Anticipation -- November 16, 2022

Breaking: GOP re-takes the US House. Should never have been in question.

Pardon the interruption; now back to regular programming.

Saudi: just like the US Fed -- telegraphing their intentions. LOL.

Link here.

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Word for the Day

Diegetic music: music that can be heard by a movie's characters as well as by its audience.

And look at the date of the entry:

The word "diegesis" comes from the Greek and literally means narration.

Within the oral storytelling tradition, the narrator creates "the world of the story."

In filmmaking, we call the world of a film the diegesis — everything that exists within that world is diegetic, everything else is non-diegetic.  --- Nov 6, 2022

Link here. 

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Memories

 

I've found that little mementos are perfectly archived in frames and hung:

• top: snowy owl, Plum Island, Massachusetts, a photo taken by me! Pure luck.
• middle: Geneva Convention card; wow. Priceless.
• bottom: 3-cent US Coast Guard stamp, issued November 10, 1945 -- my dad served in the US Coast Guard / US Navy in World War II

To these three will be added a fourth, as soon as I get it framed: this small "plaque" was attached to some memento given to me following my first tour at RAF Mildenhall, northern England, near York, June 1, 2002, through August 21, 2002. 

I was in the service (USAF) for thirty years and one day. Perhaps the best days of those thirty years were those few weeks in England. After I'm dead, my daughters might read about that tour. My wife just came across this little plaque a few days ago; I have no idea where it's been for twenty years.

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A Musical Interlude