Chicken and cheese
As a boy, with Dracula as my inspiration, I would add a slice of American cheese to my plate whenever we had chicken for dinner. Cheese, right?
Orange Crate Art
Cousin Brucie returns
This man was on the radio when I was barely sentient. As they say these days, Wut ?
“In 1917 they say, right?”
“Just to set the record straight on your command of history: could you tell us when the Second World War took place, who was involved, and what its consequences were for the twentieth century?”
“We do language”
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Lora
A nice font.
The legacy Blogger interface
A legacy should get preferential treatment and be admitted to a top school despite a mediocre or less than mediocre academic record. Google, please treat the legacy Blogger interface accordingly and give it every unmerited advantage available.
Twelve movies
Of Time and the City and others.
Antigone in Ferguson
Many overtones of Lee Breuer’s The Gospel at Colonus, with a message of healing and redemption added to Sophoclean tragedy.
She and her
“A framed photo of she”: in the NYT.
“Art is fierce”
“The play they were performing was Antigone, that ancient Greek tragedy about the moral and fatal consequences of dishonoring the unburied dead.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Window box favorite.”
“Defend Our Post Office”
A video from People for the American Way.
Whose toes?
“Tourist Posing With 200-Year-Old Sculpture Breaks Her Toes.”
A secret message, of course
From Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Peggy Lee, on the anniversary of my dad’s death.
Eric Bentley’s desk
Look at the late Eric Bentley’s desk.
A joke in the traditional manner
What’s the worst thing about owning nine houses?
Dad, i.m.
He’d have been ninety-two this year.
Fetching
A small persistent Mac problem, at least for me, over many years: right-click on a file and the Open With menu never populates. Instead it just says “Fetching. . . .” There's a fix.
“The sentence of the year”
A sentence by Ed Yong, writing in The Atlantic about “How to Pandemic Defeated America.”
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A 1938 photograph.
Yo!
Trump* and Kelly Bundy, mispronouncing “Yosemite.”
Trump* Axios interview
Our well-being is in the hands of a psychopath. Read the manuals!
“Something, perhaps, like this”
Toni Morrison, from the essay “Racism and Fascism.”
Earlier Time
From Anna Seghers’s novel The Seventh Cross.
Stuffin’, of bear, knocked out
“Sure knocked the stuffin’ out of you, pal.” A bear, from The Long Night (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1947).
Going to Graduate School
Elaine Pagels went about it differently.
Guthrie mailbox
“This Machine Kills Fascists,” now on a mailbox. Art by Mike Shine.
Peach muffins
Elaine has shared her recipe for peach muffins.
Rutgers and grammar
Rutgers did not call grammar “racist.”
Awkward
On Jeopardy a few minutes ago, someone answered a question about “Donald Trump’s second wife” with “Who is Ivanka Trump?”