Here’s hoping
Harry Litman of the Los Angeles Times, on MSNBC just now: “Trump is going to be a criminal defendant, a civil defendant, or a prisoner for the rest of his life.”
Orange Crate Art
0 for 2
A spine-shortage.
Mutts ’n’ Miles
Comic strip revision.
Today’s Newsday Saturday
“Twist entreaty.”
Stacey Plaskett again
Representative Stacey Plaskett (D, Virgin Islands), a House impeachment manager, this afternoon: “The defense counsels put a lot of videos out in their defense, playing clip after clip of Black women talking about fighting for a cause, or an issue, or a policy. It was not lost on me that so many of them were people of color and women, Black women, Black women like myself who are sick and tired of being sick and tired for our children, your children, our children. This summer things happened that were violent, but there were also things that gave some of Black women great comfort. Seeing Amish people from Pennsylvania standing up with us, members of Congress fighting up with us. And so I thought we were past that. I think maybe we’re not.”
Danny Ray in the Times
The New York Times now has an obituary for Danny Ray, James Brown’s long-serving emcee and cape man.
Crooks and lawyers
It’s grimly hilarious to hear Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael van der Veen accuse the House managers of “total intellectual dishonesty.”
Weather
A sentence from The Guermantes Way.
Chick Corea (1941–2021)
The pianist and composer was seventy-nine.
Citing Voltaire
Representative Jamie Raskin cited Voltaire.
Ugh
The New York Times seems to have a thing for the poet Frederick Seidel.
Food for Love
A streaming concert to benefit New Mexico residents facing hunger.
It doesn’t get much plainer
Representative Stacey Plaskett (D, Virgin Islands), this afternoon: “President Trump put a target on their backs, and his mob broke into the Capitol to hunt them down.”
How to improve writing (no. 90)
It’s easy to overuse semicolons.
Charles Mingus and Spider-Man
The theme for the 1960s cartoon series Spider-Man, by Bob Harris and Paul Francis Webster, sounds heavily indebted to Charles Mingus’s “Boogie Stop Shuffle.” Really.
Charles Mingus at Bremen
Both performances, all players, were and are lit, on fire and burning bright, in four hours of music that make most (so-called) jazz sound pedestrian and predictable by comparison.
Downfall
“The only thing that stands between the bitter infighting that led to the downfall of the Greek republic and the Roman republic and the American republic is the Senate of the United States.” What?
A January 6 compilation
The video compilation presented by Representative Jamie Raskin (D, Maryland-8) today.
Domestic comedy
“It wasn’t known as a PDA yet.”
“Inexplicable shapes”
A sentence from The Guermantes Way.
A game-style map
A game-style map of Blue Hills Reservation, Massachusetts.
A joke in the traditional manner
Did you hear about the new insect hybrid?
Boffo?
“Boffo radicalism”? What?
Meta cookie
“Reading your fortune out loud will bring you good luck.”
−0°
My iPhone tells me that the temperature this morning is −0°F. Not 0°, −0°.
$519,328,369
From The Washington Post: “President Donald Trump’s onslaught of falsehoods about the November election misled millions of Americans, undermined faith in the electoral system, sparked a deadly riot — and has now left taxpayers with a large, and growing, bill.”
Today’s Newsday Saturday
“Cold cuts selection.”
Naked City Mongol
One more pencil.
Catch a wave
Yep, that’s Poseidon. I recognize him from a vase.
Danny Ray (1935–2021)
Says the James Brown Estate: “Mr. Ray was the second hardest working man in show business.”