Index, A review of
“Like writing and the printed book, indexes created excitement as well as anxiety, just as digital aids do now”: from Anthony Grafton’s review of Dennis Duncan’s Index, A History of the.
Orange Crate Art
Recently updated
Pinboard tags appear to be working again.
Idol worship
In today’s Zippy, Little Zippy has spotted a statue of Nancy on the sidewalk.
Turtles
The nearest faraway place for our household right now is a trail around a lake.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“It’s a swell thing.”
Count the assumptions
“When we founded the New World with Christopher Columbus.”
Cathartic dancing
“Man confronts truck driver with cathartic dancing in Brooklyn.”
“Vaccine-resistant Trump country”
Susan B. Glasser, writing in The New Yorker : “The current average of more than nineteen hundred dead a day means that a 9/11’s worth of Americans are perishing from covid roughly every thirty-eight hours.”
Using a dictionary
Rachel del Valle recommends using a (print) dictionary.
The Unfaithful : an EXchange name
MIchigan.
The Unfaithful : phone booths
In an airport.
Almost lunch
This can of sardines was almost yesterday’s lunch. But then I looked more closely: “Best Before 2016.”
The Unfaithful : Bradbury
The Unfaithful (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1947) has something for everyone, including a scene in the Bradbury Building.
The Unfaithful : Angels Flight
The Unfaithful (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1947) has something for everyone, including a ride on the Angels Flight Railway.
Sardines, drawn
At Yellow Petals, George Bodmer shares a lovely can of sardines.
Seventeen
Orange Crate Art turns seventeen later today.
Twelve movies
Cluny Brown and others.
Foot falls
“Oh no! The Silver Lake Foot has fallen down the steps at the #MetGala.”
George Wein (1925–2021)
Maker of Newports, Folk and Jazz.
“Individually wrapped treats”
These guidelines call for considerable diligence on the part of the faculty member, who must monitor masking (a COVID-era form of “taking attendance”), place and pay for orders, and distribute gift certificates or individually wrapped treats, but not in the classroom. Or maybe the faculty member can palm the work off on a TA. I think of the absurdity of students lining up, six feet apart, maybe in the rain, to receive their individually wrapped treats. Here ya go.
Rural hospitals and COVID-19
I was startled to see a doctor from a local hospital on MSNBC’s The Week with Joshua Johnson. Jeremy Topin, MD, is respectful of local reality at every turn, but you can sense his exasperation about life here in COVID times.
A Douglas Ewart exhibition
“Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) is pleased to present a retrospective of the virtuosic artist and educator Douglas R. Ewart, alongside Ewart’s recent large-scale audio-visual work Songs and Stories for a New Path and Paradigm, created in collaboration with NOW Society of Vancouver and 36 artists from across the globe.”
Performative again
Arts & Letters Daily recently linked to a short commentary on the word performative. The commentary is crotchety and overwrought, with talk of corruption and senseless violence and infestations of body lice. I’m not linking. It so happens that I wrote what seems to me a far clearer, more helpful, and less wrought commentary on performative back in March. That commentary I’ll link to.
What, no candy?
“The University of Texas at Austin told professors that they could offer nonacademic rewards, like cookies, to cajole students to wear masks. (A university spokeswoman, Eliska Padilla, said this was informal, not an incentive program.)”
Recently updated
Hi and Lois minus Odie.
Recently updated
More on an eighty-eight-year-old professor’s last day in a classroom.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Group hitting the bottom of the barrel.”
Heron
Please consider this photograph a brief respite from the day.
A passion for ancient edifices
And one for Henry Tilney.
“Cold ellipses”
Dippin’ Dots and punctuation.