A Verilux sale
My only connection to Verilux: I’m a happy customer. My Verilux doesn’t utterly rout grey skies, but it sure helps.
Orange Crate Art
Block that metaphor
“Supply-chain bottleneck.”
“The Problem of Political Despair”
In The New York Times, Michelle Goldberg writes about “The Problem of Political Despair.”
An EXchange name sighting
From Black Widow (dir. Nunnally Johnson, 1954).
Twelve movies
At the bus terminal
We exited at ground level and found ourselves in a small parking lot, enclosed by a ten- or twelve-foot-high grassy slope.
No wind, no rain
A new episode of the BBC’s Soul Music , the first one in some time, is devoted to Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”
Mystery actor
Making her screen debut.
"Daylight Calendar”
xkcd.
Grimm
The young vigilante of William Faulkner’s Light in August.
Mystery actor
His uncredited film debut.
A Nassau Street candy store
The building still stands, with a CVS at street level.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Korean rice dish.”
It’s on
I wonder how many shirts they let you wear under an orange jumpsuit.
Anticipatory plagiarism
Tracking down a “famous quote.”
Domestic comedy
“I knew it had to be a fragrance commercial, because it was completely incoherent.”
An EXchange name sighting
GRanite? GReen? Both were Los Angeles exchange names.
Veterans Day
Praying for peace, 1921.
Pannapacker on academic woe
William Pannapacker will soon be leaving academia. He writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education about being “Tenured, Trapped, and Miserable in the Humanities.”
Pixels and iPads
The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial (who’s also working as an attorney for the defense) appears to believe the defense’s bogus claim that pinching and zooming on an iPhone adds pixels to and thus alters an image. And the prosecutor, who couldn’t provide a clear explanation of high-resolution images, also couldn’t answer the defense’s (bogus?) question about what operating system an iPad uses.
Arc, narrative, lacking in dictionary
“What’s the matter with the dictionary?” “There ain’t enough story to it.”
A sardine calendar
“A festive creator has enjoyed the reaction ‘from all over’ after he shared his handmade 2021 sardine advent calendar on social media.”
Sluggo and charlotte russe
Looking into a window.
Horton’s
The J.M. Horton Ice Cream Company, maker of “The Premier Ice Cream of America,” was a venerable name in cool treats.
Billy Strayhorn’s “Charlotte Russe”
Billy Strayhorn’s “Lotus Blossom” was at one time titled “Charlotte Russe.”
Red and blue
David Leonhardt: “The gap in Covid’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.”
Domestic comedy
See the previous post.
How to improve writing (no. 96)
And ad for Whitley Neill London Dry Gin.
Four Seasons Total Documentary
The story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference and its aftermath.
A 13th Avenue candy store
4319 13th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.