Orange Crate Art

“But nothing about his roads was as awesome as the congestion on them.”

From a statement by Lynch’s family: “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.‘”

Robert Moses, hacking his way through neighborhoods.

“You know, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower spoke of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. He warned us then about, and I quote, “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power.” Six decades later, I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well.”

John Lamberti, an LAPD homicide detective, talking about a tool specific to his profession that he really likes using: his notebook.

I found this Arnold Newman photograph chance. It’s from 1975 and shows Robert Caro in his office, holding a Mongol pencil in his hand.

Rovert Caro on Robert Moses: “He had, in a way, been deaf all his life — unwilling to listen to anyone, public, Mayor, Governor, deaf to all opinion save his own. But this new, physical deafness contributed in a nonsymbolic, very real way to his divorce from reality.”

An exhibit in Sag Harbor, New York: Some of Tom’s Typewriters: From the Collection of Tom Hanks Installed by Simon Doonan.

Here is a PDF of Jack Smith’s report on the election interference case.

With Norm Eisen, Rubin has launched an independent effort in journalism, The Contrarian.

I have sometimes wondered about the word heyday, Might it have something to do with haying, with jolly rustics turning work into play in the fields? Dictionaries laugh in my face.

Paul Moses alleged that his brother Robert had cut him out of part of his inheritance and kept him out of city positions for which he was, as an engineer, eminently qualified.

I chose this photograph for the strangeness of the long, sloping, vanishing building, which makes me think of Giorgio de Chirco’s Mystery and Melancholy of a Street.

“Genuinely, these days.”

Robert Moses objected to “frills” in public housing, like covers on toilet bowls.

From NBC and The Washington Post.

Snowing again.

The half-time show was a celebration of daylight-savings time.

Five links to help Los Angeles.

t looks like Roz Chast might have The Power Broker on her mind.

At the New-York Historical Society: “Turn Every Page”: Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive.

Why does this delightful story about Mark Zuckerberg have a rat part in it? Perhaps because of this news item.

A venerable pencil, on a desk in a classroom in a movie.

Robert Moses, adored by the press.

They’re everywhere. I collected these from the show’s first three seasons.

Richard Cytowic: “The high energy cost of cortical activity is why selective attention — focusing on one thing at a time — exists in the first place and why multitasking is an unaffordable fool’s errand.”

Heather Cox Richardson writes about January 6, the 2021 and 2025 varieties.

I knew he was in the movie, but the glasses threw me.

The Bear and others.

Yes, Nancy. It sure snowed.