Today’s Saturday Stumper
“KO, in the DJIA.”
Orange Crate Art
Students, stay home
Faculty members at Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have written open letters to their schools’ students asking them to stay home this fall.
A baseline preference
Virginia Heffernan writes in the Los Angeles Times about Herman Cain, Louie Gohmert, and opposition to face masks.
Recently updated
Sinatra’s last performance It’s back, this time with video.
Is the new Blogger a New Coke?
If Google has quietly decided to let the old interface live, it’s a wise if embarrassing choice. Pass the old Coke, please.
Domestic comedy
“We have some new polling to show you, and it shows some trouble for the Trump campaign.” Followed by spontaneous applause from our four hands.
Ajax and EMTs
I’ve begun to think of Ajax as a quintessential essential worker.
A trip to Binny’s
I picked up a few bottles of wine, and filled my cart with beer bottles so that I could compare labels. I met Ben and showed him a small front room, paneled in dark wood, with cheap American beer and brandy on the shelves. I explained that it must be the Upper Midwest room.
An EXchange name sighting
A Los Angeles motor livery, in a building still standing.
“W.G. Sebald: A Profile”
By James Atlas.
Last words from John Lewis
He wrote them to the published in The New York Times on the day of his funeral.
Orange car art
Little orange Subaru.
Word of the day: buff
They were always male, and they wore madras shorts in summer, particularly at cookouts, where they spoke of Brubeck and Kenton, lenses and pre-amps.
Chicago articles
“A,” “an,” “the”: a quiz from The Chicago Manual of Style.
A visit with Billy Gray
Billy Gray (Bud Anderson) invites the journalist Steve Unger to come over for a visit.
Ajax for frontline medical providers
A Theater of War event for frontline medical providers, open to the public.
“Why should I?”
William Barr makes it easy to know what to think of him.
Twelve movies
Station West and others.
Backblaze, anyone?
A link for a free month.
Bushmiller, drawn drawing
Today’s Zippy is an exercise in Bushmillerian Ovidian metamorphosis.
The return of the Jack Elrod ball
James Allen and the James Allen ball are gone, and the strip is now, perhaps temporarily, in reruns.
Blogger Preview and Safari
Here’s how to get Preview view back in the new Blogger.
“Look!”
Dingburgers dig Nancy.
Hadelich and Weiss, streaming
Augustin Hadelich, violin, and Orion Weiss, piano, streaming.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Prepares to take tea.”
“If you have to write”
From Stranger on the Third Floor.
Domestic comedy
“No one calls John Keats an ODIST. He’s from Andy of Mayberry.”
Antigone in Ferguson
Online, from Theater of War.
“I am someone’s daughter too”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responds to Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL), who called her, on the steps of the United States Capitol, a “fucking bitch.”
“A substitute for home and hearth”
From Anna Seghers’s novel Transit.