Haikus: September 2014

HAIKUS: September 2014

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Monday, September 1, 2014, 3:06-4:45 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 1:
Giacomo Torelli (1608); Engelbert Humperdinck (1854); James Corbett (1866); Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875); Francis Aston (1877), Marilyn Miller (1898); Dame Peggy van Praagh (1903); Walter Reuther (1907); Rocky Marciano (1923); Lily Tomlin (1939);
Barry Gibb (1946); "Dr. Phil" McGraw (1950);
Gloria Estefan (1957); Dee Dee Myers (1961);
Events on September 1 (1972: Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky for chess crown in Iceland); (1939)—

World War II
began as Nazi Germany
invaded Poland. Tuesday, September 2, 2014, 3:06-4:45 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 2:
Ernst Curtius (1814); Lucretia Hale (1820);
Giovanni Verga (1840); A. G. Spalding (1850);
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853); Frederick Soddy (1877);
Cleveland Amory (1917); Peter Ueberroth (1937);
John Thompson (1941); Nate Archibald (1948);
Terry Bradshaw (1948); Christa McAuliffe (1948);
Jimmy Connors (1952); Eric Dickerson (1960);
Keanu Reeves (1964); Salma Hayek (1966);
Events on September 2 (1945)

Japan surrenders
aboard USS Missouri,
ending World War II.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Busby Berkeley directs
"Strike Up the Band" (1940) with Mickey Rooney,,
Judy Garland June Preisser, Paul Whiteman,
William Tracy, Larry Nunn, Margaret Early,
Ann Shoemaker, (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, All Judy films)

Mickey learns compassion
is more important than
becoming the best band leader. Tuesday, September 2, 2014, 9:40-11:10 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Frank Borzage
directs "His Butler's Sister" (1943) starring
Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien,
Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray, Walter Catlett,
Evelyn Ankers, Frank Jenks; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

In this film Durbin is not
helping out others but
trying to advance her career.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 7:00-8:55 pm
Los Altos Library— The Young Global Leaders Climate Initiative, "Book Of Love: The Opportunities Awaiting Businesses and Brands Who Help Customers Reduce CO2 Emmissions" (2007) ($19,000 for $15); (Joaquin Phoenix: "I love the Sun because it's democratic: It doesn't make any distinctions, It shines the same on everybody."); Cameron Diaz: "I love the Sun because its rays give us life."; Claudia Schiffer—

Everything looks brighter,
warmer and even more
beautiful in the sunshine. Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 7:00-8:55 pm
Los Altos Library— Born September 3:
Diane De Poitiers (1499); Sarah Orne Jewett (1849);
Louis Sullivan (1856); Edward Filene (1860);
Ferdinand Porsche (1875); Sir Macfarlane Burnet (1899); Carl David Anderson (1905); Loren Eiseley (1907), Kitty Carlisle (1914); Eddie Stanky (1916); Irene Papas (1926); Ryoji Noyori (1938); Charlie Sheen (1965); Events on September 3 (1976)—

Unmanned Viking 2 spacecraft
landed on Mars for first close-up
color photos of the planet's surface.

Thursday, September 4, 2014, 2:12-4:00 pm
Books on Sale at the Los Altos Library:
"Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic" (1988) ($17.00 for $5) 793.8Wilson; (Illustrated step-by-step instructions for performing over 200 magic tricks);
Paulson Park Computer Room: British painter William Henry Margetson (1861-1940), "The Seashore" (1900); "The Sea hath its Pearls" (1897); "The Morning Walk"; "The Good Samaritan"; Found artist Vladimir Kush who painted "Sun Yolk" (Notes) at The Egg and the Dot about the "Cosmic Egg"

The morning sun born
from a giant egg yolk
to nourish us all on earth. Thursday, September 4, 2014, 2:12-4:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 4:
Francois Chateaubriand (1768); Anton Bruckner (1824); Daniel Burnham (1846); Simon Lake (1866);
Mary Renault (1905); Edward Dmytryk (1908); Richard Wright (1908), Stanford Moore (1913);
Henry Ford II (1917); Paul Harvey (1918);
William Talbert (1918); Craig Claiborne (1920);
Mitzi Gaynor (1931); Tom Watson (1949);
Shinya Yamanaka (1962); Mike Piazza (1968);
Events on September 4 (1972)—

Swimmer Mark Spitz became
first to win seven gold medals
at a single Olympic Games.

