Orange Crate Art

Feathers McGraw has repurposed a sardine tin as a mirror.

If you watch enough older movies, you will notice that the breakfast table often holds a toast rack, filled with slices of dry toast. No one ever eats the toast.

New light on the Leona Helmsley Club.

As Snyder says, what counts is writing, not being organized. But damn if he isn’t really organized too.

From The Washington Post , “A peek inside Robert Caro’s home library, hidden shelves and all.”

A quick trick if you’re again and again typing last year’s year in the early days of this year.

Zippy in a dowdy world.

Robert Moses on the wane, his power gone.

From 2017, some extraordinary pianism, a lengthy solo lead-in to “The Weight.”

Here’s an NPR obituary, with links to more NPR features about his work.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and others.

Heather Cox Richardson writes about the day.

It seemed (seemed ) that my mom — almost ninety-three, with profound dementia — understood what I was saying.

For obvious reasons.

“Perhaps the most determining factor in the role of the federal government is the tone set by the Chief Executive in his words and actions.”

Lillian Edelstein, a self-described “housewife,” became the leader of the East Tremont Neighborhood Association and kept up a valiant fight against Robert Moses and the Cross Bronx Expressway.

“Wow! Look at that franistan frelm!”

“Live wire?”

“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.

Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.

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.