A little help?
A New Yorker cartoon I do not understand.
Orange Crate Art
“The antithesis”
“He’s like the antithesis of public health”: Dr. Irwin Redlener of Columbia University, speaking of you-know-who.
Tackling with chutzpah
A cliché-filled sentence from a New York Times review of a stage adaptation of Proust.
“The Problems of a President”
From Robertson Davies’s The Rebel Angels (1981).
Fifty PBS shows
In The New York Times, appreciations of fifty PBS shows that have made “a lasting imprint on our culture.” Ghostwriter! Wishbone! ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?!
Naked City Mongols
Whichever side of the law you’re on, the Mongol is the pencil of choice in the Naked City.
Wha?
On The 11th Hour, Brian Williams just characterized Republican distancing from Donald Trump* as a Great Migration and “a family trip to Africa.”
“Illinois has no place to go”
Except to the polls, to vote this president out.
George Floyd in high school
The Washington Post continues its series on how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life. The focus in today’s article is education, in high school and college.
Brooklyn, represent
The Brooklyn lives loudly within me.
“Red meets black, you’re okay, Jack”
Mark Trail has a new artist.
A precept from Paracelsus
“Be not another if thou canst be thyself.”
Man and Superman
“When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt.”
Bikes and birds
Trump* on steroids.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Hand-made props.”
Newman speaks
“A Message from Your Friendly Local Mail Carrier.”
While I was sleeping
A two millionth visitor, probably looking for info on a Frank O’Hara poem.
A commercial to go with it
“A spray-tanned, drugged-up pitchman for Regeneron.” Now there’s a TV commercial. Or a “TV commercial.”
“I might as well”
Just one student knows the answer. From The Rebel Angels.
A concise description
“A spray-tanned, drugged-up pitchman for Regeneron”: on MSNBC, David Plouffe just offered this concise description of Donald Trump*.
Sluggo, the Sultan of Swat
Get on that stage, Sluggo, and give Mike Pence what for.
Cursive is good for you
Psychology Today reports on new research suggesting that cursive is good for your brain.
Reality just got a little weirder
Stormy Daniels will be conducting a paranormal investigation at a nearby location.
Advice from Colbert
“Susan, if you want to make Mike Pence shut up, you have to ask him to say ‘Black lives matter.’”
I feel sorry for Daniel Dale
Daniel Dale’s fact-checking and Kamala Harris’s rope-a-dope.
Two posts in retrospect
Two posts about the pandemic that look strange in retrospect.
A suggestion from Annie Atkins
From a series of COVID-era postcards.
Hi and Lois watch
“My touchpad”?
Forty-five
If there is any question about the mental health of our president: he has posted forty-five tweets and retweets in the last three hours.
The Harry Smith B-Sides