Orange Crate Art

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.

The most incendiary point, which has not been widely reported: a call for “military and vets” and militias to seal off Washington, D.C. and “get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary.”

I spotted a mistake in my 2025 calendar: I had MLK Day as January 13th. I don’t know what might have kept me from marking January 20th as a red-letter day. Any idea? Anyone?

Two of the East Tremont buildings destroyed to make way for the Cross Bronx Expressway.

In my mind, grey is darker. It just is.

“There has been a lot of complaints....”

Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit The Washington Post after her editor killed a cartoon.

“Sly spouse from the ’70s.”

It’s a measure of Caro’s humanity that he’s able to depict Moses in his own humanity: arrogant, underhanded, and vain, but a gifted visionary, a tireless worker, and a figure who inspires pity in his downfall. Allowed to keep his chauffeurs and limousine, Moses in decline reminds me of Lear with his retinue of knights: the trappings of power, without the power.

Michael J. Madigan was a Moses engineer given to malapropisms.

From Internes Can’t Take Money (1937).

Sardine Exposition is a YouTube channel devoted to taste-testing sardines and other tinned fish.

In an attempted bank robbery in Colorado.