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I see Sluggo.
Orange Crate Art
The New Grown-Ups: “William Blake’s Dead”
Bluegrass.
Nancy sight lines
In today’s Nancy, Olivia Jaimes plays with Bushmiller’s sight lines.
Liverwurst’s long goodbye
Perpetual nostalgia beats listeria.
The case of the slipaway sidebar
A stray bit of code will push it to the bottom of the page.
The New Grown-Ups: “The Devil’s Nine Questions”
Bluegrass.
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Another Hopper Zippy.
Zippy Hopper
Today’s Zippy is a thing of beauty. The source: Edward Hopper’s Excursion into Philosophy.
Twenty years of blogging
Keeping this blog has brought me more possibilities of thinking and learning and sharing that I could have imagined.
Just some diner?
A diner, a delivery truck, a radio show.
How to improve writing (no. 126)
A conjunction that makes no sense.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Dose, taken another way.”
Blood libel redux
“They’re eating the pets”: a new version of the medieval blood libel.
The New Grown-Ups: “My Heart’s Own Love”
Bluegrass.
The zibaldone
The mid-fourteenth-century word zibaldone, a bit of Florentine slang, came to signify a personal notebook of miscellaneous contents. That sounds a lot like a blog.
Rocks, unnoticed
Zippy is looking at his phone.
An Atlantic crossword clue baffles
“11-character fig. on a form.”
Parataxis (with cats and ducks)
Drudge Report headlines.
Mystery actor
This actor is best known for a television role, reprised in film, playing a character with no known first name.
The Last Republican
The story behind The Last Republican, a documentary about Adam Kinzinger: “‘Do you have contempt for my views?’ How a leftwing film-maker and a Republican came together” (The Guardian ).
Irony alert
J.D. Vance: “We admire Taylor Swift's music, but I don't think most Americans, whether they like her music, are fans of hers or not, are gonna be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.”
Some field
Just some field. Whatever you do, do not click for a larger view. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.
About last night
In the lastest installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson offers an astute analysis of last night’s debate:
Swift FTW
As just reported on MSNBC: Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Cleanup on aisle 45
Kamala Harris: “What we have done is clean up Donald Trump’s mess.”
The New Grown-Ups: “Cumberland Gap”
The New Grown-Ups just took first in a new-band showcase at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, Maine. Here’s a sample.
EXchange names sighting
Restaurants in the telephone book. From The Public Eye (dir. Howard Franklin, 1992).
Typo alerts
From the podcast Mac Power Users, episode 760. Stephen Hackett is talking with David Sparks about readers calling attention to typos: “Nine times out of ten that comes with an apology attached, like ‘Oh, hey, I’m sorry, I found this.‘ Thank you for sending them in. We didn’t catch it, we want to be accurate and correct, and there’s nothing worse — I’m sure you’ve had this experience too — where you come across a blog post from eight years ago and there’s a typo in it. That’s been on the Internet for almost a decade, and no one told you. It’s the worst feeling, so thank you for sending those in.”
James Earl Jones (1931–2024)
Darth Vader? Mufasa? Sure. But I always think of him as Lear.
Mystery actor
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