Caramelized shallot pasta
You can save some money by remembering to buy a can of tomato paste, much cheaper than a tube.
Orange Crate Art
Fine’s Price
The violinist Augustin Hadelich has invited violinists everywhere to record themselves playing the violin part from Elaine Fine’s arrangement of Florence Price’s “Adoration,” a piece for organ that Elaine arranged for violin and piano.
The International Eraser Museum
An Instagram museum: the International Eraser Museum, focused on “non-novelty, vintage erasers.”
Trump* is not alright
Look carefully: he’s supporting the glass with his pinky.
The kids are alright
A New York Times headline: “TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally.”
Father’s Day
I had a conversation with my dad in a dream a couple of weeks ago. He wanted me to order something for him from Amazon — no doubt a CD. But what? Maybe he’ll call back.
A joke in the traditional manner
Why sharpen your pencil to write a Dad joke?
Real chyrons, imaginary crowd
From CNN.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“‘Daytime’s Leading Lady.’”
Jeff Tweedy giving back
Jeff Tweedy giving back. Bob Dylan ripping off.
Hi and Lois watch
An old phone number.
“Is it still celebrated?” Yes.
On June 19, a passage from Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth.
Tommy’s tickets
Said one customer, “I see where you get your tickets, Tommy.”
Three words from Charlotte Brontë
Ing, holm, beck.
A word from Charlotte Brontë
It’s Barmecide, from Jane Eyre.
Sarah Cooper tonight
The great Sarah Cooper is streaming a Q&A tonight.
Goodbye to Uncle Ben
Like Aunt Jemima, he is stepping away.
Mystery actor
Who?
Goodbye to Aunt Jemima
How did they ever figure it out?
College, anyone?
If I were still teaching, I’d want to insist on a virtual fall, and perhaps a virtual spring. I’d think of my virtual teaching as a difficult, memorable experiment. If I were a first-year student, I’d want to wait for my real-presence education and take a gap year if at all possible. If I were a sophomore, junior, or senior, I’d hope that my school would have the good sense not to bring everyone back to campus. There too I would think of a virtual semester or two as a difficult, memorable experiment. When we’re on the other side of this pandemic, there’ll be thousands of faculty and students, sick of screens, looking forward to the possibilities that a real-presence community of learning can once again offer.
Bloomsday 2020
Leopold Bloom, eleven-year-old poet. From “Ithaca,” my favorite episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922).
Rights
Human rights should be a self-evident good in our world. But that’s not the case, so there is cause for celebration when rights are affirmed. As with the rights of LGBTQ people in today’s Supreme Court ruling.
“A bridge between two mysteries”
A passage from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.
RZ, i.m.
I miss my friend.
Say Their Names
A New Yorker cover by Kadir Nelson.
In a parallel universe
“Sir, I’m guessing that you’ve had to much too drink, and if that’s the case, I’m glad that I found you asleep here and not on the road. Tell you what we can do, if you like: I can drive you home in my car. And if you’re willing to give me your keys, my partner can drive your car home for you, and we’ll make sure that you get there safely, because this is really no place to be sleeping, and I’m sure you’d agree with me about that. And in the future, please do not get behind the wheel if you’ve had too much to drink.” And so on. If only.
Using both hands
Donald Trump* is at West Point using both hands to drink water from a glass, one hand holding the glass, the other propping it up from the bottom. As a friend of mine would say, Not normal!
Misheard
“Pushbuttonese.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Half of New Delhi.”
Trump* interviewed
Aaron Rupar has a Twitter thread collecting choice moments from Donald Trump*’s interview with Harris Faulkner (Fox News).