Thursday, September 4, 2014, 6:15-720 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy William Neill directs
"The Spider Woman" (1944) with Basil Rathbone,
Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Vernon Downing,
Dennis Hoey, Alan Craig, Arthur Hohl; (Reviews:
1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: trailer, 2, 3, full film)

Spider Woman plays
a lady Moriaty with ingenious
ways to kill Sherlock Holmes. Thursday, September 4, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: James Tinling
directs "Charlie Chan in Shanghai " (1935)
starring Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke, Halliwell Hobbes; (YouTube: 1, full film); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Several attempts at Charlie Chan's
life as he tries to find out
head of opium smugglers.

Friday, September 5, 2014, 12:28-3:30 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 5:
Tommaso Campanella (1568); Louis XIV (1638);
Johann Christian Bach (1735); Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791); Jesse James (1847); Nap Lajoie (1875);
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888); Arthur Nielsen (1897), Darryl Zanuck (1902); Arthur Koestler (1905); John Cage (1912); Frank Yerby (1916);
Jack Valenti (1921); Justin Kaplan (1925);
Paul Volcker (1927); Bob Newhart (1929);
Werner Erhard (1935); Bill Mazeroski (1936),
Raquel Welch (1940); Werner Herzog (1942);
Cathy Guisewite (1950); Events September 5 (1972)

Palestinian terroists
killed nine Israeli athletes
at Munich Olympic Games. Friday, September 5, 2014, 12:28-3:30 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: After the film
"Charlie Chan in Shanghai" at Stanford Theatre yesterday (9 pm), Bill Taylor played "Shanghai Lil"
on the Wurlitzer; Mesmerizing tune reminded me of James Cagney sang song in "Footlight Parade" (1933) and dancing with Ruby Keeler after finding
his Shanghai Lil (video); "Shanghai Lil" Lyrics—

I've covered every little highway
And I've been climbing every hill
I've been looking high
and I've been looking low
Looking for my Shanghai Lil.
Oh, I've been trying to forget her
But what's the use, I never will.

Saturday, September 6, 2014, 3:37-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Born September 6: Moses Mendelssohn (1729); Marquis de Lafayette (1757);
John Dalton (1766); James Melville Gilliss (1811);
Jane Addams (1860), John J. R. Macleod (1876);
Joseph P. Kennedy (1888); Claire Chennault (1893);
Billy Rose (1899); Luis Federico Leloir (1906);
Vincent DiMaggio (1912); Norman J. Woodland (1921); Robert M. Pirsig (1928); Susumu Tonegawa (1939); Richard J. Roberts (1943); Swoosie Kurtz (1944); Events on September 6 (1901)

President William McKinley
shot & mortally wounded by
Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York. Saturday, September 6, 2014, 3:37-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Books for Sale: "Women: Around the World & Through the Ages" (1990) ($80 for $4);
Johanna Paungger & Thomas Poppe, "Moon Time: Art of Harmony with Nature & Lunar Cycles" (1995) ($10 for $2); (Using lunar cycles to strengthen oneself physically, mentally, emotionally.); (page 9: "In the Beginning was Awareness; p. 347: "What your heart needs is much nearer still— not a hand's breadth away. Do not go seeking for what you already possess... Remember your freedom. Remember love."

Wisdom of health & living
handed down from a
Tyrolean mountain farmer.

Monday, September 8, 2014, 7:30-8:55 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: W.S. Van Dyke
directs "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever" (1939) starring Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker,
Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden, Terry Kilburn, Helen Gilbert, (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Mickey has a crush
on his drama teacher
when his girl friend left him. Monday, September 8, 2014, 9:05-10:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Edwin L. Marin
directs "Everybody Sings" (1938)
starring Judy Garland, Allan Jones, Fanny Brice, Reginald Owen, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, Lynne Carver, Monty Woolley; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3,
All Judy films) (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

15-year old Judy Garland
talented singing saved
her family from bankruptcy.

Monday, September 8, 2014, 11:40 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: George Noory interviews W. Keith Campbell (Bio, Web) "Narcissism" BOOKS: "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement"; "When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself"

Social media and "selfie" photos
are newer tools that narcissists
use to promote themselves. Monday, September 8, 2014, 11:40 pm-3:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: George Noory interviews Lynne McTaggart (Bio, Web) "Intentions" BOOKS: The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World; Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life & the World (Video)

Evolution is fueled by
cooperation, not competition,
as we're subatomically connected.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 7:30-8:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Can't renew book by Laurie Lamson, Now Write!: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (2014) 808.3876Lamson; pp. 87-90; James Wanless, "Tarot for Writers"

Pick five major arcana cards
at random so they play themes,
characters or plot points in your story. Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 7:30-8:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Laurie Lamson, Now Write!: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (2014) 808.3876Lamson; pp. 129-134;
Ben Thompson, "Diabolical Evil for Beginners"

