Hi and Lois watch
White privilege: Lois, you’re soaking in it.
Orange Crate Art
The Maltese mailbox
Sam Spade, mailing a claim check.
Sociopathy unmasked
My little corner of Illinois is a coronavirus hotspot, thanks to freedom-loving asshats of all shapes and sizes.
Person, woman, man, books, TV
A president and his sister: “What do you do?” the president asked. “I read,” Barry replied. “What do you read?” the president said. “Books,” Barry said.
Saturday’s Stumper today
“Inapt outdoor sculptures.”
Sunday’s Saturday Stumper
Later.
Domestic comedy
My daughter Rachel: “There’s no such thing as a free tote.”
A corner in Marty
I’ve long wanted to track down this corner hardware store. Why? Because it’s there, in the Bronx, in Marty (dir. Delbert Mann, 1955).
Hope, strength of
“Hope is more powerful than fear”: Joe Biden, speaking tonight. May it be so.
Catastrophe, disinformation, and true stories
Sentences for our time.
Chris Miller, ugh
Our representative in the Illinois House is a fool.
Finding a brother
“Twelve years ago, when I began my search for a vice president, I didn’t know I’d end up finding a brother”: Barack Obama, speaking tonight to the Democratic National Convention.
Ernie, Nancy, and ExactPic
The graphic designer Khoi Vinh has created ExactPic, a free tool made of shortcuts for editing images in iOS and iPadOS. Resize, crop, frame, and save. Amazing: I can finally tinker with images on my iPhone as I do on my Mac.
Calamari on the beach
Many people found Rhode Island’s presentation delightful. But mileage varies. I found this bit deeply, unintentionally weird, in that low-budget-TV-commercial way.
Halt!
“The U.S. Postal Service will halt its controversial cost-cutting initiatives until after the election — canceling service reductions, reinstating overtime hours and ceasing the removal of mail-sorting machines and public collection boxes, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced in a statement Tuesday.”
Recently updated
A post now with the names and e-mail addresses of the members of the USPS Board of Governors.
“Be a hummingbird”
A story from Wangari Maathai, environmental activist, political activist, and winner of the Novel Peace Prize.
Orange Crate Art:
“Let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.”
Theater of War, tomorrow
A Theater of War event for frontline medical providers, with scenes from Sophocles’s Philoctetes and Women of Trachis.
A post about the post
Have you called or written to the six members of the USPS’s Board of Governors? Their numbers and addresses are easy to find.
Roger Angell, closing in
A celebration for the writer Roger Angell, who’s nearing his hundredth birthday.
Michael Rosen, on the mend
He’s the host of the BBC Radio 4 podcast Word of Mouth.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Misspend one's time.”
A classroom?
Here is one example of one university’s idea of a socially distanced classroom. No desks. Lousy sightlines.
“Nothing stops the mail.”
Not even fascism.
Eugene Levy, honored
In these terrible times, I liked seeing this video with fellow actors paying tribute to Eugene Levy, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newport Beach Film Festival. And I went down an SCTV rabbithole.
Nancy puzzle
Today’s Nancy, which takes shape as a jigsaw puzzle, is especially clever. Olivia Jaimes continues to breathe new life into the Nancy world.
The new Blogger interface again
W.G. Sebald would not be happy with the new Blogger.
Mystery actor
Recognize him?
She’s all that
I especially like the note of reconciliation in her presence on the ticket: she criticized Biden sharply at the first Democratic debate; Biden asked her to run with him; she said yes. As the song says, Let’s work together.