Naked City Mongol
Maybe they used the same pencil from episode to episode.
Orange Crate Art
Everything changes
When did you last see an ashtray?
Leaving Mar-a-Lago
“Many once-loyal members of Mar-a-Lago are leaving because they no longer want to have any connection to former President Donald Trump, according to the author of the definitive book about the resort.”
The Blogger Quick Edit tools
The pencil icon that allowed for quick edits to Blogger posts and widgets disappeared a few days ago, along with the tools icon for editing widgets. But there are ways to get them back.
More about masks
From NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and The Atlantic.
Double-masking
“Double-masking is a sensible and easy way to lower your risk, especially if circumstances require you to spend more time around others — like in a taxi, on a train or plane, or at an inauguration.”
Today’s Newsday Saturday
“What those who have had it have.”
Hank Aaron and Peanuts
For two weeks in August 1973, Peanuts devoted its daily (non-Sunday) strip to Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, and Snoopy.
Naked City Mongol
The Mongol seems to be the official pencil of the Naked City, showing up in a number of episodes.
Time passing
Murphy Brown: “A baby’s brain doesn’t even recognize time has passed. You’re kind of like the Beach Boys that way.”
The worst
Tim Naftali, historian: “Trump is the worst president in the 232-year history of the United States.”
“Who? Me?”
A sentence from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.
Today
President Joe Biden: “This is democracy’s day.” And: “Democracy has prevailed.”
It's getting dusty in here
In every corner of our living room.
Wrong way
Unlimited ego and grandiosity, tempered by not a trace of self-awareness, joined to an utter poverty of intelligence and imagination. I know, let’s use “My Way”!
Uh-oh
“We will be back in some form.”
A cover for today
Drop him anywhere.
Humanity in a president-elect
Joe Biden, James Joyce, and Delaware.
“Think only pleasant thoughts”
Thomas’ English Muffins, all day and night.
Knowing of
A character from Proust and Skip James.
Pen wipers
It’s 1955, and Nancy is selling pen wipers.
MLK
A photograph of Martin Luther King’s study.
“Surf’s Up”
In today’s Atlantic crossword, by Peter Gordon, a nice tip of the hat: 10-D, nine letters, “Surf’s Up singers, with the.”
Help wanted
“The statement released Monday by Mrs. Trump was also rife with grammatical errors and typos.”
“Hmmm, hmmm”
A sentence from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.
A Q believer
“The domino had 17 dots, and Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet.”
Springfield 1908
“Illinois‘s two senators have called on President-elect Joe Biden to make the site of a 1908 race riot in Springfield a national monument.”
Joanne Rogers (1928–2020)
“She was the inspiration for the puppet character Queen Sara, wife of King Friday XIII.”
Today’s Saturday somepin
“California’s ‘Garlic Capital of the World.’”
Witness to the Siege
A conversation that aired last night on PBS, Witness to the Siege, with Judy Woodruff, Yamiche Alcindor, Lisa Desjardins, and Amna Nawaz.