A villain feels righteousness
for his cause, and need
henchmen to accomplish the goal.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 7:09-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: Born September 10:
Henry Purcell (1659); Sir John Soane (1753);
William Torrey Harris (1835); Isaac K. Funk (1839),
Charles Peirce (1839); Carl Van Doren (1885);
Hilda Doolittle (1886); Franz Werfel (1890);
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890); Arthur H. Compton (1892);
Cyril Connolly (1903); Robert Wise (1914);
Ted Kluszewski (1924); Arnold Palmer (1929);
Karl Lagerfeld (1933); Charles Kuralt (1934);
Roger Maris (1934); Mary Oliver (1935);
Stephen Jay Gould (1941); Neale Donald Walsch (1943); Judy Geeson (1948); Colin Firth (1960);
Events on September 10 (1919)

New York City welcomed home
General Pershing & 25,000 soldiers
who served during World War I. Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 7:09-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: Sabrina Mervin's "Women: Around the World and Through the Ages" (1990) (19 categories: First Woman, Myths of Creation, Epic Heroines, Founders, Intercessors, Sirens, Royal Favorites, Inspirations, Devout, Femmes Fatales, Outlaws, Fighters, Healers, Writers, Artists, Stars, Politically Powerful, Wisdom Seekers);
($80-$150 at Amazon; $4 at Los Altos Library); Only 8 women in the list from book "1000 Years, 1000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium"; Famous Women in History; History's Women; 100 Important Women;
Women Who Left Their Stamp on History

Compiling my list
of 100 women heroines
who changed the world.

Thursday, September 11, 2014, 12:05-12:14 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Leonard Slatkin conducts
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3) (played at the funerals of Princess Grace of Monaco and Albert Einstein)

Broadcast over radio on
death of FDR and over
TV on death of JFK. Thursday, September 11, 2014, 12:46-12:50 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Leon Fleisher plays
Ludwig van Beethoven, "Für Elise" for solo piano
Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, WoO 59 (1810),
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2), Commentaries

My niece Elisa played
Beethoven's "Für Elise"
when she was 8 years old.

Thursday, September 11, 2014, 1:32-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 11:
Pierre de Ronsard (1524); William Holabird (1854); O. Henry (1862); James Jeans (1877); Vinoba Bhave (1895); D. H. Lawrence (1885), Bear Bryant (1913);
Jessica Mitford (1917); Ferdinand Marcos (1917);
Tom Landry (1924); David S Broder (1929);
Charles Geschke (1939); Brian DePalma (1940);
Lola Falana (1942); Mickey Hart (1943); Jacoby Ellsbury (1983); Events on September 11 (2001)

Hijacked jets destroyed
NY World Trade Center
Twin Towers & hit Pentagon. Thursday, September 11, 2014, 1:32-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Notes on Aleister Crowley & Allan Bennett; Alan Watts (lists Crowley among Masters); Crowley witnessed Allan Bennett's Levitation; 11/28: Crowley, Borges, Xul Solar & I Ching; Wickest Man in the World; Time, 10-13-1952; Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"; Mary Desti Sturges (Preston Sturges's mom, 2nd of 11 Crowley's Scarlet Women); Hemingway saw Crowley at Paris café 1922; Crowley Search Site

Allan Bennett's blasting rod
immobilized Theosophist
skeptic for fourteen hours.

Friday, September 12, 2014, 1:42-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 12:
Lorenzo II de' Medici (1492); King Francis I (1494); Richard Gatling (1818); Henry L. Mencken (1880);
Maurice Chevalier (1888), Alfred A. Knopf (1892);
Irene Joliot-Curie (1897); Ben Shahn (1898);
Louis MacNeice (1907); Jesse Owens (1913);
Frank McGee (1921); Stanislaw Lem (1921);
Mickey Lolich (1940); Rachel Ward (1957);
Yao Ming (1980); Events on September 12 (1609)

Henry Hudson discovered
the river ascending to Albany
that now bears his name. Friday, September 12, 2014, 1:42-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Notes on novels of
F. Scott Fitzgerald: "This Side of Paradise" (1920), "The Beautiful and Damned (1922), "The Great Gatsby" (1925), "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922),
"Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Writings of
Ernest Hemingway: Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), In Our Time (1925), The Torrents of Spring (1926); The Sun Also Rises (1926); Hemingway met Fitzgerald in Paris (1925), liked "The Great Gatsby"

Hemingway met Ezra Pound
in Paris at Shakespeare & Co (1922)
and toured together in Italy (1923).

