Illinois-15, COVID-Central
Illinois-15, the congressional district represented by Mary Miller, has the lowest rate of vaccination in the state.
Orange Crate Art
“A stilly pause”
A passage from Villette.
From the dowdy world
PAYPHONE.
Today’s Newsday Saturday
“Macaroni, as in ‘Yankee Doodle.’”
A John Wayne movie
A teaching dream.
Domestic comedy
“How do you punctuate ‘win win’?”
“Delicious Chewing Gum”
A 1941 ad.
Our tube
Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.
Bye, pseudo-blogger
If Trump was bothered by the idea of a small readership, he shouldn’t have started a blog.
For those who fuss over spacing
I’m still looking for a non-breaking thin space that does not break.
Blue canard
Sorry, Open Culture, there’s no evidence that Robert Johnson’s recordings were intentionally speeded up.
Domestic comedy
“Don’t turn my words against me!”
Nobody and Somebody
Brontë and Dickinson.
Some of the old songs, Sam
Applebee’s commercials rely on the theme songs from Cheers and Welcome Back, Kotter to encourage a return to in-person eating.
Paving-stones
A passage from Villette.
Memorial Day
A photograph by Gordon Parks.
“The radiant present”
A passage from Villette.
Lois Ehlert (1934–2021)
If Lois Ehlert’s name doesn’t ring a bell, think Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Today’s Newsday Saturday
From the television
“The official start of summer.”
Domestic comedy
Walks and windshields.
“Empty, quiet, cool, and clean”
Lucy Snowe in empty school-rooms.
An EXchange name sighting
In a few seconds the bungalow that goes with that telephone pad will fade into the apartment that goes with that number.
Small pleasures
“The names of the files are” Buffering . . . Buffering . . .
Eric Carle (1929–2021)
Artist and author of countless books for children.
“No Worries if Not!”
A year ago, The New Yorker capitalized “if” in titles. As recently as December 21, the magazine capitalized its “if” s. But by December 28, the capital was gone.
The Bronx
“The more I hear of them cozy little towns, the better I like the Bronx.”
Cursive in Maine
The New York Times reports on cursive handwriting in a Maine school.
Twelve movies
Two by Mitchell Leisen and ten others.
Brontë manuscripts
“A trove of Brontë family manuscripts — all but unseen for a century — will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of what the auction house is billing as the sale of a legendary ‘lost library’ of British literature treasures.”