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Beep, beep
Beep, beep
Heather Cox Richardson: “While Republican lawmakers continue to grab headlines with outrageous behavior and obstructionism, President Biden has been derailing them in the only way no one has tried yet: ignoring them and governing. Only two weeks into his administration, this approach appears to be enormously effective.”
#democracy#politics#autocracy
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Beep, beep
Wine and cheese
Wine and cheese
Science! An Iowa State University research study has found that “diet modifications — including more wine and cheese — may help reduce cognitive decline.”
#food#wine
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Wine and cheese
Mutts and the mail
Mutts and the mail
In today’s Mutts, Earl reminds us, or alerts us, that it’s National Mail Carrier Day, aka Thank a Mail Carrier Day.
#comics#mail#Mutts
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Mutts and the mail
Then, Voyager
Then, Voyager
A complete kit for writing V-Mail, with everything but fountain pen and mechanical pencil: ink, leads, stationery, pen wiper, calendar, ruler, and instructions for pen care.
#letters#pencils#pens
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Then, Voyager
Conjugation?
Conjugation?
“I googled [blank].” Okay. But what if one uses DuckDuckGo?
#grammar#words
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Conjugation?
Hi and Lois watch
Hi and Lois watch
In the spirit of Harold Ramis’s movie, I am trying to get Groundhog Day right.
#Hi&Lois#snow
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Hi and Lois watch
A movie to watch right now
A movie to watch right now
Made for these times: The Killer That Stalked New York (dir. Earl McEvoy, 1950), a fictionalized semi-documentary treatment of the 1947 smallpox outbreak in New York City.
#COVID-19#film
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A movie to watch right now
A Gris collage
A Gris collage
At The New York Times, Jason Farago offers a close reading of Juan Gris’s Still Life: The Table.
#art#painting#poetry
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A Gris collage
Cloris Leachman (1926–2021)
Cloris Leachman (1926–2021)
The most abiding image: as Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The most striking: as Christina Bailey, running down the highway in nothing but a trenchcoat in Kiss Me Deadly. The strangest: as Ruth Martin in Lassie, pre-June Lockhart.
#film#Lassie#television#MaryTylerMoore
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Cloris Leachman (1926–2021)
Time as money
Time as money
From Innovation Hub, a remarkable story about selling the correct time: “A Watch Named Arnold.”
#time
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Time as money
A magazine exhibition
A magazine exhibition
From the Grolier Club, “Magazines and the American Experience: Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.”
#magazines
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A magazine exhibition
Full disclosure
Full disclosure
The e-mail’s subject line read Glasses Disclosure. I didn’t see the sender’s name.
#dreams
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Full disclosure
“Apple Beige”
“Apple Beige”
“This beige ushered in personal computing, which eventually helped change the world”: Ben Zotto goes in search of “Apple Beige.”
#Apple
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“Apple Beige”
Terence Davies adapts Zweig
Terence Davies adapts Zweig
Exciting news: Terence Davies will direct an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s novel The Post-Office Girl.
#film#Zweig
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Terence Davies adapts Zweig