Friday, September 12, 2014, 6:05-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy William Neill directs
"The Scarlet Claw" (1944) with Basil Rathbone,
Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh,
Arthur Hohl, Miles Mander, Ian Wolfe,
Victoria Horne; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Full film)

Holmes and Watson
finds a murdering phantom
in an Canadian village. Friday, September 12, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Harry Lachman
directs "Charlie Chan at the Circus" (1936)
starring Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Francis Ford, John McGuire, Paul Stanton, Shia Jung; (YouTube: full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Charlie Chan investigates
murder at the circus with
chief suspect as the ape.

Sunday, September 14, 2014, 5:00-5;45 pm
Los Altos Library: Dick Riley & Pam McAllister (Eds), The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie (1983) 823.912
(Bought $9.95 for $1)

Summaries of Agatha Christie's
mystery novels and posters
of all her films in color. Sunday, September 14, 2014, 5:00-5;45 pm
Los Altos Library: Lon Milo DuQuette, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot (2003) 133.3242; pp. 21-25: Considers Crowley as prophet since Prophet Elisha was not perfect (2 Kings, 2:24)

Elisha cursed them
and two bears came out
and mauled 42 of the boys.

Monday, September 15, 2014, 1:28-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Paulson Park Computer Room:
Famous Birthdays on September 14:
Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486); Francisco de Quevedo (1580); Luigi Cherubini (1760);
Alexander von Humboldt (1769); Ivan Pavlov (1849);
Charles D. Gibson (1867); Margaret Sanger (1879);
Jan Masaryk (1886); Karl Taylor Compton (1887);
Norman Chandler (1899); Hal Wallis (1899);
Jerry Coleman (1924); Allan Bloom (1930);
Kate Millett (1934); Ferid Murad (1936);
Events on September 14 (1959)

Soviet space probe Luna 2
became first man-made object
to land on the moon's surface. Monday, September 15, 2014, 1:28-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 15:
Al-Biruni (973); Marco Polo (1254); Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613); James Fenimore Cooper (1789); William Howard Taft (1857); Charles de Foucauld (1858); Bruno Walter (1876); Frank Gannett (1876); Robert Benchley (1889);
Agatha Christie (1890); Jean Renoir (1894);
Roy Acuff (1903); Fay Wray (1907); Margaret Lockwood (1916); Murray Gell-Mann (1929); Gaylord Perry (1938); Dan Marino (1961); Prince Harry of Wales (1984); Events September 15 (1940)

RAF gains upper hand
over German Luftwaffe
in the Battle of Britain.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 1:37-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 16:
Hildegard of Bingen (1098); James J. Hill (1838);
Albrecht Kossel (1853); James C. Penney (1875);
Alfred Noyes (1880); Clive Bell (1881); Karen Horney (1885); Jean Arp (1887); Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 1893;
Earl Carroll (1893); Alexander Korda (1893),
H.A. Rey (1898); Allen Funt (1914); Laurence J. Peter (1919); Janis Paige (1922); Lauren Bacall (1924); Peter Falk (1927); Anne Francis (1930); Elgin Baylor (1934); Robin Yount (1955); David Copperfield (1956); Orel Hershiser (1958); Tim Raines (1959); Events on September 16 (1857)

James Pierpont's "Jingle Bells"
copyrighted under original title
"One Horse Open Sleigh". Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 1:37-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Paulson Park Computer Room:
Nazism and occultism; Unholy Alliance: History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult; Adolph Hitler and the Occult; Spear of Destiny; Dietrich Eckart; Thule Society; New Swabia (1938-39 German exploration
in Antarctica); Nazi UFOs (Foo fighters in WW II);
Foo Fighters of WW II (sighting on Aug. 12, 1942); Hitler on Ice (Did the Nazis Have a Secret Antarctic Fortress); Antarctica: Hidden Nazi Base Unveiled (YouTube); Admiral Richard E. Byrd: Hollow Earth Interview (1984); Jim Marrs: Antarctica—A Nazi Base; Aryan UFOs & Antarctica; Omega File (1)

Nazi bases in Antarctica
finding alien UFOs & technology—
How come they didn't win WW II?

