Rob Zseleczky (1957–2013)
“Our common musical ground was blues. A, E: buy your vowel, or key, and we could go on forever.”
Things I learned on my summer vacation (2013)
People in cars with suspension problems look like bobbleheads. Really.
“An eccentric, if not a subversive”
A wise observation from Bill Watterson, from a 1990 commencement address.
Wise advice
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Oklahoma
How to help.
6:24
A little late getting to the rest of Thursday.
A post for the day
“There are people, I said to my students, whose work is to perpetrate suffering, and there are people whose work is to create joy.”
#BostonHelp
“Boston-area residents are offering assistance to visitors stranded in the city — accommodations, food, wireless, and so on. I find that moving beyond words.”
Boston
April 15, 2013.
Young man with an umbrella
“I remember when umbrellas only came in Large.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013)
“We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”
TYPE LOUD
Why? Ear infection.
The front end
It is still called “the front end.”
For Valentine's Day
Four couples and their songs.
Two-word utterances of my adolescence
No way, &c.
Good advice for married people
Jane Brody writes about marriage and happiness.
Our future selves, ourselves
“At every age we think we’re having the last laugh, and at every age we’re wrong.”
From a letter to David Rakoff
“Here is the simplest lesson you taught me: Don’t trade up.”
Uncle Mark 2013 Gift Guide & Alamanac
“This year’s guide might be called a post-Sandy edition: Mark Hurst offers just two product recommendations, along with suggestions for helping those hit by the storm and some observations on our relationships with screens and stuff.”
Things to do in Los Angeles
An incomplete list.
Knowing and not knowing
Elaine Fine writes about knowledge and humility.
The HeartRescue Project
Watch and pass it on.
Sandy
Stay safe, East Coasters.
George McGovern (1922–2012)
“No man should advocate a course in private that he’s ashamed to admit in public.”
“The necessary limitations of our nature”
W. H. Auden on figuring out who we are.
Words from Theodore Roosevelt, sort of
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” Quoted by Roosevelt
Happy anniversary
We are still sailing.
For use in “seemingly intolerable situations”
“Continue and repeat as necessary”: from David Rakoff.
Marcus Aurelius on Maximus
Do you know a Maximus?
Happy Father’s Day
Brooklyn, 1957.