Signifying nothing

Speaking of movies, I don't think I ever mentioned my weird little moviette that's been out front for a few months now. I'm going to be retooling for another issue as soon as I get my new home office set up, so I suppose I ought to at least mention it before it goes away. Along with Edison film and a Múm sound track (q.v.) the moviette also feature Anthony Hecht reading a translation of one of a Chorus from Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus .

It has been a while since I harmed your eyes with a movie. This one is in honor of Karma King's late departure from Chez Wilhelm: Karma King: Conch Memories. It is handy having the King so far away, since he can't prevent me from posting embarassing movies of him. Ah the memories.

Suddenly it is all about dreaming, eh? Mid-B and Hip are having cool dreams about Lucy and Russians and Le Sabres. I, on the other had, have dreams about going to the grocery store and shopping. Nothing remarkable happens in these dreams, unless buying fresh broccoli is remarkable. This is a rather common pattern for me: dreaming in the mundane. I dream of doing laundry or walking to the bus stop etc. It is not that I don't also have adverturesome dreams (I beleive I wrote about my cool ninja dreams last year or the year before), but on the whole my dreams consist of me doing everyday things. The amusing thing is that while I'm dreaming such things I know I am dreaming. Perhaps that is why they are mundane. Perhaps my dream narrator is controling them so closely to prevent anything bad from happening in them. Now that's pretty Freudian, eh? Nah. I think the nightmare would have slithered out from under the closet door by now if I were supressing anything. Tha...

So karmaking (a.k.a housemate with an yen for travel and teaching) has trotted the globe and will be teaching in S. Korea for at least a year. He left on Sunday, leaving behind his bed and various sundry items about the house that we are dutifully collecting in a cardboard box. Well we did not collect his bed in a cardboard box, but left it where it was to serve as a guest bedroom for sundry guests who visit Chez Wilhelm. The cat has currently taken over the room, although by his plaintive mewling it is clear he misses the king. The king, by the way, was due to arrive in Seoul at 8:00 pm local time on Monday. Since it is now 3:26 am, I assume he got there several hours ago and is in full-blown jet lag. KK's leaving on the same day as my birthday kind of threw that onto the back burner. I mean my hell you have a birthday once a year, but most folks only leave to go teach in Korea once in a life time.

Hockey and then up to Park City for some Sundancitude . Quite a combo, eh? It is also supposed to snow.

Frequent commenter Cordelia from Austin, TX has posted her film/slide show about Gilgal Gardens here in good old SLC: SLC.mov (video/quicktime Object).

More from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 : Q. Do you know Mr. Talbot? Roderie. I do not understand English. Q. Do you know Mr. Talbot? Roderie. If I see him I know him. Q. What is his christian name? Roderie. I do not know no more than Mr. Talbot; I am a Portuguese. Q. Do you know whether Mr. Talbot is a Popish bishop or not? Roderie. I do not know. Council for the crown. My lord, we despair of being able to make out the charge against the defendant. Acquitted . I think I should try that answer some time: "I do not know; I am a Portuguese."

Just when you think you think there is nothing of any interest left on the Net to discover along comes something like The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 . This site is keeping me awake. For instance, did you know that 1820 several men were sentenced to be drawn and quartered for Treason to George IV? While many of them men had their sentences commuted to transportation (I assume to Australia), the ring leaders were executed but that part of the sentence with respect to their being drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and the division of their bodies, being omittted. ( source ) In 1780 George IV's father George III was apparently not so generous as he did afford the French spy Henry de La Motte, any mercy. According to Wikipedia , de la Motte was the last person to be executed by drawing and quartering in Britain. Quite a few women between the time frame of the site were also sentenced to death by burning. Now you would expect that this would be for ...

Quick, like a bunny I've had the occasion to run three times this week: twice out of necessity and once simply because I felt like it. Running and I have a sordid history. As a kid I remember running everywhere (just as a means of locomotion) but as a teen I began to despise it and thought it the most painful physical activity a human being could engage in this side of excercising in an iron maiden. Like most teenagers health wasn't a top priority as much as comfort, so I rarely ran. This lasted for a while until I got in grad school and took it up again for health and physical appearance vanity. Even then, however, I thought it excrutiatingly painful and since I got a bad case of shin splints I ended up stopping altogether. Fast forward a few more years and I started running again now purely for health reasons (a high blood pressure scare that was related more to consuming 2 pots of coffee and smoking too many cigarettes than it was to not being in tip-top physical cond...

Salt Lake Tribune - Utah : According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Salt Lake City, Bogdana A. Georgieva, 35, grabbed another passenger and threw her into the aisle aboard Skywest-United Express Flight 6664 from Eugene, Ore., to Denver." Georgieva then yelled she had a baby named Jesus, that her uncle impregnated her and that 'President Bush was behind it all,' according to the complaint, which charges her with interference with a flight crew. The woman also attempted to remove her blouse and throw things at other passengers, the complaint states. Sounds like an ordinary Southwest flight to me.

I was listening to Jennifer Napier-Pearce's ( who is also on local public radio station KCPW who was formerly on KCPW but now is starting to do some work for KUER (see update)) Inside Utah podcast * and was amused by Lavar Webb 's intrinsically Utah accent. It is not the broad accent so often lampooned (guilty) by Utahns, but a very tight and extremely non-hick-sounding accent--what I would tend to call "church" accent. Give it a listen *. I know several men who sound exactly like him--kind of strangely nasal and all the vowells are skewed. I bet he would say "Fridee" for Friday. It was nice hearing the accent on a quasi radio program. Even here in Utah the accent is rarely heard on TV or on the Radio. I don't think I've ever heard a newscaster, for example, who had the accent. *You'll need a suitable program to use the XML file I linked; something like iTunes or whatever. If you don't want to install anything, try going to the Insi...

Well since I have precious little to write about my own existence here, I have been quite active snarking at unsuspecting targets (even if they deserve it) at the inimitable Osterblog .

I will say it has been quite nice being away from pretty much anything computer or work related for the past while. Perahps someday I will write of my adventures, but not now and not here. Got to keep things mysterious, you know.

Well if you didn't make it to the Circle Lounge then you missed out. Well maybe not. Well maybe so. It's that kind of place where I would never be caught but was. How's that for the use of the non-subjunctive.