Thursday, September 18, 2014, 1:40-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 18:
Samuel Johnson (1709); Jean-Bernard Foucault (1819); Sir John Kerr (1869); Agnes de Mille (1905); Greta Garbo (1905); Edwin McMillan (1881);
Raymond Geiger (1910); Rossano Brazzi (1916);
Harvey Haddix (1925); Jimmie Rodgers (1933);
Frankie Avalon (1940); Rick Pitino (1952);
Ryne Sandberg (1959); Lance Armstrong (1971);
Events on September 18 (1961)

Dag Hammarskjold killed
in a plane crash in
northern Rhodesia. Thursday, September 18, 2014, 1:40-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Paulson Park Computer Room:
Wand (Circe turned Odysseus's men into swine); White Rod (Irish rod of sovereignty); Aaron's rod (Exodus 7:8-13— changed to serpent); Rod of Asclepius (Earliest image of serpent entwined rod for healing); Caduceus (Hermes Staff; Physician's Logo); Ningishzida (21st century BC: snakes twining around an axial rod); Staff of Moses (Exodus 4:1-5); Conductor's Baton

Artist's paintbrush and
writer's pen are rods
that bring us inspiration.

Friday, September 19, 2014, 12:42-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 19:
Augustin Pajou (1730); Jean B. J. Delambre (1749);
Louis Kossuth (1802); George Cadbury (1839);
William H. Lever (1851); Arthur Rackham (1867);
Bergen Evans (1904); Leon Jaworski (1905); Tatsuo Shimabuku (1908); William Golding (1911); Elizabeth Stern (1915); Joe Pasternak (1917); Duke Snider (1926); Bob Turley (1930); David McCallum (1933); Al Oerter (1936); "Mama" Cass Elliot (1941);
Joe Morgan (1943); Jeremy Irons (1948); Twiggy Lawson (1949); Events on September 19 (1881)

President James A. Garfield
died of wounds inflicted
by an assassin on July 2. Friday, September 19, 2014, 12:42-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born September 20:
Sir Richard Griffith (1784); Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833); James Dewar (1842); Yuan Shi-kai (1859);
Herbert Putnam (1861); Upton Sinclair (1878); Maxwell Perkins (1884); Sue Sophia Dauser (1888),
Leo Strauss (1899); Stevie Smith (1902); Sid Chaplin (1916); Red Auerbach (1917); Donald Hall (1928);
Sophia Loren (1934); Pia Lindström (1938);
Tom Tresh (1938); Dale Chihuly (1941);
George R. R. Martin (1948); Guy Lafleur (1951); Events on September 20 (1973)

Billie Jean King defeated
Bobby Riggs in $100,000
winner-take-all tennis match.

Saturday, September 20, 2014, 2:09-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Philip E. Bishop,
Adventures in the Human Spirit 4th Ed. (2005)
($22 for $4); p. 440: Judy Chicago,
"The Dinner Party" (1979)

Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party"
honoring 39 women, shaped
like the Platonic Lambda. Saturday, September 20, 2014, 2:09-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— C. David Heymann,
"Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love" (2014) 791.4302Heymann; p. 327: Poetry was Marilyn Monroe's way of saying difficult things to herself—

Theme of Marilyn's poems
had to do with her becoming
one with nature & the universe.

Saturday, September 20, 2014, 2:09-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler (2012) 943.086HimmlerLongeri;
pp. 279-288: Himmler's occult interests—

Cosmic Ice Theory,
Karl Maria Wiligut,
Tibetan expedition. Saturday, September 20, 2014, 2:09-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— William Wiser, The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties (1990): "The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s" (2000) 944.361Wiser;

Magic allure of Paris—
jazz, cabaret, surrealism
in cafés, salons, galleries.

Sunday, September 21, 2014, 4:22-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Born September 21: Girolamo Savonarola (1452); Louis Joliet (1645); Charles Nicolle (1866); H. G. Wells (1866); Henry Stimson (1867); Gustav Holst (1874); Sir Allen Lane (1902);
Hans Hartung (1904), Kwame Nkrumah (1909);
Donald A Glaser (1926); Leonard Cohen (1934);
Stephen King (1947); Bill Murray (1950);
Faith Hill (1967); Events September 21 (1897)

Francis P. Church's editorial
published in New York Sun
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." Sunday, September 21, 2014, 4:22-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Sherry Ellis (Ed.),
"Now Write! Screenwriting: Screenwriting Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers" (2011) 808.23Ellis (Screenplay masters reveal their secrets
of storytelling and learn more about story craft);
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, "The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan" (1983); p. 761—

Keep the majority
in ignorance so initiates
profit and stay in power.

