Just for yuks, since S/Z is visible in Magnolia :

Baktan recalls Mikhail Bakhtin, a darling of university English departments back in the early 1990s.


Coincidental congruence



Medieval French

tans : noun; oblique singular <tens, tans> time

Ancient Mayan

tun : period of 360 days

Salo theme playing while the cross comes up in H8teful Eight
Surely BC Project will have some Salo in it too

Old news.



"ancient Maya bak'tun < bak'-, apparently a multiplier (only attested in calendars) + tun period of 360 days."

"baktun typically occurs about 0.02 times per million words in modern written English."



The Battle of Baktan Cross = How long, Lord? How long?

Hol ly wood !

Apropos of zilch, BaktanCross.com and BaktinCross.com are both available-to-buy URLs at the moment. First year is only a penny!

(BattleOfBaktanCross.com -- that's a mouthful -- is currently taken, though)

Batman Cross, I say!

At Auction : Lot 1109: MAGNOLIA (1999) - Dr. Landon's (Don McManus) Business Card with Earl Partridge's (Jason Robards) Planner and Mail



MAGNOLIA (1999) - Dr. Landon's (Don McManus) Business Card with Earl Partridge's (Jason Robards) Planner and Mail - Dr. Landon's (Don McManus) business card with Earl Partridge's (Jason Robards) planner and mail from Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. Linda Partridge (Julianne Moore) visited Dr. Landon for advice on how to handle her husband Earl's death while Earl's nurse Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman) went through Earl's planner in search of his son Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise).

This lot consists of one cardstock business card for Dr. Landon; a brown leather bound Day-Timer planner embossed "EEP" with a matching close strap filled with handwritten notes and addresses; a black metal pen; and five paper letters addressed to Earl. Included with this lot is a "MAGNOLIA PROJEC " [sic] production envelope. This lot exhibits separating leather on the planner's cover, as well as discoloration. Dimensions: (largest) 5.5" x 8" x 1.5" (14 cm x 20.5 cm x 4 cm)

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/magnolia-1999-dr-landons-don-mcmanus-business-car-1109-c-b484229a8d?objectID=190396876&algIndex=upcoming_lots_prod&queryID=0f2d3c97924d1d1c2783f6d14e3cc7c9

During the early BTS we were getting in Northern California, the police cars had emblems that said, "CITY OF BAKTAN CROSS POLICE DEPARTMENT".

There are much more important questions, but is it:

The Battle of Baktan Cross

or

The Battle of Baktin Cross


I want to make sure I get my iron-on decals for those Jersey boardwalk souvenir T-shirt stands right.

Aucassin & Nicolete
Eragny Press, 1903.
photograph by Scrooby