Fred Willard (1933–2020)
So much to admire, from Fernwood 2 Night to Christopher Guest films to Modern Family.
Orange Crate Art
Astrid Kirchherr (1938–2020)
Photographer of the Beatles in the pre-Fab Hamburg days.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Holders of pointy diamonds.”
Bushes, rocks, puffs
“Some” of each.
Our own private “Molambo”
A good one.
A variation on a theme
Trump* equals death.
TRUMP = DEATH
Not too extreme an equation.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fifth year.
Pallets
Dreaming of toilet paper.
Thirty-seven pencils
“We don’t need thirty-seven pencils, we can buy two pencils — and they can be better. But you know, we went astray, with the whole thing, we went astray.” (Wut?)
“A vision of syntax”
A passage from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.
EXchange name sightings
Exchange names have nice cameos in Framed (dir. Richard Wallace, 1947).
An EXchange name sighting
ACademy. From The Brothers Rico (dir. Phil Karlson, 1957).
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fifth year.
HO 3-3338
The letters HO signified the exchange names HObart, HOmestead, HOpkins, and HOward. And HOllywood!
Domestic comedy
“That was your cue to throw something at me.”
Festival films
From May 29 to June 7, films from Cannes and other festivals Cannes, Sundance, and other film festivals will be streaming, free, at YouTube.
And then there were five
The Fab Five?
Chutes and letters
Diane Schirf has added new (and stylin’) photographs and useful links to a post about the Cutler mailing system.
Help, help to
Which is better? It’s a rare day that I don’t have a reason to open Garner’s Modern English Usage.
How to improve writing (no. 87)
In today’s Mark Trail, some dialogue in need of improvement.
Homemade music
It’s the Faces song “Ooh La La.”
Polls
“Coronavirus Polling,” from xkcd.
The art of the small oily fish
An invitation to draw a sardine.
Twelve movies
Columbia noir, and others.
Hi and Lois watch
I am startled to see that Lois is selling real estate using her pre-marriage name.
“Great”
In our house we stream the Criterion Channel, TCM, and YouTube instead. We care not for greatness.
Advice from my mom
Trust that your children are good enough to know what they’re doing and to do what’s right. And don’t be too bossy.
Richard Penniman (1932–2020)
Little Richard was an architect of a new American culture, still in the making.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“It’s beside the point.”