Innovation-speak, &c.
In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Lee Vinsel writes about “innovation-speak and business bullshit” in higher education.
Orange Crate Art
Letterlocking
A way to keep your correspondence confidential.
Goodbye, Hackensack Record King
After fifty-six years, Hackensack Record King is closing. But not for lack of customers.
Joyeux anniversaire, M. Proust
“My characters do not turn out well; I am obliged to follow them wherever their flaws or their aggravated vices lead me. . . .”
Today’s Newsday Saturday
“Shaving in the kitchen.”
Mr. Goodman
A passage from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Effing-
Effing-crazy in Effingham.
Avant-garde
Gotta love it that someone with the name Avant-garde just won the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Los Beach Boys
Los Lobos cover “Sail On, Sailor” — and other songs from Los Angeles.
“Everything”
A sentence from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Following a leader
The ghost of Fred Trump walks.
Mr. H
A passage from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
The Los Feliz Murder Mansion
A seven-episode podcast from Cloudy Day Pictures.
Domestic comedy
With apologies to William Butler Yeats.
Mystery actor
The actor with folded arms: do you recognize her?
Cartoon chef mansplains mayo
“Now I’ll explain, ladies!”
Vintage sardines
Zingerman’s Portuguese sardines are available in the 2015 and 2016 vintages. The small oily fish are meaty and delicious.
Ugh, ugh, ugh
The Beach Boys — or “Beach Boys” — on CNN. A godawful embarrassment.
The Fourth
Orange flag art, by Jasper Johns.
Two Americas
Writing in The Atlantic, Sarah Zhang says that America’s vaccine future is fragmenting.
Today’s Newsday Saturday
“Unfinished stories, often.”
“Disobvious”
Peanuts and prefixes.
Richard Signorelli’s Twitter
Richard Signorelli is an attorney in private practice, formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. His Twitter account looks to me like required reading for anyone interested in the sea of troubles the Trump Organization finds itself in.
Martin Radtke and the NYPL
“Inscribed here are the words of an immigrant whose life was transformed by the Library and whose estate now enriches it.”
The joys of browsing
“Nine eight eleven alarm clocks”
A passage from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Donald Rumsfeld (1932–2021)
George Packer, writing in The Atlantic: “Rumsfeld was the worst secretary of defense in American history. Being newly dead shouldn’t spare him this distinction.”
Camp COVID
From CNN: “More than 80 teens and adult staffers from a Central Illinois summer camp tested positive for Covid-19 in an outbreak that has impacted people across three states, officials said.”
FeedBurner e-mail subscriptions
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More interesting tuna salad
If anyone doesn’t already know: curry powder makes tuna salad instantly more interesting.