A little Hallmark nonsense
This dialogue took shape as Elaine and I sat at the kitchen table holding cups of imaginary cocoa with both hands.
Orange Crate Art
Another Brooklyn candy store
Pup’s, or Pup’s Luncheontte.
Barbie mit Fisch
A museum in a port city gives Barbie a fish.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Rolling Stone ranked him just above Buddy Rich.”
A fused participle in the comics
“I don’t think my boyfriend would like you hitting on me.”
Letter Boxed lines
It was only this week that I realized that the Congrats screen shows the lines made by the words you’ve spelled.
Command-Control-Shift-4
Copy a screenshot on a Mac.
“Y’all”
From the BBC: Why more people are saying “y’all.”
Eleven movies, one mini-series
The Beatles: Get Back and others.
"Sardine-tins scattered”
From Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.
Brontë weather
From Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
“Ontological underpinnings”
At Lexington Candy Shop, with an egg cream.
Invisible woman
Agnes Grey, walking back from church, alone and not alone.
How to pronounce omicron
Several ways.
Recently updated
“Vaccine,” a word of the year.
Vinegar
A Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player.
At Barnes & Noble
Elaine and I went into a nearby Barnes & Noble and found a baffling arrangement of retractable-belt stanchions, making the entrance to the store look something like a small airport. A security guard nodded for us to enter.
The Beatles: Get Back thoughts
I have several.
Let It Be at the Internet Archive
Listen: do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?
Today’s xkcd
“Directions from CITY OF TROY to ITHACA.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Swift, e.g.”
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021)
Bernadette Peters sings “No One Is Alone.”
Woolworth’s
Scenes from The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Modern mondegreen
“Sweet Loretta Modern.”
Thanksgiving 1921
Little beggars on the streets of Manhattan.
NYT “Best Book”
As the poet William Bronk said, in response to a survey asking for the ten best books of American poetry published since 1945, “Don’t ask me. I believe the arts are not competitive.”
Recently updated
“NFT” is a word of the year.
Guilty, guilty, guilty
In the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers, guilty on twenty-three of twenty-seven counts.
Mimestream, a Mac app for Gmail
Mimestream is free to download and use while it’s in beta. I downloaded the app yesterday and am impressed by its design and ease of use. It should prove especially handy for anyone who manages multiple Gmail accounts.
5B or 6B
The animator and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki talking about pencils.