An EXchange name sighting
From an episode of Naked City, Peter Falk and TEmpleton.
Orange Crate Art
No bottom
Donald Trump* just removed his mask before entering the White House.
Help Don Jr.
Don Jr., please know that you are not alone. Millions of people are staging an intervention right now, in person and by mail.
Twelve movies
Art and Craft and others.
Real leaders take risks, continued
They eschew protective coverings: masks, condoms, eclipse glasses.
Real leaders take risks
Donald Trump*’s reckless disregard for human life should never be mistaken for the risk-taking of a genuine leader.
NPR, sheesh
“Several protestors were attacked by onlookers.” Onlookers? If you’re attacking, you’re not looking on.
Sean Conley, MD
MD = Medical Dissembler.
“Poor Moon”
By The Green Child. I think I’d like it even if it weren’t a cover of a Canned Heat tune.
Harrison FTW
Jamie Harrison is an impressive candidate — a plainspoken truthteller. I can easily imagine him running for president in the not-distant future.
“Self-dealing malevolence”
“Self-dealing malevolence”: on CNN a few minutes ago, Walter Shaub, senior advisor to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, tossed off this charged, memorable phrase.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
Today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper made me remember a line from Thomas Campion: “I care not for these ladies.” I cared not for this puzzle, which I found exceedingly difficult and unjoyous.
Sour apples
A letter to an orchard whose employees don’t wear masks.
A modern “rec” room
One in a series of Motorola ads with artists’ renderings of futuristic abodes.
Or not
No escaping the news. To paraphrase William Carlos Williams: We cannot go to the city for the city will bring us no peace. Not as long as there’s the country to go back to.
Back to Naked City
Escaping the news for an hour, finding out what we missed, and going back to Naked City.
Verne Edquist (1931–2020)
Glenn Gould’s piano tuner.
Superspreader
A study from the Cornell Alliance for Science finds that Donald Trump* is the “single largest driver” of misinformation about COVID-19.
Winking Owl — hoo?
Hoo’s behind Aldi’s Winking Owl wines?
*SIGH*
Today’s Peanuts makes me want to pop some corn and take out my stamp collection. Wait — what stamp collection?
A squirrel speaks
“Strange as it may seem,” the squirrel said, “Eddie Cantor may be growing in that flowerpot.”
“There was this thing”
For a moment in a poem, W.G. Sebald turning into John Ashbery.
Theater of War via Zoom
Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Mothers of the Movement.
Debate advice
C-SPAN’s split-screen.
Mystery actor
Who?
Meta, they wrote
Where Jessica Fletcher goes, murder follows.
Margie King in 1959
Our late friend Margie King Barab (then Margie King) appeared in an episode of Naked City. How did that happen?
“Just one rock”
“When it comes to rocks, all you think about is three!”
Revelations
“The picture that perhaps emerges most starkly from the mountain of figures and tax schedules prepared by Mr. Trump’s accountants is of a businessman-president in a tightening financial vise.”
Domestic comedy
After hearing the Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle.