that I was on Art of Darkness, published by Apocalypse Confidential, I created The Forest of Symbols. I had a good run.
Forest of Symbols @AldousAsterion
That's one small step for gpt, one giant leap for chatkind
Four strong winds that blow Sherbrooke Seventeen Seventy-Eight runs high How I wish all those things come what me But our letter of marque has come And I'm bound for movin' on I'll look for the scummiest vessel I’ve ever seen
O the year was Seventeen Seventy-Eight
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
A letter of marque came from the king
To
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold We’d fire no guns, shed no tears Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett’s Privateers
Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change come what may
But our good times are all gone
And I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way
Don't know why
There's a gun up in the sky
Heavy weather
Since my government ain't together
Keeps raining bullets all the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgVCU19pjg
The lunatic I said you'd call The lunatic I said you'd call Remembering rings and Doctor Robert's laugh Got to be there any time at all
The lunatic will pick you up The lunatic will pick you up The paper hold he's folded everything he can Got to keep the loony's special cup
And if the dam breaks open for the National Health You shout and no one can succeed And if you must believe in everyone in need I'll see you pay the dark side of yourself
The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day, the paperboy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
Ring, my friend I said you'd call Doctor Robert Day or night he'll be there any time at all Doctor Robert Doctor Robert You're a new and better man He helps you to understand He does everything he can Doctor Robert If you're down he'll pick you up Doctor Robert Take a drink from his special cup Doctor Robert Doctor Robert He's a man you must believe Helping anyone in need No one can succeed like Doctor Robert Well, well, well, you're feeling fine Well, well, well, he'll make you Doctor Robert My friend works for the National Health Doctor Robert Don't pay money just to see yourself Doctor Robert Doctor Robert
Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction). Fresh content daily.
Better Than News
Legends of the Canticles Fall for Leibowitz is a novel by Walter M. Miller and Jim Harrison. It was adapted as a 2022 film starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, and Julia Ormond.
Octaman of Arabia is an epic biographical adventure monster film directed by David Lean and Harry Essex.
2001: A Species Odyssey is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover an alien-human hybrid child stowed away on their spaceship.
Philosophical Beasts: Socrates versus Dumbledore is a fantasy adventure film in which Albus Dumbledore tasks Newt Scamander and his allies with a mission that takes them into ancient Greece during the time of Socrates.
Pooh vs. Alien— Piglet and Eeyore are caught in the crossfire of an ancient battle between Winnie-the-Pooh and aliens as they attempt to entertain children long enough for their parents to have some overdue sex.
Martin Prince Jr.'s Wide Wide World of Video Games is a television series starring gifted child and video game connoisseur Martin Prince Jr.
Dr Quadruped: The Battle for Hoth is a science fiction thriller film about a brilliant inventor (Otto Octavius) who becomes dangerously obsessed with four-legged creatures after failing to construct a mechanical octopus.
What's the best time of year to fall in love? Now. —The Butterfly Nebula
Are You Sure ...
... that the Soviet N1 rocket was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit; that the project was underfunded and rushed, and badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966; that each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed; that during the second launch attempt the N1 rocket crashed back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff and exploded, resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history; and that the N1 was kept secret almost until the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, with information about the N1 first being published in 1989?
... that I Am Curious (Texas) is a 1967 Swedish erotic geography film?
On This Day
1518: Physician and scientist Li Shizhen born. He will develop many innovative methods for the proper classification of herb components and medications to be used for treating diseases, earning a reputation as the greatest scientific naturalist of China.
1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
2007: NASA approves a mission extension for Stardust, sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1.
Topic of the Day
Non-Fungible Tokens
2001: An NFT Odyssey is a 1968 American science fiction NFT film about an advanced computer (HAL 9000) which attempts to market itself as non-fungible tokens.
The Dark NFT is a 2008 superhero NFT film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged database engineer who threatens to delete all the non-fungible tokens in Gotham City.
NFTspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film about a group of NFT addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.
The Dragons of NFT is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, which combines anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how intelligent non-fungible tokens may have evolved.