Monday, September 22, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Foothill College Fall Semester begins today—
Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts" comics (9-22-2014)
quotes Emily Brontë: "Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
flutting from the autumn tree"; Entire poem—

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day. Monday, September 22, 2014, 12:56-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Born September 23: Anne of Cleves (1515); Lord Chesterfield (1694); Michael Faraday (1791); Caroline Astor (1830); Christabel Pankhurst (1880); Erich von Stroheim (1885); Babette Deutsch (1895); Paul Muni (1895); Charles Huggins (1901);
John Houseman (1902), Eugen Sänger (1905);
David Riesman (1909); Bob Lemon (1920);
Chen Ning Yang (1922); Tom Lasorda (1927);
Debby Boone (1956); Vince Coleman (1961);
Events September 23 (1952)

President Lincoln's Proclamation
to free slaves in all rebellion
states on January 1, 1863.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 1:52-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Foothill College Fall Semester began yesterday—
Practiced patience for seven weeks without Mac
when Lab was closed; Typed HTML code haikus daily
and saved as Draft in Yahoo Email on Dell computers
at Mountain View Senior Center, Los Altos Library,
and Paulsen Park Computer Room, so they can be
uploaded to my web site WisdomPortal.com: Hooray!
(1:19 pm: Rudy & I got bananas at Milk Pail 39¢/lb);
California Academy of Sciences: "Big Picture"—
2014 Grand Prize Winner: Paul Souder's photo
"The Luckiest Penguin, Antarctica"—

Gentoo penguin leaps
just in time to avoid
a leopard seal's dinner. Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 1:52-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Born September 23: Euripides (480 BC); Caesar Augustus (63 BC); Kublai Khan (1215); William McGuffey (1800); Victoria Woodhull Martin (1838); Helen Almira Shafer (1839); Mary Church Terrell (1863); Emmuska Orczy (1865); Walter Lippmann (1889); Paul Delvaux (1897), Walter Pidgeon (1897);
Louise Nevelson (1899); Meyer Schapiro (1904);
Mickey Rooney (1920); John Coltrane (1926);
Ray Charles (1930); Romy Schneider (1938);
Julio Iglesias (1943); Mary Kay Place (1947);
Bruce Springsteen (1949); Events Sept. 23 (1952)

Nixon makes "Checkers Speech"
on TV claiming he has done
nothing illegally or morally wrong.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 12:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for Association for Energy Affordability (AEA) inspection of selected units; Didn't come to inspect my apartment;
Took 5:16 pm Bus #40 and 5:37 pm Bus #35 to
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
"Museum traces fragments of Star-Spangled Banner"
(By Brett Zongker, SJ Mercury News, 9-13-2014, A11)
Benicia to host conference on paranormal activity
(By John Glidden, SJ Mercury News, 9-24-2014)
Ghost hunters to gather at Benicia Capitol Building

Ghost apparition
dressed in period clothing
seen at Benicia Capitol Building. Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 6:20-9:50 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Born September 24: Girolamo Cardano (1501);
Jean-Louis Lully (1667); Horace Walpole (1717);
John Marshall (1755); Sir A. P. Herbert (1890);
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896); Howard Florey (1898);
Stephen Bechtel (1900); Ruhollah Khomeini (1902);
Severo Ochoa (1905); Jim McKay (1921);
Svetlana Beriosova (1932); Jim Henson (1936);
Lou Dobbs (1945); "Mean Joe" Greeneey (1946);
Phil Hartman (1948); Events on Sept. 24 (1996)

President Clinton signed
Treaty at United Nations
banning all nuclear testing.

Thursday, September 25, 2014, 1:19-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics (9-21-2014) Grandma's Quotes: “Remember, Billy 'GOAL'
begins with 'GO'” Sherry Ellis (Ed.), "Now Write! Screenwriting" (2011) 808.23Ellis; pp. 3-5:
Mardik Martin (screenwriter of "Raging Bull"):
"Start with a Conflict"— "Don't make the mistake of using a theme, premise or message to start your story.
It's easier and more effective to build with a conflict.
If a friend tells you 'I loved the movie. I completely identified with the main character.' That's bull—
Your friend did not identify with the main character. She or he identified with the protagonist's conflict."

Rudy identifies with Leslie Howard and
Charles Loughton (Of Human Bondage & Hunchback of Notre Dame): lack of love. Thursday, September 25, 2014, 1:19-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Born September 25: Francesco Borromini (1599);
Claude Perrault (1613); Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683; Fletcher Christian (1764); Melville Bissell (1843);
Thomas Morgan 1866; C. K. Scott-Moncrieff 1889;
William Faulkner (1897); Robert Bresson (1901);
Mark Rothko (1903); Red Smith (1905); Dmitri Shostakovich (1906); Johnny Sain (1917);
Phil Rizzuto (1917); Sir Colin Davis (1927); Barbara Walters (1929); Shel Silverstein (1930); Glenn Gould (1932); Juliet Prowse (1936); Michael Douglas (1944); Scottie Pippen (1965); Will Smith (1968); Catherine Zeta Jones (1969); Events Sept. 25 (1996)

300 National Guards
escorts nine black kids
to Little Rock High School.

Friday, September 26, 2014, 2:00-2:26 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill Semans Library (Bldg 3600):
Elisabeth Haich's "Initiation" (1965) B132.Y6.H35 (Ch. 43: The Young Priest appears— on black & white magicians); Kathleen Raine's "Yeats, the Tarot & the Golden Dawn" (1972) PR5908.O25R3 (42 images of Tarot cards & symbolism drawings from Yeats's Notebook); Morton Irving Seiden's William Butler Yeats: The poet as a mythmaker, 1865-1939 (1962) PR5908.M8S4 (pp. 40-48: Yeats joined Order of the Golden Dawn because founder MacGregor Mathers induced in him clairvoyant states)

Lucky to find these books
at Foothill Library and read
about Yeats & the Golden Dawn. Friday, September 26, 2014, 2:45-4:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Born September 26: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181);
Moses Mendelssohn (1729); John Chapman (1774);
Theodore Gericault (1791); Ivan Pavlov (1849);
Arthur B. Davies (1862); T. S. Eliot (1888);
Martin Heidegger 1889); Charles Munch 1891;
Freda Kirchwey (1893); Pope Paul VI (1897);
George Gershwin (1898); George Raft (1901);
Bobby Shantz (1925); Julie London (1926);
Fritz Wunderlich (1930); Olivia Newton-John (1948);
Serena Williams (1981); Events September 26 (1960)

First televised debate
in Chicago between Nixon
and John F. Kennedy.

Friday, September 26, 2014, 6:00-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy William Neill directs
"The House of Fear" (1945) with Basil Rathbone,
Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Paul Cavanagh,
Dennis Hoey, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording,
Sally Shepherd, Gavin Muir, David Clyde,
Holmes Herbert, Wilson Benge, Cyril Delevanti,
Doris Lloyd; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Trailer, Full film)

Holmes tries to find
murderer of private club
members one by one. Friday, September 26, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Norman Foster directs
"Charlie Chan at Treasure Island" (1939)
with Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Cesar Romero, Douglas Fowley, Pauline Moore, Donald MacBride, Wally Vernon, June Gale, Douglass Dumbrille, Sally Blane, Billie Seward, Charles Halton; (YouTube: 1; full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Charlie Chan Site

Charlie Chan explores
murder of novelist-friend
at San Francisco Exposition.

Saturday, September 27, 2014— Born September 27:
Cosimo de Medici (1389); Samuel Adams (1722);
Benjamin Gould (1824); Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840);
Thomas Nast (1840); Cyril M. Scott (1879);
Harry Blackstone (1885); Samuel Ervin (1896);
Vincent Youmans (1898); Albert Ellis (1913);
Sir Martin Ryle (1918); Jayne Meadows (1919);
Johnny Pesky (1919); William Conrad (1920),
Arthur Penn (1922); Robert Edwards (1925);
Kay Ryan (1945); Mike Schmidt (1949); Mata Amritanandamayi (1953); Steve Kerr (1965); Gwyneth Paltrow (1972); Events Sept. 27 (1964)

Warren Commission report—
Lee Harvey Oswald is lone assassin
of President John F. Kennedy. Saturday, September 27, 2014, 4:25-7:00 pm
Rudy treats Al Guzman and me for lunch at Sweet Tomatoes, 1210 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale (12:12-4 pm);
Movies at Cupertino: Bluelight Cinema (21275 Stevens Creek Blvd); Matt Reeves directs "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (2014) starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Karin Konoval, Kirk Acevedo; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); "Review: 'Dawn of Planet of the Apes' a near-classic" (Tony Hicks, SJ Mercury News, 7-11-2014); 'Apes' shows remarkable technical achievements

Caesar governs apes
in Muir Woods while Koba
wants to kill remaining humans.

Sunday, September 28, 2014, 3:03-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Born September 28:
Confucius (551 BC); Nicolas Flamel (1330);
Pierre-Louis Maupertuis (1698); Prosper Mérimée (1803); Francis Turner Palgrave (1824);
Georges Clemenceau (1841); Henri Moissan (1852);
Avery Brundage (1887); Elmer Rice (1892);
William S. Paley (1901), Ed Sullivan (1901);
Al Capp (1909); Stephen Spender (1909);
Michael Somes (1917); Marcello Mastroianni (1924);
Seymour Cray (1925); Brigitte Bardot (1934);
Lou Piniella (1943); Events on September 28 (1924)

Two U.S. Army planes
landed in Seattle, making first
round-the-world flight in 175 days. Sunday, September 28, 2014, 3:03-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Robin Kerrod, "The Star Guide: Learn How To Read The Night Sky Star By Star" (1990); ($27.50 for $3); (150 full-color photos and drawings; planisphere of most striking constellations);
Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams: A Novel" (2004)
($14 for $1); (Einstein in Berne, Switzerland, 1905, 30 dreams of space-time; time as circular, standing still, flowing backward, nightingale trapped in bell jar); Sherry Ellis & Laurie Lamson (Eds), "Now Write! Mysteries: Suspense, Crime, Thriller" 808.3872Now (2011) pp. 139-142: Matthew Dicks "Villains"—

Most compelling & terrifying
literary villains appear the most
human and appealing to the reader.

