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  • Assignment L.08.11: No Man’s Land

    I just found this.  I cannot believe I never came across it before now.  Just yesterday I ordered a DVD-R copy from a “source,” thinking it was the only way to obtain it.

    Harold Pinter-No Man’s Land-John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson

    This 1978 television version of the original stage production has never been released commercially.  I do not know why.  Maybe the BBC wants to have exclusive control over when and how it gets viewed.  That is not surprising since it is a special sublime thing.  It is sublime beyond sublime.  The image, unfortunately, is poor on this transfer (I hope it will be better on the DVD I ordered–if I did in fact order it and not just cough into empty cyberspace), and I hope the sound allows for enjoying the language at least a little (I haven’t taken it in myself, yet).

    I don’t yet want to turn into a school marm and lecture on why I think this is so special.  I’d rather folks watch it and…experience.

  • Good Flick

    I don’t know if this movie has made it out your way, but I saw Bill Maher’s Religulous this weekend. I have never been much of a Maher fan, but the movie is pretty good. No matter what your beliefs are, it’s a pretty funny movie.

    Mike

  • My friend’s blog.

    While I lived in Rome, I did as the Romans do. So I built some aqueducts, and made some friends.

    Two or three would make great Lichtenbergians. www.jumpexam.com I wanted to share a blog from one of those friends, Michael Bailey, a professor of history at Berry College. I thought you guys might get a kick out of his view of the world. www.jumpexam.com

    http://professormikey.blogspot.com/

    Enjoy!

  • Taking a Moment: David Foster Wallace

    David Foster Wallace hanged himself:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/books/14wallace.html

    The article does not mention he also played competitive tennis in his teens.  My one impression of him from a Charlie Rose interview was of affable intensity and a desire to reveal a genuine thinking indecisiveness in his responses.  I don’t know if anything can be gleaned from that observation.

    I think it’s important for our survival as Lichtenbergians that we not be so quick to slip this one under the rug.  America’s youngest monumentalist (I may have just coined that one) author is dead by his own hand.  One can only wonder at this point.  The peak looming in the background of our insignia is looking a bit more shadowy at present.  A darkness we may need to feel our way through for a while.

  • Art?

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcSHOuGPt4

  • OK, I’ll play.

    Well, I tried to upload my self-portrait, and I get this mumbo-jumbo C2090-611 crap:

    Unable to create directory /Volumes/data/home/dalelyles/www.lichtenbergian.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09. Is its parent directory writable by the server? C2090-611

  • A new assignment?

    Look 98-366 target=”_blank”>what popped up on my “WikiHow of the Day”… A30-327

  • Summer Vacation

    Maybe the Lichtenbergians should book one of these trips.  Check
    MB3-230 out this link.

    ISEB-ITILF

  • Watch These. Trust Me.

    From the man who brought you Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a musical super hero saga 70-646 starring Neil Patrick Harris. This is my favorite thing I have ever watched on the internet.

    Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog 98-361