Writing on a train
From The Narrow Margin: a train with a writing desk for passenger use.
Orange Crate Art
Possessive forms of Harris and Walz
“Grammar geeks are in overdrive,” says a New York Times article, which presents the choice as “apostrophe hell.” Not really. The best solution is to add ’s to make each name possessive.
WCBS Newsradio 880 to disappear
One of the strange pleasures of driving late at night in downstate Illinois is pulling in WCBS 880 or WINS 1010. I always like hearing about traffic and weather from a distant land.
Siamese connections
Today’s Zippy honors a bit of urban design: the Siamese connection.
Earworms
From the Jardiance jingle to “Minnie the Moocher.”
Eleven movies, one mini-series
The Commandant’s Shadow and others.
Tim Walz’s military service
Two pieces about Tim Walz’s military service, by Adam Kinzinger and Stephen Robinson.
Trump, breaking?
It sounds to me as if someone might be having a psychotic break.
Schrafft’s, plural
Looking for the Schrafft’s where my mom and dad may have eaten lunch.
Stack up with?
Stack up with, or against?
Today’s Saturday Stumper
Book subtitled 100 Ways to Work Out With Your Dog.”
“Harris Walz”
Elaine Fine has written a one-minute waltz for piano.
Responses and non-answers
Lawrence O’Donnell’s commentary on yesterday’s Trump “General News Conference” is worth watching in full.
Uh-oh
Donald Trump is having what he calls “a General News Conference” at 2:00 p.m. (EDT). I cannot imagine that his advisers have advised that. But the mess his campaign is in? He alone can fix it!
Deer!
Can deer recognize individual people as individuals? We’d like to that this deer can.
Reaping the worldwind?
“The events in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are part of their worldwind tour of several key battleground states over the next few days.”
Mystery actor
Not Ida Lupino. So, then, who?
Hard-boiled Zippy
Today’s Zippy channels Raymond Chandler.
Evisceration in Philadelphia
“Make no mistake: violent crime was up under Donald Trump. That’s not even counting the crimes he committed”: in Philadelphia, Governor Tim Walz is eviscerating Donald Trump.
Understated or overstated
It cannot be overstated that “it cannot be understated” will most likely be understood as infelicitous phrasing.
It’s Tim Walz
An excellent choice, making a ticket very much like Obama–Biden in affect.
30-D, three letters
Chicken à la King in a 1957 ad.
Dad, i.m.
He showed up in a dream — not for the first time — on July 13. He tapped me on my wrist and said “Michael?” It was unmistakably his voice.
Curb your Curb references
On Saturday, iOS Dictation turned stop and chat into Stop & Shop, capitals and ampersand included.
Something to say
It struck me the other night: “If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face” is utterly antithetical to discourse among academics, among whom implication and innuendo carry the day.
Louis Armstrong’s house
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901. He and his wife Lucille bought this house in Corona, Queens, in 1943. It was Armstrong’s home for the rest of his life.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“‘What can thee, knight-at-arms’: Keats.”
A pocket notebook sighting
From State and Main.
Dictating on Apple devices
From Apple: commands for dictating text.
Orange Crate Art: Newspapers and novels
Walter Benjamin: “One may, if necessary, read the newspaper while eating. But never a novel. These are two conflicting obligations.”