Sunday, September 28, 2014, 7:30-8:45 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: James Whale directs
"The Old Dark House" (1932) with Boris Karloff,
Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton,
Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey,
Eva Moore, Brember Wills, Elspeth Dudgeon; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (YouTube: 1, Full film)

Travellers stranded
in old dark house with
a family of lunatics. Sunday, September 28, 2014, 8:45-10:08 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Victor Fleming directs
"Red Dust" (1932) with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow,
Mary Astor, Gene Raymond, Tully Marshall,
Donald Crisp, Willie Fung, Forrester Harvey;
(YouTube: 1; 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Film remade as John Ford's "Mogambo" (1953)

Rubber plantation boss
lusts for his surveyor's
new wife in Indochina.

Monday, September 29, 2014, 2:40-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Born September 29: Pompey The Great (106 BC);
Miguel de Cervantes (1547); Caravaggio (1571);
François Boucher (1703); Horatio Nelson (1758);
Miguel de Unamuno (1864); Enrico Fermi (1901);
Greer Garson (1904); Gene Autry (1907);
Michelangelo Antonioni 1912; Trevor Howard 1913;
Peter D. Mitchell (1920); Anita Ekberg (1931);
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1934; Jerry Lee Lewis 1935;
Madeline Kahn (1942); Lech Walesa (1943);
Bryant Gumbel (1948); Events Sept. 29 (1957:
NY Giants played last game at Polo Grounds, moving to San Francisco in 1958) (1954: Willie Mays's catch)

60th anniversary: Mays's catch
of Vic Wertz 450-foot blast in
Game 1 of 1954 World Series. Monday, September 29, 2014, 2:40-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
BASEBALL: With Outfielder's Help, Jordan Zimmermann Notches Nationals' First No-Hitter
(Zimmermann allowed only two base runners,
finishing with 10 strikeouts and one walk.)
(By Associated Press, NY Times, 9-29-2014);
BASEBALL: Steven Souza Jr. makes miraculous
catch for final out of Jordan Zimmermann no-hitter
(Washington rookie left fielder Steven Souza Jr.
chased Yelich's flyball to left-center field gap
and caught it to preserve Jordan Zimmermann's 1-0
win & first no-hitter in Nationals history.) Video
(By Scott Allen, Washington Post, 9-28-2014)

Nationals' Manager Matt Williams
substitutes Sousa for Ryan Zimmerman
who makes catch to preserve no-hitter.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 2:46-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Born September 30: Rumi (1207); Robinson Crusoe (1627); Étienne B. Condillac (1715); Zacharias Frankel (1801); Antoine-Jerome Balard (1802);
William Wrigley Jr. (1861); Jean Perrin (1870);
Hans Geiger (1882); Sir Nevill Mott (1905);
Michael Powell (1905); David Oistrakh (1908);
Kenny Baker (1912); Buddy Rich (1917); Deborah Kerr (1921); Truman Capote (1924); Robin Roberts (1926); W. S. Merwin (1927); Elie Wiesel (1928);
Angie Dickinson (1931); Johnny Podres (1932);
Johann Deisenhofer (1943); Barry Marshall (1951);
Deborah Allen (1953); Events Sept. 30 (1938)

Britain's Chamberlain and
Germany's Hitler make
Anti-War Pact in Munich. Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 2:46-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab:
Al Guzman is watching Oakland A's-Kansas City Royals Baseball Wild-Card Playoff Game live on ESPN; "They're tied 7-7, going to extra innings."
he tells me. Though, we're both SF Giants fans,
we rooted for local A's to win, having seen them
play at O Coliseum last summer. When Reddick
scored on Callaspo's single in the 12th for 8-7
Oakland lead, Al cheered "A's are going to win!"
Al closed the Lab at 9:30 pm, and we continued
listening to the game on his car radio. When he got
to my apartment, Al decided to circle the block,
so we could celebrate A's win together. But...

Kansas City Royals are so
resilient, coming from behind
three times to win 9-8 in the 12th.